Trumpism as diet Fascism: The great unravelling of America and how the Left are helping it
Sure, Hillary Clinton was a neoliberal war hawk whose platform wouldn’t do anything for the white working poor, but she was no fascist.
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Sure, Hillary Clinton was a neoliberal war hawk whose platform wouldn’t do anything for the white working poor, but she was no fascist.
The new mass surveillance state using Government Agency big data was first aimed at the gangs, then beneficiaries and now the Government is swivelling its Eye of Mordor upon the children of the poor…
The irony of the ‘If-you-have-nothing-to-hide-you-have-nothing-to-fear’ Brigade is that if it was Helen Clark who was ramming mass surveillance spying powers through under urgency and giving the SIS extra powers after helping collude with them to stop John Key getting elected, they would make Trump supporters look moderate.
No one exploits a disaster quite like John Key. The Government’s economic policy seems to be to wait for a natural disaster to occur and then cut some crony capitalism deal for a rebuild that keeps the GDP as falsely inflated as the property market does.
Seeing as most of our Civil Defence systems seem to be a confused mess of volunteers trying to do the best they can, perhaps we should be seriously considering moving the Capital away from Wellington before we have to?
In 1973, NZ PM Norman Kirk sent our frigate, the HMNZS Otago, to the French nuclear testing site of Mururoa Atoll. On board was the Kiwi Cabinet Minister Fraser Coleman. The stated – and, indeed, officially mandated – purpose of those two hundred and forty three men was to put themselves in the path of foreign military activity, on a ship, as a protest action.
Of all the people God could talk to, why would it be a shallow fart like Tamaki? Why isn’t God having conversations with Stephen Hawking, Michelle Obama or the new Pope?
Republicans purged electoral rolls in all the battleground States Trump needed to win. The numbers are damning.
If the Greens could perhaps stop self mutilating the launch of their new candidate and if Labour could possibly stop picking fights with one of NZs most respected TV Journalists, Professor Richard Dawkins is on the phone…
In a political world devoid of values, it’s good to see Labour Party candidate for the Mt Roskill by-election, Michael Wood, letting a National Party stooge know in no uncertain terms that slagging off his wife is NOT on the agenda…