GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Cartooning at its thought provoking best by Rob Rogers.
Ban and buy back all semi-automaic weapons now.
New Zealand Politics
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Everyone wants to blame Mike Hosking, Duncan Garner & Chris Lynch – why that’s too easy
Blaming Mike Hosking, Duncan Garner & Chris Lynch is easy and it might make us feel better, but it won’t provide us with real answers or keep us safe, that falls upon the Intelligence agencies who had a combined budget of $230m last year.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – When everything is wrong no words seem right
When everything is wrong no words seem right.
Silence is the only appropriate place for dignity’s sake
And it’s best to let things beSympathy is not opinion
While angry men and women fight over what to do
And everyone is different
Some must have been cold for a long time
To feel nothing
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Damnatio Memoriae
When does censorship become a tool of the guardians who failed to preserve the physical safety of the 50 victims and other wounded?
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The SIS & GCSB combined budget for last year was $230m – how come they didn’t see a white supremacist plotting an atrocity?
I’m sick of hearing ‘he wasn’t on our radar’ the fucking radar wasn’t switched on!
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Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The horror of the atrocity in Christchurch
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – The horror of the atrocity in Christchurch
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On The National Party’s “Emotional” Indecision As To Migration Pact Petition In The Wake Of Christchurch
Yet someone in National was plainly aware that the ‘optics’ of the matter … were not going to look particularly good, in the blood-tinged aftermath of our worst-ever terrorist attack. And so – whether motivated by a sense of compassion (or, as Bridges put it today, the result of being both “emotional” and possibly also “junior”), or simply a desire to limit the potential finger-pointing post-facto from a PR perspective … somebody chose to remove the petition from public view.
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Will NZ Also Initiate Legal Action Against Turkish Politicization Of Christchurch Footage?
According to yesterday’s Herald, Turkish President Erdogan, is using footage of Friday’s atrocity as part of his party’s ads for a currently occurring suite of elections being held in Turkey…
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On the trial, on the failure of our intelligence agencies & on the blame game
Wanting to censor the trial or hide his words is a natural response but we are being tested globally and our justice system is strong and our values deeper than his sophistry of hate. We have nothing to fear standing in the light and dragging him into it. In fact, it’s our obligation to do so.
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This is not us
Stories of Muslim women being yelled at to go back to their countries continue to emerge. Posts online of people yelling at ‘dark-skinned’ individuals cheering at this despicable act of last week surface. And this is just the outward manifestation of the racism in NZ. It has been insidious for years. The term unconscious bias is the nice, polite way to describe the way in which the brain reacts to difference. And in the main, difference is the colour of your skin and gender. That difference is picked up by the eye immediately and it feeds that information directly to the brain. Then judgements are made about who is in, and who is out.