“Now six years later, the Government is moving to seal the mine. They are literally putting hundreds of tonnes of concrete between us and our boys. Between the whole world and whatever evidence of what happened is down there.”
Democracy is difficult. Government is far too complex and ordinary people have neither the time nor the inclination to spend time to understand it properly. So what are the alternatives?
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Anna Osborne on the earthquake and day three of the Pike River occupation.
Take a deep breath and transcend your fear.
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A night of quakes.
Beach and shore warning (original major Tsunami warning is over).
Wellington recommends avoid CBD today (all trains cancelled).
Scholarship exams today are postponed, NCEA exams proceeding where possible – official link.
A challenging and provocative piece on Trump’s election victory from an Arab perspective.
Bollocks. It was never going to be.
What exactly happened at Pike River? The families of the 29 men who died don’t know, and as Solid Energy moves to seal the mine forever, they demand justice.
On the same day that the pollsters in the world’s most advanced democracy were shown to have got things terribly wrong a Professor in New Zealand says that National will win next year because of polling data.
Trump is going to be a figurehead, not a president, leaving governance to an unfettered Republican machine. That machine is no friend of the disenfranchised, never was, never will be. How will Trump’s base react to being betrayed?
Robert Guyton continues his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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“New Zealand now has a unique opportunity to revise its foreign policy and military spending,” says Dr Caldicott, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Members of the National Party in Mount Roskill are trying to make a story out of Michael Wood after he responded directly to public insults made against his wife.
“The world is changing, people are angry, and more than ever, we need open minds and compassionate action. I’m joining the @NZGreens”
The Pike River families have decided to take a stand and are occupying the road to the mine to ensure it cannot be closed, sealing up the evidence of what happened and the bodies of their loved ones forever.
I trust the truth will be reported by all the media that reported the lies.
Change happens at the intersection of the edge and the mainstream.
Walking back the last 5 plus years of escalating military, economic and diplomatic proxy war between Russia and the United States will be difficult. But it has to be done.
A crop of worthy petitions for you consideration: health funding, public broadcasting, environment, and Paris Agreement.
Greenpeace on Auckland Council joining others around the country in opposing deep sea oil drilling.
What can we learn from the election of Donald J Drumpf?
The reason for the Democrats losing the recent presidential vote is contained in this video.
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The Pike River families will be protesting tomorrow to get their men out of the mine that killed them.
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In the midst of the cataclysmic big stories, we should not lose sight of the small personal ones.
The Nats are determined to keep flogging the TPP horse in Parliament. Someone should buy them a newspaper.
Trump laid siege to the Democrat’s “Blue Wall” and they didn’t respond to or recognise his strategem until far too late.
What all good progressives should be doing in these POTUS Trump days.
1 in 100 US voters switch and the polls would have been right, and we’d be talking about progressive America, destroyed Republicans and the ‘blue wall’.
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