Yesterday morning, we woke up to news that government agencies are quite literally “inventing numbers” in order to make themselves seem competent and measure up to the government’s public service performance targets.
The back stabbing in the once united National Party has begun.
ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN the wonders of modern Chinese architecture might easily be persuaded that “neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics” is a spectacular success. But the skylines of Shanghai and Beijing testify not to the emancipation of the Chinese masses, but to the burgeoning power of the Chinese elites.
At a time when the far right are organising in NZ, unemployment and lack of opportunity is slowing making parts of NZ society rot from the inside out and those daring to challenge these broken interests are getting beaten while the Police force turns a blind eye.
This is the latest KOA picket of either City Care depots or the Christchurch City Council Building (including in the debating chamber durign a Council meeting).
Talking with our sources inside prison, here is what happened…
…of course no one saw anything!
The government assault on state housing, state house tenants and Housing New Zealand is one of the most shameful episodes in the history of this country.
Last Thursday, Auckland CBDs tarmac roads swelled under the heat and weight of mass protest, roaming blockades and restless collective energy. An estimated 20,000 took to the streets in opposition to the signing of the TPPA.
The steady advancement of humanity has proceeded apace. Not because the big-hearted capitalists have been demanding that their workers be given the best of everything, but because workers and peasants around the world have insisted on translating advances in science and technology into measurable social progress for themselves and their children.