Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
The bizarre gladiatorial orgy of gross absurdity between Clinton and Trump will damage the American psyche in a way I don’t think it can return from. Either candidate will inherit a White House that is smeared with lies and bitter resentment.
We can build private prisons, but we can’t build houses for the homeless. We can’t build affordable housing but we can build tax havens. We can give away billions in tax cuts but we can’t fund suicide prevent programs properly.
A nation that kills itself with the passion ours does is a damaged culture demanding immediate recognition and action now. The denial is beneath us and those who tragically take their own lives.
Imagine if we took that $1.8billion ‘surplus’ and reinvested it into Suicide prevention?
One of the most interesting things about the last 8 years in NZ has been the dumping of rational and empirical evidence based social policy. We don’t implement policy based on facts now, we implement ideologically extreme brain farts.
So Junior Doctors are on strike because of their insane work loads while at the same time Bill English manufactures a $1.8billion surplus by cutting back on the social infrastructure so the richest amongst us can get tax cuts.
The only winners here are the greedy exploitative bosses and a Government needing cheap immigration to keep the economy afloat.
Many Auckland’s and many NZers from around the Auckland region would love to be able to pay their respects.
That Helen had to become a criminal to gain the cannabis she so desperately needed to ease the pain of the last 20 months of her life is a national disgrace.
And how do we have this surplus then?
Why are provincial Gangs targeting P Dealers? Because the economics within the drug industry have changed.