Waatea News Column: Oranga Tamariki report highlights it’s the welfare of the State that matters not the babies they kidnap
The Children’s Commissioner has released his report into Oranga Tamariki and it is as pitiful as it is offensive.
Martyn Bradbury
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Wait, WHAT? Simon Bridges meets with a Nazi sympathiser??? What on earth is National doing?
Look, it was bad enough that National allowed their alleged Chinese spy to organise Simon Bridges to meet the head…
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UN climate refugee ruling, Australian fires, hailstones + dust storms and National denying the climate crisis curriculum: Why radical change is the only change
…the current political spectrum does not have the capacity to force through the radical adaptation we will require to survive the next phase of the climate crisis.
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The infected wound at the centre of the NZ soul and our cowardice confronting suicide
We refuse to ask the why of suicide because we are too frightened to know the answer is a reflection of the shallow and lonely community we have become. Instead we reel off a list of phone numbers whenever we dare mention suicide as if that means a fucking thing.
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Middle class positive climate change journalism the new climate crisis danger
The Middle Classes will be as difficult to overcome as older white boomers when it comes to climate change. Older white boomers are climate deniers because they culturally feel alienated from debate and hate admitting environmentalists are right. The Middle Classes benefit immensely from the form of capitalism that is making climate change such a crisis and rather than outright denial, because that isn’t culturally acceptable amongst middle class dinner parties, the denial here is all wrapped up in positive bullshit.
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Shane Jones war on environmentalists just another boring NZ First branding exercise
Good to see Waatea News leading the agenda again.
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The predictable Gang war: Don’t fight symptoms fight causes
Couple of thoughts here.
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If the National Party think burglary of their HQ is ‘sinister’, what’s it called when you have an alleged Chinese Spy in your Caucus?
If you agree, sign my Petition asking for alleged Chinese spy and National Party MP, Jian Yan, to be removed from the National Party list.
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If you are angry about cruise ships stopping Ferries, it gets worse
These bloated swine palaces are the perfect example of wonky economic growth.
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Why the Housing crisis WON’T be part of the 2020 election
The Housing crisis will be fastidiously ignored by the Labour Party and National in the 2020 election.