Dear Action Station – why banning pokies is counter productive
I think this would be a clusterfuck of counter productive outcomes that would make things far worse than this well intentioned but hopelessly deluded call to ban pokies.
Martyn Bradbury
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What does the final Q+A Poll mean and why it should freak out Labour
So no bounce for the new Government and that is pretty grim, why is it so grim? This new Poll was taken using 50-50 cellphone and landline methodology . This is the best ever polling landscape for the Left yet all they’ve done is stay static in the final MMP numbers.
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What the censored GCSB report said and why they tried to hide it
The new Government and our Intelligence Agencies are painfully aware of what National’s ‘put all our cows in one Beijing paddock’ has done to us and will go to great lengths in not antagonising China publicly while frantically working behind the scenes to minimise the threat China poses to our economy.
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The myth that National are better managers of the economy has been laid bare as a sick joke
The obviousness of this hollowing out of public services and the social damage their property speculation, draconian welfare reforms and mass migration has created are no longer hidden but the contemptuous denial by 44% of the voting electorate means none of this will be acknowledged.
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The self-fulfilling evangelical death cult prophesy that pushed Trump into declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel
For this voting block, the Bible is a literal version of events, not a metaphorical one. They believe the Earth is less than 10 000 years old, they believe climate change won’t flood the planet because God showed Noah a rainbow and they believe that the end of times and Armageddon could be upon us and they will all be raptured away to heaven.
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If having 290 000 kids in poverty is a ‘success’ I’d hate to see failure in NZ
We need to reject this attempt to differentiate the poor from the utterly destitute because it’s a mere political illusion that pretends to be doing something when in reality it is only allowing the problem to get more damaged.
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Toxic drinking water, petrol price gouging, slave students, climate change and public health meltdown – welcome to your unregulated nightmare you sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind
Some noddy at stuff wrote a column this year criticising my use of the term ‘Sleepy Hobbits’.
For me the term sums us up perfectly as a nation.
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Trump recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital the stupidest, most corrupt, most unthinking, most damaged and most infantile decision of his entire stupid, corrupt, unthinking, damaged, infantile Presidency
We are in for dark days comrades.
Climate change has invited Famine and Death, Trump has invited Conquest and War.
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How Steven Joyce killed NZ music & how a new youth radio station could save it
There’s been a very interesting series of articles published by the NZ Herald over the last week looking into why the NZ music scene that was so vibrant at the end of the 1990s has crashed to such woeful levels now.
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What the 2017 Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD) report means for NZs media landscape
It paints a bleak picture of the current NZ media landscape and highlights the real threat that the majority of news media is now in private hands meaning we are ripe for political manipulation and exploitation by those commercial interests that own those media.