Waatea News Column: Maori taking pandemic matters into their own Tino rangatiratanga hands
I salute those Māori who have taken matters into their own hands to police pandemic checkpoints and screen those entering their lands.
Martyn Bradbury
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What every Death Cult Capitalist braying for a return to work utterly miss in their free market fanaticism
There isn’t going to be a returning to normal, even under the best case scenario we are at level 3 or 2 for months at a time with the occasional shut down and heavy handed quarantining, testing and tracing programs with no tourism other than returning citizens until a vaccine is available.
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Watching Trump’s mask slip during these live pandemic press conferences is chilling isn’t it?
There are times aren’t there that you look at the faces of the men and women who stand around the Present as he rants and you see something in their faces that actually explains their silence.
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THIS is really, really, really, really bad. Like REALLY bad for NZ
If we are not going to seriously tackle the reason why the gang wars are brewing then we won’t actually stop it from erupting.
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Death Cult Capitalism tries to eclipse Egalitarian NZ
A bunch of middle class Ivory Tower Academics weened on the public teat & inoculated in plush self-isolation, demand we go back to work in the teeth of a pandemic which viciously impacts the working classes worst?
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America and China have both lied about pandemic – the first casualty of Covid19 was the truth
We can’t trust ‘news’ on social media and we can’t trust the Governments themselves – one of the legacies of this universal experience we are globally experiencing will be that there wasn’t a universality of truth, that were were a thousand different lies masquerading as the truth all desperately promising explanation while erasing complicity.
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Why we should call it the Wuhan Virus
Bill Maher is one of my favourite social critics and his show on Sky soho is the best weekly current affairs show on the planet.
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Fortress Aoteroa is not only a pandemic response, it is the climate crisis life boat
Alienating woke micro-aggression policing Identity Politics activists to the left of me, climate denying crypto-fascist alt-right incel Trolls to the right of me, and here I am stuck in the middle with you.
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Bernie drops out – It’s Biden vs Trump – can Joe win?
While the world ‘s attention is on the pandemic, Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the race for the Democratic Primary as their candidate for President…
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Did WINZ scum just screw over the very beneficiaries Jacinda & Grant tried to help?
Someone has to hold WINZ and MSD to account because Labour can’t.