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  1. The weird and wacky 2023 election campaign

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:22 am, October 4th, 2023 -  30 comments
    Categories: act, benefits, chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, covid-19, david seymour, Dirty Politics, election 2023, national, nz first, Politics, polls, same old national, spin, winston peters
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    In a week of weird events National’s decision not to debate Labour in the Press’s leader’s debate has been a massive own goal because the country will be able to see how toxic David Seymour’s and Winston Peters’ relationship is.

  2. My Way or the Huawei

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 5:06 am, September 17th, 2023 -  9 comments
    Categories: AUKUS, China, FiveEyes, internet, interweb, Spying, surveillance, tech industry, telecommunications, us politics
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    I like my Huawei phone. I’m looking forward to the new Mate 60Pro. It’s launch means the US-led sanctions aiming to crush Huawei, with New Zealand as a fast follower, have completely failed to set back Chinese technology.

  3. Climate weirding: the climate wild cards

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:05 am, August 8th, 2023 -  5 comments
    Categories: climate change, election 2023
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    “Unpredictable change is the new status quo”

  4. National’s weird tenancy policy announcement

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:31 am, April 30th, 2023 -  73 comments
    Categories: act, chris bishop, national, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    This week Chris Bishop announced National’s landlord policy and made the extraordinary claim that making evictions of tenants easier was a progressive pro tenant policy.

  5. The right is weirdly gleeful about the end of the mask mandate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:59 am, September 14th, 2022 -  40 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, covid-19, health, human rights, national, same old national
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    National MPs and their supporters have been celebrating the removal of the mandate with weird levels of glee.

  6. The weird arrangement for MP’s staffers

    Written By:  darien fenton -  Date published: 1:25 pm, August 14th, 2022 -  76 comments
    Categories: Media, Unions, workers' rights
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    With recent allegations of bullying of staff hitting the media it is important to understand the relationship between a Member of Parliament and their Parliamentary Services staff.

  7. National’s weird take on the Government’s Climate Adaption Plan

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:05 am, August 4th, 2022 -  7 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, james shaw, Media, national, science, uncategorized
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    The Government’s release of the National Adaption Plan to deal with climate change has been met by National with an insistence that who should pay for potentially hundreds of billions of costs should have already been identified.

  8. Shane Jones’ weird premature budget take

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:02 am, May 14th, 2022 -  11 comments
    Categories: Budget 2021, Economy, labour, nz first, Shane Jones, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Former Labour MP Shane Jones has criticised the 2021 budget even though he has no idea what is going to be in it.

  9. RNZ’s weird take on MIQ

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, April 20th, 2022 -  93 comments
    Categories: covid-19, Deep stuff, health, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    RNZ’s recent shock horror reporting on a memo from November 2021 proposing a wind back of MIQ is severely deficient.  The framing is one sided and ignores the subsequent emergence of Omicron as a variant of concern.

  10. Weird stuff Jacinda Ardern has been accused of

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:25 am, January 25th, 2022 -  212 comments
    Categories: covid-19, Deep stuff, internet, interweb, jacinda ardern, Media, politicans
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    It appears that social media allegations against Jacinda Ardern are becoming more and more extreme.

  11. Huawei go again

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:31 pm, May 12th, 2019 -  29 comments
    Categories: China, Spying, surveillance, telecommunications, us politics
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    Mike Pompeo has just been in Britain trying to bully the UK government out of using Huawei for its 5G network. He and other officials have been heavying countries around the world. Its not working, but one thing is clear. It makes GCSB’s head Andrew Hampton’s assertion that its decision to reject Huawei was independent is simply not believable. 

  12. More political interference on Huawei

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:00 pm, March 13th, 2019 -  24 comments
    Categories: China, military, Propaganda, spin, Spying, telecommunications, uk politics, war
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    Here’s another one for the select committee reviewing foreign interference. Visitor from Britain Charlie Parton of the Royal United Services Institute was on Morning Report this morning telling us to avoid Huawei because they are Chinese and different from us. At least he does us a favour by making it clear the matter is political not technical.

  13. China, Huawei and us

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, November 27th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, International, Politics, surveillance
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    It’s high time this government woke up to the intelligence gathering capacity and ambition of China in New Zealand.

  14. Simon says the weirdest things – shoplifting fines

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:05 am, September 24th, 2018 -  23 comments
    Categories: making shit up, Media, national, Politics, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In one interview Simon Bridges shows that he cannot do basic maths in his head and does not know a core feature of a law change he wants to support.

  15. Simon says the weirdest things – Ardern is apparently like Trump

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:16 am, September 17th, 2018 -  42 comments
    Categories: internet, interweb, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has caused jaws to drop everywhere by comparing Jacinda Ardern to Donald Trump.

  16. Simon Bridges says the weirdest things – Criminal Justice

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:29 am, September 1st, 2018 -  30 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, crime, journalism, Media, national, newspapers, prisons, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has justified his claim that the three strikes law is working by releasing an Italian study that has not been peer reviewed on the effects on white collar criminals of a pardon system.

  17. Simon Bridges says the weirdest things – petrol prices

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:41 am, August 30th, 2018 -  43 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, energy, making shit up, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, social media lolz, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has been trying to create a narrative about increasing petrol prices being the fault of the current government.  But he has been tweeting an incorrect price and his claims about responsibility have been contradicted by BP.

  18. Socialist candidate rolls Democrat heavyweight in primary

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:11 am, June 28th, 2018 -  44 comments
    Categories: elections, International, Left, us politics
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    In a major upset the fourth ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives has lost a New York primary to a young latino woman who is a self described socialist as well as a Bernie Sanders supporter.

  19. Borexit; Now it’s Just Getting Weird.

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 7:04 am, July 1st, 2016 -  98 comments
    Categories: Europe, International, uk politics
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    Boris Johnson has sensationally quit the race to lead the UK Tory Party. And Jeremy Corbyn has had a worse day than usual. Where will it all end?

  20. National’s lightweight conference

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:30 am, July 27th, 2015 -  25 comments
    Categories: national
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    National had a conference in the weekend. They used it to re-announce some Labour policy, but otherwise if you noticed it was probably because of the protest outside.

  21. Little weighs in on dirty politics

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:21 am, June 8th, 2015 -  104 comments
    Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins
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    Andrew Little on the latest round of dirty politics.

    “It beggars belief any politician – like John Key and Judith Collins – wants to have anything to do with him [Cameron Slater].”

  22. John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 5:00 pm, March 10th, 2015 -  41 comments
    Categories: ACC, Andrew Little, john key, national
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    John Key and his MPs were acting like they’d scored a real hit on Andrew Little in Question Time. The reality is … not so impressive.

  23. ACT goes weird

    Written By:  redfed -  Date published: 8:05 am, August 12th, 2014 -  43 comments
    Categories: act, election 2014, national, same old national
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    ACT Epsom candidate David Seymour is complaining that left voters in the seat may vote tactically.

  24. Herald says weird things about Cunliffe and Labour Clutha Southland candidate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:06 pm, July 21st, 2014 -  110 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, labour, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Herald is saying some weird things about David Cunliffe and Labour’s Clutha Southland candidate Liz Craig.

  25. The Christchurch East by election gets weird

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:03 am, November 28th, 2013 -  60 comments
    Categories: by-election 2013, conservative party, greens, labour, national
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    The Christchurch East by election is getting really weird.  We have a National candidate who does not turn up to possibly the most important public meeting of the campaign, a spot of petty vandalism committed using a National MP’s van, a conservative party candidate who implies that legs on a billboard are his when they are not, a conservative party leader who does not rule out the possibility of chemtrails existing despite there being no supporting evidence while denying anthropogenic climate change when there is an abundance of evidence in support and Labour and the Greens contesting kindred votes when strategic voting could produce a positive result.

    Confused?

  26. Punching above our weight

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:50 am, March 31st, 2012 -  16 comments
    Categories: International, spin
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    Punching above our weight will never be the same again …

  27. The right’s weird obsession with Darien Fenton

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 8:00 pm, October 3rd, 2011 -  261 comments
    Categories: blogs
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    Darien Fenton makes a mean comment about a celebrity butcher on facebook and then apologises for it and offers to shout him a drink to make up for it.

    No big deal? Well according to some hysterical righties that makes Fenton worse than Hitler.

  28. Punching below our weight

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 5:43 am, August 18th, 2009 -  37 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    I’m proud to be a Kiwi, and I’ve always enjoyed celebrating the successes of our tiny country. It’s not often that I feel ashamed of our role in the world. But our National Government’s position on greenhouse gas emissions is a disgrace. It’s not just that our emissions reduction target is too low, it’s that […]

  29. Sunday weirdness

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 1:38 pm, July 12th, 2009 -  57 comments
    Categories: blogs
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    Cameron Slater has had a big media day today with the Herald on Sunday pointing out his role in the cyber-bullying of some young woman called Pearl Going and the Sunday Star Times doing a feature on the odd fellow. I don’t generally read Slater’s blog so I’d missed the business with Going but a […]

  30. The polls are weird

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:04 am, September 2nd, 2008 -  10 comments
    Categories: polls
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    Dave at Big News has a good post up on a vagaries of the polls. It expands on something that Idiot Savant noticed at No Right Turn in his post Priceless. I/S observed:- I don’t normally poll blog, but this I can’t resist: according to the graphic for the latest Herald digipoll, the Christian Heritage […]

  31. Extra weight

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:05 pm, April 22nd, 2008 -  6 comments
    Categories: admin
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    A reader pointed out a set of hidden spam links that had attached themselves to the footer of the site. I’d noticed them previously and thought that I’d corrected them (see comment). But they turned up again. Turns out it was from an interesting flaw in the website, and was being inserted from outside. I’ve […]