Waitangi Day 2019 – With Brash going, could it explode?
Waitangi 2019 has no obvious fuse to it, but there is a cocktail of things that combined could become very unstable very quickly.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The real purpose of the Blue Greens and New Conservatives
Pundits are missing the real point of the Blue Greens and the New Conservatives and the behind the scenes support both political embryos are getting from National.
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Donald Trump doesn’t understand climate change or global warming
This would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous because I’ve seen clowns across social media claiming that because America is gripped in a frozen storm that global warming isn’t happening.
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Changing Kiwibuild targets unacceptable sophistry & privatisation of state housing a slap in the face
If only Kiwibuild was a pyramid scheme, at least that way we would have pyramids for people to live in
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Yawn – Simon Bridges promises less than a weekly Big Mac Combo in tax cuts
When in doubt, promise a meaningless tax cut…
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Thank the little baby Jesus no one has noticed Labour’s grotesque crony capitalism hypocrisy
When National bent over backwards for Peter Jackson by handing over millions in corporate welfare to corporate Hollywood and changed our employment law, Labour screamed it was ‘crony capitalism’.
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Jnr Doctors strike again – where is CTU and PSA solidarity?
The role the PSA and CTU have played in quietly supporting the creation of a scab union to undermine the Jnr Doctors has been well canvassed by Bryce Edwards and Chris Trotter, but you would have thought after such stinging criticism the PSA and CTU would acknowledge their tactics to undermine workers was wrong and lend their support.
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The West Coast Regional Council is the face of climate denial – let them drown!
…if a region who will be hit hardest by climate change denies that climate change, they should be left to drown. This is darwinism and evolution now, something the West Coast Regional Council probably doesn’t believe in.
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We already have a centrist Green Party – it’s called the Green Party – the truth behind Blue-Greens
The one reason why this new political vehicle is being sounded out is because powerful lobbyists behind National are desperate to establish one drawing on anti-1080 fanatics and commercial fishing interests. There was a recent ‘lunch’ with a high ranking National MP and a large corporate fishing identity that pledged $1million towards this project.
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Vernon Tava Blue Green fantasy shows how desperate National are becoming
Blue Greens will fail to get any electorate traction at all and I support National wasting energy on this bullshit as it will only eat into National’s voter base without any representation.