But we don’t want any more Chinese tourism OR Chinese infrastructure
Yay, more Chinese tourists to pour into NZ when our infrastructure can’t cope with the huge numbers of tourists we now have.
New Zealand Politics
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Is Nicky Hager wrong? Why we are well past an inquiry and need an investigation
…the book already crosses the evidential threshold for a criminal investigation and NZ is signed up to international laws that impact our domestic laws.
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Branson’s Marijuana over Milk comment reminds us how tiny our unconfident vision is
…OBVIOUSLY we should be transitioning our farmers away from environmentally destructive Dairy intensification towards cannabis production. We could grow some of the best cannabis in the world and Treasury predict a properly regulated and taxed cannabis market would generate half a billion dollars each year in taxes and prohibition cost savings.
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EXCLUSIVE: Why Labour won’t trust the Maori Party
As far as Labour are concerned, a vote for the Maori Party is a vote for National, and that’s why Labour are hell bent on limiting their influence at the election.
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LATEST POLL: Maori Party steal NZ First’s Kingmaker Crown while Winston dog whistles legal right to bash children
Some interesting results here, but the sudden jump in Maori Party support and collapse of NZ First looks more like a rogue poll than a genuine shift in political allegiances.
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Dirty laundry
There’s a pattern. The government lets companies regulate themselves until they get exposed for causing damage to the public interest. Deny, fudge, delay, until there is enough of an outcry that it starts to be politically damaging. At that stage, the government does just enough to make the public think that the problem is sorted. But not enough to stop the companies from making big profits.
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STAKE YOUR CLAIM – A review of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s Hit and Run
The construction of this book was a painstaking and dangerous enterprise. John Stephenson risked life and limb by returning to the villages and interviewing survivors, and assembling the family trees of the dead and wounded. Empty shell casings from Apache helicopter cannon rounds were collected and photographed. A series of locally sourced stories from the Pajhwok News Agency, pointing to civilian deaths and casualties were filed. And, as mentioned earlier, a locally documented list of the dead and wounded was obtained and photocopied. By triangulating this material with the admissions of anonymous sources throughout the SAS and NZDF, Hager and Stephenson have built a powerful case.
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On NZ First’s Anti-Smacking Referendum
I’m therefore going to break ranks somewhat with many of the other voices on the liberal left and respectfully suggest that maybe Winston IS on to something here, and that there is, in fact, a case to be made for getting rid of the present section 59.
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Nothing To Them. Tim Keating hits back at “Hit & Run”
In the words of Jon Stephenson: “Is [NZDF Chief] Tim Keating really saying there were two raids using identical aircraft, in identical places with identical commandos, that left behind identical munitions in that one village, then [in] a village two kilometres south? Seriously?”
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Dunedin Satanists doing more for homeless and child poverty than NZ Government
You now shit has gotten pretty bad when the followers of Lucifer are being more productive in alleviating the pain and suffering of homelessness, child poverty and domestic violence than the National Party.