Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
I’m getting sick to death of the attempt by those on the right to somehow justify the latest dirty politics smear against Clarke as somehow fair because the Left indulge in dirty politics as well.
In the one breath Slater says he had nothing of do with the smear, and then in the next breath he says…
The co-ordination of this smear against Clarke, the anonymous troll army echo chamber promoting it, the fact the story suspiciously never changed and the place it was originally launched from – this was all a concerted effort by ‘someone’ to destabilise the Government.
…it is my belief that right wing operatives have built a Troll Army to propagate hateful lies and spread them through social media.
It looks like America will calm nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula while creating a whole new conflict in Iran.
Surely Trump can’t be this stupid?
Your pet is your responsibility, not my obligation to have to put up with on board a moving fucking vehicle.
The utter denial needed to think that a decades long re-creation of our waterfront minus any extreme weather events or rising sea levels is so outside the realities we need to actually plan for now it should be held up as proof positive of how flawed our planning process has become.
There will be a moment when all good men must come to the aid of the party. Grant is simply waiting for that moment.
The new Government should not be challenging this case, they should be accepting the Human Rights Review Tribunal’s decision and should be trying to cut a deal with Kim.
The predictable outcry from the PSA that any suggestion their members actually have to implement policy by the Government of the day by screaming they must be neutral is funny.