Happy New Year’s is a wish not a greeting
The evolution of our shared human experience has been eclipsed by corporate tech algorithms designed to enslave & divide us for profit.
New Zealand Politics
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Gun buy back is a success but has generated a toxic sludge
Police should look to write warnings and destroy any guns found rather than a punitive arrest and prosecution model so as to not enflame events that could spin out of control.
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2010 to 2019 – The only decade news review that matters
It’s funny seeing many NZ outlets reviewing the past decade when the vast majority of them are incapable of reviewing the very week they are publishing in.
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List of stories media are fastidiously ignoring right now
The need to not focus on those issues is part of the need to keep citizens blind to the frontline of the existential crisis we find ourselves in at the turn of the decade.
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My submission to the Justice Committee looking into low voter turn out at local elections
There needs to be a wholesale re-investment into Local Government so that instead of being a faux democratic choice, citizens actually feel like their vote means something rather than an act masquerading as democracy for the illusion of legitimacy.
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The end (of the year) is nigh
I’ve just had a couple of days camping. Time to escape the jingles; the advertising invoking us to spend, spend, spend; the overconsumption and the manic traffic. Time to reflect on the end of the year, the end of the decade, and according to the Doomsday Clock, the end of the world.
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The problem with Jacinda continued…
Back in early 2016 I wrote a blog called “The problem with Jacinda…” at the time she was the Labour candidate for Mt Albert in the byelection created by the resignation of David Shearer.
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The interment of the WEAG report is complete.
The government’s undermining of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group (WEAG) report: Whakamana Tangata has been masterful. WEAG was set up in May 2018 and reported finally in February 2019. After sitting on the report for months, the government manoeuvred the burying of it in the launch in May, with a fanfare of three miniscule crumbs to be implemented in 2020.
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Waatea News Column: The 5 big political issues for Maori in 2019
2019 was a difficult year politically with the promise of much but the delivery of little.