..I’ve often said the only moment this insanity of allowing cops to chase kids to death will ever change is if the victims are white middle class kids, because when it’s brown poor teenagers dying, middle NZ doesn’t give two shits, but the millisecond it’s kids they recognise and can identify with, well then brothers and sisters SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
How many times does the NZ Herald have to be caught promoting manipulative and secret interests before you write it off as a legitimate source?
Simon Bridges secretly meets with oil interests to ram through a new law prosecuting deep sea oil activists and misleads Parliament about that meeting, all the while his very agency who is pushing through that law change is committing unethical spying actions against Greenpeace, the Green Party, the MANA Movement and local Iwi protesting possible oil pollution.
Yet Simon Bridges knew nothing about that spying?
How believable is it that Bridges becomes suddenly so ignorant when it comes to the day to day applications of those civil rights abuses?
And finally the remaining news that went under the radar were your usual suspects, the brutal continuing occupation of Palestine (that no one can say anything about unless they want to be labelled anti-semitic) and the true magnitude of what climate change catastrophe will really do.
The fourth big news story that was missed in 2018 was finding out that a Chinese businessman attempted to buy two MPs on the National Party list.
The third big news story that was missed in 2018 was finding out that despite the claims of Russian interference in American politics, the truth was that this was mostly nonsense…
The second big news story that was missed in 2018 was the bizarre murder of Teenager Jack McAllister who was stabbed 14 times after a gang of 6 other teenagers decided McAllister was a rapist who needed to be punished.
The first big news stories that was missed in 2018 was the fight to protect Julian Assange.
National’s hypocrisy as is galling as their opportunism.
He’s done enough to spook with crime stats & inject righteous fury into his support base – he’ll announce it’s a National Emergency once Democrats turn down this latest offer to mimic the pretence of being reasonable.