Waatea 5th Estate – What is happening on Nauru and why are we so silent?
Joining us tonight to discuss the abuse of refugees at the Australian Detention Camp on Nauru and what NZ should be doing …
politics
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Nothing To Celebrate
New Zealand’s participation in the Vietnam War, no matter how marginal, represented a shameful capitulation to American pressure. It was an immoral war which we should never have joined, and the idea of “celebrating” its fiftieth anniversary should be repugnant to all thinking New Zealanders.
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Key Is Being Disingenuous On Dope Decriminalization
Earlier this week, a poll came out indicating that a majority – almost two thirds – of New Zealanders are allegedly in support of either decriminalizing or legalizing cannabis. This is hardly significant, as it is merely a reification of what many of us have either known or strongly suspected for some time.
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Key does a Trump and scapegoats Muslims to justify new spy powers
There is more danger to NZers from cow shit polluting our drinking water than from ISIS terrorism – we should not allow Key to do a Trump and use fear to manipulate us
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Waatea 5th Estate – the legal action against state housing privatisation
Joining us tonight to discuss the decision by State Housing Action to take the Government to court over their state house privatisation agenda …
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Kevin Hague + Greg O’Connor + Helen Kelly = Cannabis Legalisation
The simple truth is that there is no political courage to force the current war on drugs back on cannabis.
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Collaborating with a government which demonises the vulnerable
This is a shameful act of betrayal by IHC which has transitioned from a genuine community based group doing great work for disabled New Zealanders into a corporate contractor for a vicious right-wing government.
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What Paul Henry is not understanding about the new GCSB laws
The GCSB is the technical ability to spy and it helps out agencies to do that, allowing the GCSB to effectively create its own branch of investigation that grants itself these massive powers is an extreme increase in power that no one seems to understand.
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High Time: Why the Greens must rejoin the fight for cannabis law reform
in spite of the public’s readiness for radical reform, the leadership of the two big political parties have either refused to embrace the necessity for change (National) or taken refuge behind the poll results by issuing a cautious endorsement of medicinal cannabis use, while remaining opposed to any broader decriminalisation measures (Labour).
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And the Government are about to pass more spying powers
At some point NZers have to swallow their pride and knowledge they’ve voted in a power abusing lunatic who maliciously twists fear and manipulates stupidity to give the GCSB, SIS and NSA stasi like powers that are an anathema to any progressive modern state.