Meanwhile the planet is melting
In my mind Green Socialism is the only way forward, and that will increasingly be seen as the only way forward once the impacts of out of control global warming take hold.
Martyn Bradbury
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TDB Summer Election Special: Is TOP real or a Gareth Morgan vanity project?
His surprising position on Palestine, his hard line on the environment and his strong support of a Universal Basic Income has the potential to disrupt politics and rupture ideological boundaries.
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The 10 news sites NZers should check out daily
According to the latest PEW international news consumption research, Most social media news consumers only get news on one site…
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NZ Labour taking former Police cheerleader Greg O’Connor on as a candidate will be their final mutation into National lite
If Labour can bring a former tough on crime Police cheerleader into the fold to legislate for cannabis in the electorate seat held by an MP who refused to legalise medicinal cannabis and forced Helen Kelly to be a criminal, that would be a political coup.
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LeitchGate Day 6 – kill Phil Gifford – the truth about racism in the Land of the Wrong White Crowd
The ability of the Left to tear itself to pieces over identity politics on social media is the best advert National could hope for.
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What Corporate Hollywood tried to do behind your back and why they are trying to paint NZ as pirates
America is fighting a hot soft war in the Pacific by flooding us with their movies, their songs, their TV shows, their internet. They will constantly be trying to gain more control and more power over our media as part of their push back against China. The danger for us is that Corporate Hollywood have managed to have their interests adopted as national security interests.
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Just because the Russians were glad Hillary lost doesn’t mean Iraq has WMDs – deny that drum beat for war at every step
I watched my generation get conned into the bullshit war in Iraq over weapons of mass destruction that never existed, we should resist this latest drum beat for war with Russia. I say that as someone who recognises that Putin is a thug and Russia an authoritarian regime, but conning us into declaring some proxy war based on fake intelligence is not a way forward.
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Trump’s latest twitter fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger highlights his cult of resentment
You don’t appreciate what a narcissistic sociopath Trump truly is until you read his tweets.
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If St Johns treated their patients as badly as they do their workers the ambulances would be hearses – why hasn’t this been Nationalised?
I’ve never understood why ambulance services became user pays. It seems barbaric to me that if you are in need of safe and immediate transport to a medical facility because of a medical emergency, charging for that is neoliberal cruelty.
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Please God, can Michelle Boag be National’s campaign manager in 2017?
How she managed to keep fuelling this story for 3 days longer than it should have been in the headlines is a feat of true beauty caused by someone with enough sophistry and misplaced privilege for the entire Island of Waiheke.