Monday will begin the final question of who the Prominent NZer is who has been charged with serious offences
…the manner in which this Prominent NZer has been protected post the allegations first surfacing is as sickening as the charges laid.
Martyn Bradbury
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Monday will begin the final question of how much NZers are prepared to love John Key endlessly
Details around what is happening on Monday are shrouded in secrecy, but once those details become public people will demand answers from Key that he won’t be able to squirm away from this time.
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You can’t honestly be surprised the SIS are misusing their new powers already can you?
Once you allow these spooks the power to start secretly spying without judicial oversight, they will immediately find excuses to do it.
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Now is not the time for cowardice on Cannabis reform – why decriminalisation isn’t enough
Decriminalisation is merely begrudging acknowledgement from those authorities in society who have benefited from prohibition that their immoral, racist and destructive war on drugs has been an utter failure.
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The simmering political dialogue, threats to Bennett and butter wouldn’t melt in Hooton’s mouth
There’s no place for political violence or threats, but when you rule over people rather than with them, a Government breeds contempt.
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Mainstream media back to using whaleoil for story ideas
The manner in which ‘news’ in NZ has descended into click bait using social media as the source is lazy, vacuous and under funded journalism at best, but allowing a crypto-facist who’s been on his best behaviour while under numerous legal defamation cases to once again lead the mainstream media is dangerous.
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Dear NZ – can we care about hungry children now they are middle class?
When it was poor brown kids, Muddle Nu Zilind screamed it was the parents fault. Now it’s the white middle classes, notice how quiet those voices have become.
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Why there shouldn’t be any trading over Easter
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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How Brian Tamaki and Trump are the same
I’m no theologian, but I think speaking to money is about the weirdest, grossest, least spiritual thing anyone pretending to be a Bishop could ever admit to.
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Mainstream media Key apologists, finding the next political distraction and what the flag referendum really tells us
The truth is that a majority of NZers would keep the bleeding butchers apron and its stained history over Key’s vacant brand vomit of a weetbix packet with All Black product placement. Key’s flag represented 300000 kids in poverty, housing bubbles, wages going backwards in real terms and entire swathes of society living as wage slaves.