GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Collins, Slater & the intimidation of journalists
The Star Chamber has swung into action over my TV3 interview. They want to video TV3 personnel as they carry out the interview, but TV3 isn’t having a bar of it .
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Black Brothers and Good Ole Boys: Bernie Sander’s Winning Combination?
— IF BERNIE SANDERS is to win the US Presidential Election he’ll have to win the support of two crucial…
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Partition is apartheid – reunify the Holy Land
At first sight, for many well-meaning people, the two-states ‘solution’ would seem to be the most rational and just way…
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Michael Joseph Savage and Universal Welfare Reform
The capstone achievement of the Savage-led ‘social security’ reform was a genuinely ‘universal’ superannuation that caught the imagination of middle New Zealand; the world’s first explicit demogrant, a ‘universal basic income’ for all older New Zealanders.
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GUEST BLOG: Kevin Hester – Diametrically opposite responses from Anglo Saxons and Indigenous people of the Pacific to climate crisis
I have just toured the North Island of NZ with U.S. climate and methane researcher Jennifer Hynes author of “ The Arctic Methane Monster” and “ The Demise of the Arctic”, raising the alarm about the methane discharges from the melting permafrost and sub-marine clathrates which threaten to completely destabilise the energy balance of our biosphere
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Victory for the vulnerable! PSA celebrates win for home support workers – PSA
Home support workers will get better recognition for the crucial work they do for some of New Zealand’s most vulnerable…
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Dear TVNZ – why didn’t you just call your new male TV station ‘Cock’?
Roastbuster’s 1 and 2 proved to us that young men have a damaged view of women – how does this sort of state sponsored arseholeness counter that?
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Boo! Richie McCaw won NZer of the Year – Boo!
That pink dildo thrown at Steven Joyce deserves to be NZer of the Year over & above Richie McCaw. It has more personality than him too.
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Blind faith in Government a threat to our democracy
I read Steven Joyce’s “open letter to the TPPA protesters” with a great sense of incredulity.
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Better Public Service Targets Require Independent Auditing – NZ First Private Members’ Bill Series Part Two
Yesterday morning, we woke up to news that government agencies are quite literally “inventing numbers” in order to make themselves seem competent and measure up to the government’s public service performance targets.