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I see a poverty of ideas and a poverty of Government responsibility

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:35 am, October 13th, 2016 - 210 comments

Judith Collins yesterday said that child poverty is the fault of parents and not the fault of her Government.

Clinton vs Trump; Debate 2

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 8:25 am, October 10th, 2016 - 235 comments

Round 2 of the Presidential debates. Trump is on the ropes, can Clinton land the knockout blow? Certainly, there’s a lot of Republican Party grandees hoping Hillary puts them out of their misery. Seconds out at 2PM, NZ time.

UPDATE: Obama nailed Trump’s real issue a few minutes ago; it’s insecurity. Video in post.

UPDATE 2: LIVE STREAM now in post.

He isn’t a racist because his ex wife is from Singapore

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 - 139 comments

Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.

Dear Herald you can do better than Rodney Hide

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:15 am, September 25th, 2016 - 248 comments

Rodney Hide continues to provide extreme analysis free right wing ramblings courtesy of the Herald.  Is it time for them to reintroduce a left wing columnist?

Paula Bennett improves supply of housing, or does she?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:02 pm, September 19th, 2016 - 74 comments

National’s latest plan to do something about the housing crisis is to buy a Motel and kick families who stay there out on the street.

The homeless crisis is getting worse

Written By: mickysavage - 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.

NZ: Home of Rugby, Raping and Beer

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 3:30 pm, September 8th, 2016 - 103 comments

The whitewash of the rugby players who assaulted a woman at a post season piss up has been released. A mightily relieved rugby boss Steve Tew can now go into the rest of the season knowing that the All Black squad will not be affected by the loss of any players to suspension. The only person to have lost their job over the incident is the victim. How cool is that?

The right for Spy’s to break the law, bill.

Written By: KJT - Date published: 4:49 pm, August 30th, 2016 - 16 comments

No Right Turn has reminded me that the deadline for submissions on the Spy bill is 7th October 2016. Submissions.  can be made here. The spy bill. The bill makes it illegal for civil servants, or anyone else,  to blow the whistle on the Government. It makes it legal for spies to break laws at […]

Foreign buyers estimated at 29%

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:03 am, August 25th, 2016 - 75 comments

Most of the media has reported the Government’s “3%” spin on the extent of residential property purchases in NZ going to foreign buyers pretty uncritically. There have been honourable exceptions, and yesterday property editor Anne Gibson in The Herald joined them.

Someone in Hamilton is racist as well as stupid

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 36 comments

Someone in Hamilton thinks that someone who wears a turban must be an ISIS supporting terrorist.

Auckland Future’s fuster cluck of a campaign

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:12 am, August 13th, 2016 - 5 comments

Auckland Future’s campaign has struck problems with candidates being nominated for the wrong positions, multiple right wing candidates running for the same positions and questions over whether the vetting of candidates has been as optimal as could be hoped for.

Chris de Freitas now is the time to be afraid

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:53 am, July 30th, 2016 - 161 comments

As the temperatures increase and the sea rises Chris de Freitas still claims that anthropogenic climate change is not a happening thing.  And shows his inability to analyze by misinterpreting a Jarrod Gilbert article which describes climate change deniers as charlatans.

Todd McClay gets thrown under a bus

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:22 am, July 26th, 2016 - 56 comments

John Key has thrown Todd McClay under a bus and blamed him for dancing on the head of a pin and for no one telling Key that our second major trading nation wanted to dump sub standard steel on the local market.

Refining an existing capacity to make the rubble bounce and bounce

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:04 am, July 20th, 2016 - 80 comments

UK Labour continues to embarrass progressives throughout the world after a majority of MPs voted to support renewal of the Trident program.

Panama Papers – Nat U-turn complete

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 1:11 pm, July 13th, 2016 - 28 comments

Having ignored the IRD and other advice, having insulted calls for transparency as “barking mad”, today the Nats’ U-turn on disclosure for foreign trusts is complete.