This Monday 8pm on Whakaata Māori is about exploring the role and power of the media in the lead up to the election in shaping the narrative.
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— Te Ao with MOANA (@TeAoWithMOANA) August 25, 2023
Nicky Hager, Matthew Hooton, Simon Wilson, Annabelle Lee-Mather, Hayden Donnell, Claudette Hauiti, Carmen Parahi, Richard Pamatatau and me walk into a bar!
8pm tonight on Māori TV, Te Ao with Moana we debate who really controls the narrative in NZ.
I argue Matthew Hooton’s rich client mates are the ones really dictating this election and I point out we know this because the wealthiest Kiwis have donated $12million to ACT and National since 2021 and you just need to look at the facts to know they are influencing the narrative.
Right now in NZ we have 25 000 people on the social housing wait list, we spend $1million per day Kettling beneficiaries into unsafe motels, barely 50% of our students were regularly attending class in term 1, Home ownership is at its lowest rate in 70 years, there are 200 000 children in poverty, 55% of Kiwis are struggling financially, we are facing the worst food inflation for 30 years, there’s 100 000 homeless and the planet is melting before our eyes yet what we we debating?
Bilingual signs, phones in schools and GST off bananas!
Nothing tells you more about who is directing the narrative than what is NOT being discussed!
Right now there is an orgy of privatisation being lined up inn the background and we are only getting glimpses of how far the Crony Capitalism under National will be!
We have an undeclared class war on Renters as the Landlord class get promised the right to throw tenants out onto the street and National will remove the foreign buyers ban so their Real Estate pimp mates who have donated millions to National and ACT can ensure their interests are put above renters.
THIS is who are directing the narrative this election!
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Most of those crises have their root causes in housing unaffordability.
And the key topic not being discussed by the politicians is why is housing so scarce and hence very expensive, hence causing poverty?
Is that question mark a willingness to want to engage in a half intellectual discussion ( as opposed to your usual tribal spray and walk away commenting).
If so, there’s hope for you yet @ fucking Ada
Can anyone explain what bought on that display of hatred?
yes, it’s character.
I think it’s called “mirroring”
Apologies, OnceWasTim, facing up to reality must be painful for you.
Stupid comment by you Ada(again)
” Most of those crises have their root causes in housing unaffordability ”
No read the blog again.
Very good stuff @ MB. Firstly and personally, I find this extremely alarming. Radio New Zealand. Ol rnz aye…the foul, mouth-piece to National’s neo-liberal hand job in waiting… https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chinese. Icebergs have tips, right?
I think I can see what’s going on and I’m not afraid to seem like a Dick.
The national party and its privateer cohorts have been exploiting ( Read ripping off ) farmers aka our primary industry for generations which is why Auckland and it’s otherwise useless rich etc. And now that all the goodies have been sequestered. Definition of a financial sequester. “A sequestered account is a deposit account that is seized through legal action or court order. Funds cannot be removed from a sequestered account without the approval of the seizing party. Sequestered accounts are usually separated from other accounts and kept in a separate file.” Now, replace the concept of ‘account’ with our economy and the suggestions of legalities to slow down the processes. In short. The legal maze that’s our politics and banking is directly and boldly stealing farmer money being the proceeds from exports that our farmers and the greater population have never seen, never thought to look for and in any event, they’d a come up on the word ‘sequestered’ fundamentally meaning hidden. Heard of the Paradise Conspiracy? Heard of the documentary The Paradise Papers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8mdNahdo4M ? Heard of the book ‘Dirty Politics’? Ask Nicky Hagar about that one. He’ll be sitting right next to you tonight.
So. You’re vastly rich, you’re a crook and you’re leaving your country’s economy in ruins so what do you do to cover your tracks? Why, impoverish the masses of course. Get ’em at each other and it’s easier than you think.
RNZ could help you understand that as could the creepy, slimy, tits and arse giggle fest’ers, TVNZ.
Starve them into criminal behaviour, make homes unreachable to them then once they’re renting, increase rentals artificially by justifying inflating house prices by using the corrupt as fuck Reserve Bankster as a tool to disadvantage then exploit innocent people.
AO/NZ’s economy and our politics are as dirty as fuck and that dirt goes all the way back to the early 1930s-ish when two dodgy, grubby little Auckland political groups coagulated into The Mighty National Party.
Wikipedia.
National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and liberal parties, Reform and United respectively, and subsequently became New Zealand’s second-oldest extant political party.[10]
You will also notice that the NZ Farmers Union was disappeared from Wikipedia’s main page headings in that regard and I see that Federated Farmers has assimilated all mention of the Farmers Union which had its origins in Marton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marton,_New_Zealand
Federated Farmers is a rural piss up and tea sippers and biscuit nibblers gossip-gaggle to see what other farmers are most at risk to provide insider information for pro National Party bargain hunters. Aye boys? Andrew Hoggard, the fat jowled farmer-traitor fuck now in ACT might have an opinion on that one.WARNING! His appearance might cause uncontrollable vomiting or hysterical laughing.
I suggest you all wrap the theme of the night around Crowded House ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ recorded in 1986. The words of Neil Finn are very suitable for the things bothering we NZ/AOs politically today.
“Don’t Dream It’s Over” lyrics
Crowded House Lyrics
Some of the lyrics:
“Don’t Dream It’s Over”
There is freedom within
There is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There’s a battle ahead
Many battles are lost
But you’ll never see the end of the road
While you’re traveling with me
Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won’t win
Now I’m towing my car
There’s a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there’s no proof
In the paper today
Tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page
…Only shadows ahead
Barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and release
Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
You know they won’t win
Writer(s): Neil Finn
AZLyrics C Crowded House Lyrics
album: “Crowded House” (1986)
Neil Finn has captured us in song. Listen to him and take the message for today that we must not dream because our past society is over. ‘When the world comes in…To build a wall between us’… we have to assess it and decide on how to keep the good bits that include everyone, and enable us all to design a better future and all do some hours a week for the good of the country. Then we can win because we will be pulling together and having a mind for others’ welfare but with no-one not applying their minds and bodies if they can to build back a less selfish, me-first community and with planned policies that will enhance NZ lives in a good way.
Pick out unreasonable ideologies from authorities of whatever kind, religious included. Every work that helps people and the environment will be God’s work and lessening hardships will be an aim. Targets of improvement rather than 100% goals will stop obsessive judgmentalism. Living and working practically and kindly as much as possible. That approach would deal to the moral zealots who have arisen to the fanatical level beyond judgmental.
Much appreciated Bomber for the heads up regarding this program. Sadly it doesn’t reach the people who really need to see it.
there’s only one way to beat the neo-liberal capitalists – think local.
Strike, opt out, co-operate, counter-culture, self reliance, get off the treadmill and start walking your own path.
stop playing the game – NZ is one of the few places in the world where it is still possible – reject the rules and make your own. get out of your cars and stop playing the commute game. one thing that came out of the Wellington protests is the amount of good people still willing to put their ideals before their own comfort.
Yes go local James R. Support each other and look at the rules to see if they are realistic and useful. But you can’t just reject all the rules. Germany got into trouble as it transferred power from a king to a republic. If there is a gap, an opportunity to force their heads up, weeds will grow. Anyone thinking of starting up some local group that works well and effectively together should read what I have written as I think my experience could be universal.
People who are too relaxed about everything, who want to let everything grow organically, without many or any controls, do themselves and those who listen to them a disservice. The idea that things will turn out well when one just gets rid of the current ‘clowns’ is meretricious, like false and wrong. Everyone has a slightly different idea of what system you should work under; some will say no system, others will think they agree but have no solid examples to show just what they believe, and others refuse to narrow down the possibilities by naming and listing them. Difficult eh. And people setting up something that isn’t just aimed at a definite goal such as baking bread and buns, selling them, making a living and some profit, can get bogged down in criss-crossing ideas, complexities and negativities or enthusiasms.
Set up a charity/trust for your own area in which there is provision for all decisions to be matched against practical and ethical decisions. I have been in people-run things and found that it is hard for a lot of us to grasp what the requirement of running things yourself means, how to make reasoned decisions, how to run meetings, how to encourage everyone to think logically, and succinctly, and who to listen to,
Some people like endless discussion aiming to include every idealistic idea that they have ever heard about or met, and often get their way only from others’ exhaustion. To get everyone to agree on what approach is taken, what the goals are, what limits there should be is paramount and remembering nothing is ever 100% is helpful.
When there is a plan that seems to be working people often sit back and leave it to someone else to run and make it go, and then complain from the sidelines about things. If those doing the work want to make some slight changes to be more effective members who may not be participating much, can be reluctant to have those changes made. Which would be in a plan but extending the present one which they don’t wish to tamper with. So the working of the group must be scrutinised, assessed, measured etc at regular intervals and add-ons or the reverse be discussed and carried out in line with the original aims or amended till they do match up to the original written ais. Those uncommitted will have erroneous ideas about the group, so won’t understand the point of changes or make reasoned decisions about them or the future direction of the group. So people have to commit to the group, help it to grow, assist each other regularly. In it with heart, and body and action, not just as a nice idea to pay some money or lip service to and that needs to be a Rule pinned down to time and frequency.
And this is really an image of the sort of politics we have now. We voters have thought one thing and left others to get on with it but the PTB running the country went off on a different racecourse. The horse has bolted and getting it back again will be impossible. Any attempt at forming an alternative working group of citizens could also come apart for the same reasons we have lost our politicians.
So committed people are needed who are not obsessed with their own particular beliefs and given some power, will kidnap the scheme and impress their own ideas on it! I’ve seen that happen. People who have accepted some dogma, religious, environment, native trees only, natural landscape unchanged, vegan, whatever, can be so strong that they will dominate the community’s wish to have respect for all and particularly the visionary, kind, friendly, hard-working co-operating individual; then factions form and that is inevitable but in a good working group, they see each other POV and co-operate
As Neil Finn wrote and I paraphrase – There is much talk of freedom without, and freedom within’. But I then bring some Bob Dylan, he’s thought about it and we’re all in together.
You may be a state trooper, you might be a young turk
You may be the head of some big TV network
You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame
You may be living in another country under another name
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes
You’re gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bobdylan/gottaservesomebody.html
Thanks Martyn
What a pleasure it was to have a decent discussion on our screens
And Nicky Hager!! So straight up, no grandstanding or using ridiculous academic jargon
I wish there was more exposure