Dallas
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Date published: 8:59 pm, July 8th, 2016 - 105 comments
5 law enforcement officers shot dead in Dallas. The city’s worst day in 5 decades.
Daily Review 08/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, July 8th, 2016 - 37 comments
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Reserve Bank gives Key the fingers on housing crisis
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Date published: 11:17 am, July 8th, 2016 - 14 comments
In The Herald Liam Dann asks – Did the Reserve Bank just give two fingers to the Prime Minister?. That would be a “yes”.
Judith Collins is losing a PR battle with a patched Gang Member*
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Date published: 8:30 am, July 8th, 2016 - 322 comments
*title borrowed from @shakingstick.
What I would like from the Labour Party Conference
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Date published: 8:00 am, July 8th, 2016 - 120 comments
Some thoughts on what this weekend’s centennial Labour Party conference might achieve.
Open mike 08/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 8th, 2016 - 129 comments
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Helen Kelly; A Work of Art.
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Date published: 9:02 pm, July 7th, 2016 - 18 comments
The NZ Portrait Gallery’s latest work is of unionist Helen Kelly. It’s great.
Daily Review 07/07/2016
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Date published: 7:08 pm, July 7th, 2016 - 14 comments
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Helen Clark on Iraq
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Date published: 11:37 am, July 7th, 2016 - 41 comments
Thirteen years ago Helen Clark said despite intense pressure that the threshold for the use of force against Iraq had not been met. How right she was.
Jeremy Corbyn apologises for Blair and Bush’s Iraq War
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Date published: 11:11 am, July 7th, 2016 - 42 comments
Jeremy Corbyn’s full response to the Chilcot response. Corbyn says that the Iraq war “was an act of military aggression launched on a false pretext” and that he apologises for it on behalf of Labour, who was in Government at the time.
The Chilcot report
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Date published: 7:03 am, July 7th, 2016 - 51 comments
The Chilcot report is out and it’s more damning of the decision to invade Iraq than expected.
Happy Birthday Labour – 100 Years!
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Date published: 6:02 am, July 7th, 2016 - 100 comments
Open mike 07/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 7th, 2016 - 101 comments
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Daily Review 06/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, July 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
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Clinton off the hook
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Date published: 12:42 pm, July 6th, 2016 - 99 comments
The FBI is not recommending that prosecutors seek charges against Clinton. Her pre-ordained path to the Whitehouse just got a lot smoother.
The housing crisis and Key’s combustible pants
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Date published: 9:16 am, July 6th, 2016 - 35 comments
2007 Key vs 2016 Key on the housing crisis. Someone is telling lies!
Social bonds negotiations collapse
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Date published: 8:39 am, July 6th, 2016 - 65 comments
The Governments attempt to incentivise the provision of social services by greed has failed with the first proposed social bond failing.
Housing bubble inflating faster – Key’s panic now obvious
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Date published: 7:01 am, July 6th, 2016 - 157 comments
The housing bubble is inflating faster than ever, and Key is visibly panicking. His political problem is insoluble and his electoral problem is about to get worse.
Open mike 06/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 6th, 2016 - 52 comments
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Daily Review 05/07/2016
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Date published: 6:57 pm, July 5th, 2016 - 20 comments
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National’s strike-breaking fail
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Date published: 3:21 pm, July 5th, 2016 - 23 comments
The Police want no part of the Nats’ plan to use them as airport security. Perhaps instead of bungled attempts at strike-breaking the Nats should consider – dealing fairly with aviation security staff concerns?
The silence of the lambs – media (not) on McCully
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Date published: 11:10 am, July 5th, 2016 - 21 comments
Interesting discussion on the silence of the lambs. Where have all the journalists gone?
Chilcot report – Blair’s bad week
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Date published: 10:02 am, July 5th, 2016 - 44 comments
Even before its release the Chilcot report is drawing attention to the hubristic warmongering that will forever stain Blair’s time in office.
Is Democracy peaking?
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Date published: 8:00 am, July 5th, 2016 - 48 comments
Has traditional democracy’s power peaked and will it be replaced by a social media generated consciousness?
Farexit
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Date published: 7:30 am, July 5th, 2016 - 98 comments
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has announced that he is standing down as leader. Although he will continue to be a Member of Parliament of the very institution he campaigned for the UK to leave.
Open mike 05/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, July 5th, 2016 - 69 comments
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The Chrematistic Camel
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Date published: 7:26 pm, July 4th, 2016 - 110 comments
So this post is about a suite of frameworks not to adopt if the goal is to avoid 2 degrees of global warming.
“Died at some point in the recycling process”
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Date published: 6:39 pm, July 4th, 2016 - 39 comments
Imagine taking shelter on a cold night and ending up crushed or asphyxiated to death in a compressed cardboard recycling bale.
Daily Review 04/07/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, July 4th, 2016 - 14 comments
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A week at Te Puea Marae
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Date published: 10:35 am, July 4th, 2016 - 8 comments
Unlike our “government”, Te Puea Marae is trying to do something practical for the homeless. Madeleine Chapman spent a week volunteering there, and wrote about it for The Spinoff. Note that The Warehouse will match donations made through Spinoff.
#Sheepgate – The Compensation payment for the claim that did not exist
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Date published: 10:22 am, July 4th, 2016 - 27 comments
The Nation has been doing some digging into #Sheepgate and last weekend broadcast its results. There were some findings that if confirmed should result in McCully’s cabinet career being ended. Not to mention a potential Privileges Hearing to decide if he has misled Parliament.
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