Auckland Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon has attracted the ire of Auckland students by suggesting that their concern with recent evidence of fascist behaviour at Auckland campus is because they are being too sensitive.
We wouldn’t tie a rope to a heavy load and then push on the rope with the expectation of achieving anything, right? So why is the Guardian’s Environment Editor entreating that we do just that? Is he merely stupid? Or is there something more cynical at play?
I don’t generally have a problem with clowns. But these clowns are dangerous. When mainstream media promotes centrist clowns promoting fascist clowns….
More than that, it needs to be torn down before it makes a serious bid at flight.
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
When purveyors of propaganda come to believe their own spin and start entertaining really quite idiotic conspiracy theories and abandoning any pretense of being in possession of rational thought, then we’ve got a problem.
Were you just taken for a ride?
The Mariana Trench is pretty huge. And deep. And if the idea is to fill a hole in the ground with ‘stuff’, then it’s a fair sized hole to be filling, right?
An odd detail or change was buried within the IPCC report that came out last week.
There is something very wrong with “our” media when it takes a stand-up comedian to alert people to important stuff. But anyway…
White South African farm murders.
Something beginning with…wtf?!
It’s a principle.
The aftermath of Douma chemical attacks and Skripal poisonings…
Take a look around the room you’re in. Or if you’re out and about and reading this on some mobile device, then take a look around the next room you enter. Closely.
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth according to a Guardian headline.
Yeah. No it’s not.
So women in ‘half’ of an island have bodily autonomy.
Yes, Dunedin needs a new hospital, but…
Fed up of being fed bullshit just so your opinions can be nurtured for harvesting? I am.
A post on big boy’s scouting medals.
A personal perspective on the repercussions of the government’s current approach to Social Work and Social Workers.
Partial transcript of a speech as reported in “The Independent”
April the first and second mark the days when those receiving entitlements receive a yearly increase in line with the CPI and the governments increase to Accommodation Supplement also comes into effect. So what does it all mean for those receiving entitlements?
Some interesting musings on hope and dashed hope by “Upper Hutt boy in London” – Nick Kelly.
Because words matter.
Biofuels and fossil. The difference?
To bleat and wring hands, or to act? Jeez. It’s a difficult one.
Maybe ‘circus’ would be more apt that ‘theatre’ with regards the Oprah spectacle.
Apparently the government’s fees-free policy will “soak up staff out of McDonald’s”. Education instead of McJobs – Oh Noez!
It’s no longer really working out (kicking the AGW can down the road), but we seem to be hooked into a peculiar form of madness even as everything appears to be coming apart at the seams. It’s beyond me…
Some aspects of the TPP no-one’s mentioning.
When they said they wanted to eradicate poverty, I didn’t suspect they simply meant to expunge the word.
It would seem Labour’s got nuffin when it comes to the TPP.
This post is too long to read. Its purpose is to serve as reference material, a “one stop” snapshot of where we are as a country. The mess that the new government inherits. The consequences of the nine long wasted years of National. The magnitude of the challenge ahead of us.
ACT was a political party once, but it died a long time ago.
The complete mess that National has made of our health system got plenty of airtime during the election campaign. While it received less coverage, the education system is a mess too.
