GCSB & SIS are racist scum – and now we have the evidence
The sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind have much to answer for in allowing Key to turn our spy agencies against us, especially now we know they are staffed by racist scum!
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Why chanting “fuck John Key” is a battle cry not profanity and how the Occupy Movement helped shape the Internet Party
From the bottom of my heart fuck John Key and his selfish, misogynistic, rape minimising, war mongering government that only cares for the rich, disregards the voices of young people and has no compassion for the working poor or those suffering under the poverty line.
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Anti-domestic violence video shows the price some women pay when England loses The World Cup
This disturbing and violent trend in relation to sports teams loosing or winning, is of course not isolated. In New Zealand when The All Blacks win a game the police reported to the NZ Herald in 2012, that they witnessed an increase in domestic violence.
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Appointing King Kapisi – squeezing the real stories
The mainstream media is squeezing the real story. And the real story is that the Left are showing the much-needed signs of a force to be seriously reckoned with.
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The PI vote and political stunts
The mainstream media got quite excited a couple of weeks ago when a number of Pasifika church leaders were photographed at the Manurewa markets wearing blue, Key-people t-shirts.
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Will the daily body shaming and policing of women’s behaviour ever end? Apparently not.
The last few months have been particularly bad for the shaming and policing of women’s bodies in the media, both in New Zealand and globally.
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The mechanics of Cunliffe’s conference remarks
Americans call these deictic expressions. The effect is that DC is speaking on behalf of the audience, not to it. The technique is used to build a relationship with the audience. But it also goes further: DC is speaking as if everything he says is issued by “us”, the people. The heavy use of inclusive language opens the speech to the audience and lets them impose their own interpretations on it.
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Pretending to be Pacific
What I do know is that over the years there have been many forms of people wanting us to look at them and “pretend that they’re Pacific”. MP’s show up to church at precisely the 3-year election cycle.
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Declaring for Camp Cunliffe: here’s why
David Cunliffe could be a reconstructive prime minister and lead a big change government.