I don't see the Christchurch Call (or anyone) doing anything sadly, until the whole patriarchal colonialist cis-tem system is burnt to the ground, literally if need be.
Fear, hate and a putrid stench: Inside the Unsilenced anti-trans event thespinoff.co.nz/politics/22-...
This weekend, some of New Zealand's most controversial figures – and a sitting MP – gathered in Wellington to fight against trans rights.
Theres more to this - $170k of hidden donations ( from whom) ….Didn’t know the rules ?, from Taranaki (site of contentious mining ), known for support of murky business , chairing committee ( to green light mining) bill highlighted as corruption magnet. Luxon - just mistake nothing to see here.
If it quacks like a duck.. And Nats bring back Coromandel MP to chair fast track select committee process. #nzpol
The National Party insists there has been no conflict of interest in David Macleod's chairing the committee considering the contentious fast-track bill.
Ah yes. David McLeod. I could tell a story or two about his time as chair of Taranaki Regional Council. Shall we start with the denial of the taonga status of the yellow pohutukawa on the Waitara River bank? jury.co.nz/2015/04/07/t...
they felt it appropriate to have a staff member issue a statement denying the taonga status of the trees.
David Seymour accuses Waitangi Tribunal of meddling after it makes confidential Treaty Principles docs public briefings reveal officials told the Government the policy could threaten social cohesion and ACT's proposed principles were a novel interpretation with the backing of no expert opinion.
The Waitangi Tribunal didn't think the Crown's argument to withhold was strong enough.
Arse covering is all that is, I don't believe any of the current government.
Given the number of times that National berated the last Labour led Government to increase funding of First home grants, this coalition move to cut it entirely is utter height of hypocrisy. #nzpol
But Housing Minister Chris Bishop has also announced $140 million in new funding for 1500 new social housing places from July next year.
So that KC, Gary Judd who made the national headlines in early May for filing a complaint over tikanga Māori requirement for law students is … David Seymour’s uncle by marriage, in case our beleaguered media still care about mighty relevant context.
This episode and the second part are the hardest I've worked and the hardest I've gone on an episode yet. Please give the show a chance if you haven't yet. If you have listen anyway
Here's the latest ep of my Cool Zone Media/iHeartRadio show Better Offline - it's the ugly tale of how Mark Zuckerberg and a rogues' gallery of rot economists spent 16 years deliberately making Facebook worse in search of perpetual growth. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
Show Better Offline, Ep How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse - May 21, 2024
Here's an extra newsletter: Sam Altman is a liar, and it's time to treat him and OpenAI with outright suspicion - they lied about Scarlett Johansson, they're lying about Sora and YouTube, and they will keep lying as long as the media fails to push back. www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-i...
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scar...