Japan has announced it will leave the International Whaling Commission, withdraw its ’scientific’ whaling fleet from the Southern Ocean and focus on ‘commercially harvesting’ whales from its own territorial waters.
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Social Media in 2018 ended up sounding like a cacophony of socially awkward competitively woke Millennials all calling each other out for not being subjectively outraged enough by each others hobby horse issues, but beyond them, there were some really dumb people.
I don’t want you to be sacked, I don’t want any punishment handed out, I just want you to reflect on how you made a cold mum and her daughter feel on Christmas and promise never to act like that again in the future.
The pressure going on is to create a NZ market that benefits the pharmaceutical industry, not the recreational cannabis industry. Finished products that are medical is the aim of that industry, not a loose bud or lose leaf market. Those pharmaceutical interests do not want what America has, they want a tightly regulated medicinal market that benefits them and them alone.
Damien’s view that the Greens are somehow ‘Lenin reborn’ is simply evidence of just how successful the 30 year neoliberal social, political and economic experiment in NZ has been. It is one of the most grotesque failures of intellectual debate that this 30 year experiment has never been seriously challenged by the Left in NZ and that the most ‘left wing’ political Party in NZ is only slightly less right wing than the Conservatives in Britain.
How many times are we told by the State that they need these intrusive new powers of spying to protect us from foreign terrorists and domestic organised crime when in fact they are used against who they’ve always been used against, Māori, environmentalists and social justice activists.
Paula Bennett’s conspiracy theory twitter feed is the new Infowar
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Vanuatu is leading the way in promoting a peaceful diplomatic solution for West Papua and plans to take a resolution to the UN General Assembly next year calling for the West Papua to be restored to the UN list of nations still to be decolonised. New Zealand could be a game changer by ending military ties and instead opting to support Vanuatu’s principled diplomacy. There isn’t much time to waste.