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Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2018 - 55 comments
Categories: capitalism, Economy, poverty, racism, twitter
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Conversations on overpopulation are so often framed in a way that is racist and fail to acknowledge the unfair distribution and use of resources. With the added dimension of seeking to punish the poor for problems created by the economically secure.
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Date published: 8:59 am, March 26th, 2018 - 79 comments
Categories: Judith Collins, labour, national, phil twyford, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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The first big Kiwibuild announcement, 3 to 4,000 houses in Mt Albert has been made. And National has responded that it was all their idea and they did not want to announce it because it would be seen as pork barrelling.
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Date published: 6:15 am, March 26th, 2018 - 7 comments
Two speakers from yesterday’s March for Our Lives.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2018 - 34 comments
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Date published: 9:45 pm, March 25th, 2018 - 13 comments
In the days of the British Raj unsportsmanlike behaviour was condemned by saying “it isn’t cricket.” Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft hiding ball-tampering sandpaper in his trousers in a forlorn attempt to avoid the cameras showed that for Aussies “it is cricket.” We’ve seen it before of course with the Chappells. Heads must roll.
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Date published: 7:56 am, March 25th, 2018 - 20 comments
This weeks award goes to Jonathan Coleman for failing to know that a leaky building crisis existed in Manukau DHB, and for then refusing to talk about it and hanging up on Suzy Ferguson of Radio New Zealand.
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Date published: 6:30 am, March 25th, 2018 - 59 comments
Unpaid labour “is the single largest sector in any nation’s economy and the whole of the market economy only is able to function on top of that.”
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 25th, 2018 - 85 comments
“Article 17.4 says the government must ensure that SOEs like Air New Zealand act solely in accordance with commercial considerations, unless there is an explicit public service mandate for services that operate purely within the country. There is no such mandate for Air New Zealand.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 25th, 2018 - 135 comments
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Date published: 10:41 am, March 24th, 2018 - 21 comments
Yup. It’s okay to be a bit scared.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 24th, 2018 - 166 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 23rd, 2018 - 15 comments
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Date published: 2:30 pm, March 23rd, 2018 - 51 comments
Keep it seemly …
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Date published: 2:14 pm, March 23rd, 2018 - 64 comments
Make no mistake: this is the single biggest anti-trade act the world has seen since the Iranian revolution’s nationalisation program from 1979.
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Date published: 10:36 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 10 comments
“I will apologise to the people of Parihaka who are here, while I do recount some of the important history that they have heard and know and live and breathed, but that still today, too many in our country are not aware of and are not familiar with and so I seek to put it on record in the House as part of my contribution.”
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Date published: 10:04 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 37 comments
The signs are that Aucklanders are going to support a regional fuel tax designed to alleviate congestion.
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Date published: 6:33 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 134 comments
A good start from Labour on rent reforms, but will their bigger plans be enough?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 23rd, 2018 - 85 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 22nd, 2018 - 34 comments
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Date published: 12:16 pm, March 22nd, 2018 - 192 comments
Jonathan Coleman has announced his resignation from Parliament.
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Date published: 7:39 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 39 comments
Nick Smith has been caught out by Trevor Mallard telling a porkie in Parliament.
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Date published: 6:28 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 26 comments
“Epic #ShowDontTell action”
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 51 comments
Greenpeace’s press release on the Charities Board decision not to grant the environmental organisation charity status.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 134 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 21st, 2018 - 36 comments
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Date published: 9:10 am, March 21st, 2018 - 68 comments
Two posts from No Right Turn.
“Fundamentally, climate change means it is us or the oil industry. We know whose side the Greens are on. But people are doubting Labour, and they only have themselves to blame for it.”
Also a post on banning fossil-fueled cars.
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Date published: 8:24 am, March 21st, 2018 - 80 comments
A whistleblower, Christopher Wyllie, has explained how Cambridge Analytica managed to secure the data of 50 million Americans and how it was used in the last US Presidential election.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 21st, 2018 - 214 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 20th, 2018 - 37 comments
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Date published: 10:24 am, March 20th, 2018 - 79 comments
The world has changed dramatically since Barak Obama was President of the United States.
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Date published: 8:39 am, March 20th, 2018 - 83 comments
The Government is reconsidering the future of New Zealand’s block offer process which releases exploration permits to the oil industry for exploratory drilling.
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