And I imagine the many people harmed by fear mongering, discrimination and segregation will not forgive those who facilitated and perpetrated it - and smugly so. Good on those individuals for taking the time to stand there in support of everyone's freedom ...
A lot of good questions. I hope we keep the decency that we once showed each other. I hope we keep the belief that every person should be treated equally. I hope we keep the bit where we protect our children and make sure they're not excluded from society ...
YES!
Consent and informed consent are interesting concepts. Informed consent requires all information be provided so that individuals can make a choice. Informed consent is not possible when information is being selectively provided to participants, as is ...
And as typically happens with your ilk, nothing substantive to say about the 'topic' but instead skirts around the issue with pernicious hyperbole designed to derail anything that comes close to truth. The truth in this case is that fearful adults are ...
Why 'vaxxing youngsters'? Is that for their (children's) well being or someone else's benefit? So a group of vaxxed people went out to eat, despite their vaccines they still caught a virus, and now it's children who should be chucked under the bus? How ...
And do you not think that 'a çouple of verified deaths' is not a couple too many? I can't help but wonder about the 'unverified' deaths, those who've died within days of receiving the injection. A number of people I know personally have had significant ...
Kia ora Bill Thank you for pointing out the obvious, though looks like the usual 'believe at all costs' folk are hell bent on ignoring the potential implications of the possibility that, 1) the injection may be detrimental to children who have a higher ...
I wish there was a 'like' button to show my appreciation of this response :)
Fear mongering is at the heart of this 'pandemic' and that fear has led to people becoming addicted to mis-reporting and sensationalist doom and gloom headlines that confirm the fear is justified. The escalated fear allows people to self-righteously hide ...
What I will say to their 'overworked' faces is "why, if this is the disaster that everyone's been led to believe it is, why have they stood back and said nothing while their colleagues, good doctors and nurses were let go". I will also ask them why so many...
I am not sure which 'fear' response I want to respond to first, there's so many to pick from. So I will just go straight for the jugular. We're all going to die. One day we're going to die of something, could be cancer, heart disease, could be old age, ...
Done - it's been a while but now that the new regime has entered full swing guess I will be in often to check out just how the liberals are narrating the situation :)
Even the soap is being wiped off the shelves - with shops introducing limits per customer - then there's the price gouging on sought after items - panadol, garlic just two examples off the top of my head, You know who can't afford it? Poor people.
Couldn't agree more - except it is good to see recognition that when poor people are given extra cash (no matter how miserly the offerings) they actually spend it where it counts and ultimately prop up profiteers in another way - those who like to extract ...
@ infused - Pretty sure people in Italy were saying exactly the same thing two weeks ago and look at them now, don't think they're lol now :)
You mean more pressure from poor people who live week to week anyway and cannot prepare for illness if they need to? Never mind the fact that those 'poor' people now can't even access cheap bread, milk, flour or yeast because people who can afford it, ...
There's something immensely pleasing about seeing the uncomfortable truth being stated in such a brutal and undeniable way - keep up the good work Bill, as always enjoy your honesty and reality checks - worth coming to TS to read!
Kia ora Rosemary, thank you for the comment, yes I agree re Ang Jury's comments on RNZ - those comments are worthy of a post on their own. There appears, based on commentary on a number of sites (see the FaceBook pages for Stuff and ODT for examples), that...
Written By: koreropono - Date published: 10:52 am, September 4th, 2019 - 7 comments
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It surprises me that mainstream media have not yet picked up on the concerning parallels between reported events that occurred at Te Whare Pounamu Dunedin Women’s Refuge and earlier events occurring at another Women’s Refuge in 2016. Events that ignored …
I think the point of the post was to highlight the issue of abuse rather than making this a 'racial' issue and avoid comments like yours that want to racialise the issue. Frankly when writers can't deal with the substantive issue (organisational culture) ...
I don't know, Bill's posts always make me think, 'we ought to at least do something' because the 'something' is better than 'nothing'. Or the pretend 'somethings' that duplicitous politicians try to reassure us with, all while maintaining the systems that ...
Maybe there will be enough in that budget to remove the punitive and draconian section 70A benefit sanctions that force thousands of women and their children into severe hardship, debt and poverty? Or perhaps they'll have enough money in that budget to ...
Fantastic article Bill! Correct me if I am wrong (and I may be). Having rolled my eyes and lost interest when Kiwibuild seemed more aimed at the lagging middle than the desperately homeless in our midst. It does seem that the anticipated trickle down will ...
Just a thought, someone without diagnosed mental health issues would find it difficult to cope with what has transpired with JLR over the last week. And then dealing with the level of scrutiny that he's been under, as well as the innuendo and backlash, ...
Brilliant, sobering read. Thank you!
Perhaps it is because Labour have not committed to overturning the most damaging economic reforms this country has ever seen? I have read somewhere Adern agreed that neoliberal economic policy is a failed ideology, yet they're (Labour) are continuing on ...
How could you tell? I guess actions speak louder than words and I think Labour's actions speak for themselves. Examples could include signing up to the TPP, despite evidence that it is an attack on our sovereignty and feeds a neoliberal agenda, whilst ...
Perhaps cleangreen is referring to Labour's propensity to continue on with a failed economic policy that is generally favoured by more right leaning political parties. I suppose cleangreen sees the sale of yet more assets to the private sector as a ...
“Compulsion won’t help, if people don’t wish to learn or use the language. In addition, even now there aren’t enough teachers competent in the language; that shortage would be exacerbated by compulsion” More and more people want to learn and use the ...
It's a bit sad that we're still having this debate over whether or not te reo, the indigenous language of Atotearoa, should be compulsory. Considering that there was (and still is in some quarters) a concerted effort to eradicate te reo through various ...
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