How convenient for the SIS eh? Terror threat level is burgundy – I repeat, burgundy!
Feeling safe yet NZ? You don’t protect democracy with a police state.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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The Killing off of Cunliffe
With Cunliffe stepping down, the Labour Party not only lose one of their best MPs, they lose any real opportunity to reform its neoliberalism.
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The latest Trump/Clinton machinations and why gender is the real societal fault line this election
If NZ is a test market for the US, the role of secret emails, hackers and dirty politics that all played out in our 2014 election has injected steroids while smoking meth and taken to the American electorate with all the charm of a fully automatic AK-47.
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Saudi Sheep Deal Bribe ruled kinda legal by whitewashing of the lambs report
We’ve just trusted Uncle Muzza with $11million to try and cut a dodgy deal for reasons that are mercenary and without any actual ethics. Yay!
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Labour’s Mt Roskill by-election promise recasts Auckland and Labour relationship
Recasting Labour as an urban party and winning Auckland with a two tick campaign is Labour’s best chance to get 35%.
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If KiwiBank won’t do the right thing by Helen Kelly – then we should! Let’s start the ‘Real Kiwi of the Year’
If KiwiBank aren’t going to budge on their rule to disqualify Helen Kelly because she had the temerity to die before the award, then we should walk away and start the ‘Real Kiwi of the Year’ Award.
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Why Labour need to lose the Maori electorates if a progressive Government is to have a chance
The Maori electorates have the ability to create a genuinely progressive Government in 2017.
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Phil Goff, Mike Lee and Patrick Reynolds walk into the Auckland Transport bar – no this is not a joke
The pent up economic frustrations of the blue green millennials has found new friends with the developers of Auckland and they want their Unitary Plan share of it now!
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Mangere Budgetary Services quitting new Government spying scam
The poor flee Government services because they fear the inevitable retribution, forcing social services to spy on behalf of the Government will kill those services trust off altogether and give the Government even more excuses to cut budgets.
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So why are the NZ Police taking a sudden interest in Euthanasia campaigners?
Targeting Euthanasia campaigners is a training exercise as our Police State starts flexing its new found muscles.