Will Black Friday haunt Wall St in 2016?
Apple collapsing almost 2.5% in extended trading post their uninspiring results at a time when the stock market is looking to burst is grim on the eve of Black Friday.
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GUEST BLOG: Dr David Small – NZ Spy Agencies – Holding Them To Account 3 part Special – Part 3
The NZ Intelligence and Security Bill is the culmination of twenty years of increases in the powers of NZ’s spy agencies. It gives them everything they could hope for. The Bill radically broadens the focus of the SIS and the GCSB so they can run operations on almost anything. It allows them to do literally anything to advance on operation or to cover it up. It allows them to co-opt anybody else into an operation. And it grants immunity from prosecution to everyone involved.
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Better People Make Better All Blacks
For Coach Graham Henry, who during his tenure began to rebuild the world’s most successful sporting team from the inside out, the emphasis was on individual character and personal leadership. That is, ‘Better People Make Better All Blacks’.
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GUEST BLOG: Doug Renwick – A Discourse on Corporate Propaganda Part 3: The Mass Media on welfare and crime
When it comes to disciplining the general population there aren’t too many different deceptions you can use to do it.
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“Old Lefties” – WTF! Simon Wilson hosts “Table Talk” at the Ika Seafood Bar and Grill
“LABOUR – WTF?” The question said it all. And the packed-out restaurant confirmed its aptness. Laila Harré has good instincts for the mood of the Auckland Left, and “WTF?” sums up its assessment of the current state of the Labour Party with earthy directness.
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Top 10 examples of how deeply rotten New Zealand has become under National
Here are 10 examples of just how rotten to the core our hollow democracy has become.
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The shocking truth behind why Correction’s rehabilitation rates are failing
The shocking truth behind why Correction’s rehabilitation rates are failing is a case study in how ‘get-tough-on-crime’ rhetoric and a lynch mob electorate more focused on punishment are creating horrifically counter productive ends for our wider society.
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P, Ngaruawahia, government indifference and community vigilantes
P is a huge concern in low-income areas and has been for a long time. But it was only when middle-class kids were effected that we saw action.
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Poto Williams – Seclusion Rooms in Schools a disturbing symptom of Education’s tragic legacy under National
What was even more disturbing was learning that the Minister of Education had known about this for two months and appears not to lifted a finger until she was outed by Autism New Zealand and concerned parents.
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If only the NZ media could focus on Key lying about SAS in combat the way they have over an Australian Rugby Coach spitting the dummy
We are allowing the cult of Rugby to over shadow civic issues far larger than an Ozzie Coach having a rant!