2016 was shocking politically, economically, socially and culturally. We lost an enormous amount of thinkers and artists when we seem to need them the most. I think 2017 has the potential however to be far worse than 2016 in three crucial areas.
…by harnessing social media, Trump and his big data manipulators know exactly which phrase to use and which tone to use it in to resonate with the fears and angers within the minimum electorate majority he requires to keep power.
This has not been an easy piece for me to write. Watching in mounting horror as somebody – or something…
Rather than examine their own short comings as a political movement and how their own neoliberal worship helped create Trump, American Liberals have descended into a shouting competition amongst themselves to see who can scream their anger the loudest.
Americans have more to fear and are far more likely to die from choking on food, bicycling, accidental gunshots, their own police force, airplane and spaceship accidents, heat waves or animal attacks than they do from bloody terrorists. For the love of God, there’s more chance an American will be killed by a fucking asteroid than a refugee or illegal immigrant.
Around the end of January this year, a US Navy SEAL team , using armed Reaper drones for cover, carried out a commando raid in Yemen, attacking what the Americans said, was a compound harbouring officials of Al Qaeda .
…there is a coming storm that will unravel everything civilised human beings have sacrificed to build.
America is in terrible danger and anyone who still thinks Trump is some type of saviour because he’s not Hillary Clinton need to have a long hard look at their values.
The decision to run Mt Albert is a disastrous one for the Greens, they could redeem that by selecting Swarbrick for Auckland Central.
Considering what a far right Christian Bill English is, does our PM support banning Muslims?