Daily review 25/01/2023

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, January 25th, 2023 - 25 comments
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  1. Kat 1
    25 January 2023 at 5:56 pm

    Hopefully this data mining continues, the haters and wreckers will deny everything….of course….but they need to be exposed and deposed.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131045572/how-data-shines-a-light-on-the-online-hatred-for-jacinda-ardern

  2. adam 2
    25 January 2023 at 6:05 pm

    The egg mumbled more dog whistle shit. Whilst a new PM got sworn in.

    So this is it from the right, dirty politics until the election

    Joy.

    • roblogic 2.1
      25 January 2023 at 7:40 pm

      It's worse than the old attack politics on politicians. They are perpetuating a disinformation environment that feeds on hate and fear.

      This is dangerous, destructive territory, following the Trump example. Their dark money sources (oligarchs like Peter Thiel) don't like democracy much, or brilliant leaders like Jacinda.

  3. joe90 3
    25 January 2023 at 6:29 pm

    I'm sure Taibbi and co are flat out exposing foreign government influence on social media companies.

    /

    https://twitter.com/arjunsethi81/status/1617195591838072836

    Twitter and YouTube took down a BBC documentary critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in a genocidal 2002 massacre in the Indian state of Gujarat, The Intercept reports. The censorship was in coordination with the government of India, as officials called for the social media platforms to take action against what they considered a “propaganda piece.”

    https://archive.li/lwSGD (rolling stone)

  4. SPC 4
    25 January 2023 at 6:37 pm

    Christopher Luxon

    1. is part of a religion that believes in end time rapture into heaven (prosperity religion for the deserving few) while the many on earth are judged (how close is this to a 1% global market elite) by their regime for control of the under class.
    2. calls state service delivery and assistance to the poor part of the bottom feeding system of social democracy that he wants to end.
    3. says that one person one vote should mean there are no Maori seats (the tactic is one designed to intimidate the MP from supporting a left wing government alternative).

    Orewa 2004 The topic I will focus on today is the dangerous drift towards racial separatism in New Zealand, and the development of the now entrenched Treaty grievance industry. We are one country with many peoples, not simply a society of Pākehā and Māori where the minority has a birthright to the upper hand, as the Labour Government seems to believe".

    Brash hoped to get ACT 15% of the party vote in the 2011 election, but it only managed 1%. Brash resigned on election night and was later replaced as leader by John Banks

    In September 2016, Brash became the spokesperson for a new lobby group called Hobson's Pledge. The group was formed to oppose what Brash has described as Maori favouritism and advocates abolishing the Maori electorate seats.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Brash

    The belief that he is of the moderate centre, unlike Seymour, is a myth.

    • Muttonbird 4.1
      25 January 2023 at 6:57 pm

      NACT have done a full court press on Māori this week.

      1. Luxon calling co-governance immature, and saying Māori seats don't make sense.

      2. Seymour boycotting Rātana.

      The intent is to delegitimise and trivialise Māori Crown institution and tradition. Expect this behaviour to continue to build throughout the year and surge if they form Government.

      • SPC 4.1.1
        25 January 2023 at 7:57 pm

        We can expect any NACT government to be

        1. told by the UN they are in breach of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
        2. seen as non compliant with international GW action commitments.
  5. James Thrace 5
    25 January 2023 at 6:39 pm

    Latest RM poll not good for Lab/Grn.
    Will be interesting to see if Chippy stems the tide.

    https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9152-nz-national-voting-intention-december-2022

  6. Muttonbird 6
    25 January 2023 at 8:07 pm

    NACT must be furious. On the day they celebrated NZ's headline inflation figure of 7.2%, we find Australia's is higher at 7.8%.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/australias-annual-inflation-rate-hits-78-in-december-highest-since-1990/WJVWRDMCX5A2PPFWLBKLH67C5U/

  7. adam 7
    25 January 2023 at 8:22 pm

    For Incognito, the USA navy on climate crisis.

  8. Shanreagh 8
    25 January 2023 at 9:25 pm

    Sane & sensible review of Christopher Luxon's gaffe in raising Maori issues at Ratana while being welcomed as a visitor.

    Who is advising this guy?

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131064324/cogovernance-is-less-controversial-than-christopher-luxon-makes-out

    And again he walks back what he has said before.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131064324/cogovernance-is-less-controversial-than-christopher-luxon-makes-out

    PS I have seen pictures of Luxon sitting on a table at while speaking to teens I think inc Maori (I cannot find the pic but it was about 7 months ago.

    Bottoms don't go on tables where food might be served

    Again: Who is advising this guy?

    PPS Long may the gaffes continue and we need to point them out constantly.

  9. Shanreagh 9
    25 January 2023 at 9:35 pm

    I cannot amend my post above too much circling wheel of doom every time I tried.

    Clearing cache etc prob at my end.

    This was the example of the walk back that was mentioned in the article I linked to.

    'Quite rightly, this caused a stir – it left a bad taste in people’s mouths, including my own. Effectively, Luxon was a manuhiri who used the celebration of one of the most important and historic figures in Māoridom to effectively signal that if elected prime minister, his government would forgo the decades of work of previous governments (both National and Labour) in the practice of sharing power between Māori and the Crown.

    He later clarified to the media that he only meant in the provision of public services, but the damage had – in my view – already been done.'

  10. Graeme 10
    25 January 2023 at 10:10 pm

    I've always seen the Oddity (Otago Daily Times) as a right / National leaning rag.

    Today they did a pretty standard report on Luxon's Ratana speech. But the photo…..

    This is beyond explaining is loosing, this is lost it

  11. roblogic 11
    26 January 2023 at 12:01 am

    A nascent subculture of brownshirts is crawling out from under its rock. The landlord/ oligarch class is revealing its iron fist, and weaponising its gang of useful idiots.

    https://twitter.com/Te_Taipo/status/1618192944540057600?s=20

    • Shanreagh 11.1
      26 January 2023 at 9:51 am

      Thus depriving many of the ability to meet their MP. Nice.

      And the NAct anti 3/5 Waters mob feel that legislated/consulted co governance is a threat to democracy.

      Both legs furiously playing Jingle Bells

  12. tWiggle 12
    26 January 2023 at 12:15 am

    Luxon hasn't bothered to learn NZ political history. In the RNZ interview this morning he talked of Māori electorates being there for 'decades', but it's time to get rid of them. They've been a part of our Parliament since 1868. Not winning electorates for the Nats, though…a whiff of race-based voter suppression, perhaps?

  13. Shanreagh 13
    26 January 2023 at 9:46 am

    He seems hopelessly ill-educated/naive on many aspects of our lives in NZ.

    Is this a product of being exposed to a weirdo church & its prosperity doctrine and his focus on making money personally via international corporate capitalism?

    If so it is a warning to us all. Money does mean wisdom or even sense.

    I think we on this site mostly know this but it might be a thought to ponder for our RW contributors. smiley