6 months out from Election: National fading, Labour stalling, NZ First about to go nuclear & Green failure
6 months out from the 2017 election, how are each of the Political Party’s fairing?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Will any NZ media dig to find out why Bill English had no idea about missile strikes?
Bill English was in Northland when the strikes were launched and the Northern Advocate immediately asked Bill for his comments on the strike, and English clearly had no idea that Trump was launching missiles at Syria which begs the question was our PM in the loop.
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Donald Trump launches Tomahawk missiles at Syria
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? -
What John Ansell and ISIS have in common
To describe such performance art as ‘primitive’ is the ignorance of an extremist and that’s what Ansell is. So blinded by his bigotry, he has the eyes of a barbarian. He views Maori culture the way ISIS view ancient art, demanding it be destroyed rather than cherished.
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Welcome to 500 year floods – The only hopeful part that climate change will cause in NZ
Watch how quickly our gutless political class will suddenly change their tune on environmental solutions once the rich white volk start screaming.
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How would the Auckland Regional Public Health Service have handled a typhoid outbreak in a rich suburb like Remuera?
…one gets the terrible feeling that if this typhoid outbreak had occurred in a richer, whiter suburb then these types of blunders would not have occurred.
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Mainstream media finally catch up to mass surveillance concerns over beneficiaries
The counter productive problems with National’s mass surveillance of beneficiaries is that vulnerable people who are already too terrified to engage with any Government agency will actively avoid getting any help so that the neoliberal welfare state can’t track them down and punish them.
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The evil that is Fonterra
While Fonterra get NZs favourite rugby boof head to sing their praise in TV and while the industry tries to hide the damage they do to our water and environment by flooding the country with cow shit, these buggers have been caught doing this…
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Interesting new Poll shows 77% of NZ First voters want Labour led Government & majority want Labour
Two interesting polls out yesterday through Horizon.
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6 months out from 2017 election – why Maori, Women and Youth vote could determine result
The Housing Crisis is still paying political dividends to National as the property speculating middle classes continue to back Bill English, but if Millennials and Gen Xers turn up angry at the polls, it could spell an end to National’s dream of a fourth term.