SNL Kate Mckinnon Hallelujah on piano as Hillary Clinton
SNL Kate Mckinnon Hallelujah on piano as Hillary Clinton
Author: The Daily Blog
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EXCLUSIVE: Jane Kelsey – What Trump means to the TPPA
We will have a better idea next week when the political leaders of the TPPA countries meet on the side of the APEC leaders’ summit in Peru, one of Obama’s last appearances as president on the global stage. There will be lots of brave rhetoric, so we will have to decipher the noise from behind the scenes.
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Who’s The “Lesser Evil” Now?
Donald Trump is, unquestionably, the most morbid symptom of the current political crisis gripping the capitalist West – but he is not the only one. Of almost equal concern is the toxic combination of ignorance and viciousness on display in the commentary threads of political blogs and websites.
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When Life is a Lottery
Make no mistake, housing has become a crisis in New Zealand as this May poll for a TV3/Reid Research Poll highlighted;
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GUEST BLOG: Ben Peterson – What politicians don’t want you to know about immigration
Immigration is not a central cause of unemployment, and not the key driver of the explosion in housing prices. Even dramatic reductions in immigration numbers will have little impact.
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Why Clintonistas Desperately Want You To Stop Talking About Bernie
It’s been interesting watching the shift in discourse about Bernie Sanders from some of the local #ImWithHer crowd (and, presumably, those further afield/closer to the action).
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How do we counter Trumpism?
How do we counter the right-wing populist currents emerging in several Western countries? The Trump victory shows that backing a liberal establishment alternative, like Hillary Clinton, is not a successful strategy.
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GUEST BLOG: Auckland Peace – Stop the war profiteers: why you should be on the streets this week
I’ve just counted up the ships that are coming to Auckland; they total 23, a real war fest. Five frigates, two destroyers, a submarine, a torture ship, two landing platform docks (amphibious warfare ships) and a handful of patrol vessels will sail into the Waitematā Harbour on Thursday.
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On Dawkins’ “New Athens” Proposal – Unclean, Algal-Green, And Anti-Intellectualism
On Friday, word reached us that the world’s foremost obstreperous atheist, Richard Dawkins, appears to be advocating we open our borders to the world’s “creative intellectuals” in a bid to make New Zealand a ‘new Athens’ for the ‘Trump era’.
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Political Caption Competition
It’s a cold and broken hallelujah