National pledges to do nothing and take a huge step backwards
This is a Party who actively went out of their way to bleed infrastructure spending and all of a sudden National are willing to fund it?
Martyn Bradbury
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Respects to Deborah Hill Cone
In a culture where micro-aggression policing occurs on social media networks fuelled by outrage, the ability to take offence and bloat it into a war crime means we are often left defensive and resentful in response which feeds the algorithms and Mark Zuckerberg makes another billion.
Deborah has shown us what an apology with grace and humility looks like.
Many respects to her.
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New Zealand’s new Alt-Right Twitter Trolls: Dirty Politics 2018
Dirty Politics didn’t end with the demise in influence of Cameron Slater & David Farrar, it has cleverly mutated into a hundred social media voices that are all oddly saying the same things at the same time.
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New Government response to MSD sadism is just not good enough
It is deeply disappointing to see such a lack of real political courage. We can make grand gestures against the oil and roading industry to appease white urban middle class liberals but we can’t protect the weakest, poorest and most brown parts of our community from a cruelty that is being perpetrated by the very Government that is supposed to protect them.
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Zimbabwe is now more progressive on cannabis than New Zealand is – how is this possible?
How can NZ have such conservative vested interests that can stop real progress in this country?
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Q+A Review
In NZ we are always a dollar short and a day late.
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China vs NZ
As China and America lock horns in a trade war and with the enormous build up of naval hardware in the South China Sea, it is becoming increasingly likely that NZ is going to get dragged into this geopolitical vortex.
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Was Israel Folau a missed opportunity?
Maybe it’s me getting old and seeing looming economic crashes and environmental meltdowns that will demand a level of co-operation amongst our squabbling tribes that is making me so reflective but the entire Israel Folau issue just seemed like a terrible missed opportunity.
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New Government throw $28billion at desperately underfunded Auckland infrastructure
The reality is the crippling underfunding of Auckland’s infrastructure will require more than $28billion to seriously get the city moving.
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Wait, what? There hasn’t been any oversight of our mass surveillance Intelligence apparatus since 2016?
National built a mass surveillance deep state, the supposed checks and balances to that deep state are a joke and mere window dressing.