Look, I despise Maggie Barry too – but this is Millennial snowflake nonsense – when can we start talking about John Key?
Newsflash, Maggie Barry being an arsehole isn’t news.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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A new political movement: Let’s just be honest – real climate change will require a political, social & economic revolution
Climate change and its impacts are far more dangerous than currently acknowledged and only a radical populist response can unseat the vested corporate interests that create the current political and economic inertia. As more and more climate events occur at faster and faster rates, voters will turn on the current hegemony, the question is who will harvest that anger and fear, the Left or the Right?
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BREAKING: GCSB no to Huawei is the first shot in NZ vs China confrontation
At the point of this mounting friction and questioning of our independence, the NZ intelligence agencies have made a solid step towards ensuring only America and their NZ franchise holders get to do mass surveillance in the Land of the Wrong White Cloud.
This is a first shot in friction points between NZ & China, this is a clear push back by NZ in terms of cyber sovereignty. Sure that push back is hypocrisy of the highest because we handed that level of control over to the NSA without blinking, but push back it is.
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Toothless Union law highlights how genuinely power vacant new Government is
The incredibly toothless Union laws that were always tepid and mild, have been defeated from being anything radical or even useful…
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Let’s just examine the madness we all need to accept as New Zealanders to believe Simon Bridges
How utterly immoral, to push social policy that is pointlessly counterproductive just so he can scratch his social conservative itch with the voters.
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High Court ruling begins the end of Cameron Slater & Dirty Politics and when can we start investigating their climate change denial?
…the damage Slater and his Dirty Politics advocates caused is still reverberating throughout the NZ political spectrum. The manner in which he was empowered by the NZ mainstream media has never been examined and no one has ever been held to account.
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Trump, climate change denial & the Saudi’s
Trump is not the first President to place cheap oil and unregulated corporate greed above the public good, but he is the first to be naked in his championing of those interests without the pretend crocodile tears.
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Black Friday on a dangerously warming planet is the tumour of consumer capitalism
The mad cult worship of consumerism that is Black Friday on a warming planet is a cultural tumour. The White house dropping a major new report showing the full impact climate change will cause on Black Friday is heavy with symbolism…
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Cannabis reform, legal suicide & MMP reform referendum – bullshit democracy done on the cheap
Throw 3 seperate issues together and try and sweep them all under the carpet at the same time so the Government doesn’t have to show any real courage either way on any of the issues.
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If Hillary runs, Trump wins 2020
You don’t beat the negative populism Trump has harvested with a candidate like Hillary who is wedded to the neoliberal economic framework that has built that resentment and cultural alienation, you only beat that negative populism with positive populism.