Let’s hope some of the 46,000 Iraqi soldiers NZ has trained have helped shoot 250 Iraqi civilians
Can someone explain why we are helping train a military force that is now turning on its own people?
Martyn Bradbury
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‘ok Boomer’ & smug Zero Carbon sophistry – evidence that the climate crisis will doom us and make Fortress Aotearoa an inevitability
I believe in the science and the science tells us overwhelmingly that human made pollution since the industrial revolution is super heating our planet at a rate that has never been seen naturally.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Shane Jones vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – Ok Boomer, Zero Carbon Bill, immigration & population planning, fireworks, Bomber fought the law & the law lost, media’s coverage of Grace Millane trial
This week – Ok Boomer, Zero Carbon Bill, immigration & population planning, fireworks, Bomber fought the law & the law lost, media’s coverage of Grace Millane trial
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Why the Oranga Tamariki apology is so wrong and why nothing is going to change
Oranga Tamariki’s apology today for the appalling manner in which their staff attempted to uplift a new born infant highlights all that is wrong with out neoliberal welfare agencies and hints that nothing will change until the next filmed uplift embarrasses the Government again.
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MEDIA WATCH: Much of the coverage of Winston’s case is more spurious clickbait & less political analysis
Winston’s case matters and if there is any hope for this Government implementing transformative change in a possible second term, then a vast purge of the Public Service needs to be the first issue of their 100 day plan in 2020.
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The only reason there has been so much cross Party support for the Zero Carbon Act is because it doesn’t do anything
The only reason National and their farmer mates are on board is because this doesn’t do a bloody thing! If this sophistry is a ‘win’, your definition of ‘win’ is as meaningless as this Government’s definition of ‘transformative’.
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Ok Boomer – a weary insult from a gathering generational war
Bless Chloe Swarbrick for just dropping the ‘Ok Boomer’ retort in Parliament as she explained why her generation struggles to remain calm in the face of Boomer apathy over something as agenda setting as climate change.
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Waatea News Column: National’s new draconian Oranga Tamariki welfare reforms are anti-Māori, anti-women and anti-human
It’s difficult to know where to begin in attempting to sift the outright spite and maliciousness of National’s new welfare reforms. Firstly, let’s just acknowledge that while National say beneficiary and gangs, their angry voters hear Māori.
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5 years and finally justice: NZ Police formally apologise & settle for breaching my civil rights
After 5 years, the NZ Police have apologised and settled my complaint against their breach of my privacy and civil rights during their deeply flawed case against Nicky Hager.
The formal apology is as follows.
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Of course the Ministry turned down doing anything meaningful about suicide
Of course the Ministry turned down something as innovative as Mike’s suicide prevention programme, because since when did the Ministry manage to do anything meaningful when it comes to suicide?