Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
When Judith wasn’t questionably meeting Chinese border officials or diverting to its trade events, Oravida also exported swamp Kauri. The above quote was when Judith was challenged that Oravida was damaging the environment.
To deny prisoners the right to vote is a blight on universal suffrage and a means of amputating the civic conscience from a citizen, truly making them a prisoner from political society.
National suddenly have X-Ray vision & the ethics of Christ when it comes to some 2 bit Czech MDMA dealer but seemingly had no clue whatsoever as they pissed $120m away on needless meth contamination & threw 900 beneficiaries onto streets?
The CIA always got blowback whenever they played God in other peoples country’s, NZ First should know that enabling Lusk to continue his JLR kamikaze suicide bomber coup has every possibility of biting us all in the arse in 2020.
Kiwibuild is like goat yoga, The Spinoff, electric bikes, fourth wave white feminism, top knots, sea salt and greek yogurt – it’s for middle class Millennial’s, and while that’s fine and dandy, because goodness gracious me wee Brock and Apple need to get ahead, I’m more concerned for the Kiwis sleeping in cars and the 40 000 homeless.
It’s not just the damage he is causing now, it is the damage he has done to the entire political environment. By lowering the standards so much for the baying masses, he has radically reset the political landscape for the next Trump and the next one after him.
The blue wave turned into a weak trickle. The Dems lost 2016 by calling all Republican’s racist, it looks like they squandered 2018 by calling them all rapists.
With so much happening overseas and the likelihood of a major market correction looming, the Wellington Mandarins and top bureaucrats know the vast majority of sleepy hobbits have no concept of what might hit and are busy re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic so that when the panic kicks in they can point to the very little they did as justification for the salaries.
Culturally the woke left ban any debate about Chinese influence in NZ because it’s racist and xenophobic, and even when Chinese business interests are caught red handed trying to buy two MPs inside the National Party, the MeToo political media decided to focus instead on anonymous allegations of harassment of women by Jami-Lee Ross rather than a direct attempt by Chinese interests to buy political influence.
At some point in the near future, voters incandescent with rage at the snails pace reform will demand radical reform that will be unforgiving in its revolutionary nature. If this vast anger is tapped into and harnessed, a vengeful green populism will swamp the pale lime middle class identity politics obsessed incarnation we currently have and wipe aside Labour Party incrementalism.