Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
One narrative being peddled about America sending a warship to our harbour is that this is some sort of reestablishment of the US alliance with NZ as an equal and not a lapdog.
The banks simply want to be ahead of the vicious backlash about to erupt once the middle classes realise their illusion of wealth is exactly that, an illusion.
We have State Agencies now who are the problem, they are not the solution. People fear WINZ, Housing NZ and CYFS the way they fear cancer.
So instead of locking up NZers, empowering organised crime and causing counter productive social problems, we could feed every hungry kid, shelter our most vulnerable and put money back into the pockets of mums and dads sending their kids to school.
What’s different this time around is the mainstream media are now competing with narrative structures from social media that contradict National’s spin and they are forced (primarily by Checkpoint) to actively seek out stories of those who are suffering.
…it is becoming increasingly apparent to me that the biggest agents of discrimination against the poor, against the sick and against the vulnerable in this country are the huge State agencies tasked with providing their welfare.
With coat tailing, MANA and the Maori Party could bring in a combined total of 5 MPs, that’s a block that could have a huge impact in the 2017 election.
America’s arrogant cop culture is the reason why African-Americans get killed, and America’s gun culture that allows high powered military style weaponry to be bought by everyone is the reason why Police are getting shot.
As repugnant as Trump is, Pence and his connection with far right billionaire fascists is far more dangerous.
This has always been the fear of putting all our cows in one Beijing paddock. As China ratchets up its cold war against America in the Pacific, their role as our largest trading partner comes complete with all the strings attached.