New internal Labour poll for Northcote by-election bad news for Greens
Labour have just sent this out to their Northcote support team, and if true could be one of the biggest upsets in a safe National electorate since Winston took Northland!
Martyn Bradbury
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National finally hit gold with stupid-little-girl-gate
One of Key’s greatest gifts was knowing what the average Kiwi shopping at a mall believed. Time and time and time again the incredibly clever focus group value mining that David Farrar managed to get him allowed Key to side step criticism by playing to the petty ignorances of muddle Nu Zilind.
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Trump’s Christian death cult behind US embassy move to Jerusalem
The massacre of Palestinians by Israel over the US Embassy recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital is driven by fanatical American Christians who see violence in the middle east as a pre-requisite for their rapture to heaven.
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Why Q+A moving to 9.30pm matters
Putting political discussion on the dead wasteland of Sunday morning relegates it to religious programming, something only train spotters in anoraks enjoy. 9.30pm however creates a space that builds the town square into an audience that actually matters and is meaningful.
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The naked counter productive madness of Housing NZ
Housing NZ are part of the housing crisis and the incarceration crisis, at some stage the new Government must purge these welfare agencies of the neoliberal acolytes who see their interests first and the welfare of those they are supposed to be serving second.
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So how many times have the NZDF lied about war crime allegations now?
…how on earth can Paula Bennett storming out in a manufactured huff from Parliament Question Time get more media attention than the latest revelation that the NZDF have once again be caught out lying about war crime allegations?
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Are we ready for the cannabis referendum?
If we want real cannabis reform in NZ, it will have to be caused by a huge referendum turn out with numbers so large that not even Labour can ignore it.
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Ummmm, are we really getting angry today over this moko kauae?
…let me see if I can just get this completely straight – a white woman who survived a gang rape by the Mongrel Mob & is married to a Maori man with a full facial Moko gets a moko kauae as a symbol of her surviving her gang rape and is now being crucified for cultural appropriation?
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If the NZ media thought they could get away with calling Stewart Murray Wilson the Tentacled Vampire Monster from Mars, they would (I’ll never be your Beast of Blenheim)
The punishment handed out to those who seriously breach our laws is a loss of liberty. For a species as communal as ours, there is no greater punishment. Needing to add suffering to that loss of liberty by portraying prisoners as subhuman isn’t justice, it’s vengeance and until we as a nation are prepared to look in the mirror and ask why we need vengeance over justice, we as a culture can not advance.
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What happened to New Zealand? When did anger and fear warp social policy into state sanctioned spite?
We have become a nation of passive malice, the malignancy of which overshadows all our creations.