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Xero doesn’t like being on the receiving end
Written By: - Date published: 1:28 pm, December 11th, 2015 - 16 comments
Xero used to fund hate for hire blog Whaleoil via advertising, because “we like to support the sunlight of good challenging discussions”. But when they became the targets of attack they didn’t like being on the receiving end.
Hey Tracy Watkins – Judith Collins was not “cleared” of dirty politics
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, December 8th, 2015 - 33 comments
No, Judith Collins was never investigated, let alone “cleared”, of the serious issues raised by Dirty Politics. After a token year off Key is happy to have her back because he has precisely as many principles as she does.
Carter’s last fan
Written By: - Date published: 11:26 am, December 7th, 2015 - 15 comments
How fitting that Audrey Young is Speaker David Carter’s very last fan in the world.
Collins and the “monster” board
Written By: - Date published: 10:21 am, December 7th, 2015 - 43 comments
Idiot turn of phrase or deliberately inflammatory? You be the judge.
National Ltd™’s Sam Lotu-Iiga tries to pull the wool over our eyes
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, December 4th, 2015 - 12 comments
It was suggested in Parliament that SERCO’s first place position on the Prison Performance Table had been the result of Lotu-Iiga and his department having had the wool pulled over their eyes.
Police raiding journalists is a thing now
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, December 2nd, 2015 - 132 comments
Yesterday the police raided the home of a 3 News journalist. This seems to be quite a trend in the Brighter Future.
Jarrod Gilbert 1 – Windmills 0
Written By: - Date published: 7:09 am, November 29th, 2015 - 22 comments
About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.
Jarrod Gilbert is tilting at windmills
Written By: - Date published: 7:33 am, November 27th, 2015 - 38 comments
The Official Information Act is now moribund and access to information beyond its scope is granted only to a chosen few and under strict conditions.
Nats campaigning with public money
Written By: - Date published: 12:22 pm, November 26th, 2015 - 45 comments
Campaigning with public money. Politicising the public service. Cabinet club is cash for access. This is a corrupt government.
Police censoring research
Written By: - Date published: 1:17 pm, November 25th, 2015 - 25 comments
Police censorship of research is causing widespread outrage today. Well done to Dr Gilbert and The Herald for bringing it all to light.
Key’s rapists attack a dead cat that keeps biting
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, November 23rd, 2015 - 28 comments
Was Key’s bizarre rant in Parliament – accusing Labour of supporting rapists and murderers – a deliberate “dead cat” strategy? If so then it has backfired badly. Still in the headlines 2 weeks later, and probably costing him in the polls.
Read my lips – some new taxes
Written By: - Date published: 11:23 am, November 20th, 2015 - 29 comments
National willfully stupidly blind on climate change
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, November 20th, 2015 - 98 comments
As the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment warns of the risks of sea level rises and recommends action, National are clear that they will take none. They are determined to leave all the risks and costs of climate change to future governments.
The third Industrial Revolution
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, November 19th, 2015 - 107 comments
The Paris climate change talks will force leaders to confront climate change and the threat of terrorism at the same time. Can they show the same determination to deal with the gradual but inevitable threat of climate change as they purport to show to deal with the immediate threat of terrorism.
Something Smells, Honest John
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, November 18th, 2015 - 53 comments
Seems Ms Adams is the latest prepared to jump under a bus to save the beloved Honest John. Self interest is strong in this one.
Slack on our craven human rights record
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, November 15th, 2015 - 24 comments
David Slack is on fire this morning with his take on our craven human rights record – in the form of imagined NCEA questions.
Groser flips the bird to the Judiciary and NZ Laws
Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, November 13th, 2015 - 13 comments
The Law? That’s not for Cabinet Members, the Law is for the lazy malcontents who don’t want to work hard.
Making the Opposition the Enemy –
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 am, November 13th, 2015 - 18 comments
It takes fortitude to admit you are wrong. That’s right, not weakness but, strength, courage, resilience, grit, determination, endurance, guts, and staying power. When you won’t admit you are wrong you end up having to justify wrong decisions. That takes time and energy (and money) away from what actually needs to be done for the greater good. John Key won’t admit he is wrong. Because of this he has to keep going down several paths of “wrongness”, and because he is Prime MInister, he is taking us all with him. Some people think he does admit he made mistakes. But when you examine the few instances closer (if you can find them), it looks like something else.
Joining the dots
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 am, November 11th, 2015 - 90 comments
Was Key’s “outburst” in Parliament yesterday an outburst, or was it a strategy?
Serial fondler accuses Labour of “backing rapists”
Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, November 10th, 2015 - 214 comments
Serial fondler of young persons’ hair and celebrity PM impersonator John Key lost it in Parliament today.
Minister declined to comment…
Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, November 9th, 2015 - 9 comments
Isn’t it amazing how many Ministers can’t wait to front up to the media when they are selling. But when it comes to after sale service they just don’t want to front?
National – rubbish at everything except politics
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, November 7th, 2015 - 50 comments
National are rubbish at everything except politics. And that’s not politics in a good way.
TPPA text released
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 pm, November 5th, 2015 - 99 comments
The text of the TPPA has finally been released to the plebs – i.e. we the people. Too little too late.
NRT: The SIS is unfit for purpose
Written By: - Date published: 2:09 pm, November 4th, 2015 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes on today’s IGIS report: “The overall picture is that SIS is a mess and highly resistant to change…”
The Pacific as we know it is doomed
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, November 4th, 2015 - 211 comments
“‘Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,’ says Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama”. Odds of the world acting decisively in the coming weeks – effectively nil.
4 days Left to answer Ombudsmen Survey
Written By: - Date published: 9:52 am, November 3rd, 2015 - 5 comments
People have just four days left to tell the Chief Ombudsman about their experiences of making requests to government agencies under the Official Information Act if they are to inform her enquiry into government agencies’ OIA practices.
Petition on Slater’s hate speech
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, October 31st, 2015 - 128 comments
Well I’m glad we cleared that up
Written By: - Date published: 11:08 am, October 27th, 2015 - 25 comments
Wallowing in extravagance
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, October 23rd, 2015 - 16 comments
“Wallowing in extravagance” is how Labour described the latest news of extreme spending from Steven Joyce’s MBIE.
Jane Kelsey on Groser’s proven breach of duty
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, October 16th, 2015 - 24 comments
“Throughout the TPPA negotiations Minister Groser sought to justify their obsessive secrecy with a mantra that ‘it’s always done this way’. That was parroted unquestioningly by every fellow travelling journo and politician, and others who were unwilling to challenge the Minister, despite being told that was untrue.
Groser changed his tune during the case, arguing that ‘every agreement is different’ and the TPPA is special. Why the shift?
Lucky Labour – disgraceful Speaker
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, October 16th, 2015 - 37 comments
Three of the four member’s bills drawn yesterday were sponsored by Labour leaders. What followed was one of the most disgusting maneuvers ever pulled by this government, justifying the headline – Nats play politics while Kiwi kids die in homes.
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