Mass Shooting in Christchurch – the white supremacist link
A person has been named on social media as the gunman, I have no confirmation of this but I’m reading their manifesto that was loaded up 2 hours ago, it is white supremacist madness.
New Zealand Politics
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – The UnSerious Fraud Office ( UFO )
The UnSerious Fraud Office is dependent on sponsors, unlike the Serious Fraud Office, which operates independently of government and is therefore immune to bullshit, threats, influence or propaganda.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Hit and Run inquiry more duck and cover
Another example of setting the terms of an inquiry to favour the outcome you want.
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National peddle right wing conspiracy about UN, Green Party Leader attacked by angry man yelling about the UN…
…Political Leaders are responsible for the passions they inject into debate through their rhetoric. National knew the complaints they raised about the UN were spiteful and conspiracy laced, and they did it anyway.
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Dear young people of New Zealand – strike, strike and strike again!
Bless you young people for shaming us.
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School Climate Strike: The biggest challenge is to make democracy work
I am encouraging my son to miss a day at school because learning how to goad politicians and corporations to act is a very useful education in itself and possibly the only effective method to fight the climate change.
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MUST READ: Listening To Kate Raworth On Nine To Noon
It is a tragedy that in the eighteen months this government has been in office there’s been so little evidence of the renegade economics made popular by writers like Raworth. The Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, schooled by his mentor – the former Finance Minister, Sir Michael Cullen – is a ploddingly orthodox economic manager. The economic settings he has chosen to steer by, being virtually identical to those the previous National Government chose to steer by, will inevitably deliver New Zealand to a very similar destination.
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Donna Awatere Huata dismantles Duncan Garner’s climate denial on The AM Show
Since the student strike against climate change apathy was announced, Duncan Garner and his sidekicks have been shitting on the students and writing them off as a joke.
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James Shaw assaulted in public – a sudden political chill on a Summer day
…let’s hope this is some dreadful random violence by a disturbed person as opposed to a targeted political attack – the former is depressing, the latter terrifying.
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By Other Means
When the US Government warned the rest of the world that, when it comes to securing regime change in Venezuela, “nothing is off the table”, most observers assumed it was talking about some form of military intervention. (An impression encouraged by a video-clip of National Security Advisor John Bolton’s hand-scrawled aide memoire “5,000 troops”.)