Q+A review: Ron Mark – A Hawk’s Hawk
FINALLY someone has pointed out that China is using soft power to extend its power into NZ.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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South Right Whale vs South White Fail
Of course far right polemicists have the right to speak in NZ – what they don’t have a right to is community funded space to speak in – but nothing is solved by banning this toxicity – if the left can’t argue the far right and win, we’ve lost, not them
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Of course Kiwibuild is a middle-class homeownership policy – The NZ Labour Party is a middle class party
The surprise over LottoBuild that allows well paid IT millennials who read the Spinoff to own a little slice of Jacinda’s aspiration shows Phil knows how to manage expectations.
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Questions the media need to ask the Police about the death of Alo Ngata in custody
Let me be clear.
I am not criticising the Police response to the tasering of Alo Ngata in Beresford street.
There are enough independent witnesses from neighbours who all universally agree Police used the required force to stop him.
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Why I’m not surprised by the Court of Appeal Kim Dotcom decision
We have two enormous powers hurtling towards each other at great speed now at the Supreme Court. On one side, Dotcom’s fierce will, tenacity and wealth up against the mass surveillance state and American corporate geopolitical interests.
If this goes all the way, it will impact everyone and everything.
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For everyone debating the pros and cons of tasers in light of the latest killing of a man by NZ Police
A death in custody, a place and environment where the Police have total dominance should send a shudder down the spine of anyone, we are being misled into a debate about tasers – without any clear explanation of where the injury that killed this man, that debate is a purposeful misdirection.
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Duncan Garner’s latest attack on Phil Twyford is actually crazy
I shake my head so many times these days over what passes as informed political debate.
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I’m concerned I may live in a country where a vegan burger on the national airline is considered an existential crisis
Air NZ should be forced to make the entire plane out of meat! Anything less than that is treachery!
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Hey Sleepy Hobbits – welcome to waking up to another day where Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth was right about mass surveillance lies – tell me, how does it feel?
This was a moment when the true nature of the mass surveillance state was shown and proven to us, that Kiwi’s refused to believe is a legacy you collectively will need to explain to your children in the big brother future.