Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Our love of locking people up has been manipulated so much so that we don’t actually care anymore if innocent people are trapped within our prison system. The Government won’t even consider if we have innocent people in prison, which is why a group of academics have had to step in and build an innocence project themselves.
Trump and Clinton are telling American voters that they won’t sign the TPPA because of its impact on the working class.
This is nonsense.
John Key built NZ intro a tax haven and had his private lawyer who uses tax havens muscle in on the Revenue Minister to ensure no IRD crack down occurred.
This is a war of privilege between the haves and want mores, this is not a fight between the haves and have nots. In one corner the rich baby boomer property speculators are fighting the Unitary Plan to keep their privilege, in the other corner blue-green millennials who want the privilege they feel they’ve been denied are leading the fight for it.
I could hear the political strategists within Labour smashing their heads against walls when Metiria bewilderingly announced gradual slashing of housing prices.
So a mere 22 desperate people took up Paula Bennett’s obscene ‘solution’ to pay the poor $5000 to leave Auckland….
Lot’s of rich people rushing to the corporate media to breathlessly tell us that they have the solutions to NZs Housing Crisis.
If the Ministry of Social Development can’t tell the difference between a safe, legal house and an illegal garage then perhaps they shouldn’t have the words Social or Development in their title.
So the Unitary plan has been released, let the tedious battle of zones and room sizes begin.
I have to be honest, the more Turkey responds harshly to the attempted coup, the more convinced I am that the Coup was either faked or another failed CIA operation.