The creation of a liberal secular democracy was not the real reason the CIA was in Syria. The real reason they were working so hard to make civil war inevitable was because they wanted to prevent Syria and its neighbours, Lebanon and Iraq, from getting any closer to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Two weeks ago a seriously mentally ill Otorohanga man killed his mother and two others, and badly injured his father – only days after his mother had requested help from Waikato DHB’s mental health services for fear of the harm her son might cause others (the request was obviously unsuccessful).
Last month SHA Inc. filed papers for a judicial review because we can see no way the Minister of State Housing Bill English or Social Housing Minister Paula Bennet can justify the sale in terms of the statutory objectives of the government’s so-called State Housing Reform Programme.
House Block one in Wiri has become infested with gang members, i.e. K.C’s Killer Beez and Crips, and they are causing the same problems they cause elsewhere if they have the numbers, jumping other prisoners, 3 or 4 on one, Tea Leafing (stealing other prisoners property), organizing fights, pressuring others to join in fight clubs and generally trying to run the place to their own ends.
Had she not succumbed to lung cancer, it is likely that well before the end of this decade she would have made the transition from the trade union movement to the Parliamentary Labour Party. Once in Parliament, her rise to the top would have been inexorable. In relatively short order New Zealand would have had its second Labour Prime Minister called Helen.
The only winners here are the greedy exploitative bosses and a Government needing cheap immigration to keep the economy afloat.
Trump’s offensive and misogynistic attitudes to women, his tax avoidance, his accumulation of obscene amounts of wealth, are on one side of the ledger. On the other side, Clinton’s association with illegitimate invasions of Middle Eastern states means there’s wet blood on her hands that’s still running in the streets of Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria.
The immigration scam that exists in the country is the one being run by the government and their capitalist mates to use and abuse migrant labour.
John Key: ‘We can count rodents easily – neglected, abused or sick children living in cold, damp houses not so much.’ Stuff, 3 October, 2016.
That Helen had to become a criminal to gain the cannabis she so desperately needed to ease the pain of the last 20 months of her life is a national disgrace.