75 deaths from synthetic cannabis – let’s thank those MPs & media for this carnage
…I hope sometime in the future when academics look back to unpick this cluster fuck of social policy that they damn the MPs and journalists who created it.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Why on earth are we supporting anti-abortion activists and feeding female beneficiaries less?
There’s such a churn of news that at times you miss things and need to pull them back into the spotlight.
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Cough-cough. That ‘old rugby injury’ of Winston’s has now taken 3 weeks
We all wish Winston a speedy recovery from his, old rugby injury.
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How come the entire Western media knew about American torture after Abu Ghraib, yet our Intelligence Agencies had no idea at all?
The SIS and GCSB KNEW the information was coming from CIA black sites, what the hell did they think was happening at those CIA black sites? The information was being tickled out of people?
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Government still waiting for the collapse of Capitalism before borrowing big
When this Government first formed, I argued that key members involved in the negotiation process believed an enormous crash was looming, and that once that economic crash occurred, we would see a genuinely transformative Government.
The only problem was that economic crash didn’t happen.
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Farmers are screaming about water. Yawn.
The Framers are bitching because they are selfish little clowns and the Government is too timid to force real change on them.
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The most distressing part of the Peter Ellis miscarriage of justice
The most distressing part of the Peter Ellis miscarriage of justice, is that if those allegations had been made today on twitter, the outcome would have been the same.
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The passing of Peter Ellis
Once upon a time, the value of justice was ‘better 10 guilty people walk free than one innocent person jailed’.
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Labour burn KiwiBuild to save the village, except there’s no village – but they do find what passes for their limp mojo
The madness of using the free market to solve a problem caused by an unregulated free market has finally been buried.
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Can National be trusted in China? Really?
by visiting China without chaperones, aren’t National a meth addict being left alone in a dealers house with a fresh glass pipe full of P sitting on the coffee table?