Well you can run with "indigenous people/ethnicity" rather than "indigenous tribe" if you like. I will use tribe because it emphasizes the common humanity between us. I see the difference between the large tribes living in glass skyscrapers in cities and ...
Still a tribe. Don't let the subjective connotations of "tribe" as small and primitive overwhelm the objective denotations of a social group linked by language culture and ancestry. Although we could move to "indigenous ethnos" and we're still in the same ...
Thanks for all that, but you have to be clear with yourself about what you are actually trying to do here. Are you pointing to all these news articles about reports about facts on the ground because you want me to be aware of them (again thank you but I ...
Why are the Han not a tribe? Are they not living in their ancient homeland? Are they not, therefore an indigenous tribe? The tendency of certain Western tribes, especially Western Liberal tribes and factions to grant status to some indigenous tribal ...
Well, you could come to the table with facts, evidence and a well-reasoned argument, or you could just stick your fingers in your ears and run away screaming "Troll, Troll, Troll, Troll!" Here's a small piece that I've always enjoyed. He who knows only his...
I don't know about Clarke and Goff with the FTA, but it was a very common sentiment in the West and NZ politicians are hardly intellectual world leaders. Here's a bit from President Clinton’s speech on China Trade Bill. “By joining the W.T.O., China is not...
I feel I can examine the evidence and make my conclusions known both online and in person so Yes, but I don't see why those conclusions should be unequivocal condemnation. Unlike most people I have chatted with about the Xinjiang Uighur situation, I've ...
Before I start this comment it's probably only fair to mention I'm writing from my apartment in a tier 2 Chinese city, I'm a proud Kiwi and I've been here for more than 10 years. Long story short your characterization of Chinese society, culture and ...
Well exactly who are the strange weirdos are is always going to be a matter of subjective judgement, but if the left is going to make science it's guiding principle, then it has a hell of a hill to climb. Feminism and even more so it's mutant child ...
Leftists have always had a problem with defense spending as if pacifism is some sort of viable long-term plan and that a military is some sort of optional luxury. I think it was Machiavelli who said that a state without an army is like a palace without a ...
It is unreasonable to suggest that because The USA has provided security for NZ since WWII that it will always do so and should always do so. The British empire did so before and then it collapsed. History is full of examples when the most powerful of a ...
It's an important issue and worth keeping an eye on. I just wonder if we will see clear and explicit rules about funding political reporting and civil society activism that will treat money coming from Washington and London the same as money coming from ...
Please tell me the names of the members of the Business Cttee, and how they voted
The huge tractor I saw driving in a narrow one way street in Ak Central yesterday was straight out of the showroom..no wonder some one who doesn’t like being told ‘what to do by a girl’ would like to take it for a joy ride. A photo of a home made placard ...
Anyone remember the Min of Health’s Healthy Eating Healthy Attitudes programme in Schools. Scrapped instantly by John Key’s led government. Too nanny state, despite obesity being a major health issue for children.
Scanning the Herald this morning, just noted they are charging for an article that was published in The Independent (UK) yesterday....on a Murdoch leaving his father’s (Rupert) company.
You are completely wrong about Luke Jenning. He is a highly respected journalist. Your link was who? Assange closely linked with Roger Stone.
"But, do we want international tourism as it was?" YES,... because: It was all a HOAX. The Covid-19 HOAX can be seen in the way Covid-19 spread. It spread to the whole world but jumped over the major Chinese cities. You know Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, ...
Why is Kitterage still at the GCSB? Wasn’t her inane report on the spying of NZ’s enough to discredit her? Anyone know?
Never a truer word spoken
What about the musket wars? They were by far the deadliest conflict that has ever occurred in this country. Michael King called them a holocaust. And yet for some reason they are even more forgotten than the NZ Wars.
And so it begins. So race doesn't matter, they've all come here to be kiwis, yeah right. Time for a binding referendum on immigration and the future shape of NZ demographics.Also time to make the right to vote a privilege for citizens only, as is normal ...
Matthew - you can wriggle for all you're worth but everything adds up to a whole and one would have to be blind as well as dumb (and I mean this is the meanest un-p.c. way!) to dismiss the sum total of DonKey's "misdemeanours" as harmless fun? The guy is a...
Graham McCready is right to make a complaint to the IPCA. To witness Male Assaults Female repeatedly and not arrest the perpetrator must be investigated.
http://www.saveinvermay.co.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/401634/Invermay-petition.pdf
... people to sign anyway. Regards Jake
Sounds like your Jesus had been tainted by the 20th century / 21st century neo-con vision that says that only those who have the wherewithall to help themselves are going to get any help from the heavens above! What a load of old cobblers! I remember ...
A point well made. I like this graph.
Some interesting points made in this post about the lack of a cohesive vision, both here and elsewhere. It seems that Labour parties the world over understood what they used to stand for, but are now struggling to find an effective space between the centre...
I suppose as a matter of comparison, if National were having a leadership contest, I'd be torn between advocating for the least competent (and most likely to lose an election) and the most liberal or progressive candidate.
I straight up don't know what to make of the so called "VRWC" talking down Cunliffe and up Shearer. I am legitimately confused as to their strategy, assuming it is a strategy, of which I am not even sure. Is it that Shearer is the weaker candidate, so they...
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