Key’s tax haven whitewash report and the politician about to have a Panama Paper meltdown
…if it quacks like a tax haven, walks like a tax haven and avoids tax like a tax haven – it’s a bloody tax haven!
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Brexit an enormous threat to global economy
Brexit is a result of the working classes being hurt by globalisation – the challenge for Democracy is how to make globalisation work for all at a time when the global economy is in meltdown.
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Why sacking Mike Hosking isn’t the solution
He lives a life of wealth that disconnects him to 99% of his TVNZ audience. He has the empathy of Bob Jones and the charm of a cavity search. The amount of times he has just mouth farted out some nonsense garbage about social issues should be the reason he goes. We look to our Public Broadcaster to challenge hegemonic structure, not embrace it and be its bloody representative 7pm weeknights.
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BREAKING: What really happened inside Mt Eden Prison
‘Tough on Crime’ Politicians and headline screaming crime porn news media have turned our anger at the pain crime causes into something dark and damaged.
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EXCLUSIVE: Which senior NZ Politician is about to have a Panama Papers scandal eruption?
You heard it here on TDB first.
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Is it a surprise that we have a culture of bullying when we have a PM who thinks touching a waitress on 10 separate occasions is just fun?
Can we expect our children to be better if that is the example we set?
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Road Tolls in Auckland a tax on the poor and dodgy Chinese building isn’t much of a solution
The solution to Auckland’s grotesque infrastructure underfunding is to allow new bonds or fresh funding from central Government. Auckland’s growth has traditionally been suffocated by Wellington and it continues today.
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What are we actually doing in Iraq? The answer will shock you
If you ask a NZer to put their lives in danger for our ‘National Interest’, it better be for honourable and just reasons, not as the price we pay for being inside the 5 eyes club. We have obligations as a global citizen, but do those obligations extend to cleaning up America’s latest failed adventure?
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Gerry Brownlee uses Orlando shooting to justify NZ troops in Iraq
“We’re not insulated from the sort of thing that we saw in Orlando.” – Gerry Brownlee, re NZ extension of troop deployment in Iraq
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All John Key is saying, is give war a chance
We sow the seeds of the next monster with every intervention. This is America’s mess, America cleans it up, we shouldn’t give them the pretence of support for their perverse sense of National Interest which always seems to end up being for Corporate benefit.