The truth is that welfare needs to be dramatically increased, sanctions dumped and moves towards a universal basic income adopted. That is a truth Simon and the National Party will die in a ditch to prevent because they know that if the poor actually benefited positively from welfare, they would start voting rather than recoiling from the process in the way they do now.
Since when could a man of peace like Keith Locke be considered a threat and continue to be classified as a threat because he speaks out against the unchecked power of the Secret Intelligence Service?
Beyond the petty joy of the daily schadenfreude of breathless media updates on rudeness, littering, minor theft and children brandishing verbal threats of handing out the bash, there is a deep seated resentment towards tourists by the locals that kept this story alive well beyond it’s initial 15 minutes of Nek Minit infamy.
It’s an important exhibit to attend because it shows us how far we have yet to go in being honest about our history and being able to distill truth and wisdom from that honesty.
I was personally pretty cynical towards the Gillette advert and wrote it off as corporate woke wash, but watching in disbelief at Roastbusters wanting to launch a music career this week forces me to put that cynicism aside and acknowledge the deep need for the message Gillette is pushing.
…the hypocrisy of National demanding transparency over innocuous text messages when they did everything in their power to hide their text messages when in power would be funny if the media weren’t feeding this double standard.
Some senior PSA staff are as undeservedly self important as your average Wellington mummy blogger, creating scab unions is a tactic that will blowback on them.
Many already know who the accused is and the lynch mob comments on social media do no one any good.
While the mainstream media focus ridiculously on a band of littering tourists, real questions about the power of the deep state in this country go utterly ignored.
I feel like this needs to be a reality TV show or a political satire funded by NZ on Air.