Deconstructing Headlines

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.

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.

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.

The new Government MUST use this opportunity to bargain with the Unions for better pay and conditions in return for wholesale culture changes in each of those sectors.

Radio NZ have done an interesting story looking at the plethora of reviews, working groups, advisory groups and investigations that the new Government have announced since coming to power…

In the same week Cambridge Analytica has been busted exploiting Facebook data mining  the NZDF is being forced to answer questions about Peter Thiel’s mass surveillance data mining.