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The Insiders Report: 02

The Insiders Report: 02

FROM THE INSIDERS
We posed the following question about the development of AI and its meaning for society to The Insiders. Their response was at once surprising, disturbing and inspiring.

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The Insiders Report: 01

FROM THE INSIDERS
This week, for the first of a new regular column, we posed the following question on the war in Ukraine to ‘The Insiders’. Their response has relevance to us all and offers a clear and insightful view of what we each can do.

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Terrorism

NZ’s Double Standard on Terrorism

EDITORIAL
The BFD picked up an interesting article today. It was written by Dr David Cumin, Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesiology at the University of Auckland, and published by the Israel Institute of New Zealand (IINZ).

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wine health

It Has Never Been About Health

Editorial
In a recent article in The Listener, wine writer Michael Cooper revealed that researchers in China had discovered that the moderate consumption of alcohol appears to affect C-19 infection rates.

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Ukraine Invasion

Why Has Russia Invaded Ukraine?

Editorial
Watch TV news or visit a mainstream media website and you’ll see that the entire world has its hair on fire over Putin’s ‘sudden’, ‘unprovoked’ and ‘mindless’ invasion of Ukraine, to use just three favourite adjectives in the MSM reports.

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Diary of a Reluctant Anarchist

In 1981 during the Springbok Tour Protests, I was 15 years old and perhaps the only topic I knew less about than the apartheid system in South Africa, was rugby. I may have been an unusual kiwi kid, sure I enjoyed my sports, but rugby just wasn’t one I was particularly interested in. And besides, when a 15 year-old kid shows interest in international politics, society probably ought to keep a watchful eye and a big net close at hand; this one is going to be trouble.

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