The Royal Commission Report: Staying Safely Inside “The Norms” Of Our Neoliberal Society.
THERE’S SOMETHING a bit creepy about the Royal Commission’s report into the Christchurch attacks.
Year: 2020
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Printing money to save the power and wealth of the 1% is just stupid
The problem with the current measures being taken by the Reserve Bank to rescue the economy from an economic collapse is that they are directed at rescuing the wealth of the owners of big business not meeting the needs of the big majority of working people.
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GUEST BLOG: Murray Horton – Report Confirms Need To Abolish GCSB; Close Waihopai Spy Base; & Get Out Of Five Eyes
One monotonously expressed defence of the Waihopai spy base (operated by the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau – GCSB) is that it defends NZ from terrorists.
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Hate Speech
Malcolm Evans – Hate Speech
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Sorry
These past couple of days have been filled with a lot of “sorry’s” from different people. Just yesterday the PM, top spy and Police Commissioner all apologised to the Muslim community for their offices failings that led to a massacre as people prayed.
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The Māori Party – walking between two worlds
New Zealand’s 53rd Parliament has been sworn in, and forty maiden speeches are being heard. Personal stories of struggle, exile, intergenerational hardship, journeys to power through education and inspiration.
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Political Caption Competition
The Cringe that stole Christmas.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 10th December 2020
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Wait – what? Why are gender hate speech laws part of a response to terrorism?
I read the terrorist’s manifesto and I didn’t see any reference whatsoever to Trans allies or gender identity in any of it, so why the Christ as a response to this terrorist atrocity will we be making gender identity a hate crime???
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Trevor Mallard went woke, will we go broke?
You would have thought that after The Spinoff and Feminist journalist hit job at Stuff insinuating that Jacinda and Labour had covered up a serious sexual assault that Trev would be a tad more sceptical, but jaw droopingly he wasn’t.