Faith restored
I believe in the collective wisdom of people and the importance of democratic participation but it is easy to get disheartened about what appears to be an apathetic public fed a diet of reality TV and Government spin.
politics
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John Key’s New Zealand – 5.7% unemployment, 105 000 domestic violence call outs and 80 000 hungry children
Beneficiaries swell the number of homeless unable to find a place to live alongside working class and middle class Gen X + Y and all Key can do is build tax havens.
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The political question NZers need to ask themselves in wake of new Panama Paper revelations
Claiming it is ‘legally compliant’ means nothing if the crooks and the elites write the bloody laws!
Past Key’s sophistry, the simple political question for NZers to ask themselves is this…
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Gerry Brownlee meets the butcher of Qana – National Party hugs war criminals
If Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee felt nauseous when he shook hands last week with renowned war criminal and Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon he didn’t show it.
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London’s Green mayoral candidate was under Police surveillance
Labour’s Sadiq Khan won the London mayoralty despite anti-Muslim slanders from his main opponent, Zac Goldsmith.
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Latest Panama Papers show Key is lying – NZ is a Tax Haven
Key is going to have a difficult day pretending he hasn’t built a tax haven.
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GUEST BLOG: Carmel Sepuloni – wilful blindness
The lack of data collected and reported on crucial issues in the MSD space drives me crazy.
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The conflict between the Government’s mass surveillance legislation and their new cybersecurity unit
The announcement of the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) with its new $22million budget is being sold to NZ as some sort of big cuddly Government Department that protects NZ business from cyber attack.
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The Courage to Care – Amnesty International
When I asked NM* if I could interview her for a blog on World Press Freedom day, she looked up at me from the magazine she was proofing with almost vacant eyes.
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Matthew Hooton and the Panama Papers – why does he sound so frightened?
This week is looking very difficult for John Key and his right wing rich mates. Mass surveillance lies didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Dirty Politics didn’t wake sleepy hobbits up. Looks like Key building Tax Havens and getting caught might just wake them up.