GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Who rules this country?
Who rules this country? The elected representatives or the Bureaucrats?
New Zealand Politics
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MEDIA WATCH: Are we sure Leighton Smith isn’t a hoax?
I say until we can definitively prove that Leighton Smith exists, we should refuse to include him in a debate as pressing as global warming.
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How many acronyms does it take to catch a white supremacist?
The solution here is not more vast surveillance powers, it’s the intelligence agencies using the existing powers they already have against real threats, not the reds under the bed who they’ve focused on so far.
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Ummm, so what National are asking for is the right to storm brown people’s homes anytime the Police want???
It wasn’t a gang who shot & killed 100 Muslims – it was a white supremacist – demanding Police gain the power to storm brown people’s homes to seize guns as a response to that terrorism is ethically bankrupt.
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Chippie finally makes up for the first day of Parliament by catching out David Seymour
Catching Seymour out was as much a redemption for Chippie as it was a repudiation to Seymour’s media preening.
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From ‘End Of History’ To ‘End Of Democracy’ – Why Fukuyama Et Co Now Like China
In the past week, comments have surfaced from Francis Fukuyama – aka the man who propheceyed that the perceived ascendency of ‘liberalism’ in the late 80s and early 90s meant history was now ‘over’ – claiming Chinese system is a “real alternative” to ‘Western democracy’
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Good Cop. Bad Cop
Yesterday I learned that Blogger Martyn Bradbury (pictured) has not only had to contend with his personal bank accounts being searched without a warrant but that the police are now seeking a closed hearing of the Human Rights Tribunal to present evidence it does not want made public.
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Majority of submissions reject the neoliberal seductiveness of euthanasia
This legislation is to appease alpha personalities who can not tolerate the idea of needing help in the painful end of their lives, but it will be used against the poorest and most vulnerable who are already so easily abused by the State.
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Waatea News Column – Fighting the Police when you can’t see the evidence
I’m in the news this week. I have an ongoing case against the NZ Police in front of the Human Rights Review Tribunal regarding the Police breaching my privacy and my civil rights when Police gained access to my banking records minus a warrant.
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Dark Matter
Since Friday, 15 March, the Left has been dazzled by Jacinda’s light. So much so, that it has failed to understand that, far from defeating the Right’s darkness, the Prime Minister’s recent illuminations have only exposed the terrifying dimensions of its realm. Light speaks only to light. Political dark matter has always been, and always will be, profoundly deaf to everything except the soundless screaming energy of its black and inexhaustible rage.