This is the spy agency that National gave mass surveillance powers to?
The sick joke of security incompetence from our mass surveillance State spying apparatus was on full display last week…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Why National’s ‘Social Investment’ is really about cutting white people off welfare
If the white working poor of New Zealand understood how much they have to lose under National, Labour could gain traction. By not explaining this impact, Labour look like they stand for nothing different.
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It’s funny we only recognise Australia shafting us when they rob middle class students
It says something about us as a culture that we only sense Australia is screwing us when they stop middle class education tax breaks, what about when they fucking export a crime wave to our nation?
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Government walk away from their self created prison horror
The astounding decision by the National Government to quietly dump reoffending rates as a measurement of the private prison empire they have built was another sad moment in the failed neoliberal social experiments the National Party champion…
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Selling farmland to China highlights madness of free market Government
…the only guiding principle of Landcorp in this issue has been making the most money, as if the pennies that can be created today justify the loss of the land for the future. Our economic sovereignty can not be maintained if we sell our most productive land to overseas investors, it’s as simple as that.
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AAAP Guerrilla attack on WINZ & is it time beneficiaries started a vandalism campaign this election?
The simple truth is that most of our welfare agencies are now staffed by people without the necessary compassion skills to do anything useful in the lives of our most vulnerable. If beneficiaries really wanted to vent their fury at the manner in which WINZ staff treat them, then they could do that with a vandalisation campaign this year.
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5 months out from 2017 election – National melting, Labour stalling, Greens tactical & the one word NZ First uses to explode immigration debate
Following up on my 6 months out from the election analysis, here’s the run down 5 months out.
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When people try and tell you National are better economic managers of NZ – show them this
The line that the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind seem to believe without ever even questioning it is that National are far better economic managers than Labour.
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Green Party muscle in on Maori vote and open up alternative path to Parliament
By splitting the Maori vote again and taking party vote support, the Greens just made it easier for the Maori/MANA alliance to beat Labour and in doing so provide an alternative path way to Parliament where the Greens have actual political power and not what Winston will allow them to have.
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At a time of rising sea levels due to climate change, Phil O’Reilly wants to build an underwater stadium in Auckland?
Wanting to plonk an underwater waterfront stadium on the Auckland waterfront when our future will see more and more extreme weather events and a dramatic jump in sea levels looks like a recipe for a mass drowning.