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!
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GUEST BLOG: Dr David Small – NZ Spy Agencies – Holding Them To Account 3 part Special – Part 2
In this series of three articles, I outline why I think this Bill represents the most disturbing attack to date on the rights and freedoms of New Zealanders. Part two traces two decades of intelligence and security legislation from 1996 to 2016.
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The Herald’s weird moralistic rant about Millennials, misplaced Tinder angst and toxic individualism
Focusing on the supposed morality in all of this eclipses what I really think the Wright/Tostee story confronts us with.
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Aiding Israel’s profitable expansionism
Next month, from 14-20 November the USS Sampson will attend the Royal New Zealand Navy’s International Naval Review, which just happens to coincide with a Weapons Conference & Expo sponsored by the NZ Defence Industry Association (NZDIA), 16-20 November.
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TV REVIEW: Wow – Best Q+A ever?
There are times when TVNZ and its true public broadcasting purpose shines so brightly you are reminded, ‘we should probably keep that as a public asset’.
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GUEST BLOG: Kelvin Smythe – Hekia drew a line
Hekia couldn’t commit herself to the extreme hardline right education policies being prepared for 2017 election manifesto.
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MUST READ: Guest Blog: Mike King – why Government Services are failing us on suicide
I can tell you what the over 350 submissions to our People’s Review project is starting to tell us:
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Why Key and Hekia are at odds over her reason to resign
As was first pointed exclusively out by The Daily Blog, the reason why Hekia and Key are at odds over why she will resign is because Key publicly needs the reason to be her husbands health, and not the real reason.
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The mass surveillance state turns on beneficiaries first
Poor people are terrified having to deal with Housing NZ, WINZ, Ministry of Development, Corrections, Probation, CYFS because those state departments are only seen to punish those desperate enough to need their services, that’s why people go to community groups.
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3rd and final debate – Clinton crucifies Trump and sends Republicans the bill for nails & timber
Hillary spoke to an educated electorate, Trump tried to scare an uneducated electorate. The style of the debate demanded actual policy and seeing as Trump doesn’t actually have any policy, it was always going to be a whipping.
It turned into a crucifixion.