Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
If you are a Gen X or Y, that pain you feel, that lack of job security, real wages, stake hold in society – that’s neoliberalism and that laughing you hear are property speculating boomers refusing to give up their illusionary wealth.
As believers of the power for good a well funded state sector can create, we on the Left are big supporters of the state, so what do we do when we realise that some functions of state are not only broken and deformed, they are actually creating counter productive damage that demands a radical amputation and regrowth?
Meanwhile the property speculator boomers laugh and the rich lock Gen X, Y, millennials and the poor out of ever owning a home in their own country.
If we want to respect the glorious dead, then surely it is as the current generation promising the next generation that we won’t ever waste their precious lives for the obscenity of war.
…listening to National voters defend Key’s record as honest and sincere and trustworthy when this ponytail hair pulling, Tax Haven building, mass surveillance lying, gutter tactics Politician has no moral high ground whatsoever would be amusing if it wasn’t so widespread.
What’s the point in allowing the pharmaceutical industry create expensive cannabis synthetics when the natural product on its own can easily do what the expensive products can’t?
Allowing other agencies access to false information only spreads that false information, it won’t correct it.
Key has been shown up for the smoke and mirror deal maker he really is. After putting all our cows in one Beijing Paddock, the meltdown of dairy intensification has simply made the farms China wanted cheaper for them to buy up.
The close ties between the National Party and Chinese business has compromised our political system.
I think Wicked Campers are ugly and some of the offensive rape culture garbage sprayed on the side of them demands creative vandalism whenever one comes across their vile shuttles.