Trump launching missiles shows how easily emotionally manipulated he is or how Machiavellian he is
There are two reasons Trump decided to go 180 degrees on bis position on Syria, and neither of them are safe.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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RIP Fred Dagg – John Clarke has died 68
Oh no- John Clarke has died – his wit and satire was the best comedy ever to leave NZ.
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Bill English finally gets to be like Trump by attacking a Muslim who can’t fight back
Are we really this simple to allow Bill English to trash the ethical beliefs of Sonny Bill Williams to distract from questions about war crimes committed by his Government?
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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?
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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.