Waatea News Column: Imprisonment and the Pandemic
The current pandemic is hurting the poor hardest.
New Zealand Politics
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What on earth was Deborah Russell thinking?
If any right wing jerk were to say this about individuals it would be decried as economic Darwinism – many many many small to medium businesses struggle – blaming them for their weakness to ideologically point score is jaw dropping in its offensiveness!
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MEDIA WATCH: Is Simon Bridges about to be rolled?
With National polling internally at such low numbers, lots of the current crop of MPs would no longer be in Parliament.
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Dr Liz Gordon: A letter to old blighty
My sister Christine came out to New Zealand from London for the summer, as she usually does. She arrived on Christmas Day for an eight-week stay. Now it is mid-April, and she is still here. Thank goodness.
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GUEST BLOG: The Lockdown With Bryan Bruce : Day 27 How I Became A Radical Just By Standing Still
At a speech given at University College Cambridge six years ago Alan Bennett, the English actor,author and playwright said “One only has to stand still in order to become a radical”
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Simon Bridges horrifically misreads the mood of the Nation – he may as well urinate on an ANZAC grave
We have all just experienced a unique shared sacrifice, Simon’s terribly misjudged criticisms made New Zealander’s feel like he was shitting on their shared sacrifice which is electoral suicide.
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MEDIA WATCH: Paul Henry’s ‘Rebuilding Paradise’ is our ‘Make America Great Again’ – how the Right win the post-pandemic narrative
No one connects to the self-interest of muddle Nu Zilind quite like Paul Henry.
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MEDIA WATCH: Is it censorship if no one else is interested in your Death Cult Capitalism sociopathy?
…these Death Cult capitalists don’t give a shit about us slaves, they fear the repercussions of this pandemic will erode their wealth.
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MUST READ: NZ Military Getting Ready To Aid The Civil Power
IT WAS EASY to miss amidst the information overload of Lockdown at Level 4. A curiously thin news story, published by Stuff on 15 April, concerning “a routine military exercise” in South Auckland.
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Waatea News Column: The strategic math behind the Maori Party
What is the strategic math behind a possible return to power for the Māori Party?