Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Shane Jones says that Shane Jones is one of the greatest NZers Shane Jones has ever known and Shane Jones says that Shane Jones is angry at dirty filthy urban liberals who attack his cherished Fishing Industry.
…the real reason why there has been a scalp here, unlike the other screw ups, is that in the other examples it’s normally poor brown people suffering so Wellington Bureaucrat’s don’t get punished if they can pronounce Te Reo correctly, but in the Census issue it impacts vast amounts of public spending in white rich places, so someone must be punished.
Our current political spectrum can not respond fast enough to the radical cultural, economic and societal adaptation required to prepare us for the realities of the climate crisis, we need to be on a war footing, instead we are drunk on the couch chilling with Netflix.
If Bridges and Hosking have their way, they would demand Police remove the protesters, the protests would swell beyond the ability of the local pigs to control and Bridges would need to send in the army with Hosking cheering from the sideline.
Fascinating news tonight that businessman John Palino has decided to step down from the Auckland Mayoralty race and instead run as a Councillor in the Franklin Ward…
…this phenomenal ricocheting up of tensions is being ignored by the mainstream media who are more focused on a storm and Julie-Anne Genter’s ‘secret letter’.
So the Police and SFO clear corporate spies of wrong doing that they themselves have hired Thompson & Clark to do?
Media have asked me why I think the Police are wanting to create such an outrageous legal precedent, I think there are two reasons.
Last week I nominated Pania Newton for Young New Zealander of the Year, for her incredible leadership at Ihumātao and this week I am nominating Matthew Blomfield for New Zealander of the Year.
You can always tell how much a political narrative is bullshit by how shrill Hooton gets and the nonsense over Julie Anne-Genter’s ‘secret letter’ has reached such a fever pitch, only dogs can hear Hooton screaming that she must resign.
