Why Murray McCully is really stepping down & why we shouldn’t get excited about National Party reshuffle
What many and most in the corporate mainstream media have missed about the Saudi Sheep bribe is why Muzza did it.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Why Auckland Airport chaos is the symbol for National’s New Zealand
To be honest, I find the news that there is traffic chaos getting in and out of Auckland airport as hilarious as the bullshit solutions brainfarted out by Auckland Transport and Auckland Airport.
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Why Pike River Mine matters and why we owe the families
What Winston, the Greens and Labour all understand and appreciate about the Pike River Mine is how utterly responsible we all are as a civil society for the deaths there.
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Did Russia hack the American election and how far are liberals prepared to go for a civil war?
Did Russia hack the Democrats and drip feed that information to wikileaks to impact the US election?
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TDB SPECIAL: 1 year out from 2017 election – Issues
With less than 10 months until the election, what will be the political issues and what will be the wild cards in 2017?
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TDB SPECIAL UPDATE: 1 year out from 2017 election – the Political Parties
With the extraordinary shock resignation of Key, the entire NZ political landscape has fractured and morphed. Factoring that in, here is the updated TDB special for the 2017 election.
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Goodbye David Shearer – we barely knew you
For me, that was the final straw. To tell us to our face that he aligned with our values and concerns while secretly meeting Key to try and get the spying powers past was a total betrayal.
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Of course there is exploitation of migrant workers – why are Kiwi’s so easily led?
We have a corrupt work and student visa system in place bringing in 250 000 migrant workers/students on top of record immigration of 70 000+ each year. We have a Government who are doing this because it keeps their property bubble high and it pushes down labour demands.
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Sam Lotu-liga finally does honourable thing & what msm isn’t saying about our corrupt prison nightmare
We have a corrupt corporation running prisons which are producing men and women more damaged when they come out than when they went in. We have allowed anger to influence social policy and that social policy is merely creating an ocean of spite.
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Thoughts on Wellington’s ‘Free the nipple’ protest
Now, as a cis white male who benefits from the patriarchy (despite not supporting it), I have to check my privilege and not start mansplaining (as if explaining ones thoughts on an issue is a bad thing) because free the nipple protests seem to me to be identity politics at its most elitist, middle class and alienating.