GUEST BLOG: One Small Offering; Viral Thoughts by Vanessa Kururangi.
Hearts don’t beat in isolation.
New Zealand Politics
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Solidarity of working people needed for system change during crisis
The government’s announcements today are a useful start to combatting the impending crisis. There is an international economic recession unfolding that will cause many businesses to cut spending and slash jobs.
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“Are you OK, Boomer?” Countering The Chronophobic Malaise That’s Grown Up Around Covid-19
I’ve been pretty disquieted about some of the rhetoric that’s been going around the place along with Covid-19. Yes, we know that the health impacts are disproportionately severe for people over sixty. Yes, we know that in many Anglosphere countries, there is an occasionally pretty understandable annoyance on the part of younger people against the regrettably not-always-that-imaginary stereotype of Der Boomer.
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Capitalism, coronavirus and cronyism
Saving businesses is the first priority – workers losing their jobs are collateral damage and, after minimal help, will have to fend for themselves.
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Simon Bridges disgraces himself with appalling attack on beneficiaries in wake of pandemic relief
Someone needs to sit Simon down, pour him a really strong whiskey, let him have a couple of slugs, bitch slap him with your ring finger, and state in a very clear calm manner…
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How the Pandemic impacts the ballot box in September
7 months until the 2020 election and on the most recent polling, the next likely Government is National ACT.
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Maybe hiding free speech debate in secret is the smartest move for the Left?
The Government are woefully proceeding with the Free Speech vs Hate Speech legislation before the election and they are conducting it in secret with the Human Rights Commission…
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Dow crashes 3000 points – Capitalism’s Black Swans are coming home to roost
As TDB has pointed out from the beginning, this had all the ingredients of an uncontrollable pandemic that will deeply damage the economy and create a public health nightmare.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Fighting Disease
This weekend I was filming with volunteer camerman Conan Fitzpatrick in Titirangi where Watercare want to build a huge treatment plant in the native bush. (The piece will eventually go up on NZPTV as our time and limited resources allow. )
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The Grim Tutorial Of The 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
WHY WERE SO FEW lessons learned from the deadly Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19?