Dear NZ First, it’s ‘God of Nations at Thy feet, In the bonds of love we meet’ not, “Welcome kids to a gambling treat, we toss dwarfs like a shooting skeet’
Has anyone asked Clayton Mitchell if ‘Leprechaun Curling’ & underage gambling are NZ Values?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The IPCC warns 10 more years left to prevent catastrophic climate change
The IPCC is an incredibly conservative body who only publish science that everyone agrees with and this (along with them not including methane release from permafrost and from the ocean floor) has been one of the great criticisms of the panel, so when they come out with a damning report as serious as their latest one, complacency, climate denial and apathy are no longer options.
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Everything wrong with NZ in one Stuff.co.nz comments section: Why I hate corrections & so will you when you understand the reality behind the sudden decrease in Prison population
We are a bitter, petty folk who prefer counter productive policy to success if that success requires kindness and compassion.
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NZ Government allow digital strip search at the border
It’s a vile and grotesque invasion of privacy that has no real checks or balances, but New Zealander’s have such an incredulous ‘if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear’ mentality to mass surveillance, it’s difficult to feel anything but sad apathy at the manner we hand such incredibly far ranging powers over to the all seeing state.
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NZ Government officials caught red handed helping Chinese companies take NZ water
…why on earth were the officials under National actively trying to get Chinese companies to take our water?
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Latest industrial action by teachers highlights problems for Labour
This militancy when Labour are in power and cowardice when National are in is deeply detrimental to industrial relations and progressive politics because it feeds into a National Party narrative that Unions feel emboldened by Jacinda being in power.
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Over heated US economy & Trumps China trade war, Italian economic suicide & the geopolitics of Iranian oil – the ingredients of the next crash?
With Trump claiming China is attempting to interfere in the upcoming mid term elections, the speed with which mistakes could compound ignorance and collapse the entire house of cards is higher than ever before.
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Why petrol prices threaten Jacinda more than anything else and why Government must adopt radical Public Transport response
There is no greater challenge to the Government than the rising price of petrol because the entire economy is at risk and those workers already trying to survive in a country where costs outstrip wage increases will quickly revolt.
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Democrats adopt unchallenged pillar of #MeToo to attack Kavanaugh and inadvertently create cultural backlash for Republicans
What should have happened is that Kavanaugh should have been grilled over his views on abortion and whether or not he would ever make it more difficult for women to get them, instead it became an emotive media circus that created a toxic cultural backlash which risks benefitting the Republicans in the mid term elections.
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Official report into Meka incident – micro-aggression policing at its most woke
Meka must grow up, dump the chip on her shoulder about how incompetent staff are a reflection of disdain against Māori women in power and get back to the excellent work for her constituents that she is known for. The Prime Minister also must ponder how woke activists in her own office could inadvertently paint her into a corner she can’t get out of.