The 6 different stories Saudi Arabia has given us to explain butchering a journalist
Ok, so let’s just see if we can keep up with Saudi Arabia’s ever changing story regarding the death of Washington Post Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The Jami-Lee Ross strategy and endgame: Possible impacts for the 2020 election
What we are witnessing is a political hit job of bewildering savagery and maliciousness. I understand the moment Simon Bridges won the leadership, dented egos started plotting.
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If you think what has been exposed so far inside National is brutal, trust me, it gets medieval from here on in
Vampire ebola zombies are kinder to open veins than what we are about to see – I don’t honestly know if they can back down.
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Soooooooo about China trying to, you know, buy 2 MPs
At some point we are going to move on from JLR being an arsehole to women and you know, ask questions about the Chinese Government buying 2 MPs right? Like that’s coming up eh? Like that’s a direct threat to our fucking sovereignty eh, we aren’t this easily distracted right?
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Canada legalizes cannabis – where is New Zealand?
I swear brothers and sisters, on the day prohibition is finally crushed and the cops and the spineless politicians defeated, we should gather around every major police station and spark up the minute after its legalised in memory of the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders these politicians and cops have damaged and burnt and broken because of their bullshit cannabis laws.
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The Jami-Lee Ross audio tapes are damning
Jami-Lee Ross wasn’t lying was he – those tapes are pretty damaging and news today that Lusk is advising him is as much evidence as we’re going to get that this is dirty politics and an attempted coup to remove Bridges – the question is who is the puppet master?
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Well, well, well – Aaron Bhatnagar and Dirty Politics is back inside the National Party
This is getting dirtier and nastier but this time around the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind don’t have the laid back anti-intellectualism of John Key to absolve their conscience and ignore corruption, they have bumbling Simon Bridges. Key could look down the barrel of the camera and lie to our faces and the sleepy hobbits loved him for it, Simon can’t lie convincingly and they will turn on him.
National Party voters love a good liar, they detest a weak one.
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“inappropriate behaviour that is unacceptable from a married Member of Parliament.” – I’m sorry what?
If National are going to stand by that new ethical line in the sand, then should we start applying it to other National Party MPs?
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National looks less like a political party and more like a front for Chinese business interests
As China regresses into a censorship totalitarian state, we need to ask how much influence our largest Political Party is under from Beijing and in whose interest does National rule? New Zealand’s or the People’s Republic of China?
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The famous last words of Michelle Boag
If you want something done right, gag Michelle Boag first.