BLOGWATCH: The Standard’s hate rant at Bryce Edwards is weird
File this under ‘needs a cup of a tea and a lie down’.
Martyn Bradbury
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Waatea News Column – Isn’t it time for Pākehā to start listening and learning from Māori
There is a fascinating debate happening right now around Māori health. The WAI 2575 Health Service and Outcomes Waitangi Tribunal hearing at Tūrangawawae marae is critically analysing the institutionalised racism embedded within Pākehā health providers and the outcome stats make for dire reading.
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Chinese expansion into Niue will be followed by military bases
Culturally the woke left ban any debate about Chinese influence in NZ because it’s racist and xenophobic, and even when Chinese business interests are caught red handed trying to buy two MPs inside the National Party, the MeToo political media decided to focus instead on anonymous allegations of harassment of women by Jami-Lee Ross rather than a direct attempt by Chinese interests to buy political influence.
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This is why the current NZ Political spectrum will snap
At some point in the near future, voters incandescent with rage at the snails pace reform will demand radical reform that will be unforgiving in its revolutionary nature. If this vast anger is tapped into and harnessed, a vengeful green populism will swamp the pale lime middle class identity politics obsessed incarnation we currently have and wipe aside Labour Party incrementalism.
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Based on NZ Herald coverage, who knew the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse would actually be riding Lime Scooters?
Who woulda thunk a Czech drug smugglers and lime scooters would dominate the news cycle in a way environmental apocalypse, China buying MPs and state house meth hysteria couldn’t?
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“Hey, I just met you and this is crazy, but here’s my number, Let’s do this maybe” – Jacinda’s conference speech in 17 words
If 100 000 ‘affordable’ houses are to go to the children of the middle classes, then 100 000 also need to go to the state tenants and renters and Millennials and Gen Xers who have been locked out of home ownership by a 30 year neoliberal economic model that has punished the user pays generations while insulating the cradle to grave subsidised generations.
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AM SHOW EXCLUSIVE: A new JLR recording – it’s over for Simon Bridges
Bridges can’t survive this, not because what’s been released is any more damning than anything else that has been released in this pus pit of a Game of Thrones meets House of Cards meets Jaws meets Nightmare on Elm Street meets Saw meets #MeToo pantomime of the grotesque, but because his total inability to provide any control or cauterisation of this makes him powerless and a powerless leader in a shark pool of vicious power hungry National Party MPs is about as stable as Donald Trump at a feminist folk festival.
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Rod Oram’s climate delusion, SpinOff’s middle class sulking and Lime Scooter coverage in NZ Herald vs IPCC report that economic apocalypse is upon us
In the NZ Herald there were 7 news stories on the IPCC report, compare that with over 25 news stories for those fucking Lime Scooters. It really says something about us as a people when electric scooters can generate far more attention than the end of the planet as we know it.
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The countdown till December 13th begins – will Simon Bridges still be Leader on the 14th?
This is the worst outcome for National, all that will consume the media between now and the 13th of December is what JLR will say in Parliament under Parliamentary Privilege.
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Surprise, surprise – Kiwibuild is for the children of the white middle classes
Kiwibuild is like the Labour party – it’s for the children of the white middle classes. That’s fine and dandy, but let’s dump the illusion that this is helping the poor and until the new Government do something meaningful on state houses (building 1000 state houses per year isn’t meaningful), they should be savaged ruthlessly and relentlessly.