4 months out from the election and look at the issues we are awkwardly ignoring
It’s weird isn’t it, 4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
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5 stories that need urgent attention from the Mainstream Media
While our glorious corporate mainstream media journalists are all busy nursing hangovers from their annual self-congratulary piss up, aka the Canon Media Awards, here’s 3 news stories that need urgent attention from them, if they can pause long enough from patting themselves on the back of course.
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Let’s be honest about what the 5 Eyes would have discussed in Queenstown
If we were honest about what the 5 Eyes would have spoken about in Queenstown last month for their annual get together to decide who to destroy next, I think the following might have been on the agenda…
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Could The Opportunities Party hit 5%?
Conventional political wisdom will tell you that there is no way TOP can get to 5% with 4 months out till the election, especially when they are barely registering as 1% in the mainstream media polls, but conventional political wisdom doesn’t mean much since Trump, Brexit and Len Pen doubling the Right’s vote in France. Those who are losing from neoliberal free market globalisation are over throwing political hegemonies left, right and centre.
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AUSA Backbenches
MONDAY 29TH – 5.30PM-8.30PM
SHADOWS BAR, 34 Princes Street, Auckland Central
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Fatso Classic: They Live
Sunday, May 28 at 6:30 PM – 8:10 PM
Academy Cinemas
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An Evening with Dr Jane Goodall – Auckland
Think Inc. Present: An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall
Saturday July 1, Logan Campbell Centre
Doors open 6.00pm / Show starts 7.00pm
Tickets from Eventfinda NZ 12pm Thursday March 9 -
The hypocrisy of America complaining about Russia hacking their election
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of Russia or Putin in any way shape or form, but when compared to the last 50 years of the CIA, having to put up with some whining that a Russian Agent hacked the Democratic Party’s emails seems pretty lame.
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Nats unprepared for record immigration – Labour Party
National’s under-investment in housing, public services, and infrastructure means New Zealand is literally running out of beds for the record…
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Open Letter to ASH from Dave Macpherson
My son Nicky, 21, died as a direct result of being sent off the Waikato Hospital campus, unescorted, while a known suicide risk, to smoke; when there was (and is) a perfectly good safe outside courtyard area that he could have been in.