The Key magic
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Date published: 7:17 am, March 27th, 2015 - 98 comments
“John Key heckled in Northland” – ouch.
Open mike 27/03/2015
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Date published: 6:40 am, March 27th, 2015 - 184 comments
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IGIS to investigate GCSB Pacific spying
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Date published: 3:38 pm, March 26th, 2015 - 6 comments
Press Release from the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security on Scoop.
Woodhouse: tough on bad employers?
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Date published: 3:30 pm, March 26th, 2015 - 22 comments
Michael Woodhouse is talking tough on bad employers … but what does it really mean, coming from this government?
Labour History Project 2015 essay competition
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Date published: 2:00 pm, March 26th, 2015 - 1 comment
The Labour History Project is inviting essays on the theme of “Another World is Possible”.
Wikileaks releases TPP chapter
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Date published: 12:28 pm, March 26th, 2015 - 26 comments
Another chapter of the secret draft TPP agreement has been leaked.
Peters: Northland wants an explanation
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Date published: 11:03 am, March 26th, 2015 - 35 comments
Stuff: “Peters says that over the next 48 hours the only thing National voters want from Key is an explanation for why they’re having a by-election in the first place.”
John Key’s Lies Since The 2014 Election
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Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2015 - 109 comments
The most egregious feature remains the sheer banality. Its like John Key can’t help himself. Because most National Ltd™ voters really don’t care and because the MSM just accepts the deceit as “one of those things,” he’s been able to get away with it scot-free for more than six years.
Open mike 26/03/2015
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Date published: 6:32 am, March 26th, 2015 - 214 comments
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Northland: 3News Poll Nails Nats.
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Date published: 6:35 pm, March 25th, 2015 - 113 comments
Well, it’s pretty much a done deal now. Winston’s going to win Northland. But who’s the biggest loser?
NRT: An unwarranted invasion of privacy
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Date published: 3:02 pm, March 25th, 2015 - 11 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on today’s further revelations on personal information.
Early heavy voting in Northland continues
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Date published: 1:30 pm, March 25th, 2015 - 28 comments
It looks to me like the early voting for Northland is likely to be close to or more than 50% of the total vote. Part of that is because it is a by-election. Part because of National’s hapless and tainted candidates (past and present) going against effective opponents. But also due to the strong trend to early voting. It will need to cause changes in electioneering.
Caption Contest: Northland Special
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Date published: 10:00 am, March 25th, 2015 - 46 comments
Peters for Northland
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Date published: 8:30 am, March 25th, 2015 - 166 comments
Vote Winston (did I say that?) Update: Former Labour Cabinet Minister Colin Moyle thinks the same.
Kiwis Stand Up To Corporate Bully
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Date published: 8:00 am, March 25th, 2015 - 14 comments
Cotton On’s act of provocation is matched in its cynicism only by the company’s contempt for the negotiation process. While attempting to feign an understanding of how the new law actually works, Cotton On simultaneously may also have breached the newly amended sections 4 and 32 of the ERA
Open mike 25/03/2015
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Date published: 6:45 am, March 25th, 2015 - 197 comments
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Osborne dodging questions over review
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Date published: 3:28 pm, March 24th, 2015 - 51 comments
Mark Osborne is the manager of a controversial ratepayer funded project that is the subject of a governance and funding review by the Far North District Council after major losses in its first two years. According to the NBR he is refusing to answer questions about it. Aren’t the voters of Northland entitled to some answers before they vote?
On poverty, parenting, and Paula
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Date published: 1:00 pm, March 24th, 2015 - 67 comments
In times of trouble for the National Party, you can always rely on them to raise the rallying cry of “Personal responsibility!!!”
A tale of two no surprises disclosures
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Date published: 9:30 am, March 24th, 2015 - 34 comments
Anne Tolley was told about the prosecution of Beverley Sepuloni under the no surprises policy nearly a month before the news became public. Release of this information makes you wonder why we cannot be told the date that the Government was told about Mike Sabin’s difficulties.
Cottoning on to new ways of exploiting workers
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Date published: 8:30 am, March 24th, 2015 - 67 comments
Cotton On has become the first employer in the news for trying to take away its workers’ rest breaks.
Screaming left-wing conspiracy theorist shocked at spying on Diplomats
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Date published: 7:47 am, March 24th, 2015 - 84 comments
In the NZ herald today, Terence O’Brien has been questioned about the recent revelations of spying to get Minister’s jobs after politics. Despite a Press Corp being with the PM in ROK, none has yet bothered to as the Koreans, or the former Foreign Minister GCSB spied upon, for their comment, instead relying on Honest […]
Open mike 24/03/2015
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Date published: 6:34 am, March 24th, 2015 - 107 comments
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Can National lose Northland?
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Date published: 11:10 am, March 23rd, 2015 - 99 comments
Is Northland getting sick of National’s panicked invasion? Will having Osborne fail to front Peters in the studio help? Could National actually lose Northland?
GCSB spied on foreign communications to help Groser’s WTO bid
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Date published: 7:32 am, March 23rd, 2015 - 133 comments
More embarrassment for the Government as it is revealed that the GCSB spied on internet communications involving diplomats competing with Tim Groser in his bid to be elected as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation.
Salvation army says no
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Date published: 6:55 am, March 23rd, 2015 - 48 comments
Where does this leave National’s “social housing” sell-off?
Open mike 23/03/2015
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Date published: 6:30 am, March 23rd, 2015 - 106 comments
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The rich want to hide their wealth because of kidnap threats
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Date published: 9:30 am, March 22nd, 2015 - 173 comments
The Liberal National Party Coalition in Australia want to overturn a requirement for corporations with a turnover of $100 million to disclose tax information on the grounds that kidnapping will occur even though the rich’s ostentatiousness is plain to see without the information being published. And in America it has been estimated that Wall Street’s bonus pool is twice the amount paid to full time American employees living on the minimum wage.
Megan Woods: Democracy isn’t “risky”, Minister
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Date published: 9:00 am, March 22nd, 2015 - 60 comments
Nick Smith’s latest pronouncements on ECan are an insult to Cantabrians – and a chilling precedent for any other regional councils who step out of line.
Open mike 22/03/2015
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 22nd, 2015 - 64 comments
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