We tell our children not to be bullies, not to be racist and not to be sexist. Tonight a man who has breached every standard of civility will win the Presidency of the United States. We are a lesser civilisation today.
Spending $300million on trying to clean up the mess they’ve created in Housing isn’t a solution, it’s just another sign of total failure.
The discussion over new Mayor Phil Goff’s decision not to appoint Councillors to the AT Board highlights that “there’s little…
Judith Collins could rule on this right now, but she won’t because she knows that NZers love punishment over justice. Our system is corrupt and racist and we like it that way because it mostly benefits white people. Letting a Maori woman out early to die with her whanau is just not an option.
When a person on a benefit is sent to Manpower for a job it is like evicting a family from a secure house and giving them a tent in cyclone season. When the work dries up they are left drowning in debt and hoping for rescue sometime in the next thirteen weeks.
This blogger previously reported how Statistics NZ recently implemented a so-called “revision” which would materially affect how unemployment stats were counted and reported;
How can you critique the hegemonic power structures of society when your host don’t know what the fuck hegemonic means? It will probably become fart and dick jokes, with the tall bugger from Jono and Beno hosting and some of their female comedians thrown in to try and make it seem diverse.
The reality is that New Zealand/Aotearoa is not a cohesive society with everyone working together. Class and race divisions run deep- and these tensions cannot simply be dissolved by ensuring an ‘opportunity for all’.
What’s really going on? Why are more and more resources and scientific ingenuity being employed in weaponry? Don’t the world’s powerful understand that the survival of our species depends on facing the reality of possible runaway climate change? Don’t the world’s powerful understand that we, all of humanity, are in this together.
As the Government drives the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Amendment Bill through its committee stages in Parliament this afternoon, a union…