So who funds MetService? The weird madness behind the 20 meter wave story
Has everyone seen this 20 meter wave story?
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Masturbation after a mugging – The Canon Media Awards 2017
Bless them all, but I don’t care about their yearly sound of one hand clapping orchestra where they pass around their awards amongst themselves like a never-ending pass the parcel for rich people who are all related and already have all the presents. It’s like a suburban Game of Thrones but with less violence and more incest.
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Trump screams about Muslim radicals, then signs $110billion weapons deal with country most involved in spreading radical Islam
The hypocrisy of blaming Islamic extremism when it’s American foreign policy that fuels most of that righteous grievance and then signing weapons deals with one of the main instigators of that extremism is beyond any sane persons ability to comprehend.
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The dangerous fantasy of removing Trump
The current loop in liberal news media is that Trump is mere seconds away from being impeached for any number of the self inflicted mutilations the President has bewilderingly managed to find himself in daily. I think removing Trump from office is a dangerous fantasy for a number of reasons.
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4 months out from the election and look at the issues we are awkwardly ignoring
It’s weird isn’t it, 4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
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5 stories that need urgent attention from the Mainstream Media
While our glorious corporate mainstream media journalists are all busy nursing hangovers from their annual self-congratulary piss up, aka the Canon Media Awards, here’s 3 news stories that need urgent attention from them, if they can pause long enough from patting themselves on the back of course.
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Let’s be honest about what the 5 Eyes would have discussed in Queenstown
If we were honest about what the 5 Eyes would have spoken about in Queenstown last month for their annual get together to decide who to destroy next, I think the following might have been on the agenda…
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Could The Opportunities Party hit 5%?
Conventional political wisdom will tell you that there is no way TOP can get to 5% with 4 months out till the election, especially when they are barely registering as 1% in the mainstream media polls, but conventional political wisdom doesn’t mean much since Trump, Brexit and Len Pen doubling the Right’s vote in France. Those who are losing from neoliberal free market globalisation are over throwing political hegemonies left, right and centre.
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The hypocrisy of America complaining about Russia hacking their election
Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan of Russia or Putin in any way shape or form, but when compared to the last 50 years of the CIA, having to put up with some whining that a Russian Agent hacked the Democratic Party’s emails seems pretty lame.
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Let me get this straight, we are signing away our economic & political sovereignty in the TPPA to protect us from North Korea???
Bill English, you should be ashamed of yourself, stop being a bloody politician and start being a New Zealander!