With the madness of an orange fascist taking over America, BREXIT backlash, human rights abuses across the ditch, the Pacific being ripped apart and desperation growing in our own country, it’s easy to sometimes forget the biggest story of our lifetime.
…take a good hard long look NZ. I know we’ve turned and looked the other way when Australia abuses people who aren’t white, now you can see your teenage son, cousin, grandchild tied into the torture seat, will you continue to be blind?
We need an adult discussion now on cannabis, allowing people like Helen to be called a criminal by the Police and Government is an outrage too far.
The surprise by Hillary supporters that the Left despise Clinton sounds like the same intellectual snobbery that didn’t see Brexit.
The long anticipated documentary, THE 5TH EYE, that follows the story of the Waihopai Three and the GCSB premieres this month at the New Zealand International Film Festival.
One narrative being peddled about America sending a warship to our harbour is that this is some sort of reestablishment of the US alliance with NZ as an equal and not a lapdog.
The Editor of The Spinoff believes Stephen Jennings’ criticism of Key is some type of renaissance moment when free market capitalism sagely nodded to itself and confessed, ‘We’ve all be a bit naughty’.
The banks simply want to be ahead of the vicious backlash about to erupt once the middle classes realise their illusion of wealth is exactly that, an illusion.
We have State Agencies now who are the problem, they are not the solution. People fear WINZ, Housing NZ and CYFS the way they fear cancer.
So instead of locking up NZers, empowering organised crime and causing counter productive social problems, we could feed every hungry kid, shelter our most vulnerable and put money back into the pockets of mums and dads sending their kids to school.