“How many more can Kos take? Holidaymaker misery as thousands of boat people from Syria and Afghanistan set up migrant camp to turn popular Greek island into ‘disgusting’ hellhole.” Title of a Daily mail article about Tourist “misery” in Greece. For the last 14 years their countries have waged wars on other countries. The targets? […]
Today the NZ MSM announced with authority that ISIS is on the record for wanting to buy a Nuclear bomb! Funny how Israel, being the target of all them evil Muslims” doesn’t give a peep while warmongering for war with Iran the way. As per promised here is another couple of screen dumps of the […]
Dr Ron Smith, University of Waikato research associate, is now questioning his earlier support for the Kiwi deployment. “Knowing what I know now, do I think it was a good idea to go? No I don’t.” It was important New Zealand supported its longstanding allies but the deployment was “almost in the nature of gesture […]
After 12 years of war and mayhem in Iraq and the whole Western world and their dog training Iraqi soldiers and police force ISIS, a ragtag band of rebel fighters, is taking over not just Iraq but Syria as well. So when I found all these pretty pictures I decided to find out where Camp […]
Everyday, without fail, the Daily Mail publishes between 6-10 articles in a block dedicated to ISIS. The mix is usually a big photo of more imminent beheadings (to add horror, some children watching thrown in the mix), some smaller photo’s of women in full black cover and chained (How very 50 shades of Grey and […]
Update:With the demise of the John Campbell show and the end of even that pitiful amount of independent investigative journalism in New Zealand I thought I’d repost this post I wrote in October 2014 about how far we had descended into a fascist/corporatist state. With the imminent vote to make criticizing hurting politicians emotionally punishable […]
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. It’s often meant we have stood neutral between different values. And that’s helped foster a narrative of extremism and grievance. This Government will conclusively turn the page on this […]
Several days ago I posted on the fact that NATO would not let Greece leave the Euro. It seems they are preparing to stop Greece as we speak. On 10 May 2015 a group of highly trained men attacked several malls in the former Yugoslav province called Macedonia and killed up to 22 people. We […]
Greece as you know is in debt. It is in debt not because it spends too much on its population but because the banks systematically set it up to fail leaving it with an unplayable debt much like John Key will leave New Zealand. The issue of course is that at some stage either the […]
Europe in the postwar period was a place with a lot of for most of us invisible political tensions. The Fascists had been conquered. Germany was split in two. Italy was a true democracy and the only place which still had a bit of a dodgy ruler was Spain where Franco ruled until he died […]
“The cashless society is the IRS’s dream: total knowledge of, and control over, the finances of every single American.” Ron Paul Today it was announced that the IRD would start clamping down on what they call “cashies”. The testing ground is Auckland and is to be extended if that worked. The gist of the article […]
While John Key was trying to sell our dairy to and get into a “free trade” agreement with the Saudi regime that same regime was engaged in a two week bombing spree in one of the worlds poorest countries, Yemen. Yemen has no army to speak off and other than a few warlords dominating the […]
The clock of 8 pm just passed in Holland. And as always the two minutes leading up to that hour the dam square in Amsterdam was full of people commemorating the start of WWII in Holland on the 4th of May 1940. The people who died in concentration camps. Jews, political dissidents, gays and other […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 