Wake up call on NZ land use – Greenpeace
The Ministry for the Environment has released Our Land 2018 which reveals that the large scale conversion and intensification of…
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Christchurch-based political society to host public lecture on eve of ANZAC day
WHAT: Public Lecture on Peace activists and ANZAC Day
WHERE: Christchurch
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NZNO members now vote whether or not to strike
The majority of NZNO DHB members, who are party to the DHB Nurses and Midwifery MECA, receive their strike ballot…
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Political Caption Competition
The Right wing are mocking Jacinda for virtue signalling with her Māori cloak. Remember when Prime Ministers virtue signalled before Jacinda?
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CAFCA Says It’s Time To Get Tough With Tax Dodging Transnationals
For several years now the New Zealand media have drawn attention to the scandalously low amount of tax paid in…
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 23rd April 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Syria: the mendacities of the mainstream media (part tahi)
“The first casualty when war comes is truth…”
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Poisoned spies, diplomatic mocking and hate speech: Tova O’Brien doesn’t like Jacinda much does she?
Tova is of course free to take the lines of inquiry she wants, she is the Political Editor of a main News Network, it is utterly her prerogative, but the results seem to be cheap headline gotcha’s rather than meaningful comment.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Bees, guns and cults: recent happenings in education
I see the point of pupils knowing how to react if something happens. In most cases, actually, the ‘drop, cover, hold’ rules of earthquake reaction is the best response. What I don’t see is why a security agency should be employed, unless schools in New Zealand are thinking that they are about to get targeted by a mad gunmen.
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Western Economic and Military Groupthink on Parade This Week
So while leaders from European superpowers, Five Eyes nations and the Commonwealth parade, in self-congratulatory back slapping and hand shaking in front of the cameras, they engage in lock step and group think, marching as one over firing missiles at Syria that are actually aimed at Russia, in a real battle for supremacy of the ‘There is No Alternative’ approach to economic management, monetary policy, growth, trade and the neo-liberal agenda.