Toothless Union law highlights how genuinely power vacant new Government is
The incredibly toothless Union laws that were always tepid and mild, have been defeated from being anything radical or even useful…
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Let’s just examine the madness we all need to accept as New Zealanders to believe Simon Bridges
How utterly immoral, to push social policy that is pointlessly counterproductive just so he can scratch his social conservative itch with the voters.
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High Court ruling begins the end of Cameron Slater & Dirty Politics and when can we start investigating their climate change denial?
…the damage Slater and his Dirty Politics advocates caused is still reverberating throughout the NZ political spectrum. The manner in which he was empowered by the NZ mainstream media has never been examined and no one has ever been held to account.
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Trump, climate change denial & the Saudi’s
Trump is not the first President to place cheap oil and unregulated corporate greed above the public good, but he is the first to be naked in his championing of those interests without the pretend crocodile tears.
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Black Friday on a dangerously warming planet is the tumour of consumer capitalism
The mad cult worship of consumerism that is Black Friday on a warming planet is a cultural tumour. The White house dropping a major new report showing the full impact climate change will cause on Black Friday is heavy with symbolism…
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Cannabis reform, legal suicide & MMP reform referendum – bullshit democracy done on the cheap
Throw 3 seperate issues together and try and sweep them all under the carpet at the same time so the Government doesn’t have to show any real courage either way on any of the issues.
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If Hillary runs, Trump wins 2020
You don’t beat the negative populism Trump has harvested with a candidate like Hillary who is wedded to the neoliberal economic framework that has built that resentment and cultural alienation, you only beat that negative populism with positive populism.
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TWITTER WATCH: File under ‘Nuance’
The group behind the expulsion of the Police at Pride have some interesting ideas on crime and punishment that are worth investigating, but their position on child rapists is, how do I say this politely, well, ummmm, ‘interesting’…
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A brief history of NZ Police marching in Uniform in the NZ Pride parade
As sponsor after sponsor after sponsor march out of the Pride Parade, those Trans Activists advocating for the exclusion of Police in uniform have desperately attempted to broaden the justifications of exclusion because the ‘uniform might trigger Trans people’ argument has looked increasingly flakey.
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Santa banned from NZ Santa Parade for saying only men can play Santa – people about to lose their shit in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
…my first thought was that Lizzie Marvelly, Alison Mau, Marama ‘white dudes delete themselves’ Davidson and micro-aggression policing millennials at The Spinoff had joined forces and had called Santa out for his heteronormative white cis male privilege, I mean how many other women and people of colour can just break into your house in the middle of the night and hang out with your kids?