UK Election – winners and losers
Somewhere Matthew Hooton, Ben Thomas and David Farrar are in a group hug sobbing.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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BREAKING: UN ask NZ to investigate Hit & Run War Crime Allegations
Bill English can’t hide any longer.
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For ACT, euthanasia is a free market solution to health – why I will always oppose euthanasia in NZ
In a country with a mental health system as horrifically underfunded as ours, euthanasia would simply become a tread mill by faceless Wellington bureaucrats for cost cutting purposes on the most vulnerable.
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Green Party Bill on medical cannabis as pointless as Dunne’s meaningless reform
Julie Anne Genter had her medical cannabis reform members bill pulled out at the same time as David Seymour’s Euthanasia Bill. It would see an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow cannabis supply for medical users.
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Comey testifies – no smoking gun, Trump safe for now
Trump’s mix of corrupt capitalism, brittle ego and aggressive neurotic defensiveness makes trying to derive motive from his behaviour extremely difficult, and I think while Comey’s testimony is completely true and factual, the crazy shit that floats through the President’s mind which he can use to defend his comments makes impeaching him successfully an extremely unlikely event.
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This one photo tells you everything you need to know about the last 9 years of National Government
The sad looks of begrudging acceptance of 41 000 homeless, 250 000 kids in poverty and over 10 000 in prison on the faces of the Maori kids dragged into the background for spin purposes is priceless
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Why Winston’s anti-Muslim rhetoric is so stupid
Because poor old Labour desperately need to stay on Winston’s good side and because the Greens will get shafted with sweet bugger all in a Labour/NZ First minority Government if they criticise him, it looks like I’ll have to point out for the Left how fucking stupid Winston’s comments are.
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Look at the way National Party MPs try and deceive NZers
The last 9 year rule of National has seen a deeply ideological drive to mutilate the state’s ability to raise revenue so that it can consistently amputate their social welfare obligations. This allows the Government to claim they are ‘living within their means’.
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Right wing semantics over Budget 2017
It is almost obscene that right wing pundits get to pretend that this was a ‘left wing family friendly’ budget when it was nothing of the sort!
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Why hasn’t the young waitress who had to put up with John Key touching her at her work & had the courage to stand up to him been awarded?
Whose actions deserve rewarding? A rich millionaire whose sense of entitlement allowed him to touch a young woman at work on 10 seperate occasions or the young woman who stood up to him in front of his armed security team and demanded he stop touching her?