You can’t honestly be surprised the SIS are misusing their new powers already can you?
Once you allow these spooks the power to start secretly spying without judicial oversight, they will immediately find excuses to do it.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Now is not the time for cowardice on Cannabis reform – why decriminalisation isn’t enough
Decriminalisation is merely begrudging acknowledgement from those authorities in society who have benefited from prohibition that their immoral, racist and destructive war on drugs has been an utter failure.
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The simmering political dialogue, threats to Bennett and butter wouldn’t melt in Hooton’s mouth
There’s no place for political violence or threats, but when you rule over people rather than with them, a Government breeds contempt.
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Dear NZ – can we care about hungry children now they are middle class?
When it was poor brown kids, Muddle Nu Zilind screamed it was the parents fault. Now it’s the white middle classes, notice how quiet those voices have become.
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Why there shouldn’t be any trading over Easter
I think 30 years of rampant neoliberal consumerism has created an ocean of wage slaves who buy sparkly things in sterile malls to numb the hollowness of a culture that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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How Brian Tamaki and Trump are the same
I’m no theologian, but I think speaking to money is about the weirdest, grossest, least spiritual thing anyone pretending to be a Bishop could ever admit to.
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Mainstream media Key apologists, finding the next political distraction and what the flag referendum really tells us
The truth is that a majority of NZers would keep the bleeding butchers apron and its stained history over Key’s vacant brand vomit of a weetbix packet with All Black product placement. Key’s flag represented 300000 kids in poverty, housing bubbles, wages going backwards in real terms and entire swathes of society living as wage slaves.
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Unpopular Opinion: The Flag Debate Hasn’t Been A Huge Defeat For Key
There’s an engorged sense of triumphalism on the Left, which insists upon seeing even minor setbacks for the ruling party’s agenda as huge and dramatic victories in the ongoing war against neoliberalism.
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John Key – the Prime Minister who just tries it on
I don’t think Key’s people didn’t know it was illegal – they knew – they were just trying it on, because that’s what we have in John Key, a Prime Minister who just tries it on.
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Now we have a new Governor-General can we please investigate Jerry Mateparae for war crimes?
We have the SIS being investigated for aiding the CIA torture rendition programs, why can’t Mateparae who was ultimately in charge of the troops that handed over civilians to known torture units also be investigated for what was a clear breach of the Geneva Convention?