Are National Party voters the new Trump supporters of the South Pacific?
That a right wing money trader should exploit the power of Office shouldn’t shock or surprise us, but the widespread devotion to him by so many should.
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What you are not being told about in the Royal Society of New Zealand Climate Change Report
The climate denial that permeates NZ politics, media and society is increasingly becoming impossible to cling to.
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Gareth Morgan and Multiple Empty Houses
Our politicians will not address the empty-house syndrome. We can easily imagine why. Our mainstream media will not do so either; same reason. There are some issues that we, the middle 50%, have to raise – and keep raising – through other channels.
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First sell the frigates, not the patrol boats
No New Zealander wants the government to waste money on unnecessary naval capacity, but in that respect the first assets to get rid of are the navy’s two frigates. They are designed for combat operations in a larger (American-led) task force.
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The Trouble With Cannabis Is That It Can Induce Psychosis In Some People Who Haven’t Taken It
It is clear now that one of the arguments which will be deployed in the immediate future to oppose sensible reform of our cannabis laws, will be the Government’s previous insensible experimentation with synthetic highs.
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Government try and ram through TPPA without NZers noticing
Last week National announced it was fast tracking the report from the Foreign Affairs Trade and Defence Committee on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) from the end of May to 4 May. While the select committee process itself is a farce as it can’t change the deal, there are more sinister motivations behind the new deadline.
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – Dr Marx on the myth of “fair shares”
The global rich have been caught with their blind trusts exposed and this is supposed to tell us something, but what?
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While Paula Bennett fiddles, the planet burns
If Paula Bennett is the answer, the question is ‘what imbecile will make the latest empty climate change agreement look even more vapid and meaningless’.
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Prison Population in NZ set to hit 10 000 for first time ever
NZ has one of the highest proportion of prisoners in private prisons than any other country on the planet. These private prisons are effectively forced labour camps where Prisoners are refused parole if they don’t work for slave wages.
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Why decriminalisation and medicinal cannabis aren’t enough and the secret history of filthy Police lies
A sterling effort today by the mainstream media in trying to explore the true economic and social costs of cannabis by asking what happens if we go beyond medicinal and decriminalisation to full legalisation with a taxed and regulated cannabis market…