This is making the claim that there was a gas attack in Syria very difficult to believe. Robert Fisk is one of the great journalists of our age
Robert Fisk is one of the great journalists of our age…
Martyn Bradbury
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Hooton vs Kirton: Best #nzpol Twitter smack down of the day
Less than 24 hours after rejoining Twitter, Matthew Tiberius Hooton is back…
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It didn’t take long for David Farrar to go feral in Opposition did it?
I’m not even sure how to delicately link to the following blog, so feral and vile it is. I have to provide trigger warnings to the trigger warnings.
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Crapping on Barry Soper’s misfortunes for the joy of crapping on another human being
I don’t like Barry Soper either but the joy some seem to revel in his travel mishap is childish at best and pile on bullying culture at worst – extreme climate change, mass social inequality, a looming economic crash & war are issues worthy of our time – throwing shit at Soper because he couldn’t get into the US isn’t.
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Media’s silence on revelations NZ Police shot 12 times at mentally ill man is deafening but not surprising
Am I surprised the NZ media haven’t made more of the revelations NZ Police shot at a mentally disturbed man 12 times and the ‘machete’ was actually a 7 year old blunt ornamental knife?
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Painting Jacinda out as a war criminal
Over at Kiwiblog, Farrar and the feral right are screaming at Jacinda over her wording on the Syria strike as if she is personally colluding with Russia while on the far Left the criticism on social media is even worse.
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Does Scott Simpson understand the word ‘formulaic’?
I can’t work out if he is being figurative or literal, as in Chloe actually gave this speech previously or perhaps Scott’s just learnt the word ‘formulaic’ and this is his first test drive of it in public?
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Dear NZ, we are so racist we don’t know how racist we are
Regardless of whether or not the bias is intentional, if the system is providing favouritism, that isn’t fair, and as citizens in a progressive democracy we should all want for everyone to share the harvest with agency, acceptance and inclusion.
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Turns out the ‘machete’ the Police used to justify shooting at a mentally ill man 12 times was actually a 7 year old blunt ornamental knife
…we are now into phases 2 and 3 of the stock standard response. The ‘suspected weapon’ and ‘shooting victim had it coming’ phase. Here the Police aggressively defend their actions, demand thoughts and prayers for the poor police who had to unload an entire clip into whatever mentally unwell person they’ve gunned down and then tend to start phase 4 where they demand more guns as a response,
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Nobody told the oil industry that there was a change of Government 6 months ago?
The Oil Industry has known for decades that their product caused catastrophic climate change and they actively used propaganda to pretend climate change wasn’t to blame the way the tobacco industry used quack science to pretend smoking and cancer weren’t connected. Petrol needs to be hit with taxes the same way we hit tobacco and these taxes should be used to transition completely away from big oil.