The way National can simply pretend they haven’t built this problem would be bad enough, that the right wing media simply parrot that narrative is insult to injury.
Our Democracy is only as strong as the checks and balances placed upon Executive power and this entire fiasco against Dotcom has highlighted the terrifying lack of accountability to that Executive power.
…what this shows is that this Government is focused on cutting deals that will see them actively step in to be the lender of last resort in ensuring people can buy the houses. It is a realisation that the State must be far more active in the house building process than the joke free market situation National allowed to create their speculative property bubble.
Jacinda needs to show courage and make some huge calls that put the people first and the not the corporate interests of the vice industries be they oil or booze, sugar or gambling. Self-regulation is a joke and an excuse to do nothing, Jacinda must ask herself if the State is there to protect the interests of people or the vice pimps.
…I am so embarrassed by our media sometimes.
This is one of those times.
Clarke Gayford’s Hipster Lite look didn’t deter the Prime Minister
Coleman was an ineffectual beige fart on a beige wallpaper in a beige house owned by beige people.
…Brothers and siser, ISIS isn’t fucking threat to us, the biggest threat to us is the very GCSB and SIS who have mass surveillance powers, multi-million dollar budgets and hand everything over to the NSA who are a threat to us.
Look, far be it for me, the only broadcaster in New Zealand to be banned for life from Radio NZ and who has been blacklisted from every political panel show in the country to lecture you all on your craft, but honestly, your coverage of Obama is possibly the most pathetic sycophancy I’ve ever had the displeasure of viewing.
NZ owns 51% of Air NZ – like it or not they have a social obligation to provide services to provincial NZ and for Air NZ to attack the new Governments criticism is extraordinary.