GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Good grief!
I am no great fan of the flawed Kiwibuild policy,but I am even less of a fan of the Judith Collins type of entrenched neoliberal mindset that thinks government should NEVER interfere with the marketplace.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Winston Peters Economics 101
“When Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters was asked for his opinion (TVNZ 12th July) he shrugged it off saying ” ….I’m not worried … the share market is at record levels, profitability is up at record levels, banking profits are up at 9 per cent… So let’s not have this doom and gloom contrived by the National Party.”
OK stop!
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Suicide and Economics
In the year 2017 to 2018 , 329 people died on our roads . Almost one a day – which is bad. But last week we learned that twice as many, 668 New Zealanders, took their own lives that year, the highest rate yet – which is terrible.
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GUEST BLOG: Murray Horton – Time to recognise Rocket Lab for what it is
Rocket Lab was originally touted as a shining example of Kiwi innovation. It continues to be, under the present Government. But, in fact, it is now simply the NZ subsidiary of an American company, one with major ownership by Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest weapons manufacturer.
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Guest Blog: Ross Meurant – Where lies the power?
The latest diplomatic cable “leak’ out of the bowels of Britain’s bastion of bureaucracy, accuses President Trump of “diplomatic vandalism”, abandoning the nuclear deal with Iran for “personality reasons” because the pact had been agreed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – We hear the cry of our Children
Noam Chomsky has described Israeli control over Gaza as ‘sadistic.’ Israeli historian Ilan Pappé has said, ‘incremental genocide’. The UN has said that Gaza will be unliveable by 2020.
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Guest Blog: Ross Meurant – Why I penned this book
The book is a fiction. It is not autobiographical. But my exposure to the environments which I write about, “equipped me well”, to invent fiction.
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GUEST BLOG: Suzie Dawson – NOT IN MY NAME: ACADEMICS PUBLICLY ATTACKING UN TORTURE RAPPORTEUR
I am a survivor of rape, gang rape and the abusive police process I was subjected to when I reported it and I am fed up with watching sexual violence being used as a cover for political attacks on Julian Assange, his colleagues and his supporters.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – What is the purpose of an economy?
Last week RNZ reported on two stories that should give us all pause to think about who we are , what we stand for and the ACTUAL rather than the pretend economic policy by which our country is run .
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Civics & History should be compulsory in schools
The clip is just 12 seconds long but I post it in the hope our government and the RNZ will show similar courage in demanding better behaviour from our banks – especially from 4 big foreign owned ones who have taken the lion’s share of the New Zealand market.