A water pipeline under a Kiwi sanctuary in a National Park? How much wrongness can you get in one idea?
When this story first surfaced last week I thought that I must have caught the wrong end of the stick…
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The Big White Lie – how our racist prison system is killing us and why Chester Borrows might be the solution
As a country we have been manipulated by lynch mob grief manipulators, ‘get-tough-on-crime’ politicians and a crime porn media more interested in ratings than sensible public debate. This vile cocktail of anger and vengeance have helped build a prison empire whose cost was so large that we embarked upon the private prison experiment to try and lower costs.
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What response to SBWs rugby jersey really says about NZ
We are a nation who demands that our bread and circus occurs without ever having to know how the bread was baked or circus made.
We are blind, deaf and dumb when it comes to why are attention is being distracted in the first place.
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Why I have to boycott the Poppy this ANZAC Day
There’s nothing to commemorate when we hide our war crimes, because the very honour we seek to respect can not stand while we turn a blind eye. To stand at attention during the Dawn Service with this disgrace hanging over our armed services makes us hypocrites, and the men and women who have died in our conflicts deserve better than that.
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How is this not fake news?
The corporate mainstream media do a lot of complaining about ‘fake news’ and a lot of chest beating about the state of their ‘journalism’ but you can see why attacking the credibility of corporate news media is so easy to do when you see example after example of news that is not in any way shape or form actual news.
Take this steaming turd of s story…
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Geoffrey Palmer, Bernard Hickey & the housing crisis National deny
What Hickey fails to accept is that the Millennial and Gen X cynical and jaded response to the obvious corruption of the current political settings is actually incredibly legitimate. When 121 MPs own 295 properties between them, the entire political class are as corrupt as the system itself. To harry Millennial’s and Gen Xers for our lack of political engagement in a corrupt system misses that no political party are offering any real changes in the neoliberal property market.
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Dave Macpherson – OPPOSITION PARTIES SO FAR MISSING IN ACTION
With one or two notable exceptions, the three main opposition parties have to date missed multiple golden opportunities to raise an issue that a very large number of ordinary kiwis are highly concerned about. You only have to raise your concerns about the state of mental health services at any community meeting anywhere in New Zealand to see the nods of agreement right around the room.
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Dave Macpherson: Mental health – is the system broken?
Is the Pope a Catholic?
Of course it’s broken; let’s look at a few reports from the last fortnight:
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Emergency Protest for Peace- Auckland
We live in dangerous times. President Trump is on the war path. An escalation of airstrikes in Syria, the bombing in Afghanistan and the deployment of a fleet to North Korea are all very worrying developments.
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Political Caption Competition
We are all frightened