Claire Trevett catches up with TDB – how the MANA movement-Maori Party MOU would work
With coat tailing, MANA and the Maori Party could bring in a combined total of 5 MPs, that’s a block that could have a huge impact in the 2017 election.
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Anti-Police sentiment in America is the fault of the Police, not #BlackLivesMatter
America’s arrogant cop culture is the reason why African-Americans get killed, and America’s gun culture that allows high powered military style weaponry to be bought by everyone is the reason why Police are getting shot.
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Trump’s choice for VP is a disgraceful capitulation to the Republican establishment
As repugnant as Trump is, Pence and his connection with far right billionaire fascists is far more dangerous.
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China threatens NZ with trade war – free trade chickens come home to roost
This has always been the fear of putting all our cows in one Beijing paddock. As China ratchets up its cold war against America in the Pacific, their role as our largest trading partner comes complete with all the strings attached.
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Caught up in safety nets – Lifewise
There are still nearly 18,000 people in Auckland on the verge of homelessness.
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Neoliberalism – Coming & Going
On Sunday’s Q+A (17/7/16) Corin Dann interviewed Stephen Jennings, the former Treasury official and New Zealand investment banker who took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union to make himself a billionaire.
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Rust never sleeps and the Business Roundtable always wants more unearned wealth from the rest of us
It was no surprise to see the New Zealand Initiative (the old Business Roundtable rebranded) provide a platform for a Rogernomics-era free-marketeer, Stephen Jennings, to tell us we needed more market-led reforms – especially in education.
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How the Free Market deals with homelessness and and the Housing Crisis in Auckland
Our housing crisis is a market failure because it’s been left up to the free market. National are in utter denial because they have built their Government on selling off their social obligations to others.
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Economic Threats From China Expose Lie Of Free Trade
In reaction and response to news that the New Zealand Government has gotten a bit uneasy about decidedly sub-standard Chinese steel being put into our own domestic infrastructure projects (and accompanied by fraudulent safety standard certification, no less), the PRC is apparently considering raising punitive “reprisal tariffs” on Kiwi primary produce exports in order to force our government to move to protect Chinese interests rather than our own.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – More prison suicides & celebrating 60th Birthday inside
I note in recent weeks Prison Directors in Christchurch and Invercargill have acknowledged individual suicides in their prisons after family pressure.