Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: This week – How NZ reacted, Jacinda’s leadership, Future of NZ First, trade & morality, Brexit & Facebook
When I’m not spreading far right conspiracies about the UN that inspire political violence against James Shaw and mass murder, I cook sausages for Farmers.
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The media has had a lot to do with shaping negative attitudes towards Muslims. A recent University of Alabama study found terrorist attacks by Muslim extremists receive 357 percent more media coverage than attacks committed by non-Muslims.
We are a union of 7000 financial members. We estimate that up to one-quarter of our members could be on…
Just an update to everyone who contributed to “Trade Secrets” my documentary on “free” trade and the “free” market.
It’s hard to not say something when a deputy chief political editor for the NZ Herald writes that Helen Clark failed to do anything about gun reform laws, and even NZ First who have been in opposition before October 2017….but leaves out the big blue elephant in the room.
Mike Hosking wrote to his “miserable bugger” audience on NewsTalk ZB today that with GDP at 0.6% growth for the last quarter and with an annual growth barely above 2% , money was increasingly not going to come from the once “Rock Star Economy” to pay the “useless”.
SO, WHAT DOES NZ First do now? The Goddess of History hasn’t just foot-tripped Winston Peters and his party, she’s hurled them bodily into a very deep hole. The Christchurch Mosque Shootings have disabled just about all of the “hot-button” election issues upon which New Zealand’s right-wing populist party has depended since its inception. Robbed of its ability to rouse conservative voters against “Maori Separatism”, the “Asian Invasion”, and “Islamic Extremism”; where does NZ First go? How does a right-wing populist party do populism without right-wing slogans?
When someone says something inanely ignorant and hateful, (especially right after the nation is still reeling from the violence of a white supremacy atrocity), one would think that those with media platform wishing to at least pretend to look like they are attempting to project some basic empathy would not repeat or support the inanely ignorant and hateful thing.
One would have thought.