Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Key has built a tax haven, was instrumental in personally intervening in 2010 to create it, had his lawyer lobby the Minister to stop any crackdown and then gets caught out benefiting from the very trusts he’s helped build.
If you are not incandescent with rage now, you are the problem!
…this is apartheid era bigotry. We are so bloody casual in this country we don’t ever seem to trip over the truth even when it hits us in the face. It is inexcusably racist that our justice system has produced such a cultural massacre within the poorest communities.
Latest Roy Morgan shows National plummeting to 42.5% and NZ First soaring to 12.5%. These are pretty huge swings and might explain why National are so nervous they need to talk about a Land Tax.
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.