Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
When Jacinda refused to take the word of her Māori Minister over that of a trigger free safe space millennial staffer, it was a signal like any other that Māori are never given the benefit of the doubt.
The manner in which the NZ mainstream media have attempted to whip the Jacinda-Handley interaction into a ‘jobs for the boys’ style scandal is embarrassing when you compare it to the previous relationship of Key and his appointment of his school mate Ian Fletcher to the GCSB.
Israel and Saudi Arabia are itching for military conflict with Iran and Trump simply doesn’t have the intellect or foresight to see the danger he’s putting himself in by starting the drum beat for war.
Big oil is twisting the arms off the Government and have clearly captured MBIE, we should not allow their profit margins to frighten us into being manipulated into denying climate change.
A brief word on the Deep State
I appreciate many Comrades want to see low business confidence as a sexist attack by the white cis male patriarchy against our beloved PM – and certainly some of that is true – buuuuuuuuuuut there is one hell of a global economic collapse looming…
If I was jaded and deeply cynical, I’d suggest the bloody Australians have dumped as much of their stock in NZ despite knowing there was some threat of sabotage to the product.
It’s just so ugly and Bridges is managing to mutilate it and make it even more ugly.
We should be ashamed of our political leaders and their cowardice. The only way we finally break these pricks is by taking the power into our own hands and voting for a legalised cannabis market in the looming cannabis referendum.