Govt roadside drug testing shock: the proposed rules are actually pretty good!
The Government has announced a new approach to roadside drug testing. It seems like a good compromise, and evidence based.
New Zealand Politics
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Request for inquiry into the 2019 and 2016 election expenses return of Christchurch City Mayor Lianne Dalziel
Earlier this week I requested Marie Shroff, the Chair of the Electoral Commission Board, to investigate the election expenses return of Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel.
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After the meth hysteria, why would State tenants trust Housing NZ with mass surveillance? How to destroy their sensors!
Well, well, well. What do we have here? The mass surveillance state intruding into the homes of state tenants… Surveillance…
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The horror of ‘Sir’ Ron Brierley
When I heard ‘Sir’ Ron Brierley had been arrested for child pornography, my immediate thought was ‘He must have A LOT of child porn for a rich architect of neoliberalism to get arrested’.
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TDB 2019 Media Awards
It was another year of mediocrity ruling and the banal winning in media.
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Dalziel’s “updated” election expenses fiasco risks a “lame duck” mayor for Christchurch
Christchurch risks having a “lame duck” mayor for the next three years after the big hit to Lianne Dalziel’s credibility from her election expenses fiasco.
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For a Green New Deal with People’s Power
Today for the first time in half a century there is a wave of revolt sweeping the world that seems pregnant with revolutionary possibilities that may finally allow working people to help lead humanity and the planet we exist on out of the hell-hole that capitalism has created for us.
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NZ’s medicinal cannabis scheme just got way better
Minister of Health David Clark has released the regulations for New Zealand’s medicinal cannabis scheme, and it looks like Kiwis will have one of the best medicinal cannabis schemes in the world.
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The Spinoff witch trial ends in sexual assault inquest that finds serious questions of credibility
So this Spinoff hit job destroyed the young staffer, destroyed the President, defamed Simon Mitchell and allowed the insinuation that Jacinda covered it all up, all in the name of middle class woke feminism and hashtag activism?
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2019 – The year of entropy and walls
The Free market revolution of the 1980s mutilated the domestic working classes of the West while woke middle class identity politics on social media alienated them enough to be manipulated by Neoliberal frauds like Trump, Boris & ScoMo who played to that resentment