Waatea News Column: 14,496 waiting for Public Housing highlights how far Government has to go
The housing crisis that helped propel Labour into Government has not diminished for the most needy.
Martyn Bradbury
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Dem Debate: Warren plays her woman card while insinuating Bernie is sexist – why Biden wins
Warren used this allegation to frame a narrative that progressive Democratic women should dump their support for Bernie and Biden to support her because women can win (except for last time when one didn’t).
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TWITTER WATCH: Woke social media lynch mobs, virtue signalling olympics & suicide in the new age of selective rage public shaming
French existential philosopher once said, Hell is other people’. I’d suggest, ‘Hell is other people’s social media feed”.
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Why Bernie Sanders is the only one who can beat Trump & why that matters
More than any other Political President before him, Donald Trump has understood, harnessed and manipulated cultural political resentment in a manner that has tapped into deep seated economic anxieties caused by free market globalisation.
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Actually the school curriculum for climate change doesn’t go far enough!
Giving climate denying kids a cuddle is the least of our worries with this curriculum, that it doesn’t begin to go far enough is its real problem.
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Dear Comrades on the Left – cheering Police abuse of power against gun nuts isn’t worthy of our movement & Simon Bridges ‘fear’ of a politicised Police force is a tad rich
The same people cheering Police for this ridiculously over the top gun raid were screaming when it was the Ureweras but the greatest hypocrisy is the statement by Simon Bridges that he is suddenly worried about the ‘politicisation’ of the Police…
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How NZ climate crisis activists need to vote in 2020 and riot in 2021
For progressives who give a damn about the reality of the climate crisis, the 2020 election is proving difficult.
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The Australian forest fires are just the start you silly sleepy hobbits – here’s the worst case Climate Crisis scenario
I have been following the IPCC reports since they first came out in 1990 and what has concerned me most over those 30 years is that the worst case scenarios increasingly have become the only scenario.
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Dear Farmers of NZ – tell me why you hate the Left again?
Farmers, you are are crucial to our survival in the coming climate catastrophe, but you’ve been damaged by your own political leaders and shat upon by the Banks. Your future is with a protectionist Government, not a free market one.
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If the politicians won’t discuss China & the media avoid it – let’s sign a petition to remove a Chinese Spy from the National Party
I’ve never started a petition for anything before, here is the first one I’ve created here.