This week, the Climate Change Minister, Paula Bennett announced that the government would not listen to rational arguments calling for these fraudulent units to be cancelled and replaced by credits with at least some integrity. The government plans to use the surplus credits to meet our future targets.
It’s now 8 years since the government imposed the funding freeze on RNZ, and the steadily dwindling budget continues to…
…these departments used to be the bastions upon which a liberal progressive democracy were built, under National however they have become torture devises to punish those weak enough to need their sub standard services and they have become staffed by people who wholeheartedly perform this state sponsored cruelty with a certain amount of glee.
Last week an All Black having a sex romp in a toilet eclipsed one of our MPs being kidnapped in international waters by an Apartheid Israel and it eclipsed the fact that SERCO had lied and covered up reports of violence in their private prison complex.
The reason National allow children to rot in poverty is because the issue cuts right across one of their greatest neoliberal myths – that society isn’t made up of hegemonic structures and success is a personal achievement.
Up until now most progressive Americans have been backing the “lesser evil” in the US presidential contest. They don’t particularly like Hillary Clinton’s establishment politics but they’ve been scared into her camp because Donald Trump is so terrible.
So now that the dust’s started to settle and the excitement’s mostly over (barring one or two personages who’ll be sitting on tenterhooks awaiting the results of special voting), the attention of the Commentariat has sensibly turned to picking over the weekend’s local body electoral result.
The over intellectualisation of Art is a rich mine for comedy and Jesse Griffin’s performance as a performance artist is so perfectly timed and understated it leaves you howling with mirth. It’s super clever comedy but with enough access points that you don’t need to be the self involved wanker that Centaur is to appreciate the comedy.
I will feast on these ones first, put them both in the microwave.
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1: World Health Organisation urges all countries to tax sugary drinks