There have been remarkable juxtapositions last week in NZ that seem to show the two worlds we have split into, one where the reality of life is grim and one where privilege blinds us to that grim reality.
National voters know the system they are profiting from is hurting their fellow citizens, they just don’t care. This is what 30 years of neoliberalism has produced. There’s a dark streak of anti-intellectualism in NZ, a negative egalitarianism, that embraces Keys nonchalant ignorance with the passion of a junkie to their dealer.
…Talley’s claims this over the top reaction was because they are so focused on safety which is hilarious when you consider they had no problem sending workers into fishing ships to get poisoned or their lax attitude towards decapitation.
Chelsea Manning is a hero. She exposed the truth of what the US Military were really doing in Iraq and their war crimes remain a stain alongside so many other stains caused by America’s corporate wars.
Cash for copy site – the supposed saviour of journalism – The blue/green millennial Spinoff has felt a certain amount of pressure recently over the blurry line between their cash for copy products and their copy…
It was a pretty surreal moment in the High Court yesterday arguing with a High Court Lawyer how much I loathed Cameron Slater…
If you want someone to blame, look at the underfunded and burnt out public services who’ve become callous in their obligations to those in their care. If prisoner rights were at the forefront of Corrections priorities, the investigation to ensure they were being released at the right time would have occurred and demanded change.
Auckland is the largest Pacifica and Maori Urban city in the world, yet their voices, their aspirations and their reality is rarely ever listened to.
At this stage, it doesn’t even matter if Hillary wins, Trump has won. The hate he has injected into the body politic is unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times and the long term carcinogenic impacts of that type of political cancer are difficult to predict.
This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.