NZIFF FILM REVIEW: The 5th Eye – 5 stars
The long anticipated documentary, THE 5TH EYE, that follows the story of the Waihopai Three and the GCSB premieres this month at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
Martyn Bradbury
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America sends a warship while trying to seize our Economic and Political Sovereignty
One narrative being peddled about America sending a warship to our harbour is that this is some sort of reestablishment of the US alliance with NZ as an equal and not a lapdog.
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Why Stephen Jennings is the exact same dead eyed neoliberal warlord John Key is – a reply to The Spinoff
The Editor of The Spinoff believes Stephen Jennings’ criticism of Key is some type of renaissance moment when free market capitalism sagely nodded to itself and confessed, ‘We’ve all be a bit naughty’.
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These bankers rushing to warn us of the collapse of a housing market they’ve exploited for 16 yrs is like the fox warning about chicken theft
The banks simply want to be ahead of the vicious backlash about to erupt once the middle classes realise their illusion of wealth is exactly that, an illusion.
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Scum Pig owns illegal home/garages and scum WINZ send desperate people to illegal home/garages – this is NZ in 2016
We have State Agencies now who are the problem, they are not the solution. People fear WINZ, Housing NZ and CYFS the way they fear cancer.
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Money will ultimately decide Cannabis debate in NZ
So instead of locking up NZers, empowering organised crime and causing counter productive social problems, we could feed every hungry kid, shelter our most vulnerable and put money back into the pockets of mums and dads sending their kids to school.
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Another day, another set of examples of Housing Crisis in meltdown
What’s different this time around is the mainstream media are now competing with narrative structures from social media that contradict National’s spin and they are forced (primarily by Checkpoint) to actively seek out stories of those who are suffering.
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Ministry of Health not only racist – they are torturers
…it is becoming increasingly apparent to me that the biggest agents of discrimination against the poor, against the sick and against the vulnerable in this country are the huge State agencies tasked with providing their welfare.
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Claire Trevett catches up with TDB – how the MANA movement-Maori Party MOU would work
With coat tailing, MANA and the Maori Party could bring in a combined total of 5 MPs, that’s a block that could have a huge impact in the 2017 election.
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Anti-Police sentiment in America is the fault of the Police, not #BlackLivesMatter
America’s arrogant cop culture is the reason why African-Americans get killed, and America’s gun culture that allows high powered military style weaponry to be bought by everyone is the reason why Police are getting shot.