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I think it tells us something about the failing landscape of journalism in NZ that the National Party can make hard right ideological decisions confronting the nation, and there isn’t the intellectual depth within our Press Gallery to even recognise and call it out.
It is insane that we can live in a country where there is a bloody investigation over how a drug dog was shot at Auckland airport but there won’t be an investigation into serious war crime allegations.
The problem with the Green’s democratic process is that candidates start sucking up to the members which creates an insular list of people wanted by the members, but can’t select candidates who will win over voters.
CYFs has been remodelled 14 times before this, watching the mainstream media pundits faithfully do their sympathetic head nodding bullshit as the latest bureaucrat is wheeled out to promise a better future, as was seen on The Nation this weekend, is probably the most sickening part of this masquerade.
It is now up to the media to rip the NZDF to pieces. They’ve lied to you as much as they have lied to the people of NZ, surely you can’t let them lie directly to your faces and you’ll just accept it?
Winston is blowing so many dog whistles at once of late that it may as well be a dog bagpipe.
He’s going to starve his brain of any oxygen if he keeps going.
Yay, more Chinese tourists to pour into NZ when our infrastructure can’t cope with the huge numbers of tourists we now have.
…the book already crosses the evidential threshold for a criminal investigation and NZ is signed up to international laws that impact our domestic laws.
…OBVIOUSLY we should be transitioning our farmers away from environmentally destructive Dairy intensification towards cannabis production. We could grow some of the best cannabis in the world and Treasury predict a properly regulated and taxed cannabis market would generate half a billion dollars each year in taxes and prohibition cost savings.
As far as Labour are concerned, a vote for the Maori Party is a vote for National, and that’s why Labour are hell bent on limiting their influence at the election.