Dear NZ First, it’s ‘God of Nations at Thy feet, In the bonds of love we meet’ not, “Welcome kids to a gambling treat, we toss dwarfs like a shooting skeet’
Has anyone asked Clayton Mitchell if ‘Leprechaun Curling’ & underage gambling are NZ Values?
Martyn Bradbury
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The IPCC warns 10 more years left to prevent catastrophic climate change
The IPCC is an incredibly conservative body who only publish science that everyone agrees with and this (along with them not including methane release from permafrost and from the ocean floor) has been one of the great criticisms of the panel, so when they come out with a damning report as serious as their latest one, complacency, climate denial and apathy are no longer options.
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Russel Norman’s damning assessment of Greens should wake them up – will it?
The Green Woke are in absolute denial that this is poor media planning and strategy and any attempt to suggest it is gets attacked as heteronormative patriarchal misogyny.
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Everything wrong with NZ in one Stuff.co.nz comments section: Why I hate corrections & so will you when you understand the reality behind the sudden decrease in Prison population
We are a bitter, petty folk who prefer counter productive policy to success if that success requires kindness and compassion.
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NZ Government allow digital strip search at the border
It’s a vile and grotesque invasion of privacy that has no real checks or balances, but New Zealander’s have such an incredulous ‘if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear’ mentality to mass surveillance, it’s difficult to feel anything but sad apathy at the manner we hand such incredibly far ranging powers over to the all seeing state.
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NZ Government officials caught red handed helping Chinese companies take NZ water
…why on earth were the officials under National actively trying to get Chinese companies to take our water?
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Latest industrial action by teachers highlights problems for Labour
This militancy when Labour are in power and cowardice when National are in is deeply detrimental to industrial relations and progressive politics because it feeds into a National Party narrative that Unions feel emboldened by Jacinda being in power.
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Over heated US economy & Trumps China trade war, Italian economic suicide & the geopolitics of Iranian oil – the ingredients of the next crash?
With Trump claiming China is attempting to interfere in the upcoming mid term elections, the speed with which mistakes could compound ignorance and collapse the entire house of cards is higher than ever before.
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Look, sure Damien Grant eats left wing babies at night, buuuuuuut he has a point on Government’s drug hypocrisy
While no one ever likes to agree with Damien Grant, he has a very valid point, this Government wants to parade our liberal values on the global stage while betraying them at home. The truth is that we will only solve synthetic cannabis use when we legalise the real version and on that front the Government is fecklessly rudderless.
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Why petrol prices threaten Jacinda more than anything else and why Government must adopt radical Public Transport response
There is no greater challenge to the Government than the rising price of petrol because the entire economy is at risk and those workers already trying to survive in a country where costs outstrip wage increases will quickly revolt.