NZ has one of the highest proportion of prisoners in private prisons than any other country on the planet. These private prisons are effectively forced labour camps where Prisoners are refused parole if they don’t work for slave wages.
A sterling effort today by the mainstream media in trying to explore the true economic and social costs of cannabis by asking what happens if we go beyond medicinal and decriminalisation to full legalisation with a taxed and regulated cannabis market…
Labour are at 28% in the last TVNZ poll, with an election still 18months away this is pretty much meaningless and with a mainstream media so stacked against Labour, it’s surprising National aren’t 95% in the polls.
…it’s like nothing has been learned from the dairy intensification backfire or the damage it does to our environment. With National in full spectrum dominance of NZ politically, media wise and culturally there is no way to temper the greed of their biggest supporters.
…let’s take Bill at his word and agree that NZ labourers are ‘hopeless’ – whose fault is that?
Do the good people of Waitemate want an ACT Party pimp as their candidate? Can they trust someone who advises the ACT Party to be a moderate sensible voice on Council?
…one of the odd connections from the Panama Papers is between Matthew Hooton and Nicky Hager.
This week The Paul Henry show had Don Brash and Amber Peebles on their panel, with all due respect but a root canal with rusty tools would be more preferable than listening to that.
Mass surveillance lies, dirty politics and secret tax havens – at some point National voters have to admit our Prime Minister is corrupt, unfortunately those voters can’t admit Key is a crook because they’re too personally invested in his brand of vacant aspiration & need his property bubble.
This is now becoming a bloody farce!