What do global markets have to do before the NZ mainstream media focus?
What would it take for the holiday grad students staffing the news rooms to pay attention to the meltdown of global stock markets?
politics
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Not by “Bread And Butter” Alone: Making the case for a more inclusive Left
The past successes of the Left owe almost everything to honouring the emancipatory impulse, and its failures are almost all attributable to the fear generated by emancipation’s disruptive effects.
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Let There be Blood: Why we shouldn’t ban Real Social Dynamics at the border.
We should usher Real Social Dynamics in with a warm welcoming pussy riot.
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Dick pic artist’s fame a sad commentary on the state of modern media
If you think that cringe-worthy news don’t appear in New Zealand’s media, then consider the endless stories about Max Key or the news of a broken penis which was promoted via twitter by @NZStuff on the same day that the death of 2-year-old Emma-Lita Bourne was reported
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The Cost of Living: A review of Thomas Owen’s ‘Patents, Pills and the Press’
Hidden within the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is a longstanding conflict between pharmaceutical corporations and health activists over the availability of generic medicines.
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Duncan Garner, Josie Pagani and the NZ Herald walk into a bar…
We can not. Must not allow our own democratic sovereignty to be ripped from us for 30 pieces of silver and 3 magic beans Key and Groser have managed to get after trading all our cows at market.
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The man who sold the world
How could it be that the most comprehensive, far-sighted economic agreement the world has ever seen pose a threat to democracy? Here’s my take and I’d be interested to hear where I’m going wrong:
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Third Term Temptations
In 2016 Labour is in its third term of opposition, and it’s easy to imagine how desperately its caucus is looking for a way out. The party is heading into its hundredth year without a charismatic leader, shorn of just about all of the policies it campaigned on in the 2011 and 2014 elections; and as close to broke as any major party should ever be.
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We’ve Got A Schlong Way To Go With How We Talk About Women In Politics
How shameful for a 68 year old human female to have to go to the bathroom once in awhile.
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Police take a year to disclose secret search of activists’ home
The use of this provision against political activists does sound alarm bells.