The whole world is burning
‘On the last day of the world / I would want to plant a tree’ wrote US Poet Laureate WS Merwin. Indeed, sometimes it feels like the whole world is burning, and to act in the spirit of hope is to plant a whole forest.
New Zealand Politics
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Congratulations Unite Union & Unitarian Church on Indian Student outcome (don’t tell Rachel Smalley)
Big ups to the Unite Union and the Auckland Unitarian Church for tirelessly fighting the good fight and championing the situation these poor Indian Students faced.
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Why the hell is NZ helping CIA to spy on the bloody 2012 French Election???
How is this got anything to do with our National Security? We keep getting told that the 5 Eyes is to protect us from terrorism. So why the bloody hell is NZ helping the CIA spy on the bloody French? What possible outcome from the French election would have a National Security issue for us?
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How should we interpret the huge spike in Mt Albert early voting?
Last election, many of us interpreted the huge spike in early voting as a sure sign that New Zealnders were rushing to throw John Key out after the Dirty Politics scandal and mass surveillance lies.
We. Were, 1000%. Wrong.
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MEDIA WATCH: Who knew Rachel Smalley hates Indian Students so much?
Rachel Smalley is a better journalist and commentator than this.
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Why would we believe ANYTHING Solid Energy has to say?
Solid Energy have proven themselves to be incompetent bordering on lunacy, so what they have to say about Pike River Mine, the safety of re-entering Pike River Mine or any topic for that matter should be taken with so much salt to cause your Kidneys to immediately shut down.
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What If I Told You That Labour Has Walked Into A Trap In Mt Albert…
You’d probably shoot me a somewhat incredulous look. Mt Albert, as the received wisdom goes, is a safe Labour seat – so safe, in fact, that National’s not even standing a candidate there. Apart from a minimum modicum of expended campaign-funds, what possible detriment could Labour incur by winning in the Mt Albert by-election to be held later this month?
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Too Little, Too Late: Rachel Stewart On Climate Change
Neoliberalism has immobilised humanity in the manner of those parasitic wasps whose offspring excrete a chemical which fatally overpowers their host’s self-protective reflexes. Aware that we are being destroyed, we are nevertheless incapable of resisting our destroyers effectively.
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The militarisation of WINZ continues
Graffiti attacks on WINZ for the way they are mistreating beneficiaries should be seen as legitimate election protest this year.
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Government unnecessarily cruel to Domestic Violence Leave
National are trying to claim that Jan Logie and the Greens will actually put at risk victims of domestic abuse by being forced to inform their bosses of the abuse to get the leave.