Lois Griffiths: More to the Azaria Story
Superficially much media coverage is being given to Israeli soldier Elor Azaria’s being found guilty of manslaughter, after shooting a 21-year old Palestinian who posed no threat.
New Zealand Politics
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What The Hell Is Going ON With Donald Trump #GoldenShower
The 2016 election season continues to be quite the wild ride. No matter whether one is following events through the regular media and traditional outlets, or braving the wilds of social media feeds, each new day brings some shocking “revelation”which would have seemed utterly inconceivable the day before … yet there it is in print.
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What Labour Party MPs need to read today at their New Years Caucus
Labour must do more than not offend people if they want to be the Government. They have to offer hope and vision, and while affordable housing, education/health blah blahs and some tough on crime crap is all fine and dandy, it does nothing to inspire those living with the grim realities of debt and everyday life.
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Gen X’ers to be screwed again by raising Retirement Age
This is the legacy of 30 years of neoliberalism, this is the mythology that success is an individual pursuit that has nothing to do with the hegemonic structures of power within a society and being poor is a personal choice. This idealogical virus has infected user pays society and warped the values.
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Dear Bill English, are Waitangi Day protests as cringeworthy as you topless doing the haka?
It’s the funny thing about culture in New Zealand isn’t it? At home white Kiwis seem to loath anything to do with the Maori culture because it forces us to consider the past abuses of the State which most of us have benefitted from, yet the bloody second they are drunk on their OE in Europe, they throw off the t-shirt and bust out their best Haka moves.
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I hate Jordan Williams and the Taxpayer’s Union with a passion, but when they are right, they are right
You all know I despise Jordan Williams and his flake David Farrar backed Taxpayer’s Union with a passion.
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Dear New Zealand – we need to have a chat about Waitangi Day
This is real life, not social media. You can’t just block someone or mute them, you have an obligation to interact civilly and if we as Pakeha want a day where we can celebrate being NZers, then that requires Maori to be with us enjoying the same fruits of the societal harvest.
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Waitangi Day needs a weeping millennial and when will Fairfax do to their own Journalist what they did to Leitch?
English would have watched the backlash to the Peter Leitch is racist debacle and believed disrespecting Waitangi Day would perfectly compliment the growing anger at defaming Leitch.
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United Future – a revulsion of one & will MoU survive Ohariu?
Asking the Greens to stand their candidate aside and vote for a Labour candidate who is a former law and order hardarse like Greg O’Connor seems about as reasonable as appointing Cameron Slater to the Broadcasting Standards Association.
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Bill English denies Waitangi Day appearance & outplays the Opposition. Again.
English is far more dangerous than Key, he is a fanatical anti-Gay, anti-abortion Catholic who believes welfare is the ultimate sin and he is far smarter a tactician than Key.