…these departments used to be the bastions upon which a liberal progressive democracy were built, under National however they have become torture devises to punish those weak enough to need their sub standard services and they have become staffed by people who wholeheartedly perform this state sponsored cruelty with a certain amount of glee.
Last week an All Black having a sex romp in a toilet eclipsed one of our MPs being kidnapped in international waters by an Apartheid Israel and it eclipsed the fact that SERCO had lied and covered up reports of violence in their private prison complex.
The reason National allow children to rot in poverty is because the issue cuts right across one of their greatest neoliberal myths – that society isn’t made up of hegemonic structures and success is a personal achievement.
There is a difference between being crude and joking about rape. When rape is an ongoing crisis that is burning our planet, there’s about as much humour in rape jokes as a stand up gig at Auschwitz.
The only real difference between Hillary and Donald is that Hillary will have planned America’s next war, Donald will bumble into one.
National’s pollster and spin dr, David Farrar, must have come back to National with bad polling numbers because National have made come out with an announcement to cut our over heated and deeply corrupt immigration system by a mere 5000 over two years…
Whatever Trump said to a bunch of Sleepy Hobbits over a decade ago is about as newsworthy as Helen Clark’s collected audio farts of the 1990s. Who cares?
The level of the debate from Trump is “I know you are, you said you are, but what am I”. The Americans Trump is trying to win are just listening for his tone, and his aggressive tone matches their anger and their expectations of how power is wielded.
…the National Party were actively and secretly looking for ways to disqualify the sick and vulnerable from state health care. If they were prepared to do it when euthanasia was illegal in the 1990s, imagine how quickly they will begin to pressure hospitals to start euthanasia as a cost cutting measure if it becomes legal?
I have no time for medieval superstition be it Christian, Muslim, Hebrew or Jedi but allowing ourselves to believe the ‘other’ is too alien to interact with is an incredibly dangerous narrative to start investing in because the only solution to that belief is genocide and exclusion.