Budget surplus – what budget surplus?
The claim we have a surplus when there is so much social deficit is a game of smoke and mirrors played by the National Government. The question is are New Zealanders smart enough to see through this illusion?
Martyn Bradbury
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100 days of Trump and the Left still have no idea why he won
I’ve read a lot of ‘100 days of Trump’ stuff and it seems to me that the Left are still unable to admit and accept why Trump won. This matters because if the Left still can’t comprehend how Trump won, then they have little chance of beating this orange deranged revenge fantasist in 4 years time.
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Trump fires FBI Director and Grand Jury Subpoenas have just been issued
This is a fight between two monsters we should all universally despise. There can be no cheering here, just fear and terror at where these monsters are taking us.
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Corporate Mainstream NZ Media suddenly realise NZers are being lied to but don’t see their own role in that
The corporate mainstream media can’t understand why educated NZers hate them or why they walked away years ago to the internet for better sources of information to hold the powerful to account. Listening to the way Rod Oram was treated by Fairfax and the way those arrogant pricks had the audacity to hold him up as their evidence of being balanced while they were quality gagging him is the final nail in corporate media’s coffin.
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Bill English lecturing John Oliver on comedy and why National being sued by Eminem is very very very funny
Bill English lecturing the world on the comedic value of John Oliver is like him telling the Italians how to make pizza.
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Why Jonathan Coleman called the “People’s Mental Health Report” advocates ‘Left-wing, anti-Government protesters’
Don’t for one second think that was a gaffe by a Health Minister embarrassed by a damning mental health report, because Health Minister’s don’t gaffe. The specific use of those trigger words have already been poll tested and National know that by writing the criticism off as coming from ‘left wing anti-Government protestors’ that their rump electorate will ignore the urgency of what the report has found.
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MEDIA WATCH: Rod Oram steps down from Fairfax after ‘editorial differences’
While blue green hipster wank blog, ‘The Spin-Off ‘, cravenly worshiped the corporate media against the ComCom decision, the best economic columnist in NZ, Rod Oram, has stepped down from Fairfax for ‘editorial differences’ after he wrote a column in support of the Commerce Commission decision to stop Fairfax’s newspaper monopoly…
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Why is Duncan Garner such a dickhead? The argument against sending 4 year olds to school
Duncan couldn’t understand why starting school at 4 was a problem for anyone, here’s why it’s a problem Duncs. The Government wants to lower the age of starting school to 4 so that they can force beneficiaries into work a year younger and they can save on the pre-school costs.
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Chinese vote overwhelmingly supports National
…such a level of support looks like National are importing an electorate. This was always the criticism the Right made of Labour’s support of migration from the Pacific Islands.
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Having a mercenary for a Defence Minister – why we should all be frightened by Mark Mitchell
…National Party insiders were terrified when they discovered that Lusk and Slater were planning a take over of the National Party using MPs like Mark Mitchell to create a new hard right Government.