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If you rely on mainstream media for your news then you may well have missed the fact that an estimated 5000 Canterbury folk attended a protest march in Christchurch last Saturday against the granting of more water extraction rights to the Chinese owned firm Cloud Ocean Water Ltd
Alison Mau wrote on the same day the Leaving Netherland documentary is about to air that she does not dig MJs music anyway.
What will happen to their economy and, as a consequence,to ours?
Anyone who has attended a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing in recent years will have sensed there is something rotten in the state of our democracy.
Is trial by media in the court of public opinion the new low standard we all should adopt as our sole source of conviction about the guilt or innocence of anyone accused of a crime?
Simon Bridges has a new mantra – that the recently released tax review is “ an assault on the Kiwi way of life.” It’s a piece of political rhetoric that piles one myth on top of another to avoid reality.
A week or so ago I had the chance to sit and talk with him about some of the ethical questions he faces in his work and how he protects his informants.
Hosking marvelled in jaw dropping admiration at the recycled hackneyed phrase first penned by Michael Gerson as a speech writer for G W Bush back in the early 2000s :
Rang the RACE RELATIONS office, got a fuckin’ ballhead with a foreign accent who didn’t know who I was, didn’t know how to pronounce my name, didn’t even know how to spell my name, and then tried to tell me that I was talking about didn’t constitute racism.
Watching the remarks by some politicians on TV ONE last night about the upcoming Student Climate Change Protest March on the 15th of this month revealed how much this action by our young people is needed and should be supported.