2017 – The year of Trumpism, resentment kulture & climate change
There were many things that happened in 2017, but the most dangerous amongst them was the culture of festering resentment that eclipsed the better angels of our nature.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Let’s start naming storms after MPs & NZ Corporations
From now on, The Daily Blog will be naming all storms hitting NZ by the names of MPs who are doing sweet bugger all and by the NZ Corporations exacerbating climate change.
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Appalling journalism by the NZ Herald
When the mainstream media scream against allegations that they are ‘fake news’, it’s this type of ‘journalism’ that gives proof that they are.
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It’s like an extreme weather thing exacerbated by ‘something’ is impacting climate
It’s almost like an extreme weather event exacerbated by something is happening to the climate???
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NZ Landlords throw bigger tantrum than Israel
The crash is starting and the cold reality of how in debt the property class find themselves is starting to sink in. Watch them thrash around and twist in the wind as the reality of that mountain of debt starts to implode upon them.
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Dear Lorde – here’s why you did the right thing
…when you have to trump up false charges against a teenage girl because she hit an occupying forces soldier who is invading her home, you know that the justification for this ongoing human rights obscenity has reached pretty barrel scrapping levels.
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A Tsunami of free market failure
…Refining New Zealand is the industry funded pretence to pay for infrastructure so that the Government don’t wise up and demand more serious oversight, thankfully Resources Minister Megan Woods has ordered an inquiry into the fiasco last year and fingers crossed she extends the focus to whether or not this joke is fit for purpose.
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Isn’t it time to reflect on fanatical anti-tobacco crusade?
By increasing the cost to the individual, we build up the pressure of addiction that fuels an unregulated black market while the industry walks away laughing all the way to the bank.
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Does anyone really want anti-abortion death cult booties used for political grand standing? Really?
As glacial progress is made in Parliament with a new Government already biting off more than it can chew, anti-abortionists are planning a pretty gross protest in the hopes of blocking the slow progress that has been made. They have put out the call for 12000 booties so they can parade them in front of Parliament as a grotesque visualisation of the abortion numbers…
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It’s not about Lorde being a ‘bigot’ – it’s about the brutal, violent & ongoing 50 year occupation of the Palestinian people!
…the reason Israel is responding so viciously and with such vileness towards Lorde is because they are terrified that their arts & culture facade used to gloss over their human rights atrocities will be forever fractured by Lorde’s stance to boycott them.