Corporate spies vetting public information – how has it come to this?
While the mainstream media focus ridiculously on a band of littering tourists, real questions about the power of the deep state in this country go utterly ignored.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Ummm, what sort of Marriage would require Paula Bennett as celebrant?
I feel like this needs to be a reality TV show or a political satire funded by NZ on Air.
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Playing Russian roulette with Trump – what happens if the Mueller case finds no collusion?
Every day another breathless opinion piece tells us Trump is almost finished, that his poll numbers have collapsed, that he is besieged and that the Mueller investigation will destroy him.
Yet this orange tumour of a human being is still in the White House, still in power, still in control.
What happens if the Mueller investigation comes back and finds no Russian collusion?
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Pure temple vs broad church – Pride Parade now a Woke Walk
What an embarrassment for Millennial activism and what a message to those who are serious about making actual change in society, inclusion can’t come at the cost of exclusion. After fighting for the right to wear the Police uniform in the Pride Parade, Police were never going to agree to taking it off and the woke activists pushing for this knew it, here was an email PAPA sent out to their base admitting as much when they stacked the last meeting…
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What is really being revealed in this rage against littering tourists
Why should an industry that takes and takes and takes and seems to give so little back be allowed a free ride for so long? If the planet is running out of pristine places, than what we have should be set at a premium price.
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SHOCK HORROR – NZ TEENAGERS DO STUPID THINGS – STOP THE PRESSES!
We simply can not juggle multiple ideas that social policy must protect life over property, that teenagers do stupid things and that changing our chase policy – AS MANY OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE – to only chasing violent offenders is too much for your ordinary Kiwi to comprehend all at the same time.
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This is us as a people in 2019
When a teenager runs from NZ cops – they deserve to die. Respect my authority.
Schools shouldn’t feed hungry kids, it’s the parents fault.
You only have something to fear if you have something to hide mass surveillance justifications.
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NZ Police chase 3 more kids to their death & our ‘respect my authority’ cop worship culture is to blame
..I’ve often said the only moment this insanity of allowing cops to chase kids to death will ever change is if the victims are white middle class kids, because when it’s brown poor teenagers dying, middle NZ doesn’t give two shits, but the millisecond it’s kids they recognise and can identify with, well then brothers and sisters SOMETHING MUST BE DONE!
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The things we need to believe to accept Simon Bridges assurance that he knew nothing about State spying
Simon Bridges secretly meets with oil interests to ram through a new law prosecuting deep sea oil activists and misleads Parliament about that meeting, all the while his very agency who is pushing through that law change is committing unethical spying actions against Greenpeace, the Green Party, the MANA Movement and local Iwi protesting possible oil pollution.
Yet Simon Bridges knew nothing about that spying?
How believable is it that Bridges becomes suddenly so ignorant when it comes to the day to day applications of those civil rights abuses?
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The funniest thing about National screaming about this UN migration pact
National’s hypocrisy as is galling as their opportunism.