Paula Bennett’s arrogance on Housing
Spending $300million on trying to clean up the mess they’ve created in Housing isn’t a solution, it’s just another sign of total failure.
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Corrections despise the living prisoners they imprison – why would we be surprised at their cruelty towards a dying woman?
Judith Collins could rule on this right now, but she won’t because she knows that NZers love punishment over justice. Our system is corrupt and racist and we like it that way because it mostly benefits white people. Letting a Maori woman out early to die with her whanau is just not an option.
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Man Trouble
When a person on a benefit is sent to Manpower for a job it is like evicting a family from a secure house and giving them a tent in cyclone season. When the work dries up they are left drowning in debt and hoping for rescue sometime in the next thirteen weeks.
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GUEST BLOG: Martin and Lois Griffiths – PATH TO SANITY
What’s really going on? Why are more and more resources and scientific ingenuity being employed in weaponry? Don’t the world’s powerful understand that the survival of our species depends on facing the reality of possible runaway climate change? Don’t the world’s powerful understand that we, all of humanity, are in this together.
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All We Need Now Is Jack Bauer! Is America’s Deep State Attempting To Influence The Race For The White House?
If Assange is correct, then what we have been witnessing over the past week is an attempt by middle-ranking agents of the FBI’s New York field office to even up the scales on behalf of Donald Trump. Just how far these rogue elements are prepared to go to keep Clinton out of the White House remains to be seen.
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Vote-swapping app highlights unfairness for third parties in America
Amit Kumar’s vote-swapping app for the US presidential election shows up how third parties are disadvantaged by the one round, first-past-the-post race.
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Fear And Loathing Of A Democratic Presidency: Where To For The American Left
[Author’s Note: This piece originally appeared as the sixteenth installment of my Sex, Drugs & Electoral Rolls column for Craccum…
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Love Him Or Hate Him – Morgan’s Not Like Other Wealthy Men Bursting Into Politics
Every so often, somebody or something comes along which puts a bit of their weight upon our psephological scales, and…
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NZ media gullible in reports on terrorism
The first rule of journalism is that you can’t accept the word of a public official unless there is evidence to back it up. However, this principle goes out the window when there are allegations of a terrorist threat, as we’ve seen this past week.
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Labour Conference eclipsed by Gareth Morgan and how Little resets
I think Gareth Morgan’s announcement of a Party vote only Party focused on pragmatic solutions over riding dogma would have a huge appeal to urban male voters who vote National by default. They are educated and uncomfortable with the inequality around them but wouldn’t vote Green or Labour.