MEDIA WATCH: I swear to the little baby Jesus, this was on the NZ Herald Facebook Page
…How the fuck can ‘this can’t be good sad face sad face’ be journalism?
New Zealand Politics
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Government right to scrap plans to base Singaporean F-15s at Ohakea
There are several reasons to be pleased the government has scrapped plans to base a squadron of Singaporean F-15 jets at Ohakea.
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How come this case of state spying hasn’t received the same level of attention and focus as the bullshit Sroubek case?
How come a micro aggression of a prisoner shouting at his wife after she reneges on an agreement be a BIGGER news story than entire swathes of the Government illegally spying on citizens?
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TDB Political & Media Awards 2018 Part 3
Let’s wrap this up already – it’s almost Christmas and this trilogy is dragging on like the Lord of the bloody Rings, but it’s not a total flop like Mortal Engines. God, that movie is dreadful isn’t it? When the Weta Digital special effects department can’t paper over the crap plot you know you are fucked. Who thought a movie about cities on wheels was a starter for 10? It’s as much a hot mess as the Golden Compass but losing more money.
I digress.
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What we have learned from the State Stasi Spying Scandal
It doesn’t matter how brilliantly Jacinda’s teeth dazzle when she throws us a smile and speaks bravely of the ‘politics of kindness’ because the truth is that the unaccountable faceless Wellington bureaucrat Stasi spying elites run this country, not the puppet masquerade of Government that keeps the sleepy hobbits distracted.
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GUEST BLOG: Murray Horton – Thompson & Clark Just Tip Of Spyberg. Let’s Have An Inquiry Into Whole Covert World Of State Spying
These latest revelations about a whole raft of Government agencies contracting Thompson & Clark to spy on New Zealanders on their behalf are just the latest in a long, sordid history of the State spying on the people. Go back a decade and you’ll find:
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Kids without beds
Most of us take it for granted that when we go to sleep at night it will be in a bed, but for a number of our children – not just one or two but several thousand- a mattress on the floor, sleeping on the couch or sharing a bed is the norm. I see, for example, there is a Beds for Christmas campaign running in Whangarei to get some beds for kids who don’t have one.
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MUST READ: Working Towards The Führer
AN “AFFRONT TO DEMOCRACY”, was the State Services Commissioner’s characterisation of the state bureaucracy’s decision to spy on political activists. Few would disagree. That multiple state agencies felt entitled to contract-out the gathering of political intelligence to the privately owned and operated Thompson & Clark Investigations Ltd reveals a widespread antidemocratic disdain for citizens’ rights within the New Zealand public service. The alarming revelations of the State Services’ inquiry raise two very important questions: How did this disdain for democratic norms become so entrenched? And what, if anything, can Jacinda Ardern’s government do to eradicate it?
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The 3 things National would have us believe about the State Stasi spying scandal
It is utterly unacceptable that this has occurred, there must be a purge of the public service and if the Government doesn’t do it they must ask themselves this question, if you can’t control these Ministries, who actually runs NZ?
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TWITTER WATCH: Ummmmm – Aunty Helen, ummmmmmm
…didn’t you oversee a grotesque abuse of surveillance powers with the deeply flawed Urewera terrorism case that saw an entire Māori township come under illegal martial law?