What Israel are doing to the Palestinian people is the great crime of our collective generation. The things they do every day to humiliate, imprison, mutilate and torture the Palestinian people in an economic, cultural and social manner is an abomination.
We can’t trust the gutless, toothless and self interested NZ Press Council for ethics in Journalism, but seeing as we as a National have surprisingly stood against Israeli aggression at the UN, don’t we owe it to the activists who have fought against Apartheid Israel and who have suffered for that stance the chance to have injustices to them wiped clean?
This is lazy journalism, it’s not news. Imagine what we could do in this country of the media focused on the suicide rate the way they do the bloody holiday road toll.
How is a slavish worship of consumerism on Boxing Day and the continued tedious update of our holiday road toll anywhere near as important as NZs leadership on criticising Israel?
Some people might think that Rogue One is the 8th instalment of the Star Wars franchise.
They’re wrong, it’s actually a futuristic documentary about Bernie Sanders.
Oh what a wonderful gift in a year torn asunder by hate and pain, after NZ pushed for a UN vote against the illegal occupation of Palestine, Apartheid Israel has thrown a temper tantrum and recalled their ambassador from New Zealand!
There is nothing as eye opening as seeing the ocean of desperation from fellow New Zealanders sleeping overnight on the street in the fervent hope of some basic gifts.
As I pass them, I think, ‘there but for the grace of God go I’.
Oh for the love of Christ, the Greens have torn up the Memorandum of Understanding and are running in the Mt Albert by-election.
2016 was the year of Fake News. It saw neoliberal globalisation rejected by major liberal democracies with the Brexit vote and win of Donald Trump. Science and facts were thrown out with the bathwater and the baby as voters who have been failed by the promise of free market globalisation turned on every elite they could hurt.
National have suffered a shock drop of 4.5% and Labour-Greens have jumped up 5.5% in the latest Roy Morgan Poll…