Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
You want to know the real reason Peter Thiel was allowed in NZ?
National security.
Thiel helps the 5 Eyes mass surveillance monster with his company Palantir.
I bet if the media ask official information requests about who the Minister spoke to in making their decision, one of the National Security agencies will have briefed the Minister.
You know when Labour are close to power, because they start stealing all of National’s get tuff on crime dog whistles.
Look at the mutant cavalcade of vicious banker and elite arseholes he’s appointed to his inner circle. There’s no need to ‘drain the swamp’ when all the monsters are in his Cabinet.
Boom, and in rolls Andrew Little with a beat down on Maori that would make the LAPD look liberal.
Imagine a country that was mature enough to make symbolic and real the relationship the Treaty has promised since its signing. The day we can commit to such a vision is the day NZ stops being a country and matures enough to be a Nation.
I think there needs to be a very clear understanding about the 2017 election for progressive voters.
The Maori Party and MANA Movement leadership have a lot to work on and it should be done already.
Bill English is an incredibly savvy and intelligent strategist and the Left should not underestimate him.
Historians will look at Trump’s blistering venom of a speech as a turning point in history. The naked rage of perceived lost privilege mixed with neoliberal economic dislocation has given Trump a platform to spin his violent fantasy of America…
The claim that the by election campaign will somehow be a beautiful women’s moment of enlightenment where politics can be discussed in a respectful way without the destructive ego of the Brosocialists while everyone gets a hug and a gold star for participating just seems so woefully optimistic.