I haven’t watched the Nation much of late. It’s just the same talking heads all agreeing with each other. I tuned in this week out of mistake and Jesus it’s a hot mess. Winston Peters is on with Lisa Owen and his disdain for the mainstream media is just glorious to watch. I felt like I should have called the Police because it was an elderly Maori male beating up on a white privileged woman for 20minutes.
I believe that the National Government are so ideologically driven that they will lie, manipulate and actively falsify any statistic to hide the failure of their social experiments. Here are 5 examples of the National Government manipulating statistics to hide their failure.
The sick joke of security incompetence from our mass surveillance State spying apparatus was on full display last week…
If the white working poor of New Zealand understood how much they have to lose under National, Labour could gain traction. By not explaining this impact, Labour look like they stand for nothing different.
It says something about us as a culture that we only sense Australia is screwing us when they stop middle class education tax breaks, what about when they fucking export a crime wave to our nation?
The astounding decision by the National Government to quietly dump reoffending rates as a measurement of the private prison empire they have built was another sad moment in the failed neoliberal social experiments the National Party champion…
…the only guiding principle of Landcorp in this issue has been making the most money, as if the pennies that can be created today justify the loss of the land for the future. Our economic sovereignty can not be maintained if we sell our most productive land to overseas investors, it’s as simple as that.
The simple truth is that most of our welfare agencies are now staffed by people without the necessary compassion skills to do anything useful in the lives of our most vulnerable. If beneficiaries really wanted to vent their fury at the manner in which WINZ staff treat them, then they could do that with a vandalisation campaign this year.
Markus Birdman is a fascinating comedian and proof that the snippets you see of an act in a big gala is not indicative of the comedians full body of work. In short bursts, Birdman is a cynical but well read 40s something solo father of a 12 year old but in a full show he is a philosopher who encapsulates the zeitgeist of the cultural death of Gen X.
We should all celebrate the Commerce Commissions surprise decision that the corporate media can’t do what they want and form a newspaper monopoly, the audacity is that Fairfax and NZME thought they could get away with it in the first place,