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US Elections : Reality TV with Consequences
Consequences for New Zealand Even as far removed as we possibly can get from the US election circus we cannot avoid watching it. It is on our TV, radio and in the newspapers. Lets asses if the media got it right … Continue reading
US Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Valentine’s Gift
Is it a gift to New Zealand ? If we like it or not the US Supreme Court matters to us in New Zealand as much as the rest of the “Western” world. We just signed the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Society
Tagged Al Gore, Antonin Scalia, corporate influence, democracy, George W Bush, TPPA, US Supreme Court
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Waitangi Week with a Happy Ending
Lets not get into the annual Waitangi Day racist redneck rants of the uneducated idiots populating our media. They are just a sad indictment of their barren minds and of their media handlers’ desire to find an ever lower common … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Society
Tagged dildo protest, Hone Harawira, John Key, John Oliver, TPPA, Waitangi Day
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One Photo worth $ 276,753.05
To be precise it was not just this one photo but the one photo opportunity, which lead to this photo and the rest of the coverage of John Key’s last visit to New Zealand troops in Iraq, which cost the … Continue reading
Media – Branch of the Corporate State ?
“We all more or less hate the media as countless polls about the trustworthiness of various professions show. Journalists always rank at the bottom between politicians and used cars salesmen. But we as a democratic society cannot function without news … Continue reading
Posted in Media Grabs, politics, Society
Tagged BBC, Bernie Sanders, CNN, George Orwell, Jeremy Corbyn, John Key, Rupert Murdoch, TPPA
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How long will John Key succeed with his contempt for voters ?
It does not stop to amaze me how John Key and the National Party treat voters in Northland and the general public in New Zealand with contempt. They must assume that we are not only stupid but the enemy and they … Continue reading
Posted in Media Grabs, politics, Society
Tagged Edward Snowden, ISDS, John Key. Mike Sabin, Kim Dotcom, TPPA, Winston Peters
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100 years after Gallipoli New Zealand’s ‘freedom and democracy’ will be decided in Northland
100 ago New Zealanders fought at Gallipoli for ‘freedom and democracy’ so we are told. Now our freedom and democracy hang in the balance depending on the result of the Northland by-election. Stuff reports that John Key is warning voters there is no “free … Continue reading
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Tagged Dirty Politics, ISDS, John Key, Noam Chomsky, TPPA
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Sky City / TPPA – A lesson in Capitalism
The Sky City Casino / Convention Centre government back-paddle seems to get us back to the position of “no cost to the tax – or ratepayers”. Don’t bet on it ! For starters it was never and still is not … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, politics, Society
Tagged John Key, Noam Chomsky, Rio Tinto, Sky City, TPPA, Tui ad, Warner Brothers
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