TDB prisoner rights blogger punished for outing Corrections Officer bullying
…we’ve reached out to Arthur and as soon as we have the name of the Officer he named for bullying we will publish it.
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How did anyone think Rocket Lab wasn’t working for the Amerikan Military Industrial Complex?
The most interesting part of The Spinoff investigation is how Rocket Lab themselves used Spinoff to lie about the military component of their business model…
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Trans Activists vs Rainbow Community vs Mike Hosking (this is what it sounds like when the Doves cry)
As the wider and older Rainbow Community look to their legacy of inclusion being over run by a new generation of millennial activists who want to exclude, the wider issues of ongoing injustice against Trans people and how to fight for their human rights on social media platforms algorithmically fuelled by subjective outrage olympics remain unanswered.
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Black Caps feature in Karachiwood farce
What surprises me is that Pakistan with a track record as crooked as a seismograph in an earthquake has received no questioning from the New Zealanders. None. The Pakistani collapse was because we were so great and the integrity of that game is beyond question. I scrolled through the stuff.co.nz story – a hundred or so comments and not a single one sceptical of the “miracle”. The New Zealanders, to a man, delusioned.
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Cannabis Referendum Conference lays foundation for Yes campaign
Organised by the Cannabis Referendum Coalition (CRC), a campaign group made up of aligned reformist organisations and individuals, the #MakeItLegalconference brought together over 120 people from all walks of life in the rather salubrious surrounds of the James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Striking Back At Empires
Next time you go to an ATM machine have a look at the list of banks whose cards it takes. The new rulers of the world are closer than you think.
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Making It Through
CHRISTINE ROSE’s poignant post of 17 November, “Feeling Like A Stranger In A Familiar Land” requires a response more substantial than fatalistic resignation. Tempting though it is to bury oneself in the small delights of everyday life for as long as that avenue of escape remains open, it must be rejected. Something as big as the end of the world as we know it surely merits Dylan Thomas’s unforgettable commandment:
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – ACT applauds Labour Policy
A press release by ACT yesterday applauding Labour’s neoliberal public /private “user pays” solution to paying for the water and sewerage infrastructure at the Millbrook housing development announced by Minister Phil Tywford, tells you that Right wing neoliberal economic thinking is still alive and well in our coalition government.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Twyford’s tram scheme based on questionable advice
Despite the minister’s airy references to ‘experts’ it is the worrying lack of expert contestable advice that is his scheme’s greatest weakness. Remarkable too is the lack of any ministerial interest or curiosity about Melbourne which has the biggest light rail system in the world and which is now building a heavy rail connection to Melbourne International Airport.