Full marks for Jacinda in attempting to sell neato neoliberalism and I’m sure MFAT will be cheering her from the sidelines, but the biospheres inability to continue with the free market never ending economic growth fantasy has arrived.
I have been arguing for some time that this local body election could be the lowest we’ve ever had.
After Māori King Tūheitia helped build mana whenua consensus in a Māori centric decision making process that ended up agreeing that Ihumātao should be returned, what happens next?
Based on todays ridiculous attack on Greta Thunberg, Mike Hosking would have told Martin Luther King to stop dreaming, Kate Sheppard to get back in the kitchen and Nelson Mandella to dump the uppity darkie malarky
I get that many of my fellow New Zealanders love Rugby and I will put aside my deep cynicism about a country that defines itself by playing a game that barely anyone else plays to watch the World Cup once every 4 years.
That we have come to require a young girl with Aspergers to give us hope is an obscene abdication of responsibility by us adults.
Why on earth are we believing any claim of ‘evidence’ of Iranian involvement from a country who recently chopped up a journalist and lied about it?
Last years vicious Kavanaugh confirmation hearings created this very backlash and robbed Democrats of wins that they should have picked up to defeat Trump with.
One of the problems we have is a State whose incompetence due to lack of capacity is now becoming the main problem.
With catastrophic climate change on the horizon, and rising sea levels, the idea of building a sunken stadium right on the waterfront sounds like a cleverly designed death trap.