All the canaries in the minefield are dead – the looming economic correction
…people are going to want a State that will be prepared to step up to the challenge and lead rather than leave it to the free market.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Glitterboobs, tinned tomatoes, racist menus and golliwogs – have we started the year off angry?
The wounds that so many are speaking from can’t be argued with, they need to heal first before they can listen and I don’t think there is going to be a lot of listening in 2018.
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So for 38 minutes the people of Hawaii knew what it felt like to live in Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen & other places US + allies bomb
…except for of course that the people we bomb in those countries don’t generally get a text alert that we are about to blow them up.
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Idea Upgrades for 2018
One of the things dear to Jim’s heart was the idea that the State should use its power to make good outcomes and not leave it to the free market. In that vein, here are some upgrades for 2018 that we should push from a progressive Government.
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National’s road lust petition campaign gives insight as to how they plan to attack new Government
Vested commercial interests + pretence of democratic participation + culture war values = National in Opposition.
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Jim’s legacy – what can we learn from his vision now?
If we want to honour Jim, the new Government should immediately pass legislation to make dental care free for children and teenagers, if we want to see Jim’s vision survive, we must all demand the new Government lives up to its obligations and not subcontract them out to the free market.
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How sick that one of the best environmental scientists can be punished this way in NZ?
Here is one of this country’s best and bravest environmentalists admitting that his advocacy and the science behind his advocacy has been threatened…
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It’s official – MSD treats Ghosts better than they treat actual living beneficiaries!
It’s not that I want this compassion to be removed from the elderly or the veterans, I just wish that the same empathy could be extended to the beneficiaries whose lives they make miserable.
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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.
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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.