America edges towards NSA mass surveillance Death Star
Overnight the US Senate inched closer to granting the NSA a mass surveillance Death Star by ending debate on the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Instagram hit by fake advertiser scam
This is enormously damaging to Instagram who allowed a fake company to create a scam and advertise on their platform.
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China launches first strike in looming trade war with America
After setting out the parameters of the next economic crash yesterday, China have stepped up and launched the first strike in the looming trade war with America…
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Why are Fairfax pimping for climate deniers?
What the hell do Fairfax think they are doing by allowing a climate denial pimp like Doug Edmeades a platform?
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Duncan Grieve’s analysis of TVNZ vs Mediaworks seems a tad optimistic
The Spinoff’s Editor, Duncan Grieve, claims Mediaworks (the company giving him a TV show) have outfoxed TVNZ by coming back to air early with The Project and The AM Show and that this is somehow a brilliant game of Chess being played y Mediaworks.
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All the canaries in the minefield are dead – the looming economic correction
…people are going to want a State that will be prepared to step up to the challenge and lead rather than leave it to the free market.
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Calm down David Farrar – Hayley Holt was barely a candidate (and why John Campbell might leave RNZ)
Right wing spin dr and pollster to the failed National Party, David Farrar, is incredulous that former Green Party candidate Hayley Holt has been given the new presenting job on Breakfast…
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Glitterboobs, tinned tomatoes, racist menus and golliwogs – have we started the year off angry?
The wounds that so many are speaking from can’t be argued with, they need to heal first before they can listen and I don’t think there is going to be a lot of listening in 2018.
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So for 38 minutes the people of Hawaii knew what it felt like to live in Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen & other places US + allies bomb
…except for of course that the people we bomb in those countries don’t generally get a text alert that we are about to blow them up.
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Idea Upgrades for 2018
One of the things dear to Jim’s heart was the idea that the State should use its power to make good outcomes and not leave it to the free market. In that vein, here are some upgrades for 2018 that we should push from a progressive Government.