Must hear radio: Wallace Chapman interviews the guy who predicted the GFC!
A chilling look at where our debt-addiction may be leading us;
Setting the Agenda
Political analysis and commentary shaping the progressive debate in Aotearoa New Zealand, focused on power, policy, and accountability.
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Andrew: I did try to warn you!
In December last year I wrote the following column. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!
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Why I’m occupying for fossil fuel divestment
Today, on May 29 2017, I am peacefully occupying the Vice Chancellor’s wing of the University of Auckland with 13 fellow activists. We are demanding that our Vice Chancellor Prof. Stuart McCutcheon actively support divestment from coal, oil and gas extraction.
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Tips from Paula Bennett on how to be a Hypocrite
It would be a fair guess that Bennett does not require tipping to make up her weekly pay packet, to meet the necessities of life that many other New Zealanders find challenging in the 21st Century;
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A reality check on the budget
The simple truth is that the bulk of high wage and salary earners, low-wage employers and parasitic landlords are National Party supporters. This is their budget.
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The war on terror fails innocents everywhere
The war on terror has desensitised the western world to senseless waste of life and acts of arbitrary justice in the Middle East, and hypersensitised us to terrorism risks at home.
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McDonald’s agreement confirms why we need unions
McDonald’s workers will be voting on new Collective Agreement between the multinantional giant and Unite Union this week.
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Budget 2017 – here we go again
All indications are National is about to outflank Labour on the left with its 2017 budget and leave the party that claims to represent working New Zealanders struggling to appear relevant.
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Stake Holders for the TPPA
It’s like a scene from a Dracula movie where the zombie comes back from the dead. The TPPA is dead but the TPPA-11, without the US, has just opened one eye. The idea of reviving the TPPA without the US, but still including all of the dangerous aspects that the US introduced into negotiations, makes no sense.
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This Is Your [Former] Police Minister On Drugs
Earlier this week, somebody asked Judith Collins what she thought of Gareth Morgan. Ever the diplomat, her curt response was that if she wound up having to deal with him … she’d “probably take up drugs”. No word, as yet, on whether she’d also find this necessary working with Winston.