Western Values School Cultist Jonathan Ayling is teaming up with ACT to raise $100,000 to keep Charter Schools?
Selling wine to fund a political campaign is weird. Selling it to push charter schools? That’s something else entirely.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Wait? What! Trump now says HE will close the Strait of Hormuz? The old blockade to block a blockade that wasn’t blocked before being blocked strategy?!?
Iran threatens to close it. Trump says he’ll close it first. Oil spikes. Markets panic. And somehow this is meant to be strategy?
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ACT are lying to you about Charter Schools by comparing Apples with Potatoes and pretending it’s fruit
ACT want you to believe charter schools are a triumph of efficiency. The problem is their own numbers leave out huge costs and compare unlike with unlike.
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NZ First is as compromised by corporate mining as they are by commercial fishing – when are NZ voters going to acknowledge this corruption?
Mining. Fishing. Donations. At what point does “policy” start looking like payback?
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Um, I’m pretty sure Shane Jones and Winston Peters just lied directly to our faces
Winston says he had nothing to do with it. The official report says otherwise. So who’s telling the truth — and why does it matter now?
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Maiki Sherman’s capitulation to NZ Police and NZ Police capitulation to Trash Queen and Netflix
When the media folds and the police expand their power, who’s left to hold them accountable?
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Auckland Anti-war Protest
They tried to counter it. They barely showed up. Meanwhile, Auckland’s anti-war movement is getting louder.
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Melania doth protest too much
No one was really talking about it — until she did. So why did Melania Trump just make this the story?
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The Oligarchy Mordor is in the New Zealand Shire
Giga-yachts at the top. Food banks at the bottom. This isn’t a gap — it’s a system.
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What will destroy the planet first? AI, Climate Change or Trump?
It’s not a race between AI, climate collapse and war. It’s a pile-up — and we’re already in it.
