Top 5 dumbest crap NZ media said about Local Elections wrap up
The media’s ignorance is our ignorance and their chase for clickbait bullshit clouds our ability to have a functioning democracy.
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Minto for Mayor campaign in celebration mode
We didn’t win the mayoralty but we made great progress on the major issue of asset sales and we think we have pushed the incoming council to take a stronger stand on each of the big issues we raised during the campaign.
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS: How the Left beat the Right and Why Chloe Swarbrick is the real winner
The most boring election known to human kind is over, and it’s been a sprawling failure for democracy (barely 40% voted) and it’s been the dullest (nothing much will really change).
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Response to Dr Paul Moon on Women’s Boat to Gaza
In an article published on 7 October, Dr Paul Moon, Auckland University of Technology, called the women whose vessel was hijacked in international waters by the Israeli Navy, “fools”. Astonishingly, he accused Green MP Marama Davidson of having “little understanding of the geopolitical situation in the region”. Dr Moon called the courageous expedition “a ship of fools” and a “cheap media stunt”.
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Is it weird to live in a country where a rugby player having sex in a toilet is a bigger story than one of our MPs being kidnapped?
Nothing makes me feel as disorientated in my own culture as the news media focus on banality over actual issues. Watching everyone suddenly develop an opinion on gossip reminds me how easily led our fellow citizens have become.
This is why John Key wins elections.
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Open Letter to Murray McCully
Marama, the proud mother of six tamariki, needs your support to pressure the Israeli government to release her and the other 12 peaceful international activists who were on board of Zaytouna when illegally intercepted by the Israeli Navy on international waters.
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Will Mike Hosking or Duncan Garner interview the bathroom that the All Black had sex in? How does the bathroom feel?
Has any reporter sniffed the toilet seat?
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Israeli hijacking of Women’s Boat to Gaza – An open letter to Murray McCully
We ask you to strongly condemn the illegal Israeli hijacking of the Women’s Boat to Gaza, Zaytouna-Oliva, in international waters, 70 kilometres from the Gaza shore.
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BREAKING – Israel has forced Women’s Boat to Gaza off its course
Please take action now. Demand that Israel ensure the safety & respect of all the women, and immediately releases the Women’s Boat to Gaza and all on board, and allow her to continue to her destination – the port of Gaza City.
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Oh God No! Pence Wins
All Pence had to do was tell the hard religious right of America that the wrapper may be a populist blue collar yob, but the steel hard military industrial complex core of Republicanism is in safe ultra religious hands.