Hosking’s attack on Unions text book right wing narrative construction
It’s a reminder that the Union movement will continue to be National’s go to target for their own political agenda.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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50 Shades of Blue: The only thing National could build in 9 years was a tax haven, mouldy hospitals & 41 000 homeless
The way National can simply pretend they haven’t built this problem would be bad enough, that the right wing media simply parrot that narrative is insult to injury.
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Huge Human Rights Review Tribunal win not just for Kim Dotcom but for all NZers
Our Democracy is only as strong as the checks and balances placed upon Executive power and this entire fiasco against Dotcom has highlighted the terrifying lack of accountability to that Executive power.
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Labour’s 4000 Mt Albert Kiwibuild a huge win for new Government
…what this shows is that this Government is focused on cutting deals that will see them actively step in to be the lender of last resort in ensuring people can buy the houses. It is a realisation that the State must be far more active in the house building process than the joke free market situation National allowed to create their speculative property bubble.
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Time to take on Oil industry, Tax big sugar, end intensive farming, restrict booze & crack down on pokies
Jacinda needs to show courage and make some huge calls that put the people first and the not the corporate interests of the vice industries be they oil or booze, sugar or gambling. Self-regulation is a joke and an excuse to do nothing, Jacinda must ask herself if the State is there to protect the interests of people or the vice pimps.
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If only the NZ media could focus on War Crimes the way they focus on golf games and cheating cricket
…I am so embarrassed by our media sometimes.
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Yawn – Jonathan Coleman quits – Northcote By-election
Coleman was an ineffectual beige fart on a beige wallpaper in a beige house owned by beige people.
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ISIS isn’t a threat to us, the GCSB and SIS are!
…Brothers and siser, ISIS isn’t fucking threat to us, the biggest threat to us is the very GCSB and SIS who have mass surveillance powers, multi-million dollar budgets and hand everything over to the NSA who are a threat to us.
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Dear NZ media – your collective sycophancy towards Obama is sickening
Look, far be it for me, the only broadcaster in New Zealand to be banned for life from Radio NZ and who has been blacklisted from every political panel show in the country to lecture you all on your craft, but honestly, your coverage of Obama is possibly the most pathetic sycophancy I’ve ever had the displeasure of viewing.
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The Jonesy is right about Air NZ and why NZ First’s regional investment is so important
NZ owns 51% of Air NZ – like it or not they have a social obligation to provide services to provincial NZ and for Air NZ to attack the new Governments criticism is extraordinary.