2016 was the year of Fake News. It saw neoliberal globalisation rejected by major liberal democracies with the Brexit vote and win of Donald Trump. Science and facts were thrown out with the bathwater and the baby as voters who have been failed by the promise of free market globalisation turned on every elite they could hurt.
Spot the Difference
5: IN MAJOR PRIVACY VICTORY, TOP EU COURT RULES AGAINST MASS SURVEILLANCE
4: New Zealanders Can’t Test Their Holiday Drugs After Ecstasy Kits Withheld From Retailer
3: Registry used to track Arabs and Muslims dismantled by Obama administration
2: Trump: US should veto UN Israel settlement resolution
1: The Impossible Revolution: A Syrian Dissident on How a Fight Against a Dictator Became a Proxy War
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In the interests of fairness and balance I thought it only proper to include a retrospective squiz at the parties and groups who ended up on the debit side of the political ledger of 15 years ago.
Something odd I’ve noticed: After an act of terrorism (or other highly publicized egregious act of politically motivated violence), we customarily have a hashtag or a display-pic filter showing solidarity with the victim – indeed, often going so semi-ludicrously far as to claim that we “ARE” the Victim. (I’m sure we all remember #JeSuisCharlie etc.)
Malcolm Evans – Christmas 2016
Evidence the National Party Cabinet is a cactus – thick skinned and surrounded by pricks
5: Meet the Kiwi American Football Pioneer, Now a Washington Missile Lobbyist
4: EXXON MOBIL IS FIGHTING TO KEEP ITS DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN CHILDREN’S TOYS
3: German police step up manhunt after Berlin truck attack
2: Flint: As 2 Unelected Emergency Managers Are Charged over Water Poisoning, Will Gov. Snyder Be Next?
1: Ice-melting temperatures forecast for Arctic midwinter
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