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Date published: 7:30 am, January 18th, 2015 - 250 comments
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Date published: 4:36 pm, January 17th, 2015 - 38 comments
This the time of year when papers are thin and economic prognostications abound as the pop-star economists from banks and brokers look to raise their public profile. In 2013 the same Cameron Bagrie gave us the “rock-star” economy, this year apparently in Wellington we can all be part of the “movie-star” economy. Such puffery is […]
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Date published: 2:06 pm, January 17th, 2015 - 39 comments
TV3 recently interviewed Cameron Brewer to provide adverse commentary on a story about Labour seeded by David Farrar and Cameron Slater. And they did not even mention Brewer’s links to the National Party.
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Date published: 1:00 pm, January 17th, 2015 - 7 comments
Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi has been sentenced to 1000 lashes. The international outrage is growing.
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Date published: 12:02 pm, January 17th, 2015 - 6 comments
Generation Zero encourages you to make a submission on the Skypath. All those in favour – say so!
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Date published: 9:33 am, January 17th, 2015 - 62 comments
The evidence is surely mounting that the remedies to recession proposed by orthodox policy have failed.
The whole basis of monetarist policy is revealed to be a charade.
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Date published: 7:00 am, January 17th, 2015 - 307 comments
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Date published: 1:31 pm, January 16th, 2015 - 15 comments
It makes for great reading and throws the net wider than last time… just Check it out here
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Date published: 12:00 pm, January 16th, 2015 - 87 comments
The latest excuse for John Key deleting his texts wholesale is wafer-thin.
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Date published: 9:23 am, January 16th, 2015 - 136 comments
The continued rise of rheumatic fever is an indictment of our society.
New figures show that there is no quick fix for diseases of poverty.
Your move, National.
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Date published: 6:46 am, January 16th, 2015 - 349 comments
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Date published: 1:24 pm, January 15th, 2015 - 30 comments
The United Kingdom is debating entry into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which like the TPPA will allow investor-state disputes to be resolved by unappealable unaccountable private arbitration. George Monbiot in the Guardian describes the issue well and has suggestions on how the proposal can be challenged.
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Date published: 8:20 am, January 15th, 2015 - 72 comments
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Date published: 7:21 am, January 15th, 2015 - 52 comments
How many governments are using the Paris / Charlie Hebdo attack as an excuse to increase surveillance or otherwise remove civil protections? The UK and Australia for starters…
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Date published: 6:46 am, January 15th, 2015 - 305 comments
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Date published: 5:17 pm, January 14th, 2015 - 45 comments
Idiot Savant speculates on why GCSB Director Ian Fletcher is standing down so unexpectedly. Maybe another GCSB stuffup? Which of course someone has to fall on their sword for, but which must be kept secret for “security reasons” (aka “if the victims knew, they’d sue us and complain to the police”).
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Date published: 9:25 am, January 14th, 2015 - 63 comments
What is with the paparazzi-like obsession with Max Key?
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Date published: 9:06 am, January 14th, 2015 - 27 comments
An excellent piece by Dame Anne Salmond in the Dominion Post yesterday. Salmond reviews the government’s attacks on journalists, institutions and privacy.
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Date published: 6:30 am, January 14th, 2015 - 281 comments
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Date published: 3:43 pm, January 13th, 2015 - 64 comments
The self righteousness of the leaders who marched in Paris was there for all to see, but few in the media decry and point out the hypocrisy. How smug the World leaders feel, marching for freedom of expression and the media which they largely control and use for their political purposes. So who will speak […]
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Date published: 1:49 pm, January 13th, 2015 - 78 comments
For family reasons he is stepping down… Nothing to see here says Chris Finlayson, great guy who did a great job. For national’s supporters of course there is far more importance in receiving speeding fines Woodhouse is moving quickly to say the enforcement is ambiguous. It appears that he sees a universal right to speed and kill people…
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Date published: 9:45 am, January 13th, 2015 - 25 comments
No surprises to find that The Herald is sliding in to the muddy waters of “advertorials”.
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Date published: 8:53 am, January 13th, 2015 - 81 comments
Political Scientists Bronwyn Hayward and Mark Boyd were interviewed on Radio New Zealand yesterday on New Zealand politics in 2014 and what happened during the election. They talked extensively on dirty politics, on the role of the media and how things can be improved in 2015.
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Date published: 6:45 am, January 13th, 2015 - 293 comments
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Date published: 11:15 am, January 12th, 2015 - 76 comments
Far from fading away into the Christmas haze, SkyCity looks likely to be one of the defining political issues for 2015.
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Date published: 10:16 am, January 12th, 2015 - 31 comments
An English student, Daniel Wickham has in a series of tweets questioned the commitment of various world leaders who marched in support of freedom of the press to that concept.
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Date published: 7:00 am, January 12th, 2015 - 109 comments
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Date published: 4:07 pm, January 11th, 2015 - 223 comments
You’d think that with all the WW1 commemorations going on at the moment it would make us more vigilant about our freedom and security, not sleep-walking towards another Holy Crusade (in the name of the God of Money and Father of Fossil Fuels), seduced by slick liars and the gods of commercialism and greed.
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Date published: 8:30 am, January 11th, 2015 - 123 comments
Rupert Murdoch has tweeted questioning if most Moslems are peaceful and saying they are responsible for extremists within their ranks.
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Date published: 8:28 am, January 11th, 2015 - 50 comments
I think it is a pity that the currently dominant country / culture in the world, America, has had such a short history.
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Date published: 6:55 am, January 11th, 2015 - 68 comments
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