Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Political opinion daily reading list
Because so much of the mainstream media is polluted by right wing free market ideologues pushing corporate interests:
TDB daily collates the best NZ Left Wing, Independent and Progressive Political Opinion and includes the best international voices.
Unlike Victoria University’s The Democracy Project, TDB will never be behind a Paywall because we don’t believe in citizens with two classes of information.
DOMESTIC:
RNZ – Major shake-up of fishing quota system on the way
The Kākā by Bernard Hickey – Business doubts about National’s growth tactics growing
Waatea – Bill seeks to protect whenua Māori rights
Newsroom – NZ should be worried about China’s trade statistics
No Right Turn – Its almost as if there’s a pattern here…
The Daily Blog – Scumbag Talley’s being scumbag Talley’s
The Daily Blog – MEDIAWATCH: Exactly as TDB warned – the extreme ideology of this Government is running policy – not the common good
The Daily Blog – Much ado about nothing – Chippy cleans up media inspired veto clickbait
The Daily Blog – If Cook Islands wish to leave Realm of NZ for China – let them – but current arrangement can not stand
INTERNATIONAL:
The Guardian – Israel will resume war in Gaza unless more hostages freed this week, says Netanyahu
Harretz – Amid the Gaza Uproar, Trump Shot Down Netanyahu on Iran
Caitlin Johnstone – Israel Admits It Violated The Ceasefire And Hamas Did Not
Jacobin – Trump and the Very American Personnel Question
Crikey – Australia’s toxic addiction to sport inflicts a grim fiscal toll
The Intercept – PRIVATE PRISON CEO ON TRUMP DEPORTATION SURGE: “ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING PERIODS IN MY CAREER”
Consortium News – Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs
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Kia ora Dan,
Thank you for taking the time to reach out and share your thoughts and
concerns regarding ongoing disruption in Westport.
We are aware of the situation caused by the partial collapse of tunnel
sections close to Reefton. It is unfortunate that trucking has had to
occur but understand it has now concluded. The companies involved
should have communicated, consulted, and compensated seriously
affected people.
We understand that as of January 12th, Tawhai Tunnel has reopened and
has been significantly strengthened which will hopefully prevent such
disruption from occurring in the future.
Should there be any further developments on this matter, or if there
are specific initiatives related to your concerns that we can assist
with do not hesitate to reach out.
Once again, thank you for your email.
Kind regards,
DAMIEN O’CONNOR
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Thank you for your reply – Better late than never.
Yeah, the companies did nothing, the council couldn’t bend over fast enough to comply with Bathurst’s demands. I ended up with a sleep deprivation psychosis and spent the last three months sleeping on a mattress on the floor of my lounge – where I cook and eat, on prescription drugs to sleep, with thoracic and /lumbar spondyloarthritis, in a three bedroom home I own freehold and get no rates reduction for reducing it to a bedsit.
You let us all down through your inaction and let coal money shit all over the lives of residents and ratepayers of Kawatiri.
Thanks for the commiseration and all that, and yeah, it was fucking brutal. Sacrificed for dollars – Makes a life long lefty feel like a cunt. Any twat wanting to get elected to council or parliament is going to have to go on the record and say the people here are inconsequential and always second choice to the mines. Good luck with that.
The slogan for the next election is “It’s not mine town – It’s my town”. It’s not mine house – It’s my house, and it certainly isn’t mine life.
If you don’t oppose you’re for. Know your enemy.
Dan.
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