Labour: 100 years old with barely any presence
Well it’s a 100 years of Labour and what can one say? A political movement that began with thunder manages to barely cause a fart these days.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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TVNZ Breakfast and the real reason Hilary left
I’ve watched Breakfast ion TVNZ in the past, and it’s as enjoyable as slamming my hand in a car door. It’s less Morning Report and more the Edge radio show, a plastic banal wasteland that only the terribly bored would ever watch.
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The true horror of our unjustified war in Iraq
13 years after the deeply flawed and divisive decision to invade Iraq as punishment for a group of Saudi’s who had no connection with Iraq flying planes into the World Trade Centre, the Chilcot report has finally been released and it paints a grim and disurbingly naive British and American leadership who went to war based on little more than ego and bullshit.
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Why changing the homosexual law 30 years ago was so important to NZ democracy
The role of the state is to enable you to live your life with as much freedom and autonomy as you are capable of, it isn’t there to tell you who you can love and what toilet you must use.
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Now the Dallas Police know what it feels like to be an African American
The history of slavery, racism and a brutal apartheid mentality Police force mixed with America’s ludicrous gun laws is a hateful cocktail of spite that erupts with enough regularity to remind us that there are deep problems still within the culture of our largest Super Power.
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Why on earth is the Government profiting from fast food misery?
Fast food has an enormous amount of power in our economy and it politically inoculates itself by having far right hate speech bloggers post attacks on their health campaigns.
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It’s MANA that the elites fear turning populist anger against them
Bryce Edwards covers off the anger that is simmering in the electorate and the fear by elites of where that anger will erupt, but I think he misses a very important part of the spectrum which is open to radicalism.
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Wake up sleepy hobbits – John Key has no interest in popping his bubble
It’s time for Labour and the Greens to start breaking some eggs if they want their omelette.
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A $1billion dollar bribe to developers using borrowed money isn’t a solution!
This Government do not want to pop the property bubble they have built because it’s the only thing propping up the economy and the inflated sense of wealth the middle classes have derived from property speculation keeps them voting National.
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What, wait, the Police are trying to gain MORE search and surveillance powers?
What the Police seem to be wanting here is the GCSB to act as the 3rd party to simply go through anyones cloud without a warrant.