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In the gym, a guy was asked why he worked out and his reply was “so that I can drink more”. The funny thing is, it makes a lot of (common) sense, doesn’t it? There’s a whole offsetting industry built around the idea that (environmental)…
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E nga mana, e nga reo, e rau rangatira ma, tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. I hope everyone gets out today to celebrate Waitangi day. For many, many years Waitangi day was a day of tension, when frustration over treaty breaches smashed into…
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British actor Liam Neeson has made an extraordinary confession in an interview with the Independent news site. Promoting his new film, Cold Pursuit, Neeson has claimed that many years ago, he spent a week or more hanging around bars late at night hoping to get…
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How Waitangi day is changing. It used to be a place where right wing politicians feared to go. Back in 2004 then opposition leader Don Brash followed up his infamous Orewa speech, where he talked about racial separation and the treaty grievance industry with a…
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Yes you read this right. And credit where is credit is due. And maybe the wingnuts are right and the Herald is secretly a left wing rag although the more likely explanation is that it can and will support a rational argument. Because Heather Du…
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Polymath economist Professor Michael Hudson's latest article is a geopolitical panoramic masterpiece, sparked by outrage at a series of concurrent events on January 31 which he predicts means that 2019 will be the "year of global fracture." Definitely worth reading and thinking about. The…
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Yesterday on a bright and sunny day I popped down to Aotea Square to see what the extreme right was up to. There had been a fair amount of social media promotion of the yellow jacket rally and I wondered what sort of turnout they…
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It's summertime. The economy is improving, unemployment is down, major corporations are signing up to be living wage employers and our leader dazzles where ever she goes in the world. And the opposition leader is clearly not cutting it. And his social media team are…
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Hell must be freezing over. This post is to congratulate Westpac on becoming an accredited living wage employer. What is especially interesting is that it was willing to submit to the certification process of a voluntary organisation comprising of representatives of the trade union movement,…
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Is ACT finished? Herald writer Simon Wilson has used his considerable analytical powers to propose a possible scenario for getting the nascent Blue Green Party into Parliament. And that is for National to offer it the seat of Epsom, the same way that National has…
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Love Aotearoa hate racism is holding a picnic on Saturday afternoon at Myers Park in Auckland City to celebrate our diversity. Whatever you do don't confuse the event with this event which is being put on by the particularly inappropriately named New Conservatives. They want…
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The Working Group set up in June 2018 to consider reform of the wage bargaining system in NZ industry has reported back to the Minister, Iain Lees Galloway. The Minister says that the Coalition Government "has committed to improving incomes and working conditions for New…
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National has laid out what will be its big policy next election and wouldntyaknowit it's a tax cut. Or more accurately changes to the tax system so that bracket creep does not occur. But get this. Not only is National going to build more motorways,…
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Tax cuts good. That's it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has achieved a great deal of prominence with her claim that it is immoral to have a world that allows for billionaires. From Amanda Marcotte at Salon: ... Ocasio-Cortez attended a symposium where author Ta-Nehisi Coates asked her if it was moral to have "a…
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