75 deaths from synthetic cannabis – let’s thank those MPs & media for this carnage
…I hope sometime in the future when academics look back to unpick this cluster fuck of social policy that they damn the MPs and journalists who created it.
Martyn Bradbury
-
-
Why on earth are we supporting anti-abortion activists and feeding female beneficiaries less?
There’s such a churn of news that at times you miss things and need to pull them back into the spotlight.
-
Waatea News Column: The latest Oranga Tamariki outrage
Last week, Amnesty International harshly criticised Oranga Tamariki for allowing 14 year old children who have been uplifted from whanau or taken into custody by Police to stay for up to 48 hours in Police cells until they are found appropriate accommodation.
-
Cough-cough. That ‘old rugby injury’ of Winston’s has now taken 3 weeks
We all wish Winston a speedy recovery from his, old rugby injury.
-
How come the entire Western media knew about American torture after Abu Ghraib, yet our Intelligence Agencies had no idea at all?
The SIS and GCSB KNEW the information was coming from CIA black sites, what the hell did they think was happening at those CIA black sites? The information was being tickled out of people?
-
MEDIAWATCH: The Spinoff Labour Party Sex Scandal
The extraordinary journalism on display today at The Spinoff by Alex Casey demolishes any facade that the allegations were a mistaken interaction that has been over hyped.
-
TV REVIEW: I think they should rename The Block NZ to ’12 weeks a slave’
Nothing tells us that the absurd speculative property bubble has finally popped in Auckland quite like the astounding failure of the Blocks auction.
-
Government still waiting for the collapse of Capitalism before borrowing big
When this Government first formed, I argued that key members involved in the negotiation process believed an enormous crash was looming, and that once that economic crash occurred, we would see a genuinely transformative Government.
The only problem was that economic crash didn’t happen.
-
Farmers are screaming about water. Yawn.
The Framers are bitching because they are selfish little clowns and the Government is too timid to force real change on them.
-
Ummm, so the Ark of the Covenant is visiting Auckland….
If there is a god, David Farrier will be visiting this and documenting it for Netflix.