5: Refugee Detention Has Cost Australian Taxpayers Nearly $10 Billion Since 2013
4: Edward Snowden makes ‘moral’ case for presidential pardon
3: I WAS A CIA WHISTLEBLOWER. NOW I’M A BLACK INMATE. HERE’S HOW I SEE AMERICAN RACISM.
2: Turkey asks US to arrest Gulen for ‘ordering’ coup bid
1: Lawyer for Imprisoned Whistleblower Chelsea Manning: Ongoing Pattern of Abuse Led to Hunger Strike
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The Daily Blog in conjunction with AUSA will be hosting and live streaming an ‘Anti-Debate’ where the candidates who have had no coverage by the mainstream can debate what Auckland needs.
Key’s posture is that human rights don’t really matter, or at least are secondary to maintaining warm relations with repressive governments.
Let’s be clear, I respect and support the leniency shown this privileged and spoilt brat who bashed a Police Officer.
…this is unbelievable. Why the hell are Parliamentary Services spying on MPs emails? Why are they in effect censoring those emails and why are they blocking them?
The only people happy with this will be the Private Prison at Wiri. Did ACC who have 30% stake holdings in Serco’s prison have a hand in shaping these laws?
Aucklanders elected representatives turned out to be equally mischaracterised. Far from being the people’s democratic tribunes, Auckland’s elected councillors proved to be little more than powerless pawns. The real game was controlled by legally cocooned CCO boards of directors – over whom the so-called “Governing Body” (including the Mayor) exercised no effective control whatsoever.
The business media is all in an excited state over the fact that the headline growth rate for the New Zealand economy is going to around 3.5% for the year ending June. What they don’t tell you is that because of the artificial boost to the population as a result of the government opening the taps for new migrants the actual annual per capita growth rate is only 0.6%.
I ordinarily have a lot of time for Frank Macskasy. His pieces are usually trenchantly researched and thorough. On top of that, he was the first journalist to ever give me a proper interview.