The biggest abuser of the poor is the State – not loan sharks
The reality that people in poverty go to loan sharks because they’re kinder than WINZ is another example of the counter productive fuckwittery of neoliberal social service agencies
Martyn Bradbury
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The double standards of White rage when it comes to hiring more Māori at Hospitals
It really says something about us as a country when the rage is focused at Hospitals trying to hire more Māori & Pacific Islanders because ‘that’s racist’, but there is no rage at those same Hospitals not resuscitating Māori & Pacific Island babies…
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Koru Lounge Carnage and Mosgiel as a town – why the media are letting us down
It is time we stood against these fools and their distractions and fought back to reclaim a media that actually challenges and provides insight rather than the vacant infotainment we are served up at 7pm and on the front pages of our newspapers.
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TWITTER WATCH: The sick hatred Golriz Ghahraman puts up with makes me question our humanity sometimes
We may disagree on politics and culture and economics and philosophy and we may argue our causes passionately and we may be blunt, rude and self righteous in the pursuit of that argument, but who the Christ gets off on making fun of something like this?
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The 1080 hysteria has been debunked – what does it tell us about the state of activist debate?
The venom, self righteousness and utterly misplaced perceptions that 1080 is poisoning human beings and vast amounts of unintentional wildlife has been an eye opening reality check of how poorly understood science is in todays activist world.
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For those claiming Jacinda’s UN appearance with Neve was meaningless – here are the stats
Those images of Jacinda at the UN with Clarke and Neve have given us more value for money than the entire Hobbit Trilogy.
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Steven Joyce digs himself deeper into his $11.7b hole while Grant Robertson produces $5.5billion surplus
If you ask 10 NZers who is the best manger of the economy, despite all the evidence that shows National only looks after the rich and wealthy, 9 out of 10 all claim National do. This is why the lie Joyce used during the election almost won it for them, National must lie and must keep the lie alive at all times if they ever hope to win back the Treasury Benches.
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National Party MP Simeon Brown is a shit stain killing NZers
Simeon Brown has blood all over his hands.
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Capping loan sharks is great – now what about the debt the State agencies load onto beneficiaries?
It’s just another feel good promise that hasn’t even been implemented while the Government continues to act just as cruelly as the behaviour they are legislating against.
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Hahahahaha Online Census total failure – like we called it
…let’s remember this was a cost cutting measure to try and make it cheaper, but without a person coming to your door and actually identifying you and prompting you to fill the form in, a lot of NZers didn’t bother.