GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How about a Maximum Wage?
I’m really not a fan of the American Army, however there is one thing about it I do quite like. The top General is paid about 10 times the salary of a Private.
New Zealand Politics
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Latest Afghanistan whitewash is making me an anarchist
We have a neoliberal welfare state where the stick is the only carrot. It resembles sadism more than social policy.
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Children stolen by the State are worse off in State care than if left with family
No one is saying that a child in danger should be kept in danger, of course not, but that’s not what we are seeing with these uplifts, an enormous percentage of these children do NOT need to be taken into care and without appropriate oversight and providing parents with the legal aid necessary to have their rights argued, there can’t be any genuine resolution here.
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Why is MBIE and the government allowing Restaurant Brands to cheat workers of their annual leave?
Other companies have paid staff back for the 15 years back to the holidays Act law change in 2003 that seems to have created the incentive for companies to simply ignore what was required by law which has led to massive underpayments for workers.
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Can America beat Iran in a war? Maybe not.
…American over confidence could see Trump blunder into a conflict that could escalate and cause such an enormous amount of damage to the US navy that Trump has to escalate to reap vengeance.
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This image is why announcing a climate crisis is a bullshit response
If the Oceanic pump shuts down, catastrophic events immediately start to unfold.
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Dr Liz Gordon: The lonely right wing
My prediction is that a 17.5% flat tax rate will fall upon the electorate flatter than a pinky-purple pancake. Yes, even those in Epsom, who surely are not so self-absorbed that they would not recognise the double whammy that this policy would inflict on those in the lowest income brackets. In short, higher taxes and fewer state services.
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Philip Arps deserves every second of the 21 months and NO this isn’t a free speech issue
Now I’m a huge free speech advocate and believe the decision to ban the Terrorists manifesto was the wrong thing to do and would argue against many of my woke comrades that Molyneux and Southern should be allowed to speak, but any attempt to suggest Arps is in any way shape or form a free speech champion should be attacked immediately.
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Trump’s Gulf of Tonkin?
America’s so called evidence could be credible if we hadn’t been conned by them in the past with weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist. This evidence is in direct contradiction with the actual crew of the Japanese tanker who say they were struck by something flying, and the similarity to the Gulf of Tonkin incident when the US faked an attack by the North Vietnamese to start war still hangs over American actions.
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Watching our largest trading partner turn Hong Kong into the next Tiananmen Square
…so what does our Government have to say about the largest totalitarian regime on the planet who has Orwellian mass surveillance, who butcher dissidents for body organ trade and who is currently enslaving one million Uighur Muslims? What do we say about China’s latest attempt to turn someone else into the next Tibet?