It is time we stood against these fools and their distractions and fought back to reclaim a media that actually challenges and provides insight rather than the vacant infotainment we are served up at 7pm and on the front pages of our newspapers.
We may disagree on politics and culture and economics and philosophy and we may argue our causes passionately and we may be blunt, rude and self righteous in the pursuit of that argument, but who the Christ gets off on making fun of something like this?
The venom, self righteousness and utterly misplaced perceptions that 1080 is poisoning human beings and vast amounts of unintentional wildlife has been an eye opening reality check of how poorly understood science is in todays activist world.
Those images of Jacinda at the UN with Clarke and Neve have given us more value for money than the entire Hobbit Trilogy.
If you ask 10 NZers who is the best manger of the economy, despite all the evidence that shows National only looks after the rich and wealthy, 9 out of 10 all claim National do. This is why the lie Joyce used during the election almost won it for them, National must lie and must keep the lie alive at all times if they ever hope to win back the Treasury Benches.
Simeon Brown has blood all over his hands.
Now that the charter schools have transitioned into mainstream as character or state integrated schools, I want to explain why I supported them and helped build one on my marae, Ngā Whare Waatea.
It’s just another feel good promise that hasn’t even been implemented while the Government continues to act just as cruelly as the behaviour they are legislating against.
IN A RECENT POST Jane Kelsey identifies some of the more important challenges posed for the Left by Donald Trump. His peculiar mix of worker-friendly policies and corporate concessions. His willingness to advance protectionism – along with a host of other ideas long-declared “verboten” by neoliberal ideologues. His brazen rejection of globalism. His reaffirmation of the citizen’s indissoluble duty of loyalty to the nation state – and vice versa.
…let’s remember this was a cost cutting measure to try and make it cheaper, but without a person coming to your door and actually identifying you and prompting you to fill the form in, a lot of NZers didn’t bother.