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Critical view from the imperial periphery

Co-founder and Executive Producer for www.1of200.nz/podcast

Co-creator of trestle.nz


www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/7641-help-1of200-keep-independent-leftwing-critique-alive-in-aotearoa

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Idil's avatar Idil @idilsukan.bsky.social
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So this is so fucked up. What the hell. I noticed Jovan was making headway and then suddenly disappeared from the media. Turns out that disappearance could be from coordinated…. racist jealousy from Labour — or, and both options are the worst option — the implication Labour wanted Farage to win

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Johnny Cans's avatar Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social
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It's not quite done here but Labour went from twenty points plus ahead to a ten point lead in six weeks. And that Reform vote is a lot of that Tory vote. Look at those numbers and tell me this Labour majority is one that lasts another election.

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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It's not just because they "shout louder" - it's because they're backed by people who are rich and powerful and will platform them no matter what 🤷‍♀️

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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hate being right, but sometimes you just can't stop!

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Stephanie Rodgers 🌹's avatar Stephanie Rodgers 🌹 @bootstheory.bsky.social
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Did she call it or DID SHE FCKN CALL IT, people

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Dan's avatar Dan @danxduran.bsky.social
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I was at work the day it was announced he was leaving. You could literally hear when each person opened the email - it was a wave of shrieks of delight across the newsroom

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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Always revealing of the internal contradictions and arrogance when big talkers who otherwise love to quote aphorisms about “no free lunch” and nature/public/etc having to “pay its way” make claims that “one plus one can equal three”
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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1/200 Media's avatar 1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social
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China’s Spectre: Sinophobia, Military Escalation, And Our Relationship ✒️ New article up from Smith K. Stead about NZ's historical relationship with China and the risks of Sinophobia and hawkish rhetoric.

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D Jukic's avatar D Jukic @dejanajuk.bsky.social
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“The Cook Strait ferries debacle has focused on the cost blow-outs for the respective port upgrades but there has been little attention given to what is needed to ensure adequate connectivity between our two main islands.” #nzpol

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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There is some absolutely fantastic and important writing in this edition of the Pacific Journalism Review.

Including incredibly necessary reflections on the way media have treated the genocide in Gaza.

t.co/uaU43EgOCF

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Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara's avatar Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara @taipo.bsky.social
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My new years wish is for this country to endure through this period of difficulty, coming out the other side of all of this stronger together.

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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Systematic negligence putting communities at risk because a minority of econ freaks and profit-justifying lickspittles cannot cope with the idea of public services supported by taxes.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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1/200 Media's avatar 1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social
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Chaos Ferry 🎧

Another current events episode, another week where there’s too much happening. We talk NZ infrastructure failures, Ministers who seem to be the antithesis of their roles, Luxon gaffes, Sinophobia & US disinfo, & the continuing genocide in Gaza

w/ @kyledchurch.bsky.social and Oliver

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Funksta Uzz's avatar Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social
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AoNZ rallies & actions 4 Palestine June 21-23 FRIDAY Ngāmotu: 4.30pm Flag waving @Paynters Ave Br. Te Whanganui-a-Tara: 7.15am Flag waving @Hill St bridge Ōtautahi: 4-6pm Flag waving @Bridge of Remembrance [1/6]

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Jono's avatar Jono @jonocarpenter.bsky.social
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This! My fifteen year old.plays on an adult football team and the game management app doesn't let him contact any of his teammates or vice versa because he's under age! Any personal comms have to go through my profile.

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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The actual students involved are upset and believe it was inappropriate. The excuse-making completely ignores them. These useful idiots will never understand or acknowledge power and how it impacts social interactions (ofc if someone in Green Party did this, they would be snarking all over the tl).

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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The false equivalence of selfies and getting kids’ phone numbers and contacting them privately shows how out of touch and disrespectful of young people the NZ commentariat is. Red flags galore.

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M R. X. Dentith's avatar M R. X. Dentith @mrxdentith.com
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It must be frustrating for writers at the Spinoff to produce profound pieces about how the government seeks to extract capital from everything, only to have their pieces appear beside Duncan Grieve's paens as to why David Seymour or Chris Bishop might secretly be the cleverest person in the room

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Josh's avatar Josh @joshuadrummond.cynics.guide
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“food for thought!” honestly getting a bit tired of getting blithe neoliberal cheerleading in my inbox every morning

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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Is Amanda Luxon The Prime Minister's *minder*? Can't remember seeing a PM's spouse so consistently at the table in delegations & political meetings. Raises questions about protocols should she be privy to sensitive information. Seems like a move toward US style family integration with politics.

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Craig M. Ranapia's avatar Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social
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I wonder how The Herald's senior reporters and editors would feel about a dose of the same treatment they've given to David Bain and his family? That's a rhetorical question - as it takes zero imagination to picture the loud and litigious shit storm THAT would trigger.

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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This was such a good conversation. Enjoyed talking about the film, but even more so going into detail with Rowan about a range of issues, much of which couldn't make the final cut.

Cheers @ojutel.bsky.social for the hook-up!

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1/200 Media's avatar 1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social
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Pistachio Wars w/ Rowan Wernham 🎧

We chat with Rowan Wernham, director of upcoming documentary Pistachio Wars, about water privatisation in California and the impact that billionaire agriculture has on the environment, local populations and global politics.

www.1of200.nz/podcast/1200...

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Idiot/Savant's avatar Idiot/Savant @norightturnnz.bsky.social
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Meanwhile the Speaker is pressing for more money for Parliamentary security. So maybe we should demand costings for saving the life of every Minister, because it may be more cost-effective to let some die. "Its not a matter of cost-effectiveness"? Precisely.

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Bill Bennett's avatar Bill Bennett @billbennett.bsky.social
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In the run up to the election I researched economic history and discovered it’s a myth that National Party does a better job of managing the economy. It’s close and debatable , but, if anything, the opposite is true. Today’s news underlines that: www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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CocoNgāti 🍉's avatar CocoNgāti 🍉 @cocongati.bsky.social
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maybe we should switch things up a bit if our economy relies so heavily on exploiting workers from overseas

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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If they didn't want to be accused of sinophobia they shouldn't have included known sinophobes as an integral part of the reporting and then used sinophobic tropes to try and gussy up an emotional response from the audience. The whole thing is incredibly poor. I was very disappointed with it.

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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Yes it is sinophobic to tap into clear US-driven propaganda about China & use metaphors like "the Dragon striking" at NZ. Almost *nothing* is right in front of our eyes, many of their examples are from years ago & are just re-hashed, & the use of a tragic car crash as part of that is pretty depraved

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Grumpy's avatar Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social
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The crux of my contempt for RWers is their continuous gaslighting about how, if you want something, all you have to do is set your mind to it and work hard, and you'll achieve it. An outright lie, used to punch down and keep folk down.

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Johnny Cans's avatar Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social
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This week I'm going to have to discuss why the anti - fluoride movement rarking up the community is not something we can just let spin out because it opens the door for other harmful misinformation.

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kyle's avatar kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social
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that's a wild analogy. the stuff reporting relies deeply on innuendo as well as interviews with anti-china hawks without disclosure. There is almost *zero* nuance in their reporting. There are certainly arguments to be made about great power politics, but they've done those a disservice.

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Grumpy's avatar Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social
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Everyone's sick all the time and so NZ's coalition govt reduces sick leave, reintroduces pseudoephedrine, encourages sick kids to attend school, cuts free prescriptions, cuts public health staffing...

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Mark's avatar Mark @maetl.bsky.social
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I’m becoming more and more convinced that accumulation of cars, roads, road building and endless investment in road repairs are going to destroy the NZ economy over the next decade unless radical structural changes take place.

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Funksta Uzz's avatar Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social
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Stuff gave no pushback to these interviewees & didn’t disclose their backgrounds. Given the goals & funding sources of the orgs these people represent, why hasn’t Stuff queried whether those people were deliberately pushing narratives in service of 5 Eyes govt's hostile policies toward China?

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Funksta Uzz's avatar Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social
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There are some serious problems with Stuff’s latest Long Game project. Chief of which is the title and theme, which allude to some kind of decades-long plan by the Chinese government to [ominous music] ‘threaten NZ’s democracy’ and provides little evidence of anything of the sort.

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Terry Baucher's avatar Terry Baucher @trabaq.bsky.social
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A question for Simeon Brown. Why are you doing this when our road safety record is demonstrably worse than other countries? Our road deaths are more than TWICE as bad as either Ireland or the UK & over 50% worse than Australia.

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1/200 Media's avatar 1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social
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DocEdge and the Lie of Objective Filmmaking ✒️ New article from Jimmy Lanyard about NZ's very own DocEdge and it's penchant for reactionary programming. This one's important, folks.

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1/200 Media's avatar 1/200 Media @1of200.bsky.social
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Israel and Christian Zionism 🎧

We host James Harris co-founder of Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage to talk about his time in the West Bank and his belief that challenging Christian Zionism is a key factor to stopping the genocide.

with @kyledchurch.bsky.social and Mitch Cramer

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