The Independent Police Conduct Authority – A toothless watchdog has its bark muzzled
It should come as no surprise at all that the IPCA has been so starved for funding they can’t investigate a Police force who abuse power with alarming regularity.
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Who on earth wrote James Shaw’s speech and why do they still have a job?
…now I don’t want to sound like a Troll’s Troll, but who the hell allowed Shaw to run with this speech and why do they still have a job? It was clumsy, stilted and seemed terribly unrehearsed.
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Debating the Prime Minister’s Statement
Prime Minister, I’ve sat and listened to all your speeches opening Parliament and I’d like to congratulate you on delivering your 8th speech.
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Why the attacks on Bernie aren’t working
Confusion reigns in the Clinton camp after Bernie Sanders trounced Hillary in New Hampshire, 60% to 38%.
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Too Little, too late?
I have avoided having a crack at Andrew Little and the Labour Party’s campaign strategy until now as I thought he deserved the right to have a bit of time to establish himself and chart his own course.
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Slap in face
Just when the country should be basking in the afterglow of signing the TPP, Josie Butler took the matter into her own hands and flung a rubber sex toy and herself into world political protest history.
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MUST READ – Flagging the TPPA
In the middle of the anti-TPPA march down Queen street was a stooped pakeha woman carrying the New Zealand flag. A few paces in front, groups of Maori marched under the Tino rangitiratanga ensign. These domestically opposed symbols of national identity were,for the moment, standing together against a common threat – the transnational corporation.
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Sovereignty under attack
The biggest political advance from last week is probably the heightened understanding of sovereignty amongst Pakeha New Zealanders, most of whom previously saw it as an abstract concept.
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GUEST BLOG: Josie Butler – Why I threw the dildo at Steven Joyce
Q+A with activist Josie Butler
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GUEST BLOG: Comrade Dave Brownz – There is no ‘honour’ in any Capitalist Treaty
It’s no surprise to Marxists that the TPPA ‘Treaty’ is a fraud. It signifies the continuation of the NZ’s colonial history from the first Treaty signed in 1840, the original fraud.