Northland by election – National gets desperate

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Date published: 10:13 am, March 19th, 2015 - 37 comments

National is obviously deeply afraid of losing the Northland By Election as is clearly shown by the liberal application of pork barrel politics, the misuse of statistics, the use of Ministerial resources to help campaigning and now the bullying of a local group seeking to have a local road improved.

Shame shame shame

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Date published: 7:12 am, March 19th, 2015 - 206 comments

Last night in Parliament National voted down Harawira / Turei’s Feed the Kids Bill, David Shearer’s Food in Schools Bill, and Phil Twyford’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill.

Open mike 19/03/2015

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Date published: 6:25 am, March 19th, 2015 - 154 comments

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Caption competition

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Date published: 2:50 pm, March 18th, 2015 - 49 comments

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Key admits he’s using our troops as vote-bait

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Date published: 11:30 am, March 18th, 2015 - 30 comments

Yesterday the mask slipped and John Key admitted the real reason our deployment to Iraq is only for two years: so he can win an election.

900,000 comments

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Date published: 9:02 am, March 18th, 2015 - 28 comments

Yesterday morning we went though 900k comments. We have done another 100k comments in 188 days since September 10th. We are slightly behind our long predicted exponential growth to a million comments in August.

NRT: Who is lying here?

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Date published: 8:31 am, March 18th, 2015 - 25 comments

GST wasn’t Key’s only bungle yesterday. I/S at No Right Turn reports…

Len Brown is toast

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Date published: 8:00 am, March 18th, 2015 - 119 comments

Bernard Orsman has reported in the Herald today that Len Brown’s campaign team no longer back him and are considering support for a Phil Goff run for the mayoralty.

PM can’t calculate GST

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Date published: 7:24 am, March 18th, 2015 - 66 comments

Gotcha politics is all good sport when the opposition makes a mistake. How about Key’s self-inflicted blunder?

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Date published: 6:44 am, March 18th, 2015 - 168 comments

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Feed the Kids

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Date published: 4:16 pm, March 17th, 2015 - 45 comments

Harawira / Turei’s Feed the Kids bill is up tomorrow today in Parliament…

Keep it in the ground

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Date published: 2:09 pm, March 17th, 2015 - 14 comments

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All Apologies

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Date published: 12:49 pm, March 17th, 2015 - 332 comments

Did commenters on the recent Julian Assange post overstep the mark in their defence of the Wikileaks founder? Are they really rape apologists?

Defining the truth

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Date published: 10:31 am, March 17th, 2015 - 12 comments

Changes being considered at Google have far reaching implications. Who gets to decide what is true?

How much is National’s Northland panic costing the taxpayer?

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Date published: 7:33 am, March 17th, 2015 - 147 comments

So our PM is cutting short state business for the purposes of party campaigning. Since Key invented the whole silly hats game, I guess it’s fair to ask if he still gets paid as PM when he is acting in his capacity as Party Leader? If so, why?

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Date published: 6:35 am, March 17th, 2015 - 124 comments

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The Killing Moon

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Date published: 4:11 pm, March 16th, 2015 - 75 comments

TV3 have sacked two judges on X Factor NZ, while Jeremy Clarkson is more popular than ever. When is TV going to pull the plug on itself?

And yet the cast of Dirty Politics are still at large in the media

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Date published: 3:17 pm, March 16th, 2015 - 46 comments

Herald: “Natalia Kills & Willy Moon are no longer suitable to judge X Factor”.

Surveillance newspeak

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Date published: 1:03 pm, March 16th, 2015 - 18 comments

Key’s attempt to play cute with the semantics of surveillance is part of an international strategy. Here’s Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept.

The Northland coverup

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Date published: 9:32 am, March 16th, 2015 - 64 comments

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International travel perks for the people who got us into this mess?

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Date published: 8:30 am, March 16th, 2015 - 81 comments

The blogosphere leads the way in breaking a story about yet another sack of cash for MPs …

Donate for cyclone recovery

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Date published: 6:49 am, March 16th, 2015 - 5 comments

Vanuatu has been badly hit, with many dead, and significant damage. There is a Red Cross donations page here.

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Date published: 6:35 am, March 16th, 2015 - 81 comments

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Still making things go boom dangerously

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Date published: 5:27 pm, March 15th, 2015 - 26 comments

I have been reading Neil Sheenan’s “A fiery peace in a cold war” on the development of the US ICBM forces in the 50s. At the same time I’ve been reading last week’s Economist, including a feature on the current developing arms race in nuclear weapon systems. Quietly falling into another insane arms race.

Two views on Titirangi’s Kauri

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Date published: 12:24 pm, March 15th, 2015 - 24 comments

Rodney Hide has published a column about the ancient Titirangi Kauri which predictably argues that land owners should do what they want. But John Roughan has argued to the contrary in an article that will make you wonder if he is actually a greenie at heart.

Spying and the terrorism excuse

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Date published: 11:34 am, March 15th, 2015 - 25 comments

The next time that John Key says that we spy so as to keep NZ safe from terrorism, could some journalist please please ask him if the PM of the Solomon Islands is a terrorist?

Finally!

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Date published: 11:25 am, March 15th, 2015 - 500 comments

Julian Assange to be allowed to answer to accusations…

Heroes and Villains

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Date published: 10:41 am, March 15th, 2015 - 9 comments

Thinking authorities in the west have yet discover the difference between their arse and their elbow…

Open mike 15/03/2015

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Date published: 7:30 am, March 15th, 2015 - 97 comments

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Chutzpah in Northland

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Date published: 9:47 am, March 14th, 2015 - 44 comments

Winston Peters has challenged John Key to a debate in Northland.

Catching up with Key

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Date published: 8:36 am, March 14th, 2015 - 140 comments

You can only bungle and lie for so long before people get sick of it. Seems like it’s all starting to catch up with Key at last.

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