Fortress NZ
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Date published: 11:25 am, September 16th, 2016 - 120 comments
TS regular Tony Veitch has some practical ideas as to how we insulate NZ from the ravages of neoliberalism and climate change. Readers may agree with some, none or all of the suggestions. However, whichever way you look at it, the time for hand wringing is over. It’s time for action.
The other war of the polls
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Date published: 9:00 am, September 16th, 2016 - 28 comments
The Dominion Post has received not one, but two polls on the Wellington mayoralty. So who’s coming out on top?
Stop the Sanctions!
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Date published: 7:05 am, September 16th, 2016 - 131 comments
Auckland Action Against Poverty is trying to get a sanction on sole mothers removed.
Open Mike 16/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 16th, 2016 - 80 comments
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Daily Review 15/09/2016
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Date published: 5:49 pm, September 15th, 2016 - 22 comments
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Maori Party to make a stand?
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Date published: 2:45 pm, September 15th, 2016 - 113 comments
The Maori Party are threatening to pull out of their confidence & supply agreement with National. This would leave National with a Hair-thin majority in the House. The Kermadec Sanctuary, if handled with competence instead of arrogance, should have been a massive win for National.
Right-wing mayor candidates try to kneecap themselves
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Date published: 7:07 am, September 15th, 2016 - 82 comments
Vic Crone isn’t sure humans are causing climate change, Palino doesn’t think Auckland is all that super, and Mark Thomas just wants people not to vote for Goff… It’s hardly an enticing bunch.
Open Mike 15/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 15th, 2016 - 181 comments
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Beware, creepy men of the right: Rawshark returns (briefly)
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Date published: 6:30 pm, September 14th, 2016 - 82 comments
An old handle flickered back into life briefly this afternoon: In 2014 I dumped: https://t.co/UhZSYEYyar — Whaledump2 (@whaledump2) September 14, 2016 Rawshark – presuming the account is still held and operated by the hacker who exposed the dodgy shenanigans between the WhaleOil blog, corporate lobbyists and senior National Party politicians – started with a screenshot from […]
Daily Review 14/09/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 14th, 2016 - 38 comments
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Labour Organising
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Date published: 10:09 am, September 14th, 2016 - 39 comments
From the UK. Organising 101.
Parliamentary Services is snooping on MPs’ emails
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Date published: 9:14 am, September 14th, 2016 - 123 comments
It appears that Parliamentary Services is monitoring MPs emails. And not just for things such as spam and viruses.
Optimism, determination and, above all, unity
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Date published: 7:30 am, September 14th, 2016 - 15 comments
At the Guardian, UK Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey reflects on the first year of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.
Open Mike 14/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 14th, 2016 - 153 comments
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Daily Review 13/09/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 13th, 2016 - 34 comments
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The trouble with polls
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Date published: 2:43 pm, September 13th, 2016 - 186 comments
Labour has released its latest UMR polling which shows a dramatically different result to that of the latest Colmar Brunton poll.
New Zealand is a socialist nirvana *
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Date published: 8:45 am, September 13th, 2016 - 65 comments
* at least according to David Seymour.
India’s general strike
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Date published: 8:30 am, September 13th, 2016 - 9 comments
The world’s biggest general strike ever occurred this month in India.
Open Mike 13/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 13th, 2016 - 212 comments
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Latest Colmar Brunton: NAT 48%, LAB+GR 39%
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Date published: 6:08 pm, September 12th, 2016 - 315 comments
National stays steady as she goes on 48%. Labour is down 3% to 26%.
Daily Review 12/09/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 12th, 2016 - 54 comments
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The homeless crisis is getting worse
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Date published: 8:46 am, September 12th, 2016 - 139 comments
Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago. But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.
Open Mike 12/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 12th, 2016 - 183 comments
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Lose yourself in the music
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Date published: 11:32 am, September 11th, 2016 - 25 comments
While we’re enjoying the popcorn at Williams vs Craig, there’s another enjoyable court case coming next year shortly before the election…
The manipulation of burglary statics
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Date published: 8:52 am, September 11th, 2016 - 36 comments
Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.
Open Mike 11/09/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 11th, 2016 - 86 comments
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Big Oil in plain packaging
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Date published: 7:30 am, September 10th, 2016 - 95 comments
Big Tobacco was hit this week in New Zealand after Parliament passed laws requiring smokes to be sold in plain packaging. The science about the health threats posed by smoking is settled, as is the science over climate change. When can we expect laws being passed against the oil companies?
Rally for Democracy
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Date published: 7:00 am, September 10th, 2016 - 14 comments
Details of the Rally for Democracy event in Auckland today.
Open Mike 10/09/2016
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Daily Review 09/09/2016
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 9th, 2016 - 9 comments
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Chloe King – John Key, I am a low waged worker, and neither “lazy” nor “drug addled”
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Date published: 2:39 pm, September 9th, 2016 - 254 comments
Blogger and social activist Chloe King, one of the hundreds of thousands of low waged workers in this country was devastated by John Key’s comments suggesting that she and others were lazy and had no work ethic. This is her response.
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