GUEST BLOG: Martin and Lois Griffiths – ARREST THAT CLOWN!
April 17 was Palestinian Prisoners day.
politics
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What the Housewives of Real Auckland would look like
Capitalism needs a huge ongoing propaganda campaign to succeed.
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Nick Smith – when a crisis is really just a challenge
Nick Smith, the man who promised 500ha of crown land to build houses and only found 25ha, is telling us that it’s just a silly challenge and not a crisis.
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Prime Ministers Lawyer gets caught lobbying for no investigation into trusts that benefits PM & media shrug – what’s wrong with our News?
The quality of news media at stuff and NZ Herald have managed to get worse as every month passes. The clickbait rules that the journalists now have to play by have denigrated news to a pitiful level and there seems to be very little pushback.
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Breaking through the silence
Last year a caregiver, Morven Hughes, was interviewed on Radio New Zealand, about her role in the care sector. Neither she nor her employer were named because of Morven’s fear of retribution. Her employer, a corporate residential care provider, recognized her Scottish accent and took steps to punish and silence her through disciplinary action
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GUEST BLOG: IAG/STATE INSURANCE WINS 2015 ROGER AWARD Serco Second; Bunnings Third
The six finalists for the 2015 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand were, in alphabetical order:
Apple
Bunnings
IAG/State Insurance
MediaWorks
Serco
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Shit just got real if you are throwing your lawyer under a bus – Key shoots his money man live on Radio
Key buried his own lawyer so far down, Ken Whitney’s forgotten what sunlight means.
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Can Trump win the Presidency? It depends how many white men really hate women
If Trump faces off against Hillary for the Presidency, the issue that seals it for him could have little to do with a fence along Mexico or intolerance of Muslims, it could well be a pent up misogyny the likes of which we have never seen before.
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Privatised profits and socialised costs: What the government was elected to do.
We’ve got an Auckland housing affordability and a housing supply crisis. We’ve got an economy overloaded with private debt. Headlines report an anxiety epidemic, a P epidemic and an obesity epidemic all at once. Scientists show we’re in the midst of various environmental crises.
In many ways these are all linked.
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Why a political revolution in 2023 is the only way house prices will fall
The reason this will all change is because millennials, Gen Y and X are waking up to the scam they’ve been served up and the intergenerational theft that has allowed it to happen. Politics stops being some disconnected thing when you bear the brunt of it.