Meanwhile the planet is melting
In my mind Green Socialism is the only way forward, and that will increasingly be seen as the only way forward once the impacts of out of control global warming take hold.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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TDB Summer Election Special: Is TOP real or a Gareth Morgan vanity project?
His surprising position on Palestine, his hard line on the environment and his strong support of a Universal Basic Income has the potential to disrupt politics and rupture ideological boundaries.
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Labour taking former Police cheerleader Greg O’Connor on as a candidate will be their final mutation into National lite
If Labour can bring a former tough on crime Police cheerleader into the fold to legislate for cannabis in the electorate seat held by an MP who refused to legalise medicinal cannabis and forced Helen Kelly to be a criminal, that would be a political coup.
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What Corporate Hollywood tried to do behind your back and why they are trying to paint NZ as pirates
America is fighting a hot soft war in the Pacific by flooding us with their movies, their songs, their TV shows, their internet. They will constantly be trying to gain more control and more power over our media as part of their push back against China. The danger for us is that Corporate Hollywood have managed to have their interests adopted as national security interests.
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Just because the Russians were glad Hillary lost doesn’t mean Iraq has WMDs – deny that drum beat for war at every step
I watched my generation get conned into the bullshit war in Iraq over weapons of mass destruction that never existed, we should resist this latest drum beat for war with Russia. I say that as someone who recognises that Putin is a thug and Russia an authoritarian regime, but conning us into declaring some proxy war based on fake intelligence is not a way forward.
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Trump’s latest twitter fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger highlights his cult of resentment
You don’t appreciate what a narcissistic sociopath Trump truly is until you read his tweets.
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If St Johns treated their patients as badly as they do their workers the ambulances would be hearses – why hasn’t this been Nationalised?
I’ve never understood why ambulance services became user pays. It seems barbaric to me that if you are in need of safe and immediate transport to a medical facility because of a medical emergency, charging for that is neoliberal cruelty.
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Please God, can Michelle Boag be National’s campaign manager in 2017?
How she managed to keep fuelling this story for 3 days longer than it should have been in the headlines is a feat of true beauty caused by someone with enough sophistry and misplaced privilege for the entire Island of Waiheke.
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Will Peak Leitch see tag team celebrity death match between Monty Betham and Ruben Wiki vs UFC fighter Mark Hunt?
I’m now saying, we can get 96 hours of the news cycle on this ‘Sir-Peter-Leitch-is-a-racist- butcher-and-we-should-hunt-down-his-family-because-a-23-year-old-cried-on-social-media-gate’ as long as Max Key doesn’t fart in public or an Auckland shed sells for a million dollars.
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Thank you Michelle Boag – now that’s what I call racism! We will get 72 hours out of this!
Michelle Boag is to racial harmony what Trump is to feminism.