Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Look, I grew up on a farm, I am very wedded to my early memories and respect how hard it is, but these Farmers aren’t feeding us, they are feeding the 45million other people overseas and we get the scraps.
“But my property rights” blah blah blah. I don’t give two shits, housing is a necessity, if the market is so damaged that buying a house and not renting it out is more worthwhile than renting it out, then add penalties to that market to change that dynamic!
I despise Trump and everything he represents, but he won because of Democratic incompetence, and he looks set to win it again because they don’t seem to have learnt anything.
Full marks for Jacinda in attempting to sell neato neoliberalism and I’m sure MFAT will be cheering her from the sidelines, but the biospheres inability to continue with the free market never ending economic growth fantasy has arrived.
I have been arguing for some time that this local body election could be the lowest we’ve ever had.
I get that many of my fellow New Zealanders love Rugby and I will put aside my deep cynicism about a country that defines itself by playing a game that barely anyone else plays to watch the World Cup once every 4 years.
Why on earth are we believing any claim of ‘evidence’ of Iranian involvement from a country who recently chopped up a journalist and lied about it?
One of the problems we have is a State whose incompetence due to lack of capacity is now becoming the main problem.
With catastrophic climate change on the horizon, and rising sea levels, the idea of building a sunken stadium right on the waterfront sounds like a cleverly designed death trap.
The convoluted lies and insipid sophistry that the NZDF expect us to believe while they have spent a week stumbling over each other as they stammered and blushed their way through a cavalcade of crude amateur ineptitude masquerading as military precision is so bewildering you wonder how the living Christ they manage to pick up a gun and not shoot themselves in the foot each morning.