What Farrar misses with his claim the NZ Herald is a socialist rag
Farrar needs to claim the media are left wing all of a sudden to delegitimise wider debate and new voices joining that debate.
Month: July 2018
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Political Caption Competition
Deadly enemies
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 8th July 2018
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Hooton’s anti-Trump propaganda, climate change armageddon vs economic trade war meltdown and who Grant Robertson should call when shit hits the fan
…Hoots is correct to hold up Trump as a risk to everything, but it’s not the destruction he’ll do to the neoliberal hegemony that’s the issue, it’s that the neoliberal hegemony empowered Trump in the first place.
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Q+A review: Ron Mark – A Hawk’s Hawk
FINALLY someone has pointed out that China is using soft power to extend its power into NZ.
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South Right Whale vs South White Fail
Of course far right polemicists have the right to speak in NZ – what they don’t have a right to is community funded space to speak in – but nothing is solved by banning this toxicity – if the left can’t argue the far right and win, we’ve lost, not them
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Of course Kiwibuild is a middle-class homeownership policy – The NZ Labour Party is a middle class party
The surprise over LottoBuild that allows well paid IT millennials who read the Spinoff to own a little slice of Jacinda’s aspiration shows Phil knows how to manage expectations.
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Defence policy statement edges NZ closer to Trump’s America
So much for New Zealand’s independent foreign policy. The Strategic Defence Policy Statement, released today, puts New Zealand firmly in the American camp. It portrays China as a threat, warning of China’s “ability to quickly deploy a range of additional capabilities in and around key international shipping lanes.”
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Popcorn "strike" planned for Hoyts Cinemas Saturday
In what has been dubbed a “Popcorn Strike” Unite Union will be handing out free popcorn outside Hoyts Cinemas to…
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