Your visual reminder that Taika Waititi’s ‘Racist as f**k’ comment is on the money
Two very simple visual reminders that Taika Waititi’s ‘Racist as f**k’ comment is on the money.
New Zealand Politics
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Hobbit TV show warms National’s slow burn for the Hobbit law war
Last time National believed their attack on the NZ Actors Union and ability to frame the story as National saving the Hobbit film being filmed here was a major political win.
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The weak response to Auckland storm highlights how run down our infrastructure is
Never seen this and the incredibly weak response, warnings and total unpreparedness of Auckland Civil Defence the morning after all bode ill for NZ when you consider this type of erratic extreme weather event is now locked into our future from global warming.
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Justice delayed is justice denied – what the latest grotesque National Party underfunding has done
“Justice delayed is justice denied and when it’s against the state, how else is the individual to fight back?”
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Chinese military expansion into Vanuatu aimed at Australia and NZ
The escalating trade war mixed with the current 40 ship live firing drill China is projecting right now means the region is being redefined by Beijing’s interests as opposed to Washington’s.
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Joe Carolan on the nurses strike
Joe Carolan on the nurses strike
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Mike Hosking brags about not crashing fast cars. Then crashes fast car. Evidence that God exists.
Thank goodness Mike is ok and thank goodness it happened to Mike.
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Waiting For The Market’s Music To Stop
Everything now points to another such detonation being imminent. Pumped-up by the steady expansion of global liquidity the world’s stockmarkets have climbed to giddy and unprecedented heights. Over the last few weeks, however, the value of the stocks and shares traded on the world’s exchanges has fluctuated wildly. Such volatility, warns Pettifor, almost always precedes a catastrophic market crash.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Our ‘third world medical infrastructure in a first world country’
Is the National Party writing the news these days?
Everywhere I look I see nasty right wing hit job after nasty right wing hit job aimed at the small missteps made by our new Government get inflated into enormous mountains while real issues that impact the people who voted for us are minimised.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – What Thomas Piketty and Matthew Hooton (don’t) tell us about the Labour Coalition
Thomas Piketty has discovered that all post-war elections in France, UK and US have been won by one of two political parties with a small margin of victory in all cases. He has worked out that both two main rivals represent the 1% leaving the 99% unrepresented. He predicts that these twin capitalist parties will be replaced by two parties that essentially represent Wall St and Main St. He calls them “multiple elite parties”.