100000 new houses, ban on foreign land buyers, re-entering Pike River & sugar tax – this is what political leadership looks like
I have said it once, I’ll say it again – pundits still don’t understand how radical this Government intends to be.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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What Jacinda Ardern is really doing with the TPPA
…I think that keeping their heads down and allowing the TPPA to implode all on its own to escape an open confrontation with the elite rich of NZ is a smarter move for a new Government than declaring war on the neoliberal establishment on day one.
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What NZ First Chief of Staff appointment really means
The truth is that this Government intends to be far more interventionist and radical than others before it and the corporate punditry are tactically in denial about that so that they can express faux outrage when the free market neoliberalism on steroids gets challenged.
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Arresting suicide victims
How the hell does arresting a suicide victim help that person? How cruel have we become under 9 years of National that arresting suicide victims is even considered a positive step forward?
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Can Labour resist the Prison Industrial Complex?
It takes far more money to heal human beings than punish them, but the results are far healthier for society as a whole.
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New Government must burn MSD scum to the ground
The new Government must use napalm as a disinfectant to cleanse our public service and damn the squeals from the PSA – it’s time to take back our welfare system from the neoliberal scum who with sadistic glee hurt the most poor amongst us. There can be no negotiation with cancer.
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The Hobbit strikes back! Huge win for NZ Actors & workers
The Hobbit fight was nasty, needless and spiteful. Rectifying it isn’t just symbolic, it is righteous and will actually help the industry and strengthen it.
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Who is more irrelevant? Feminist icon Jordan Williams or Musical God Max Key?
Which shit stain is more irrelevant – Jordan or Max? I think this one could be a tie.
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Why the new Government is far more revolutionary than many suspect
The first hundred days is just a start, it won’t be revolution but it sure as hell will be a rapid evolution and those who put this Government together in the background understood the transformative possibility this all could bring about.