GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Judith Collins speaks weasel words
“The government has only delivered 33 houses in the time the private sector has delivered 35,200 houses” – said Judith…
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Jacinda dazzles again
While there is much work to be done, hope and the courage to implement real change is embodied by her leadership.
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‘You deserve to die’ is the nicest part of that text message
…now, as I have begged since the beginning of this scandal, can we get to, you know, the REAL issues here – what happened to the donations by wealthy Chinese Businessmen and how about that attempt to buy two Chinese MPs on the National Party List?
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Red Noise: Should RNZ Be Promoting “Progressive” Causes?
THAT RICH, OLD, WHITE PEOPLE dominate decision-making in New Zealand hardly qualifies as news. Having taken barely a quarter-of-a-century to dispossess its indigenous Maori inhabitants; rich, old, white people set about creating a society and an economy in their own image. In terms of whose views count, the New Zealand of today differs only marginally from the New Zealand of 150 years ago. Why, then, was RNZ moved to produce “White Noise”?
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The 4 reasons why KiwiBuild is an enormous failure
So, how many Government Ministers does it take to build 1000 KiwiBuild Houses?
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – A Progessive Economics Lesson from 2000 years ago
When Julius Caesar returned to Rome in September of 45 BC (having conquered Gaul) he found the city streets crowded with homeless people.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Audrey approves of party unity over skills alignment
It mostly looks like serving politic party unity over what is good for New Zealand and over who is really best for the job.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Antics by tourists & media shouldn’t undermine us as good hosts
I think we’ve all been pretty disgusted by the antics of a group of crass tourists but it’s important to keep perspective.
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If Paula Bennett is National’s answer to the cannabis issue, what the hell was the question?
By selecting Paula Bennett as their spokesperson on cannabis, National have clearly singled they have no wish to seriously debate the issue and are simply going to do everything in their power to degrade it into the prehistoric fear mongering debate of yesteryear.
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Any Word That Threatens Power Is Literally Russian Propaganda
Now here is quite a thing. What is being suggested, is that the primary users of any of these terms are supposedly Russian bots, or other vectors for material that can be ‘safely dismissed’ out of hand as “propaganda”.