On 4 May, the eve of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, delivered a public address at the Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies, comparing the political situation in Israel and the events that led to the ending of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi takeover of power.
We’ve seen this month the media consolidation that is occurring that will see one Newspaper Monopoly – you know how bad the mainstream media are now, what will happen when they get even more powerful?
This budget and this government were never going to provide the structural tools and address the structural challenges of a deregulated, speculative, unequal society. Addressing the chasm of income disparity would require the removal of privileges, the redistribution of advantage.
Dear Bob – we have noted from your reply that you have not yet been able to bring yourselves to say ‘sorry’.
So when Phantom Billstickers said they were supporting New Zealand’s National Poetry Day, my eyes lit up, and so did the sky, and a half a rainbow appeared over the Auckland Old Folk’s Ass in Gundy Street off K’road.
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BILL ENGLISH’S LATEST BUDGET is a masterful exercise in deception. He has done everything he can to mask the effects of the most rapid expansion in New Zealand’s population since the 1970s. The monies allocated to the core centres of state expenditure – Welfare, Health and Education – barely match the rising numbers they are expected to serve.
I am writing this knowing full well that, one day, it might land me in an Iranian jail where Nazanin is at the moment.