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Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:27 am, March 4th, 2021 - 27 comments
Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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Another chapter of dirty politics has reached its conclusion with Carrick Graham offering an abject apology to Doug Sellman, Boyd Swinburn and Shane Bradbook for smearing their reputation via the Whaleoil website. I wrote about this case in 2017: Spare a …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, February 28th, 2021 - 136 comments
Categories: covid-19, health
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Auckland is back into level three lockdown. The check points around the city have again been put in place and big events, including the round the bays run have been cancelled. The caution is understandable. The latest two cases, a son and his mother, were…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:57 am, February 24th, 2021 - 41 comments
Categories: Judith Collins, national, police, same old national, Simon Bridges
Tags: wokester
It is good to see that National is still in chaos. Its caucus discipline is still shot and Judith Collins clearly has no control over her MPs. The latest piece of evidence is Simon Bridges attacking Police Commissioner Andy Coster by describing him as …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:40 am, February 23rd, 2021 - 77 comments
Categories: debt / deficit, Economy, grant robertson, jacinda ardern, poverty
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If the Government ever wanted to start burning political capital on addressing poverty now is the time. The economy is in remarkably good shape, such good shape that Standard and Poors has just given us an improved credit rating of AA+. From Radio New …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:18 am, February 22nd, 2021 - 30 comments
Categories: covid-19, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, uk politics, us politics
Tags: scomo, scott morrison
The Covid pandemic is entering into an interesting stage. In America and in England new infection rates are plummeting after hitting post Christmas highs. The American reduction is understandable. They now have a President who accepts the science and is …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:56 am, February 20th, 2021 - 24 comments
Categories: doofus of the week, making shit up, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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What should a Texan representative do when the state is frozen over following an extreme weather event? Tour the state? Make sure that Federal supplies of generators and fuel are delivered to where they need to be? How about fly off to Cacun for a holiday…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:38 am, February 19th, 2021 - 19 comments
Categories: australian politics, Deep stuff, facebook, International, journalism, Media
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So we have just witnessed round one of Facebook v Australia. It is not that often that I agree, or at least don't violent disagree, with the actions of the Scomo led Australian Government. But on this particular issue they are right, Facebook is getting …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:26 am, February 18th, 2021 - 89 comments
Categories: climate change, making shit up, science, spin, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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Over in the US of A in the great state of Texas and in surrounding states locals are experiencing unusually cold weather and are suffering from the effects. From the BBC: A huge winter storm sweeping across the southern US has killed at least 21 people …
What do we do with this class of stateless undesirables? And shouldn't we ascertain what her role actually was before rendering her stateless? As a side question how do you think we should respond if Australia renounced the citizenship of the mass murderer...
Possibly not. I presume that the children are Syrian nationals but they would have a ery strong case to be given New Zealand residence given the circumstances.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, February 17th, 2021 - 144 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, australian politics, jacinda ardern, scoundrels
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Some international news yesterday as Jacinda Ardern chose to use decidedly undiplomatic speech to address Australia’s removal of its citizenship from a Jihadi bride leaving her as New Zealand’s problem, even though her link to New Zealand was tenuous and …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:22 am, February 14th, 2021 - 27 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, local body elections, local government, Maori Issues, Maori seats, Nanaia Mahuta, supercity
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The Māori Affairs select committee is currently hearing submissions on the Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill. The intent of the bill is to do away with the discriminatory feature of the Local Electoral Act 2001 which …
The lawyers group is terrifyingly resourced and determined. And elected representatives should realise that this is about leadership.
I really hope that the first person to be vaccinated is a cleaner. And that the country takes the time to celebrate the fact that they will no longer be so vulnerable because of their work.
Did you read where I said "A living wage is the absolute minimum we should be doing for these workers"?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:47 am, February 12th, 2021 - 39 comments
Categories: covid-19, Living Wage, uncategorized, Unions, workers' rights
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There is a group of workers in Aotearoa New Zealand whose jobs are potentially more important than director general of health Ashley Blomfield in terms of keeping us safe from Covid. They are the cleaners of the hotels where managed isolation occurs. …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:29 am, February 12th, 2021 - 24 comments
Categories: national, Parliament, same old national
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Another day and social media tragics of all political persuasions are watching National's latest efforts and scratching our heads and wondering what they are doing. Two days ago Parliament's Standing Orders Committee met and by a distinct majority decided…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:42 pm, February 10th, 2021 - 20 comments
Categories: gay rights, greens, Parliament
Tags: Elizabeth Kerekere
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As a member of this organisation (lawyers for climate action) can I just say that I approve wholeheartedly of this proposal. Simon Wilson in the Herald had a particularly good take on the meeting. "… Jenny Cooper from Lawyers for Climate Action reminded ...
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:29 am, February 10th, 2021 - 90 comments
Categories: maori party, Parliament, twitter
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This is a weird issue for the Maori Party to get ready to die in a ditch about. Having one of your two MPs being silenced in the people's chamber for not wearing a decorative strip of material around your neck when all other males are seems at first to be…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:40 am, February 9th, 2021 - 57 comments
Categories: greens, human rights, International, war
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There is a particularly brutal war happening in Yemen in the Middle East. Yemen is next door to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Government has taken a keen interest in doing what it can to affect the result of the war. The Guardian has this recent description …
Agreed. The rationale of the argument would mean that the proponents of the Spanish Inquisition should also be allowed media space. https://youtu.be/Cj8n4MfhjUc
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:54 pm, February 6th, 2021 - 22 comments
Categories: gay rights, human rights, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges
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There is this appalling practice engaged in by some religious conservatives called conversion therapy. It is based on the premise that homosexuality is not a normal status for some, but is a condition that can be cured. All that is required is sufficient…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:14 am, February 2nd, 2021 - 21 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, national, same old national
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Remember Dirty Politics? When John Key's office and Judith Collins used currently bankrupt Cameron Slater to smear and attack opponents of the government and used weaponised leaks to the media to gain political advantage? It seems they are still obsessed …
How come NZ is doing so well?
If it came from China then how come China has been so successful in stopping its spread?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:58 am, February 1st, 2021 - 21 comments
Categories: China, covid-19, Europe, health, jacinda ardern, uk politics, us politics
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A year ago the World Health Organisation declared that the coronavirus outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern, WHO's highest level of alarm. How much has changed since then. Before then reports were coming out of Wuhan …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:26 pm, January 29th, 2021 - 22 comments
Categories: capitalism, Financial markets, internet, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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The world has been watching, mostly with amusement, as some redditors have brought a Wall Street merchant bank to its knees, by buying stocks in a company, GameStop who has seen better days and whose business model is antiquated. Members of the r/…
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