Yawn – Jonathan Coleman quits – Northcote By-election
Coleman was an ineffectual beige fart on a beige wallpaper in a beige house owned by beige people.
New Zealand Politics
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ISIS isn’t a threat to us, the GCSB and SIS are!
…Brothers and siser, ISIS isn’t fucking threat to us, the biggest threat to us is the very GCSB and SIS who have mass surveillance powers, multi-million dollar budgets and hand everything over to the NSA who are a threat to us.
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Dear NZ media – your collective sycophancy towards Obama is sickening
Look, far be it for me, the only broadcaster in New Zealand to be banned for life from Radio NZ and who has been blacklisted from every political panel show in the country to lecture you all on your craft, but honestly, your coverage of Obama is possibly the most pathetic sycophancy I’ve ever had the displeasure of viewing.
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The Jonesy is right about Air NZ and why NZ First’s regional investment is so important
NZ owns 51% of Air NZ – like it or not they have a social obligation to provide services to provincial NZ and for Air NZ to attack the new Governments criticism is extraordinary.
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GUEST BLOG: Edward Miller – Triggering the doomsday device: how the current CPTPP process violates Confidence and Supply, and what the Greens should do about it
The Greens now remain the only party opposed to the CPTPP. That opposition has been predominantly comprised of a series of rousing speeches in the House from MP Golriz Ghahraman. With only 8 seats in the House, the Greens have been left explaining to their voters that there’s not much else they can do to change course.
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The Political Economy of Mainstream Political Journalism
FEW WOULD ARGUE that journalism is not in crisis. Beset by the manifold challenges of a global on-line culture, journalists struggle to keep pace with the demands of readers, listeners and viewers whose tastes they once led but now must follow. The mainstream news media’s dwindling share of the advertising dollar drives it inexorably towards the sensational, scandalous, salacious and bizarre “clickbait” upon which its profitability increasingly depends.
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Underfunded Nurses, Teachers & Midwives – the National Party legacy
The new Government MUST use this opportunity to bargain with the Unions for better pay and conditions in return for wholesale culture changes in each of those sectors.
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Oh come on everyone – how is it a surprise that Labour/Greens/NZ First had no idea what to do?
Radio NZ have done an interesting story looking at the plethora of reviews, working groups, advisory groups and investigations that the new Government have announced since coming to power…
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Did the National Party use Cambridge Analytica through Thiel’s Palantir in the 2017 election?
In the same week Cambridge Analytica has been busted exploiting Facebook data mining the NZDF is being forced to answer questions about Peter Thiel’s mass surveillance data mining.
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Herald catch NZDF out in war crime lie
Our media have a sorry history of being played like propaganda sock puppets by the NZDF. Here they are with full and undisputed evidence that the NZDF lied again and where is the wall to wall media focus demanding accountability?