Cameron Slater is right – suppression orders are terrible
The only thing worse than using your power to hide your identity would be hypocrisy.
Martyn Bradbury
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Herald front page highlights why we need a 5th estate
The fourth estate has obligations to hold the powerful to account, lazy journalism that jumps on social media for news doesn’t do that.
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Academy Awards respects The Revenant – but watch the sneering in 1973
It is good that the movie gets respect and that Native Americans are shown in a light that goes beyond the whitewashed history America clings to. The genocide, lies, murder and butchery committed against the first nation of America is still a crime the US has never paid for.
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With Peter Jackson’s history, will remaking ‘The NeverEnding Story’ become a 7 hour trilogy?
After the shlock of The Hobbit and the never ending Lord of the Rings, I’m not sure we want Peter Jackson remaking a movie called ‘The NeverEnding Story’.
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Beer doesn’t kill people, people kill people
Screw the booze barons, their interests have been protected and advanced for too long.
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Despite being ignored by msm – Bernie could win Democratic nomination: Will 2017 be Trump vs Sanders?
No where could the very best of America come up against the very worst of America.
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Cataclysmic, sell everything and your Kiwisaver account
Most NZers have Kiwisaver now, which means the meltdown impacts you if your money is invested in the stock market. The only Kiwisaver option you can choose which removes you from the stock market altogether is opting for the cash rate. You can do this on your banks website.
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Here is what happens next with the TPPA
The right are attempting to counter the growing rage many NZers are now starting to feel, All Blacks included, over Key telling them that the TPPA would be debated in Parliament with the news (originally denied by the Government) that Key will sign the TPPA days before Waitangi Day and days before Parliament is even open.
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An open letter to Alan Duff re ‘Muslims’
Would we seriously judge a ‘Christian’ nation like NZ on the Klu Klux Klan in America or the Protestant/Catholic blood feud in Ireland? Of course not, and attempting to do it to all Muslims is equally ridiculous.
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Dairy – pollutes environment, steals water, abuses animals, privatises national assets for unsustainable irrigation, is dangerous AND uses slave labour?
The farming and Dairy corporates don’t have to answer to anyone. In the National Party they have a political power that protects them from having to be serious about water pollution, climate changing emissions, animal rights and worker safety.