The 7 surreal moments from Trumps Saudi Arabia visit
It is almost impossible to keep up with the madness of Trump over the last 2 weeks, but his trip to Saudi Arabia has to be the most fucking surreal thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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If the NZ Herald could stop their SAS sniper death story for a moment and follow up on the Guardian’s real journalism?
…don’t you love how we need overseas journalists to tell NZ what our military do because local NZ media too subservient to do it?
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Whistle blowing scandal at Ministry of Transport grows
That Simon Bridges is just shrugging this of means he’s covering for the Ministry of Transport.
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What if the Greens launched a policy and no one noticed?
If getting a CTU press release on what is now the ugliest Wellington website on the face of the planet is your measure of success, then the Greens did wonderfully well, if you are trying to avoid being relegated to the fourth largest Party after NZ First, not so much.
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So who funds MetService? The weird madness behind the 20 meter wave story
Has everyone seen this 20 meter wave story?
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Trump screams about Muslim radicals, then signs $110billion weapons deal with country most involved in spreading radical Islam
The hypocrisy of blaming Islamic extremism when it’s American foreign policy that fuels most of that righteous grievance and then signing weapons deals with one of the main instigators of that extremism is beyond any sane persons ability to comprehend.
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The dangerous fantasy of removing Trump
The current loop in liberal news media is that Trump is mere seconds away from being impeached for any number of the self inflicted mutilations the President has bewilderingly managed to find himself in daily. I think removing Trump from office is a dangerous fantasy for a number of reasons.
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4 months out from the election and look at the issues we are awkwardly ignoring
It’s weird isn’t it, 4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
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Let’s be honest about what the 5 Eyes would have discussed in Queenstown
If we were honest about what the 5 Eyes would have spoken about in Queenstown last month for their annual get together to decide who to destroy next, I think the following might have been on the agenda…
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Could The Opportunities Party hit 5%?
Conventional political wisdom will tell you that there is no way TOP can get to 5% with 4 months out till the election, especially when they are barely registering as 1% in the mainstream media polls, but conventional political wisdom doesn’t mean much since Trump, Brexit and Len Pen doubling the Right’s vote in France. Those who are losing from neoliberal free market globalisation are over throwing political hegemonies left, right and centre.