John Key’s amazing u-turn on multinationals
What? John Key is lecturing Facebook on paying tax?
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Multinationals Not Paying Tax Is A Legal, Fiscal & Ethical Issue – Not Just ‘Bad PR’
I nearly fell out of my chair yesterday evening when Newshub opened an item with a declaration that the Prime Minister was finally talking about multinationals dodging their fair share of Kiwi tax.
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Green Party release housing policy – the home that wonk built?
…a 1000 homes a year for a decade? How the hell does that actually deal with the 41 000 homeless people we currently have? It’ll take at least half a century for the Greens to house the homeless under this policy, as long as no one else becomes homeless in the next 40 years that is.
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Can Ateed become as corrupt as Auckland Transport? Yes, but they need Transport Blog
And while we are talking about bloody Auckland Transport – how appalling is their vandalism of K Rd?
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Trumpism as diet Fascism: The great unravelling of America and how the Left are helping it
Sure, Hillary Clinton was a neoliberal war hawk whose platform wouldn’t do anything for the white working poor, but she was no fascist.
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Promise Or Threat? How Is Labour’s Future Of Work Exercise Likely To Be Received?
Worthy and future-focused though it may be, FoW is unlikely to exert a positive influence over the voting behaviour of working-class New Zealanders. There have been far too many reports about what ordinary working people must do to make themselves employable in the labour markets of the future.
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Now the Government move to spy on children in schools
The new mass surveillance state using Government Agency big data was first aimed at the gangs, then beneficiaries and now the Government is swivelling its Eye of Mordor upon the children of the poor…
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So NZ, are you still keen on being in the 5 Eyes now Trump is President?
The irony of the ‘If-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear’ Brigade is that if it was Helen Clark who was ramming mass surveillance spying powers through under urgency and giving the SIS extra powers after helping collude with them to stop John Key getting elected, they would make Trump supporters look moderate.
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Hasn’t the Earthquake once again proven why we need Radio NZ?
The funding freeze on Radio NZ because the National Government hate them for asking hard questions is looking more and more dangerous with every passing natural disaster.
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Tamaki’s ‘post-truth’ hate speech a cynical MO
Tamaki’s attitudes are so outdated and narrow minded they have no place in civil society. Who actually believes that shit? and who in their right mind takes it seriously. But there’s a worry that the media attention helps his cause. It’s exposure Tamaki probably enjoys. He’s certainly unrepentant.