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Date published: 7:06 am, September 12th, 2014 - 55 comments
Frank Macskasy at the Daily Blog has produced a timeline on the 11 year old David Cunliffe – Donghua Liu letter that shows some more seriously dodgy Dirty Politics
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Date published: 6:45 am, September 12th, 2014 - 67 comments
National have gambled everything on “Team Key”. They may yet wish that they hadn’t.
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Date published: 6:40 am, September 12th, 2014 - 378 comments
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Date published: 5:46 pm, September 11th, 2014 - 15 comments
Publishing a photo of your voting paper could earn you a $20,000 fine, and other warnings from the Electoral Commission.
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Date published: 3:53 pm, September 11th, 2014 - 48 comments
In a series of tweets Giovanni Tiso has highlighted important issues concerning the relationship between the media and National as disclosed by Dirty Politics.
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Date published: 2:37 pm, September 11th, 2014 - 63 comments
With Labour supporting the plan, I/S at No Right Turn makes the case against “working prisons”.
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Date published: 8:27 am, September 11th, 2014 - 51 comments
Gordon Campbell posted an excellent piece yesterday on 19 Reasons Why We Can’t Afford Another National Government. I’m sure that Standardistas can add to the list…
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Date published: 6:45 am, September 11th, 2014 - 415 comments
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Date published: 10:45 pm, September 10th, 2014 - 24 comments
Well that time rolled around again today some time. We are now past 800,000 comments. It seems like only yesterday that we were at 700,000. But it turns out that was just over 6 months ago.
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Date published: 10:31 pm, September 10th, 2014 - 141 comments
David Cunliffe’s performance in tonight’s head-to-head with John Key was exactly what I wanted to see from the next Labour Prime Minister of NZ.
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Date published: 8:01 pm, September 10th, 2014 - 87 comments
Round three between David Cunliffe and John Key is scheduled for tonight. John Campbell will moderate and Paul Henry will provide expert comment …
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Date published: 5:15 pm, September 10th, 2014 - 19 comments
On Firstline this morning, John Key tried to compare National’s and Labour’s policies by saying “You can’t grow the economy when you restrict labour laws.” It’s nonsense, and it’s scary.
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Date published: 2:54 pm, September 10th, 2014 - 37 comments
Idiot Savant nails the basic issue that commentators like John Armstrong and many others simply don’t understand about the Greens. They aren’t particularly interested in the political game. They are interested in effecting change. But that’s the problem with the galley: they don’t think policy matters. The idea that some victories aren’t worth winning is something they just don’t understand.
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Date published: 11:46 am, September 10th, 2014 - 35 comments
Last year, there was a major hack, in which data from some GCSB staff, parliamentary staff, police, & others were copied & stored in various places globally. Surveillance technologies can be used by both state agencies and its critics. Update: Some 2013 history & Anonymous
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Date published: 11:08 am, September 10th, 2014 - 67 comments
The Slater application for an injunction against various media outlets has been settled by the media agreeing to not to use information that was not in the public interest, including but not limited to Mr Slater’s wife, children, medical information, the death of his mother and other inherently personal information regarding Mr Slater and his friends. The way is now clear for further stories on Dirty Politics.
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Date published: 9:36 am, September 10th, 2014 - 16 comments
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Date published: 7:12 am, September 10th, 2014 - 82 comments
Advocacy groups are calling for action. People are marching for action. The parties of the left are ready to take action. Only National stands in the way.
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Date published: 6:51 am, September 10th, 2014 - 301 comments
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Date published: 6:10 pm, September 9th, 2014 - 72 comments
A new series on happy mischief and paying back double.
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Date published: 5:45 pm, September 9th, 2014 - 66 comments
Nothing so clearly demonstrates John Key’s contempt for the New Zealand voter as his confidence that we will believe whatever he tells us. He has had ample experience to back up that confidence. The course taken by the dirty politics saga is perhaps the most obvious case in point. If the polls are to be […]
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Date published: 3:39 pm, September 9th, 2014 - 70 comments
The twelve month financial performance results for all of the sold off companies have recently been announced. And as predicted NZ Inc is taking a bit of a bath.
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Date published: 12:21 pm, September 9th, 2014 - 8 comments
A bit over a week ago, I complained about the empty void at the heart of the election: Nationals refusal to release policy. And it has struck again today, in the form of Nationals fiscal “plan”. We actually have a government seeking re-election while offering no specifics about what it intends to do in office. But don’t they have a lovely picture of John Key?
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Date published: 12:12 pm, September 9th, 2014 - 34 comments
Nationals hypothetical tax cut package has not gone down well. People do not appear to like the fact that it is small, hypothetical, and irresponsible, all at once.This is what you get when you have a prime minister so weakly desperate for public approval that they make up policy by accident and then push that poor decision through their cabinet and caucus.
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Date published: 8:00 am, September 9th, 2014 - 49 comments
The economy is a mess, the Nats have no ideas, and their current policies (e.g. hypothetical tax cuts) are getting laughed out of town. National is useless on the economy, and the sooner we the people wake up to this fact, the better off we will be.
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Date published: 6:40 am, September 9th, 2014 - 365 comments
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Date published: 9:11 pm, September 8th, 2014 - 32 comments
Nicky Hager’s talk at the University of Waikato was very well attended. It was livestreamed. A video of it is now available online,
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Date published: 3:00 pm, September 8th, 2014 - 8 comments
Our political cartoonists seem to be aware that something smells fishy:
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Date published: 2:47 pm, September 8th, 2014 - 131 comments
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Date published: 12:45 pm, September 8th, 2014 - 112 comments
The choice for NZ voters is becoming clearer in the last days of the 2014 election. The irony is that after John Key’s scaremongering, our options are a three-headed coalition of natural allies versus a five-or-six headed hydra of extremists and sworn enemies.
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Date published: 11:10 am, September 8th, 2014 - 138 comments
Cameron Slater, National’s attack blogger has written a sleaze post on Martyn Bradbury. This shows far too much intelligence for the ever lazy Cameron to have researched it. Has National’s research unit (into dirt) resumed using that sock puppet again? We should be able to look and find out which blackmailed journalists they touch up as this story progresses. Time to follow the dots.
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Date published: 10:54 am, September 8th, 2014 - 19 comments
Jason Ede’s disappearance from public view suggests a cover up in response to Hager’s Dirty Politics. The book implicates Ede (past PM staffer) in a coordinated black ops smear machine working with blogs like Whale Oil. Key may need to come clean soon about some of Ede’s activities.
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