This is just another insane white take on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. If this was the US invading a Middle Eastern country there would already be massive carnage with a growing mountain of civilian casualties. The Russians own the skies over Ukraine ...
There are also Maori do not recognize the CROWN jurisdiction,see the constitution act 1986 as removing the sovereign and see this move from government as an attempt to further embed maori into what can be considered illegitimate.
It's an impressive return on $100,000 investment. How wealthy do you need to be to qualify for 'aid money' from the NZ tax-payer?
6 Instability in the South Pacific – the entire section is blanked out, but the SIS has had a close focus on Fiji, its leadership and anti-regime movements in New Zealand and Australia. Why would NZ give a toss about Fiji? The primary function is ...
Yeah, thanks for the warning. I posted exactly the same thing on Kiwiblog and nothing happened. I didn't think it was out of line, but you're the boss. The drug laws in New Zealand operate as an opportunity for the domestic security apparatus to harass ...
It does seem a little odd when two mainstream websites -Kiwiblog and The Standard-, both heavily influenced by the main parliamentary blocks, come out in support of medicinal marijuana, yet there is no movement whatsoever in parliamentary process. ...
No platform for war criminals on campus! Students for Justice in Palestine (Victoria University) Vic Uni should not host an event whitewashing Israeli war crimes! IDF soldiers are on a speaking tour attempting to justify Israel’s horrific bombing of Gaza ...
Sorry, I'll add that bit on: "“We’re Labour and we really, really want to be the ruling regime. Read Labour’s site, specifically, their policies." Brilliant! We should team up, this communications thing is a doddle.
Labour isn't the opposition, the Greens and New Zealand First are. All I know about Labour is they really, really hate John Key and I really, really don't care what Labour thinks of John Key. Sure, the John Key National Party is a lack lustre bunch of ...
Yeah, data selectively publicised to demonize a specific ethnic group. If it wasn't intentional bigotry it was appalling stupidity.
There is a saying that has been attributed to a variety of people along the lines of, "News is what the powerful do not want you to know, everything else is propaganda (or trivia)." If we use this standard for judging the credentials of who qualifies as a ...
It's not about me having power or any party I am affiliated with gaining office through the electoral system, its more about having an opposition who can take the government and the deep state to task over the exercise of illegitimate forms of authority. ...
So what your saying is politicians don't need to worry about principles, they should be seeking power for power's sake. At least your honest, perhaps we should do away with the current democracy façade and replace it with an annual X-factor style contest.
I'm sure Key must be running out of room under the bus he has been throwing people.
Really? Have you not read Nicky Hager's Other People's Wars? The security apparatus pretty much does whatever it wants regardless of the directives of our elected representatives. Andrew Little seems to be more accepting of such a paradigm than I would ...
Crikey: Little: The problem we have with security issues like this is that a lot of the case for intervention or that sort of surveillance is never made public. So what the Government has proposed is a 48-hour warrant with ability to do that sort of ...
Anyone care to comment: "Finlayson says ‘alienated people with a chip on their shoulder’ is the threshold to get onto the terrorist watch list and admits that it doesn’t need to be religion based. That means environmentalists, Unionists, Maori activists – ...
Greens, ALCP and more recently Mana.
Grant Robertson seems the only serious contender for the title out of this line up. None of the candidates are 'more left' than any of the others out of Mahuta, Robertson and Little, while Parker shot his feet out from under himself with the 'Labour's a ...
The Lomborg Deception by Howard Friel is a solid counter to the 'science' manufactured by that Lomborg character.
Synthetic cannabis abuse is a direct consequence of the failure of prohibition. These kids would last longer on synthetic cannabis than they would sniffing glue or 'huffing'. You are not promoting a solution, you are exploiting a health issue to promote ...
Very sad to hear of his passing. This quote from him is my favourite: "If one meets a powerful person - Rupert Murdoch, perhaps, or Joe Stalin or Hitler - one can ask five questions: what power do you have; where did you get it; in whose interests do you ...
srylands 21 February 2014 at 8:02 am Well you are lucky that we have such cheap electricity generated by our efficient market. If you lived in Australia you would be worse off. Plus you would need to power those pesky air conditioners. If you moved to ...
Has anyone else noticed how high gas and power bills are this year? I am sure I am paying $100 more this year than I was this time last year, if this carries on into winter our power/gas bill could be in the vicinity of $500 a month.
The guys over at Media Lens make an interesting observation: "A careful analysis by Carbon Brief of 3,064 flood-related newspapers stories, published between the start of December and 10 February, makes this clear. Their stark conclusion is that over 93 ...
I was thinking about the news coming through agencies like Associated Press or the BBC. I'm not saying there are no stories about climate change at all, but when it is discussed it is out in the margins like Comment is Free in the Guardian or if it is ...
I saw the Paxman interview, I didn't get the sense that Russell Brand was anti-democracy. It seemed quite clear he was condemning the established boundaries of what can be acceptably framed as democracy. In both instances, Paxman and Snow, the interviewers...
Blood drinking reptilian overlords also featured on Nine to Noon's 10:45 story, today! Even more shocking, if anyone goes to the Thursday 13th replay page there is no link to the story!!
I just received a message from David Farrar, apparently one of my comments went straight to an automated spam folder and following comments ended up there as well - it turns out I wasn't banned after all. I am slightly embarrassed, but also glad I still ...
I think Penny is tolerated because she tends to dump a huge chunk of text that is difficult to read and she doesn't engage the audience there. There are a few regular dissenters, who I haven't seen posting there recently, who do engage with other posters ...
No, I thought my last comments in the The flip side of protectionism thread were quite tame. The 50 demerits happened after I called Farrar a dog whistling racist in a thread, ages ago, about a young Muslim woman who was complaining she was being held ...
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