Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
We tell ourselves that Trump will lose because we want to believe it, but Trump was elected because of economic anxiety, how much more enraged will his electorate become when they truly feel that anxiety become economic reality?
Some might suggest fringe Christian fanatics Family Fist have pumped out propaganda and that has changed things, but I don’t for one second think it’s God squad or their moronic whining, I think it’s something far more damaged.
Bryce Edwards thinks as little as 30% will vote in local body elections.
I think he’s being optimistic.
We are seeing the last canary die in the coal mine. Catastrophic climate change is here, we have run out of time. Our collective denial has made it impossible to stop climate change, our only hope now is radical adaptation.
No one should think that the 2020 election will be a walk in the park. On social media the activist base seem delighted that the TVNZ Poll put them in front but this could all change in a flash.
The Pacific Islands Forum is on and there are some issues that NZ must confront even if our Pacific Island whanau won’t.
We see time and time again that discretion seems to be abused by Wellington Bureaucrats so trying to limit that to remove the bigotry and bias that make WINZ and MSD such toxic cultures might seem like a great idea, the problem is that life never fits squarely into the box ticking process so we hope public servants are trained well enough to recognise injustice rather than cause it.
Labour need to sell any prisoner voting rights as ‘Labour will not allow violent prisoners to vote because once you have committed a violent crime you lose your right to vote blah blah blah’, while quietly appealing the law to allow those serving less than 3 years to vote as apart of a rehabilitation program to ‘give prisoners the chance to reform by reconnecting with society’.
It is important that this precedent is not allowed. The State are trying this on when they don’t think anyone is looking. Secret trials and secret evidence require enormous checks and balances which the Human Review Tribunal has been too underfunded to enable.
Sorry comrades, no updates on TDB today, as I am in Wellington for my hearing against the NZ Police at the Human Rights Review Tribunal to fight the State gaining the power to hold secret trails.