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The poll shift and the flag fiasco
Written By: - Date published: 8:17 am, April 27th, 2016 - 37 comments
A straight 3.5% swap National to NZF looks to me like the impact of the flag fiasco.
Key prepares to backflip on Auckland housing
Written By: - Date published: 8:18 am, April 26th, 2016 - 126 comments
John Key is preparing the ground for a reversal on National’s refusal to do anything about Auckland’s housing crisis.
NZ – The underarm bowlers of climate change
Written By: - Date published: 8:34 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 18 comments
NZ under the Key government has hit new depths of ignominy as per capita the world’s biggest climate change cheat. And we plan to keep using the fraudulent “credits” we have purchased.
Key launches war on P
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 89 comments
“My message to the gangs is clear. This Government is coming after your business and we will use every tool we have to destroy it. We will be ruthless in our pursuit of you and the evil drug you push.”
Oravida and the water that no one owns
Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, April 21st, 2016 - 86 comments
Oravida is in the news again. It is exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of fresh water and the cost to the authorities of $500 per year.
John’s Key’s “lawyer” is not a lawyer
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 199 comments
John Key, explaining why he had an account with tax avoidance specialists Antipodes Trust Group, said he used the firm because his long-term friend, Ken Whitney, is a principal at the firm and has been his private lawyer for many years. The flaw in that theory is that Whitney is not currently a lawyer.
Bowron on a tired government
Written By: - Date published: 2:53 pm, April 18th, 2016 - 349 comments
Jane Bowron writes in the Dominion Post: “Two things happened this week that could signal the beginning of the end of John Key and his government.”
Can we trust John Key?
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, April 13th, 2016 - 334 comments
John Key’s relationship with Antipodes Trust Group Limited will need some explaining.
How much do you give John?
Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, April 13th, 2016 - 30 comments
Maybe this is why John Key does not want to release his tax returns.
Key’s deposit with company specialising in foreign trusts
Written By: - Date published: 4:40 pm, April 12th, 2016 - 66 comments
Well well well.
Whitewash a certainty in tax haven review
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, April 12th, 2016 - 77 comments
John Key’s solution to the exposure of his ludicrous claims that New Zealand has full disclosure on foreign trusts nor is tax haven, is to appoint an expert in tax avoidance as the so-called “independent expert” to review the laws. As fallout from the “Panama Papers” has escalated and the prime minister’s claims are seen […]
PM forced to release his tax details
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, April 12th, 2016 - 46 comments
Not our PM, the UK’s David Cameron. Our PM is under pressure to do the same, but refuses. He claims that all his taxes are “beyond reporach”. But he has form (TranzRail shares) on lying about his financial affairs.
Netflix tax – another one for you peasants
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, April 11th, 2016 - 20 comments
While Key is fighting to make sure our country remains a haven for his rich mates, he’s about to hit you and I with yet another tax. I don’t have a problem with taxes, but I do take issue with the hypocrisy.
Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven
Written By: - Date published: 6:51 am, April 11th, 2016 - 289 comments
John Key personally directed the 2011 law change that turned NZ into an attractive tax haven.
It’s part of a complicated context involving his failed plan to turn NZ into a “financial hub”.
Key attends secret lunch to raise cash for flag change campaign
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, April 9th, 2016 - 102 comments
The Herald has reported that John Key helped with fundraising for the flag referendum by attending a private lunch with six wealthy donors.
One of these things is not like the others XIII
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, April 9th, 2016 - 31 comments
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not quite the same.
Can you guess which one is not like the other, can you tell me before I finish the game?
A Song from John (All your questions answered)
Written By: - Date published: 3:18 pm, April 8th, 2016 - 4 comments
Okay. So rumoour has it that John was merely a co-writer.
TPPA review time slashed
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 8th, 2016 - 38 comments
The Government has reduced the time the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee has to report back on submissions on the TPPA from one month to five days.
Panama vows action – NZ closes its eyes
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, April 8th, 2016 - 18 comments
The cycle of corrupt money. 100% tax haven. And we’re being put to shame by Panama.
Kiwibank sale to NZ Super, ACC privatisation by stealth
Written By: - Date published: 11:58 am, April 7th, 2016 - 52 comments
The transfer of part of Kiwibank to the Cullen Fund will inevitably lead to its privatisation, no matter what the Government says.
Panama tax rort stirs world leaders but not Key
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, April 7th, 2016 - 18 comments
The Panama Papers highlight a significant problem for the countries of the world. The actions of the 1% is robbing countries throughout the world of funds needed to run their countries and underlines that the capitalist system is based on greed. Most leaders see this but not John Key.
Obama calls for international tax reform – what will Key do now?
Written By: - Date published: 6:31 am, April 7th, 2016 - 122 comments
Key has made it clear that he doesn’t care that NZ is operating as an international tax haven. When The Greens called for action he called them “barking mad”. But last night President Obama called for international action on tax reform. What will Key do now?
What could be causing the ‘crisis of distrust’ in government?
Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, April 6th, 2016 - 43 comments
It’s a bit of a mystery really.
Andrew Little on the Panama Papers: NZ is a soft touch
Written By: - Date published: 1:41 pm, April 5th, 2016 - 27 comments
Video of Andrew Little discussing the Panama Papers and John Key’s response.
John Key’s response to the Panama Papers leak
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, April 5th, 2016 - 42 comments
John Key and National are floundering and trying urgently to work out what lines they should use concerning the release of the Panama Papers.
Deborah Russell: What’s going on with foreign trusts?
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, April 5th, 2016 - 66 comments
Deborah Russell provides expert analysis and commentary on the treatment of foreign trusts in New Zealand and how there is actually a loophole.
Panama Papers: NZ is a tax haven
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, April 5th, 2016 - 29 comments
The Panama Papers show that NZ operates a tax haven. Key’s denials don’t hold up, particularly in the light of at least two three prior warnings that his government has received.
NRT: Our fearmongering Prime Minister
Written By: - Date published: 10:53 am, April 4th, 2016 - 11 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the “jihadi brides” lie. “This sort of shit is why we cannot trust our spies, or the Ministers who “oversee” them…”
NZ Tax Haven Inc – of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, April 4th, 2016 - 92 comments
A huge leak of confidential documents which reveals how the rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth suggests that New Zealand plays its part.
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