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Trumputin

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:10 am, July 17th, 2018 - 206 comments

Donald Trump has directly contradicted the collective decision of the United States Security agencies by denying that there was Russian involvement in the last US general election.

Free Speech Coalition’s litigation strikes a major snag

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:59 am, July 17th, 2018 - 138 comments

The free speech coalition’s desire to get the High Court to enforce the rights of Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux has struck a potential snag. A rather major snag.

Do republicans really want to arm infants?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:40 am, July 16th, 2018 - 17 comments

It appears that Sacha Baron Cohen has succeeded in getting prominent Republicans to say stupid things about arming kids.

Free Tommy Robinson *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:29 am, July 15th, 2018 - 66 comments

* with every purchase.

Theresa May’s and England’s bad week

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:01 pm, July 13th, 2018 - 47 comments

In the space of a week England has lost in its goal of winning the world cup, had three senior ministers resign over May’s “soft” BREXIT proposal and now Donald Trump has effectively called for Theresa May to be replaced by Boris Johnson.

The free speech coalition that is actually quite expensive

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:07 am, July 11th, 2018 - 168 comments

The Free Speech coalition, formed to protect freedom of speech for the far right, has amongst its members some whose views on what freedom of speech actually is are unusual.

Cake makers and fascists

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:19 am, July 10th, 2018 - 412 comments

A Warkworth cake maker has refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. The situation raises the question should she be allowed to discriminate against others on the grounds that she is exercising her rights of religious belief.

Dotcom loses in the Court of Appeal

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:05 am, July 9th, 2018 - 60 comments

The Court of Appeal has released its decision in the Kim Dotcom extradition case. The case has had a lot of resources thrown at it by both sides and I hope my brief description does the arguments and the judgment justice. The decision can be read here. As befits the resources that have been poured […]

The extent of the right to free speech

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:02 am, July 8th, 2018 - 354 comments

Lauren Southern’s cancelled lecture has caused some debate about what freedom of speech is, is it absolute, and if not where is the line to be drawn?

Far right Canadian activist wants to come to New Zealand to insult local communities

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:08 pm, July 6th, 2018 - 292 comments

Far right journalist Lauren Southern wants to come to New Zealand to give a speech which will no doubt insult various communities. Should we let her in?

Apparently Labour was to blame for the global financial crisis

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:00 am, July 5th, 2018 - 65 comments

These sorts of debates do my head in. Essentially because they are so removed from reality that anyone with any sense would know that Labour was not responsible for the last global financial crisis. But apparently the opposition spokesperson does not understand what happened in 2008. Does this seem a bit harsh? Well it is […]

US Democrats plan to start civil war today *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:32 am, July 4th, 2018 - 42 comments

* according to Alex Jones on Infowars.

The teachers’ strike

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:00 am, July 4th, 2018 - 56 comments

Teachers have indicated they will also be seeking a significant catch up in salaries and job conditions after a decade of neglect.

The right wing media’s infatuation with breeding

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:57 am, July 3rd, 2018 - 99 comments

Elements in the media clearly think that the payment of a modest amount to families with young babies will cause them to breed babies for a business.

Mexico turns left

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:48 am, July 3rd, 2018 - 53 comments

In Mexico a leftist Bernie Sanders like friend of Jeremy Corbyn has been elected as President in a landslide.

Families Package and Auckland Regional Fuel tax kick in

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:24 am, July 2nd, 2018 - 48 comments

Labour’s Family Package and the Auckland Regional Fuel tax have both kicked in.

Doofus of the week – July 1, 2018

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:34 am, July 1st, 2018 - 15 comments

The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.

Another day, another mass shooting in the US of A *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, June 29th, 2018 - 41 comments

* but this one involves a media outlet and not a school.

Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:35 pm, June 28th, 2018 - 51 comments

Barry Soper in the Herald has fallen for National’s fake news concerning something said by Jacinda Ardern that was taken totally out of context.

Socialist candidate rolls Democrat heavyweight in primary

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:11 am, June 28th, 2018 - 44 comments

In a major upset the fourth ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives has lost a New York primary to a young latino woman who is a self described socialist as well as a Bernie Sanders supporter.

Shock horror, National is telling fibs about Labour’s Industrial Relations policy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, June 27th, 2018 - 102 comments

National has claimed that Jacinda Ardern ruled out national strikes during the last year’s election campaign. And has trimmed a video and taken comments out of context to justify its claim.

The right is in disarray

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:17 am, June 26th, 2018 - 163 comments

David Seymour bombs out of dancing with the stars and Simon Bridges refuses to apologise for calling Neve’s parents “pinko”. Just another week in the train wreck that is right wing politics in New Zealand.

The zero carbon bill

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:06 am, June 25th, 2018 - 88 comments

The Ministry for the Environment has released a discussion paper on a Zero Carbon Bill. But one proposal is to exempt methane which would mean that effectively half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gasses would not be subject to limitation.

Doofus of the week June 24, 2018

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:44 pm, June 24th, 2018 - 37 comments

The latest in an occasional series where we celebrate the horrendously awful and bizarre behaviour of political figures both locally and overseas.

How low can Simon Bridges go?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:12 pm, June 22nd, 2018 - 90 comments

Simon Bridges was interviewed on Radio Hauraki and chose to suggest that Jacinda’s baby may vote National, cost too much money even though she was born in a pubic hospital and transported to hospital in a private vehicle, and should go to school in boy’s clothing.

New Zealand basks in the birth of the Prime Minature

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:41 am, June 22nd, 2018 - 40 comments

Day one of her life and New Zealand is basking in the birth of the Prime Minature.

Children should never be used as bargaining chips

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:27 am, June 21st, 2018 - 66 comments

Donald Trump has announced a “backdown” of the policy of separating children of refugees from their parents at the US border. Instead they will be imprisoned with their parents potentially for extended periods of time.

The United States is becoming a rogue state

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:57 pm, June 20th, 2018 - 53 comments

The United States of America in its support for Israeli trashing of Palestinian rights and the withdrawal of support for the United Nations Human Rights Council as well as the mass incarceration of children of parents who have tried to enter the United States without permission is displaying concerning signs.