Guest blog: Gerard Otto – The soft bigotry of Hosking’s inaccuracy
Hosking marvelled in jaw dropping admiration at the recycled hackneyed phrase first penned by Michael Gerson as a speech writer for G W Bush back in the early 2000s :
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – The useless Race Relations Office
Rang the RACE RELATIONS office, got a fuckin’ ballhead with a foreign accent who didn’t know who I was, didn’t know how to pronounce my name, didn’t even know how to spell my name, and then tried to tell me that I was talking about didn’t constitute racism.
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If Golriz Ghahraman is a ‘clichéd leftie’ – does that mean Duncan Garner is a banal redneck who suffers from a bewilderingly gleeful ignorance?
Can we PLEASE get some ‘clichéd leftie’ politicians? That would be great.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Planned Student Protest Gets My Vote.
Watching the remarks by some politicians on TV ONE last night about the upcoming Student Climate Change Protest March on the 15th of this month revealed how much this action by our young people is needed and should be supported.
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GUEST BLOG: Hadley Grace Robinson-Lewis – Simon Bridges in Parliament
I don’t see Simon as being a leader – he is still whinging like a triggered snowflake, who attempts to cruelly shoot people down by digging into their past… Jacinda joined the international socialists decades ago!
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That awkward conversation in the lift
Get into the lift at work in town with 3 other people.
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GUEST BLOG: Hone Harawira – Don’t let NZRU get away with killing Pacific Rugby
NZRU sneaks off to do a deal that will kill Pacific Rugby and they expect to get away with it. Don’t let it happen.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – PM’s, Privilege and Poverty
That former Prime Ministers, Governors-General and their surviving spouses receive a generous tax -payer funded annuity, free travel and a new car every time their old one reaches 60,000 Km, seemed to come as a surprise to TVNZ news when it learned that we’ve rewarded these people at least $3.7 million in annuities and travel in the last 5 years. Over that time I have written about this pandering to these already wealthy recipients at least twice.
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If you are angry about the ‘Kiwi Jihadi’ being able to return to NZ, wait until you hear what Australia is doing by forcibly repatriating convicted criminals
Failed terrorist Mark Taylor is a tiny problem in a much larger issue.
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Big Tech & Free Trade
On the ‘knowledge’ panel at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Professor Jane Kelsey explained how trade rules on ‘e-commerce’ would cement the dominance of Big Tech and close off our ability to shape the digital domain in the public good.