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Post:Slater v Craig - battle of the has beens
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:55 am, May 21st, 2017 - 22 comments
Categories: colin craig, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, humour, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics… that Slater received from the authorities in that case. He obtained…
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: Comment:Daily Review 15/05/2017
Date published: 5:45 pm, May 15th, 2017
... and Willie Jackson's Urban Māori Authority shouldn't "take with one hand...
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Post:Alfred Ngaro reprimanded for being "naïve"
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:54 am, May 15th, 2017 - 52 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, censorship, community democracy, democracy under attack, national, Politics, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: alfred ngaro, willie jackson… of the Manukau Urban Maori Authority which runs a charter school…
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Post:National threatens Government critics with loss of Government contracts
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:31 am, May 14th, 2017 - 78 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, democracy under attack, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: alfred ngaro, john campbell, Linda Cooper, radio new zealand, willie jackson… for his Manukau Urban Māori Authority interest in a second charter…
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Post:Government misled families about Pike River
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:33 pm, April 30th, 2017 - 49 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, disaster, Mining, Politics, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: pike river, pike river mine, Remembering the Pike River miners… footage; we haven't." The Government, authorities and the mine's controllers have…
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Post:Why National had to settle the Pay Equity case
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:19 am, April 19th, 2017 - 45 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, class war, Economy, employment, minimum wage, tax, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, Unions, wages, workers' rights
Tags:… Education in the Employment Relations Authority. In 2016, the New Zealand…
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Post:Won't the Government think about the kiwis?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:05 am, April 13th, 2017 - 55 comments
Categories: business, capitalism, Conservation, Economy, Environment, national, Politics, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: maggie barry… sure. Fees paid to local authorities are miniscule. There will be…
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Post:This Government's citizenship priorities
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:06 am, March 24th, 2017 - 52 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Environment, national/act government, Politics, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: michael tavares, Nathan Guy, peter thiel… in. Greater cooperation with the authorities is hard to imagine. He…
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Post:Hit and Run - time for an inquiry
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:37 am, March 22nd, 2017 - 21 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, afghanistan, books, International, john key, national, Politics, same old national, war
Tags: andrew geddis, jon stephenson, nicky hager, tim watkins… the issue. Its group of authors coincidentally include Wayne Mapp, Minister… Hager. I wonder if their authors ever meet? Tim Watkin has…
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Post:The new world order
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:00 pm, February 18th, 2017 - 60 comments
Categories: capitalism, China, Economy, Europe, Globalisation, International, Japan, us politics
Tags: donald trump, vladimir putin…, basically destroying the Environmental Protection Authority, killing the Affordable Care Act… to look as if the author of the original notion, Jim…
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Post:Waitangi Day 2017
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:01 am, February 6th, 2017 - 19 comments
Categories: history, leadership, Maori Issues
Tags: Treaty of waitangi, waitangi day… about. In 2014 our own mickysavage wrote an interesting poston Waitangi… version guaranteed “tino rangatiratanga” (full authority) over “taonga” (treasures, which may… New Zealand and preserved full authority over its Taonga. Subsequent acts…
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: Comment:Open Mike 08/01/2017
Date published: 11:01 pm, January 8th, 2017
.... Two solutions: 1. Some new authors. I would be happy to... does not sit with others. Author wise we are now fine...
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Post:The St Johns Industrial Dispute - #HealthyAmbosSaveLives
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:43 am, January 7th, 2017 - 51 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, class war, health and safety, jobs, labour, national, same old national, Social issues, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, Unions, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: first union, st johns… parties to the Employment Relations Authority to declare that bargaining has… applied to the Employment Relations Authority to withdraw from bargaining, without…
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: Comment:The return of Kim Dotcom and the Internet Party and the NZ journalist seeking asylum in Russia
Date published: 1:45 pm, January 3rd, 2017
...’t answered the question. Did MickySavage know of her circumstances or... issues, I generally trust the authors to exhibit sense and they...
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Post:The return of Kim Dotcom and the Internet Party and the NZ journalist seeking asylum in Russia
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:34 am, January 2nd, 2017 - 369 comments
Categories: election 2017, elections, internet party, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: kim dotcom, suzie dawson… the New Zealand and US authorities was excessive in the extreme…
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: Comment:The Standard's ten most popular posts of 2016
Date published: 11:56 am, December 31st, 2016
... environment attracts a lot of author attention. What is most popular...
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Post:The great US climate scientist witch hunt
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:55 am, December 11th, 2016 - 15 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, global warming, International, science, us politics
Tags: donald trump… anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly…
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Post:Police launch moral crusade against old people
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:04 am, October 27th, 2016 - 65 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, death with dignity, police, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags:… with the Independent Police Conduct Authority about the officers' actions in… before the Independent Police Complaints Authority.
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: Comment:He isn't a racist because his ex wife is from Singapore
Date published: 1:45 pm, September 30th, 2016
... to share power and authority with the Governor. They... essence, rangatira retained their authority over their hapū and territories..., while Hobson was given authority to control Pākehā. The ...in February 1840 surrender ultimate authority to the British. While...
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Post:He isn't a racist because his ex wife is from Singapore
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 - 139 comments
Categories: don brash, Maori seats, MMP, national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: hobsons pledge, Treaty of waitangi… situation would be if the authorities said that Peter Shirtcliffe's land…
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Post:Corbyn wins! Now what?
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:55 am, September 25th, 2016 - 294 comments
Categories: International, uk politics
Tags: jeremy corbyn… conveyed notably more confidence and authority than the one he delivered…
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Post:The manipulation of burglary statics
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:52 am, September 11th, 2016 - 36 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, john key, Judith Collins, Media, national, slippery, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: colin peacock, eugene bingham, mediawatch… benefits to challenge the unrestrained authority of our institutions and to… has been stifled by the authorities even though the OIA says…
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Post:The EU thinks that our tax system's clean bill of health is not so clean
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:08 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 43 comments
Categories: Europe, International, john key, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national, slippery, tax
Tags: John Sherwan… of information with foreign tax authorities in the jurisdictions where the…
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: Comment:Labour's Centenary History
Date published: 6:52 pm, July 26th, 2016
Interesting the authors almost blame the Standard for ... demise … That is indeed interesting mickysavage. I mentioned a bit of...
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: Comment:Labour's Centenary History
Date published: 6:19 pm, July 26th, 2016
I agree about Mike Williams. He was a very astute canny president and played a major role in the 5th Labour Government. Interesting the authors almost blame the Standard for Shearer's demise ...
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Post:How to wreck a busway
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:30 pm, July 19th, 2016 - 20 comments
Categories: john key, local government, national, public transport, same old national, supercity, transport
Tags: simon bridges… not even consult with local authorities before announcing the policy and… trespasses over areas where local authorities have primary responsibility. In the… at least talk to local authorities about what effects proposed policy…
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Post:Helen Clark on Iraq
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:37 am, July 7th, 2016 - 41 comments
Categories: iraq, john key, labour, national, same old national, uk politics, war
Tags: chilcot report, helen clark, tony blair… a country with dubious legal authority. The person who went a… law, and for upholding the authority of the Security Council. It… where then is our moral authority when other nations use the…
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: Comment:National to seize privately owned land
Date published: 7:47 am, July 4th, 2016
... will legislate for Urban Development Authorities to master-plan for ambitious...
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Post:This is why we need a living wage
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:25 pm, June 30th, 2016 - 60 comments
Categories: cost of living, employment, minimum wage, wages, workers' rights
Tags: homelessness, living wage…. Of all New Zealand's territorial authorities only Wellington City Council is… that much that the Remuneration Authority thinks Councillors salaries should be…
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Post:The election campaign, the $6,000 toaster and the media beat up
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, June 5th, 2016 - 24 comments
Categories: australian politics, capitalism, class war, cost of living, Economy, employment, Media, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: dirty politics, malcolm turnbull, news corp, rupert murdoch… in power and positions of authority, and they get ground into…
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Post:Auckland's housing crisis is just like Christchurch's except ...
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:20 am, May 29th, 2016 - 38 comments
Categories: national, same old national, spin, Steven Joyce, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: housing crisis… the Super City, local regional authorities were suing each other to… that the eight local regional authorities had been suing each other…
- Improving Stations – Part 1: Layout
At the beginning of the month I started a series looking at how we can improve our train stations, beginning with the lack of shelter. I started this after Auckland Transport sent out a survey titled “Help us improve train ...2 hours ago - Ireland – even more sins by the Catholic Church
by Socialist Democracy The announcement by an Irish government minister that “significant quantities” of human remains had been discovered at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway has brought official confirmation to claims ...4 hours ago - Inside the marae at the centre of Labour’s intern scandal
John Campbell takes a tour of Awatahi Marae, which has been at the centre of a Labour party scandal. Its head Anthony Wilson tells Checkpoint they have been hurt by allegations of sub-standard accommodation. ...13 hours ago - How much food costs in NZ compared to Australia
In New Zealand, a supermarket basket of 11 essentials including bread and milk costs 37 per cent more than it does in Australia. ...13 hours ago - Spithill reveals Cup is useless; was just trying to get rid of it the whole time
“It’s a useless cup and I wanted to get rid of the bloody thing,” says Spithill. Oracle Team USA skipper Jimmy Spithill has blamed his team’s America’s Cup loss on not wanting to win. “It’s a useless cup and I ...14 hours ago - Fiji: You are not allowed to talk about torture
Last year, Fiji finally ratified the UN Convention Against Torture, almost thirty years after other countries had done it. At the time, they said they were goign to outlaw torture in Fiji. Instead, it seems they've outlawed protesting against it:A ...17 hours ago - The White Ferns and badass star Suzie Bates are worth celebrating
We've got a great shot at winning the Cricket World Cup. Here’s why you should be watching. Suzie Bates celebrates scoring a century against Australia in 2013. Photo: Photosport Ten years ago, Suzie Bates was playing ...18 hours ago - National, Dead Party Walking…
18 hours ago - Election issues: Student debtStudent loans have been with us for 25 years, and over that period ex-students have been burdened with billions of dollars of odious debt. Currently almost three-quarters of a million of us are carrying $15 billion of this unjust debt, ...18 hours ago
- About timeHaving promised it for months, National has finally introduced its bill to wipe historic homosexual convictions:A bill to expunge the historical convictions of gay men charged with homosexual activity has been introduced to Parliament. The Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions ...19 hours ago
- Member’s DayToday is a Member's day, and it marks the end of the run of first readings and ballots we've had recently. Firstly, because bills are coming back from select committee, and their later stages will eat House time. And secondly, ...20 hours ago
- The importance PT hubs is starting to be understood in Auckland
As Auckland’s public transport has improved over the last 10-15 years, so too has the discussion around its value, both to transport and urban form. Nowhere is more representative of that change than Britomart. Both the station and surrounding development ...20 hours ago - Barclay too wasted to speak
You’ve really got to wonder why Todd Barclay was selected in the first place and then protected by Bill English and the National party for over a year? He’s clearly unfit to be an MP.The kicker is that National party ...21 hours ago - How much longer can we take our water for granted?
The first message I sent home from New Zealand was about tap water.Sounds weird. True story.Having spent the previous five years drinking London water (you know, the kind of hard water that means endless scrubbing to get crusty, yellowy limescale ...21 hours ago - ATs new Statement of Intent
Every year Auckland Transport release a Statement of Intent (SOI), which is a document essentially saying what the organisation will be doing over the next three years and how that aligns with council priorities. This is one of the key tools ...1 day ago - Inferno II: Better call soul
When I first read the Divine Comedy it wouldn’t have occurred to me to compare it to a television show – TV was a bit shit in the 80s – but now it does. The first canto is the pilot ...1 day ago - Moderation in all things, even elections
The case for moderation is getting stronger by the day. We're hearing now that it's less than 100 days until the election, and until last week and the Todd Barclay story it had been a quiet build-up so far, with ...1 day ago - Shake your money-maker
Young New Zealanders are showing they care, by pushing for change at the companies they invest in and support. Susan Strongman reports. Students, staff and alumni of the University of Auckland are calling on the institution to divest ...2 days ago - The police were created to control working class and poor peopleWe’ve just added the US-based Labor and Working Class History Association to our list of links. Below is an article that gives a taste of the kind of material that appears on the LAWCHA site; while the article is from ...2 days ago
- We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years
Gavin Foster, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton; Dana Royer, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University, and Dan Lunt, Professor of Climate Science, University of Bristol This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original ...2 days ago - What you should see at the NZ International Film Festival
Overwhelmed with options? We're here to help. Anna Billing's The Love Witch. Photo: YouTube It’s film festival season once more! And you know what that means: Another bitter winter spent braving the elements, evading snobby ...2 days ago - I do not care about Todd Barclay’s lifestyleThe Todd Barclay saga hit the sewer this morning with a Newsroom article on Glenys Dickson's negotiations with Parliamentary Services, which included implications about Todd Barclay's lifestyle. The Barclay scandal raises several matters of public interest. Whether Barclay broke ...2 days ago
- Three Waters Infrastructure; What does Auckland need? – Part 2 – Water Supply
One the major prerequisites we need to build the houses we need to combat our housing crisis is infrastructure, without it, the development can’t occur. This post is about a highly but often forgotten element of infrastructure Three Waters – Water Supply, Wastewater ...2 days ago - Sucking New Zealand dry
It seems totally insane to allow companies to bottle one of our most precious resources, water, and sell it overseas at a huge markup without any proper recompense for New Zealand.Today, the NZ Herald reported:NZ Pure Blue wants to send ...2 days ago - Why we need to price water IIIAnother day, and another announcement of a water bottling firm wanting to suck us dry: Millions of litres of crystal clear spring water could be bottled and shipped overseas in a proposal backed by the local council. NZ Pure Blue ...2 days ago
- Todd Barclay timeline
The timeline of the Todd Barclay scandal is interesting, not just because it shows how long the National party was able to cover-up what looks like criminal behaviour by one of their MPs, but also because it shows just how ...2 days ago - Just say no to BroadspectrumNational wants to sell 2500 state houses in Christchurch,as part of its plan to exit the state housing sector and make government suck. And who do they want to sell them to? Broadspectrum:One of the consortiums shortlisted to buy Housing ...2 days ago
- Huge high country station risks going to overseas ownership
The real estate advertisement is spot on in describing Mt White Station as an “iconic” South Island high country station. The 40,000 hectare property is adjacent to Arthur’s Pass National Park and the upper reaches of the Waimakariri River. Mt ...2 days ago - Hard News: Drug policy: women lead the way
There's a game you can play at conferences in any sector: count the women scheduled to speak and contemplate how far the event is from a true share of voices. The New Zealand Drug Foundation's two-day Parliamentary Drug Law Symposium ...2 days ago - What to do when you’ve given up on buying a home
When your quarter acre dream is crushed, here’s what experts say you should do with your money instead. Illustration: Rachel Neser Ever heard of the one where a 20-something-year-old buys an actual liveable house in Auckland in ...2 days ago - Darwin, sexual selection and Putin
Credit: RussiaFeed. Must edge my way back in into blogging after a period of mourning. So here is something provocative. Perhaps President Putin is “making Russia great again” in a way we haven’t thought of. Via Darwinian sexual selection? If this song ...2 days ago - Te Kuha, the Sacrificial Lamb
by Zella Downing The idea of throwing a virgin into a volcano to appease the gods and prevent the inevitable seems somewhat comical in 2017, but 1st World, 21st century New Zealand is doing much the same thing. Sacrificing ...2 days ago - How Does Immigration Benefit the New Zealand Economy?During the Vogel boom, say between 1871 and 1881, the population of New Zealand doubled, as did real GDP (as best as we can measure). That means per capita GDP was much the same at the end of the boom ...2 days ago
- What the Team NZ win could mean for improving our city
2 days ago - Reflections on the Child Youth and Family Review: On evidence and prevention
This Briefing Paper critiques two aspects of the recent CYFS Review process of child protection services. A wider analysis of the process is in my longer report, an extract from which has also been published as a Briefing Paper ...2 days ago - Gordon Campbell on the America’s Cup
Column – Gordon Campbell W ith hindsight, the $5 million that then-Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce grudgingly allocated back in 2013 to keep the America’s Cup squad together has proved to be one of the government’s more successful exercises ...2 days ago - Team New Zealand perfectly poised to lose 7-6
Peter Burling says that setting this up was a “very delicate process” that required making sure to lose just one race before getting to six points. After two consecutive wins against Team Oracle in Bermuda, Emirates Team New Zealand have ...3 days ago - Don’t want lurkers tracking you on Snapchat’s Snap Map? You’ve got options
Snapchat already knew where you were. Now decide whether you want to share that info with your friends - or not. Snapchat is billing the app's new Snap Map update as a "a whole new way to explore ...3 days ago - New study confirms the oceans are warming rapidly
As humans put ever more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, the Earth heats up. These are the basics of global warming. But where does the heat go? How much extra heat is there? And how accurate are our measurements? These ...3 days ago - Our Brand Is Uselessness part 5
Alienation, capitalist crisis, Economics, Unemployment, United States – economy, Workers’ rights, World economy A six-part series by Laurence Peterson documenting an example of downward mobility in Post-Meltdown America Part 5: Yuletide Epiphanies The author experiences a mildly excruciating revelation regarding his employer’s client’s attitude towards him Toward the ...3 days ago - Gender quotas weed out incompetent men – study
Does a new study answer an old debate? Photo: 123rf New research from the London School of Economics has found gender quotas can weed out “mediocre men” from politics and business. The merits of quotas and targets ...3 days ago - OIA timeliness complaintsOfficial Information Act requests are supposed to be responded to "as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case not later than 20 working days after the day on which the request is received". But as we all know, delays ...3 days ago
- The British used waterboarding in Northern IrelandIts long been known that the British government used torture in Northern Ireland during "the troubles". The Five Techniques were the subject of a case before the European Court of Human Rights, and it has since emerged that (contrary to ...3 days ago
- Hard News: Blockchain, what is it?Many people will have heard Blockchain or “distributed ledger technology” and some may have dismissed it as hype – especially when you hear claims that Blockchain is possibly the most important IT invention of our age. But no matter what ...3 days ago
- What Kiwirail is investing their budget money inIn the government’s budget last month, they allocated $450 million to Kiwirail over the next two years $450 million of that funding will be invested in KiwiRail over the next two financial years. “KiwiRail has achieved significant productivity and efficiency ...3 days ago
- The heart in the horror of Spookers
It's the largest haunted attraction in the Southern Hemisphere, an Auckland institution and, now, a film. We talk to director Florian Habicht about the people and the past of Spookers. Photo: Greta Anderson If you’ve ever been to Spookers, you’ll ...3 days ago - Hard News: How journalism looks nowThere is more than one thing to be taken from the BBC Panorama programme London Tower Fire: Britain's Shame. The first is, of course, its damning indictment of the authorities whose catastrophic failure of care allowed so many people to ...3 days ago
- Climate change: To the courts!There's an interesting case in court today: student Sarah Thomson is challenging the government's climate change target:Sarah Thomson, 26, will have her case against Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett for the perceived failure to set emissions targets that reflect the ...3 days ago
- Not grovelling after allLast week, after a report in Stuff, I accused the Labour Party of grovelling to the almighty cow by backing away from resource rentals for water. But it turns out they were misreported:“It was reported following my speech to Federated ...3 days ago
- Growing up at Granddad’s – A Matāriki story
As we walk forward into new beginnings, Matāriki reminds us of our past, loved ones who are no longer with us and the memories we shared with our whānau. Chev Hassett shares his story. With the whānau back ...3 days ago - The racist right wing
3 days ago - Corbyn at Glastonbury
Although this video of Jeremy Corbyn speaking at Glastonbury has already torn up lefty Twitter and Facebook, it deserves all the plugging it can get: The full text is here, and it’s a demonstration of how to communicate progressive values ...3 days ago - Reviewing the OECD’s economic reviewThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the ‘rich countries club’, conducts an economic survey of its members. They just published their latest (2017) edition for New Zealand, which makes for some interesting reading. While the OECD’s reviews reflect its ...3 days ago
- National Party Congress breakout: How to Deal with a Scandal
This weekend many hundreds of National Party delegates have descended on Wellington for the party’s pre-election congress. Apart from sounding slightly rude, this gathering is designed to pump the troops before the cut and thrust of this year’s, undoubtedly, turgid ...4 days ago - TV Commercials – How Bad Are They?
When my wife and I returned home from England 23 years ago, one aspect of New Zealand life we noticed was the length of the commercial breaks on television. I could get down to the end of a long drive ...4 days ago - Do We Have to Put Up with Mike Hosking?Why do so many people dislike Mike Hosking? On the face of it, he has everything needed to host a successful daily television show. He is nice-looking (if you like that sort of thing), articulate and intelligent (or passably intelligent ...4 days ago
- Sunday readsA few pieces that caught my eye this week. Bec Shaw: Fat of the Furious I couldn’t write about what happened at the time because I felt so despairing when Roxane Gay discussed how humiliated the incident made her feel. ...4 days ago
- Sunday reading 25 June 2017
Welcome back to Sunday reading. It’s been a pretty interesting week in New Zealand politics, if you’ve been reading. But that’s not what this is about, so we’re not going to talk about it. Here’s a thought-provoking factoid about technological ...4 days ago - 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #25
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week. Editor's Pick From heatwaves to hurricanes, floods to famine: seven climate change hotspots Global warming will not affect everyone equally. Here we look ...4 days ago - Foot in Mouth Award – Nicky Wagner, because disabilities issues are such a drag on a nice day
. . Bennett had it (and probably still does)… . . Key had it; . . … still had it; . . Aaron Gilmore had it; . . Steven Joyce has it; . . Alfred Ngaro has it; . . ...5 days ago - Opinion: I would never listen to any of my employees
By Winston Peters. By my count, it’s been four days since the Prime Minister and his smarmy little yuppie were exposed for what they are: liars, crooks, filthy, cronyistic, career-politician peddlers of self-interested rubbish. One of them is gone and ...5 days ago - Todd Barclay, Bill English and the OUTRAGE that is the Labour PartyThis week has been an interesting week in New Zealand politics. Here at MyThinks we thought we would ask our alt-right correspondent Richard Sevenhouses to pen a few words on his thoughts. Over to you Dick. This week started out ...5 days ago
- National penalising Kiwi homebuyers
The National led government appears to not give a damn that the levels of home ownership in New Zealand are continuing to decline.After much public and media concern about housing, the government through the Reserve Bank changed lending criteria in ...5 days ago - This is why they can’t have nice thingsEarlier this year I bought the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign for my Dad. Here's how one reviewer opens his account of that account:read more ...5 days ago
- Nick Smith lied about combustible panels in NZ
The Grenfell Tower fire, which has caused many more deaths than the 79 currently confirmed, was thought to have started because of a faulty refrigerator. However the cause of the fire spreading so quickly has been identified as substandard combustible cladding, ...5 days ago - Christie’s law based on court incompetency
The killing of Christie Marceau was a very terrible thing, not least of all because it could have been prevented if the court system wasn't incompetent. Amongst other things, that’s one of the findings the inquest into her murder should ...5 days ago - Flashback Saturday: “What’s wrong with this picture?”
This post originally appeared in June 2012. Now I’m sure many of you will assume that this post is going to be about the old thing on rails in the middle of this picture but that isn’t what interests me ...5 days ago - A call to Israelis to disrupt the occupationAn Israeli sniper aiming at Palestinian protestors with live ammunition during confrontations following a protest against the occupation and in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners hunger strike, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, 26 May. Two weeks ...5 days ago
- Trumpwatch – How Elon Musk can overcome Trump’s climate-change obstinacy. . Fun Fact #1: “According to an ongoing temperature analysis conducted by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the average global temperature on Earth has increased by about 0.8° Celsius (1.4° Fahrenheit) since 1880. Two-thirds of ...6 days ago
- If North Korea didn’t exist the US would create itUS naval carrier taking part in manoeuvres off coast of Korea; Photo by JO JUNG-HO / Yonhap via AP) by Nizar Visram IN its latest move early June 2017, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimously adopted a resolution drafted ...6 days ago
- Correcting the wrongs of the pastGermany is to pardon and compensate victims of a Nazi-era anti-homosexual law: Germany’s parliament has voted to quash the convictions of 50,000 gay men sentenced for homosexuality under a Nazi-era law that remained in force after the second world war. ...6 days ago
- Farewell Gchat. Now we have to Hangout.
We pay tribute to the home of inane online chat. The sun has almost set on Gchat. Photo: 123rf On Monday, millions of office workers will wipe away a tear as instant messaging system Gchat is shut ...6 days ago - Grenfell Tower: the voice of a firefighterThis piece of writing is up on the Facebook ‘Save the Fire Service’ page and begins with ‘”Sent to us at STUKFS, powerful and emotional story from a firefighter who attended Grenfell Tower” (STUKFS is Save the UK Fire Service); ...6 days ago
- New Zealand votes against international lawOver fifty years ago, Britain stole the Chagos Islands and forcibly expelled their inhabitants to Mauritius to make way for a US military base. Since then, they've been fighting for justice through the UK courts, and most recently at the ...6 days ago
- Pull the other oneIssues around illegal interception of communications have been prominent in the media over the last few years. There's the Kim Dotcom case, of course, and all the GCSB's shennanigans around driftnetting communications (including those of New Zealanders) from our Pacific ...6 days ago
- Māori Party’s waka up river without paddle
The Māori Party’s waka is up the river without a paddle over its Waka Oranga mobile health unit pilot programme, says Labour’s Māori Development spokesperson Kelvin Davis. ...16 hours ago - English covering for Barclay to pass legislationThe Prime Minister has been relying on Todd Barclay’s vote to pass key legislation, explaining why English has covered up the Barclay scandal for so long and why he continues to refuse to answer questions, says Leader of the Opposition ...19 hours ago
- Typhoid report shows health officials under the hammerA chaotic picture has emerged around the response of Auckland public health officials to this year’s typhoid outbreak, says Aupito William Sio Labour’s Pacific Island Affairs spokesman. “Our Pacific community was left exposed by the Auckland Regional Public Health Services’ ...2 days ago
- Huge high country station risks going to overseas ownership
The real estate advertisement is spot on in describing Mt White Station as an “iconic” South Island high country station. The 40,000 hectare property is adjacent to Arthur’s Pass National Park and the upper reaches of the Waimakariri River. Mt ...2 days ago - Bill English must be upfront about his involvement in Barclay scandalBill English’s explanations that he was on the periphery of the long running employment dispute involving Todd Barclay don’t stack up, says Labour Leader Andrew Little. “The Prime Minister claims to have been a bystander, but we know he was ...3 days ago
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Haere ngā mate ki tua o paerau; te moenga roa o ngā mātua tupuna. Haere, haere, haere. It was with a huge sense of loss that we learned of the death of Dame Nganeko Minhinnick yesterday. The Green Party acknowledges ...2 weeks ago - Urgent answers needed on DHB fundingJonathan Coleman must come clean and answer questions about what actual funding DHBs received in Budget 2017, says Labour Health Spokesperson David Clark. ...2 weeks ago
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