Let’s never forget what MediaWorks did to Journalism in NZ
…no wonder NZers are so utterly blind to what is happening in their country.
New Zealand Politics
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Mainstream media finally catch up to mass surveillance concerns over beneficiaries
The counter productive problems with National’s mass surveillance of beneficiaries is that vulnerable people who are already too terrified to engage with any Government agency will actively avoid getting any help so that the neoliberal welfare state can’t track them down and punish them.
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The evil that is Fonterra
While Fonterra get NZs favourite rugby boof head to sing their praise in TV and while the industry tries to hide the damage they do to our water and environment by flooding the country with cow shit, these buggers have been caught doing this…
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What century are we living in?
I don’t know this woman personally. All I know is that this is a frightening case for its insights into the judicial system.. Shamed for all the world to see in the media, this so called “benefit fraudster has “appealed her sentence in the High Court. Her original sin and conviction was for living with someone that MSD has deemed to be her partner.
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Keating and English’s colonial response to the SAS raid
Defence Chief Tim Keating and the Prime Minister exhibit the “colonial” reflex in completely ignoring the villagers as a source of information. Bill English looked at a few American videos of the battle and considered that to be enough to reject any inquiry. Keating didn’t consider evidence from the locals as relevant enough to mention.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Housing crisis not helped by smug speculators
We need Government that uses its powers to rebalance the extremes of free market capitalism, and we need politicians who aren’t frightened to say words like free market capitalism.
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Interesting new Poll shows 77% of NZ First voters want Labour led Government & majority want Labour
Two interesting polls out yesterday through Horizon.
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The new media focus on under 30s who have managed to buy houses is life style envy porn
The myths of neoliberalism are vital for it to continue as the dominant ideology, and the most important myth of neoliberalism is that with just some hard work from the individual you can be rich.
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6 months out from 2017 election – why Maori, Women and Youth vote could determine result
The Housing Crisis is still paying political dividends to National as the property speculating middle classes continue to back Bill English, but if Millennials and Gen Xers turn up angry at the polls, it could spell an end to National’s dream of a fourth term.
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Paula Bennett and the Ministry of ‘Yeah-nah’ – why she really hates a tourist tax
I think it tells us something about the failing landscape of journalism in NZ that the National Party can make hard right ideological decisions confronting the nation, and there isn’t the intellectual depth within our Press Gallery to even recognise and call it out.