Arthur Taylor – Xmas mail, New Serco allegations & Peter Leitch
I am reliably informed that the I.D.U. rate (positive drug test results) at SERCO Wiri is at least 25%….i.e. one quarter of the prisoners have tested positive for drug use
New Zealand Politics
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Labour taking former Police cheerleader Greg O’Connor on as a candidate will be their final mutation into National lite
If Labour can bring a former tough on crime Police cheerleader into the fold to legislate for cannabis in the electorate seat held by an MP who refused to legalise medicinal cannabis and forced Helen Kelly to be a criminal, that would be a political coup.
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LeitchGate Day 6 – kill Phil Gifford – the truth about racism in the Land of the Wrong White Crowd
The ability of the Left to tear itself to pieces over identity politics on social media is the best advert National could hope for.
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What Corporate Hollywood tried to do behind your back and why they are trying to paint NZ as pirates
America is fighting a hot soft war in the Pacific by flooding us with their movies, their songs, their TV shows, their internet. They will constantly be trying to gain more control and more power over our media as part of their push back against China. The danger for us is that Corporate Hollywood have managed to have their interests adopted as national security interests.
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Please God, can Michelle Boag be National’s campaign manager in 2017?
How she managed to keep fuelling this story for 3 days longer than it should have been in the headlines is a feat of true beauty caused by someone with enough sophistry and misplaced privilege for the entire Island of Waiheke.
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Coffee coloured race hustlers, the year of weeping millennials on social media and casual racism – what 96 hours of Leitch taught us
Based on the amount of column inches, headlines and hashtags you would have thought the majority of the country was prepared to shoot Peter for crimes against racism. That Poll suggests the louder and more determined the Twitter elites scream racist, the more alienated the majority will become.
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All that is wrong with the corporate NZ mainstream media in just one story
A 50% price meltdown in Auckland, flatlining dairy prices and a 13% unemployment rate, but don’t worry the banks will be ok?
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Green Party Candidate attacks Peter Leitch – we will hit over 100 hours of news cycle!
Come on NZ – I’ve hideously underestimated the ability of social media to lead the lazy summer news rooms of the corporate mainstream media, this could roll on until February!
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TDB EXCLUSIVE: WINZ bosses murder a beneficiary – Paula Bennet is responsible
I am convinced that is a significant reason fro the high levels of suicide in this country and the rise in absolute poverty reflected in levels of homelessness and the growing numbers of people accessing foodbanks.
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Comrade Dave Brownz – 1917-2017: Happy Bolshevik New Year!
New Years celebrations are bitter sweet, reflecting past failures and future hopes. Except New Year today has lost its significance. It is a cultural hangover alienated from its origins as the celebration of mid-winter. While observing Matariki (literally the ‘eyes of god’) in Aotearoa celebrates the mid-winter as recognition of the renewal of life, it is as a cultural ritual detached from economic reality.