Waatea News Column: Oranga Tamariki review: Deplorable, despicable and unacceptable !
The Whānau Ora report into Oranga Tamariki is out, and it is a deplorable, despicable and unacceptable read! 14 armed…
Media Watch
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TV REVIEW: Breakfast TVNZ – Jacinda flushes away election & defends right wing experiment in welfare
Jacinda was on TVNZ Breakfast this morning and astonishingly stated that she wouldn’t consider doing an electorate deal with NZ First and the Greens.
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Rappler challenges Duterte’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back
As well as attacks on Rappler, President Duterte has also recently targeted the country’s main local TV station, ABS-CBN, and the Philippine Daily Inquirer with threats and punitive red tape in response to criticism of his autocratic leadership style.
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Waatea News Column: Marama Davidson’s Tamaki Makaurau attempt a chance for the Māori Party
One of the problems for the Green Party is that it is essentially a middle class party focused on alienating Identity Politics over and above the actual environment. This locks them into a very white electorate so on first blush, Marama Davidson’s declaration today to make a serious run at winning Tāmaki Makaurau makes sense as the Greens attempt to appeal outside their white middle class voter base.
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SOCIAL MEDIA WATCH: Are the woke on the side of the misunderstood Wuhan virus?
In a micro aggression policing culture where everyone is Judge, Jury and Executioner there have been the usual deplorable human beings of social media that made us all wish we would be wiped out.
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2pm today Magic Talk Radio – Simon Bridges vs Sean Plunket vs Damien Grant vs Bomber
THE THUNDERDOME OF TALKBACK!
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DUNCAN GARNER WATCH: I’ve read Incel manifestos on 4Chan that are more comprehensible than this
So it’s a new year and being part of a new year I have 10 New Year’s resolutions that I’m trying to stick to.
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Waatea News Column: Oranga Tamariki report highlights it’s the welfare of the State that matters not the babies they kidnap
The Children’s Commissioner has released his report into Oranga Tamariki and it is as pitiful as it is offensive.
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Middle class positive climate change journalism the new climate crisis danger
The Middle Classes will be as difficult to overcome as older white boomers when it comes to climate change. Older white boomers are climate deniers because they culturally feel alienated from debate and hate admitting environmentalists are right. The Middle Classes benefit immensely from the form of capitalism that is making climate change such a crisis and rather than outright denial, because that isn’t culturally acceptable amongst middle class dinner parties, the denial here is all wrapped up in positive bullshit.
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‘Monsters Inc’ – Ampatuan massacre justice aftermath with more fear of warlords, corruption
For decades, the feared Ampatuan clan held sway in the impoverished province of Maguindanao in Mindanao in the southern Philippines. Through a ruthless private army and a reported “propensity for beheadings”, the clan cultivated a culture of impunity. Now, however, reports David Robie from Manila, a courageous judge has challenged the horror by jailing the masterminds of the 2009 Ampatuan massacre for life.