Let’s just remind everyone of the statement the NZDF made at the time they were accused of a war crime
Isn’t it time for the NZ Media to start doing their job now Jon Stephenson and Nicky Hager have done all the hard work?
Martyn Bradbury
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I’d have thought our role in a war crime that killed and wounded 21 civilians was a bigger story than not wearing bike helmets
Can we move onto that now, because as much fun as cyclists who want brain damage is as a news story, I just care a little more about war crimes we commit.
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So the NZDF lied to all our faces about war crimes in Afghanistan? This unblinking cretin must answer new OIA revelations
If we have a functioning fourth estate, this should lead every news bulletin and Keating must be forced by the media to explain why he lied.
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Labour have no choice but to stand Andrew Kirton down
I am watching left wing activists on social media defending the right of 16 year olds to not tell their parents or Police about sexual assaults, and they have a point in regards to autonomy and agency of 16 year olds, but every single voting parent in this country would demand knowledge of this and that Labour are telling them to their faces that they wouldn’t tell those parents is a black hole that will damage Labour politically.
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Deaths from Police car chases are our mass shooting public policy failure
Surely public policy should hold public safety above all else, yet Police Chase Policy manages to have an open ended kill threshold – why is that?
It’s because we are a juvenile culture with all the maturity of a can of coke-cola.
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FFS – the Young Nats weren’t being racist! Ignorant, bigoted and privileged, sure – but not racist
…screaming ‘racist’ at the Young Nats for a meme that isn’t racist manages to eclipse the real issues and the substantive history of why we owe the Pacific.
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Dear Al Nisbet – it’s not a witch hunt men fear, it’s a witch trial
A ‘witch hunt’ is an angry lynch mob hunting for a mythical monster and what we have learned and seen about harassment in the work place over the last couple of years tells us that harassment isn’t a myth, it’s real, it’s visceral and it’s unacceptable. We don’t have a witch hunt here, we have the ingredients for a witch trial.
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Dear Mike Hosking – 5 reasons we owe the Pacific
NZ owes the Pacific and we never acknowledge that.
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What the hell went wrong at Fletcher’s?
John Tamihere has asked crucial questions in his new Herald column demanding to know where the public good values have evaporated within NZs largest construction company…
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When the NZ State is spying on earthquake victims – when do you as citizens finally stand up?
This is the organisation that our State Agencies are hiring to do dirty work against our own people?