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This week marks the beginning of the Government’s national roadshow on the TPPA, a roadshow that was meant to address the people of New Zealand’s questions and concerns regarding this ‘trade agreement’, with a focus on public consultation.
The Government is considering the recommendations of a former Deputy Prime Minister and lawyer as it embarks on designing a new wave of controversial spy-law reform. And again, it looks certain to drive a wedge into contemporary New Zealand.
We’ll keep you updated on any developments.
I asked to room again equally interested to see if anyone would promote the lone Maori staff members knowledge of his culture above their rank in the hierarchy and divert the question to him.
But no the senior European staff members continued to blunder their way thru PC quotations spewing out random and inapplicable Te reo in a bid to assert their cultural awareness
This foul beast of despondency and despair affects people in different ways when it shows up. For some, it lurks in the shadows and nips at their subconscious when they least expect it while for others it is there front and centre, all bristling, energy sapping malice
My Leap Day gift this year was an interview with Radio New Zealand’s personable Kate Newton !
Tuesday , I have my TVNZ interview
If anyone wanted conclusive proof that Syria has become the battleground between the two main imperialist blocs collaborating to smash the Syrian revolution all they have to do is look at the fate of Aleppo.
We might like to shrug all that off as American politics where we know super big money and the Israel lobby are so influential. Surely things are different in Europe.
The Star Chamber has swung into action over my TV3 interview. They want to video TV3 personnel as they carry out the interview, but TV3 isn’t having a bar of it .
I have just toured the North Island of NZ with U.S. climate and methane researcher Jennifer Hynes author of “ The Arctic Methane Monster” and “ The Demise of the Arctic”, raising the alarm about the methane discharges from the melting permafrost and sub-marine clathrates which threaten to completely destabilise the energy balance of our biosphere