‘Kiwis hoodwinked over state housing’
Slice it or spin it how you like, but whichever side of the political divide you stand this is still another massive theft of taxpayer-owned property to be handed to political and/or business cronies.

Scaffido doesn’t even blink an eye when the undercover asks about providing material support for terrorists — “care packages, whether it be food, water, electronics.”
How about supporting Hamas?
No problem at all, Scaffido said.
“The university is not going to look at different groups and say, ‘You’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe them’ or something like that. I think it’s just the opposite. I think the university wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world,” Scaffido said…’

‘The phenomenon of Muslim rape gangs in Britain, and the unwillingness of law enforcement officials had of prosecuting them for fear of being tarred with charges of “racism,” is hardly summed up by the word “scandal” anymore. This isn’t just a scandal, it’s a surrender – a cultural and societal collapse unprecedented in human history..’
Some excellent comments under this article.

‘..The Cook paper is remarkable for its quality, though. Cook and colleagues studied 12,000 papers, but did not check whether their sample is representative for the scientific literature. It isn’t. Their conclusions are about the papers they happened to look at, rather than about the literature. Attempts to replicate their sample failed: a number of papers that should have been analysed were not, for no apparent reason.
The sample was padded with irrelevant papers. An article about TV coverage on global warming was taken as evidence for global warming. In fact, about three-quarters of the papers counted as endorsements had nothing to say about the subject matter…
……Cook’s hand-picked raters disagreed on what a paper was about 33 per cent of the time. In 63 per cent of cases, they disagreed about the message of a paper with the authors of that paper… Cook’s employer argued that releasing rater identities would violate a confidentiality agreement. That agreement does not exist… Time stamps reveal that … one of Cook’s raters inspected 675 abstracts within 72 hours, a superhuman ­effort…’
via Andrew Bolt

‘The Commissioner for the Environment’s latest report says that, while regional councils deem unflued gas heaters a “clean” form of heating, noxious gases create dangerous “indoor air pollution”.
Dr Jan Wright said in her analysis of 2014 Air Domain Report that health authorities wanted free-standing gas heaters, dubbed “poor person’s heaters” because they were cheap to buy, phased out…’       link
Nowhere in this article does it suggest a reasonably-priced alternative, and one jerkoff avers that the key to keeping warm is home insulation.
Well, it ain’t. It’s simply one factor. No matter how well insulated the home, some form of heating is still necessary.
No doubt those who support removing this affordable and convenient form of heating can afford the alternatives and their activism comes at no cost to themselves, but “fuel poverty” kills thousands of people every winter in Europe and I would be willing to bet that the same thing happens in NZ, albeit on a smaller scale. Energy prices in this country are a ripoff and a scandal.
If “Dr” Jan Wright would care to foot my power bill I’d be perfectly willing to scrap our gas heater.

‘The Rape Epidemic on Campus Does Not Exist’

..Detroit is America’s most violent city.  Its violent crime rate for all four violent felonies—that’s rape, murder, aggravated assault, and robbery—is 2%.  Its rape rate is 0.05%.  A 20% crime rate for any crime, much less one as serious as rape, is virtually unheard of.  Not even in Africa’s most brutal civil wars has anything been experienced in human history like a 20% crime rate.  And yet despite a rape rate that is allegedly 400 times that of Detroit’s, sophisticated, highly educated baby boomer mothers are beating down the doors of campuses to try to get their daughters in.
…You would have had a massive exodus of girls from college campuses years ago, and a demand to create actually safe environments for student learning.  Why hasn’t that happened?  Because the campus rape epidemic does not exist…’
(Heather MacDonald)

 and a large Lagomorph.

‘Betrayal of a hero: Sgt Kevin Williams went through 12 years of hell before being cleared of killing an Iraqi. Now he’s jobless and broke… while the dead man’s family are in line for a big payout
He was initially subjected to two internal military investigations in 2003 and 2004, which cleared him of any wrongdoing.
But with the civilian police unhappy with the decision, he was arrested on suspicion of murder by officers from the Metropolitan Police while on leave in Burnley..’
Civilian police should have never been allowed to get involved in something they know eff-all about. And the lack of support for a soldier under attack from a scumsucking parasitic leftist legal practice is shameful.

 ‘The last surviving Dambusters pilot has withdrawn his war medals from auction, and agreed to gift them to a museum in exchange for a philanthropist’s donation.
Les Munro has accepted the offer of British philanthropist Lord Ashcroft to donate $150,000 to assist in the upkeep of the Bomber Command Memorial in London and will gift the medals to Auckland’s Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT)…’
Lord Ashcroft has a history of buying Victoria Crosses that come up for auction. Good for him.