You can’t say the things Trump says and not expect violence
The violence that erupted at a Trump rally in Chicago can be no real surprise.
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What Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump have in common
The prominence of trade as an election issue surprised many mainstream pundits as they didn’t think voters were smart enough to understand the corporate hegemonic structures that rob them of a quality of life.
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Spy report increases the terror threat to New Zealand
Keeping New Zealand and New Zealanders safe is best done by the police under strong democratic oversight through parliament. We should abolish the SIS and GCSB – they contribute only to make New Zealand a target for terrorism.
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MUST READ: Zero hours end product of workers struggle
As I am writing (Thursday, March 10), the New Zealand parliament has unanimously passed a law that will eliminate zero…
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NZ First Shouldn’t Flag Hindi-Language Voters
It would be an inordinate shame if the message the Indian community took away from this particular imbroglio was that New Zealand First didn’t want them to vote.
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Why the pundits got it wrong in Michigan
The mainstream media pundits just don’t get it. They don’t get it that the Bernie Sanders campaign has never been about “politics as usual”. Rather, it is “the politics of the unusual”.
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The irony of a Government who arrested Kim Dotcom for copyright infringement is in court for Eminem copyright infringement
…so this Government will pass 3 strike laws for Corporate Hollywood and illegally spy on and arrest Kim Dotcom for copyright but are more than happy to steal music when it suits their interests.
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My fear about Government caving in on Zero Hours
I hope for the latter, I suspect the former.
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Dear Fonterra and National Government – can we have our 49% of public assets back now your milk powder to China dream has died?
Sorry to see the putting all our cows in one Beijing paddock strategy has failed abysmally and that we should have focused on producing high end product here instead of once again being a source of raw ingredients.
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MUST READ – Blurred Vision: Why Labour Isn’t Trusted To Govern New Zealand
It is the privilege of historians to pinpoint the causes of an institution’s malaise, even when they have little to offer by way of immediate solutions.