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  1. Brownlee accused of bullying lawyer

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:44 am, September 13th, 2018 -  128 comments
    Categories: Gerry Brownlee, national, Politics, same old national
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    Gerry Brownlee has been accused of ringing a young lawyer involved in a potential class action concerning steal used in the Christchurch rebuild and making her feel intimidated and harassed. Update: National has admitted “[s]o he just kind of unleashed, you know how Gerry is”.

  2. Litigation and equal pay – a history of the 1950’s equal pay campaign

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 7:26 am, August 28th, 2018 -  3 comments
    Categories: activism, australian politics, campaigning, discrimination, equality, feminism, gender, history, human rights, labour, national, patriarchy, Politics, public services, same old national, sexism, uk politics, Unions, wages
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    Forward In 2016 I wrote the below dissertation as part of my History Honours degree at Victoria University.  This dissertation explores the 1950s equal pay campaign, and specifically looks at the Jean Parker Case. Jean Parker was a PSA member employed at IRD, who like Kristine Bartlett 60 years later, won a landmark equal pay legal […]

  3. Bridges and National keep digging further on Leakgate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:51 pm, August 26th, 2018 -  64 comments
    Categories: labour, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, trevor mallard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    A review of events over the past two weeks about the strange case of the leaked travel expense information, the expensive inquiry and the depressed MP.

  4. Turnbull out, Morrison In?

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 2:29 pm, August 23rd, 2018 -  100 comments
    Categories: australian politics, class war, International, leadership
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    Turnbull out, Morrison or Dutton in? The Australian Liberal Party self flagellation continues in Canberra. Updates as they roll in, cobbers.

    UPDATE: Malcolm Turnbull calls press conference at 1PM AEST (3PM in NZ)

    UPDATE: Turnbull to quit tomorrow, if ballot called.

    UPDATE: Julie Bishop prepares bid.

    UPDATE: Scott Morrison wins, Dutton defeated 45-40.

  5. The Pope’s Letter to All Believers

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 22nd, 2018 -  64 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, child abuse, crime, Deep stuff, International, leadership
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    The pope missed a great recent chance to state that accused abusers should be walked to the nearest Police station, make written statements, face trial, hopefully jailed, then defrocked, and excommunicated.

  6. The future of blogging in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:25 am, August 19th, 2018 -  54 comments
    Categories: blogroll, blogs, clickbait, David Farrar, dpf, journalism, Media, The Standard, video
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    Morgan Godfery of the excellent Maui Street blog has relaunched his blogsite and made it subscriber based. Is this the future of blogging in Aotearoa New Zealand?

  7. The week of Limogate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, August 18th, 2018 -  44 comments
    Categories: articles, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, trevor mallard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Tracy Watkins and Tova O’Brien have both written articles criticising Simon Bridges’ handling of Limogate.

  8. Bludger Bridges

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 6:56 pm, August 13th, 2018 -  63 comments
    Categories: benefits, class war, Economy, minimum wage, monetary policy, poverty, scoundrels, Simon Bridges, welfare
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    Simon Bridges has blown over $100k of your money in just three months, tiki touring around the country at the taxpayers expense. Nice work if you can get it!

    Update: A Shark Jumps Matthew Hooton. Live on Twitter!

  9. Of course Judith should #DeleteTheTweet

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 9th, 2018 -  69 comments
    Categories: clickbait, Judith Collins, making shit up, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Project has called on Judith Collins to delete her tweet retweeting a link to a fake news story falsely claiming that France had legalised paedophilia at the behest of an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise paedophilia.

  10. The difference between Don Brash and Southern & Molyneux

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:38 pm, August 8th, 2018 -  66 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, don brash, political alternatives, Politics
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    What is the difference between Don Brash and Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern. And why should Brash’s right to freedom of expression be greater than Monyneux’s or Southern’s?

  11. Let him speak

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 3:04 pm, August 7th, 2018 -  308 comments
    Categories: act, don brash, Media, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Don Brash should be allowed to speak at a University about politics.

  12. South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:30 am, August 4th, 2018 -  31 comments
    Categories: Africa, Deep stuff, democratic participation, elections, Globalisation, International, racism, treaty settlements
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    In 1962, John F Kennedy said “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”  Is peaceful revolution possible in South Africa, Zimbabwe or New Zealand?

  13. Bridges and his cheerleaders

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:46 am, July 29th, 2018 -  112 comments
    Categories: education, john key, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, uncategorized
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    National is pulling out all stops to suggest that Simon Bridges is not so bad as a leader.

  14. National is jamming cannabis law reform

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:47 am, July 27th, 2018 -  82 comments
    Categories: crime, death with dignity, Deep stuff, drugs, greens, labour, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    So National be getting pretty liberal with the Marijuana stuff.

  15. Julian Assange; Journey’s End?

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 10:14 am, July 22nd, 2018 -  165 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, capitalism, class war, Globalisation, Politics
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    Is Julian Assange about to be arrested? Equador looks set to evict the accused rapist and capitalist tool from its London embassy.

  16. Labour and New Zealand First Ministers under the first term of the sixth Labour government sitting in the Cabinet office.

    Government with a plan

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, July 22nd, 2018 -  46 comments
    Categories: benefits, capitalism, class war, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, economy, Economy, election 2017, Financial markets, grant robertson, infrastructure, jacinda ardern, jobs, Keynes, labour, Politics, poverty, socialism, welfare
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    The polls are great. Top work. But I’m getting worried about the entropy of this government already. Matthew Hooten and Karl Marx agree with me.

  17. What has happened to Simon Bridges?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:40 am, July 19th, 2018 -  42 comments
    Categories: blogs, China, david clark, David Farrar, International, jacinda ardern, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    You would think that while Jacinda Ardern takes time out to properly introduce baby Neve to the world opposition leader Simon Bridges would be striding throughout the country like a colossus and really make a name for himself.  But of late he has been rather invisible.

  18. Free Tommy Robinson *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:29 am, July 15th, 2018 -  66 comments
    Categories: racism, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    * with every purchase.

  19. Congrats: fuel tax drive more trucks out of Auckland

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:02 am, July 2nd, 2018 -  25 comments
    Categories: transport
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    Truck drivers are being to told to refuel outside of the Auckland regional fuel tax. Hopefully this will also mean that more of the excessively subsidised road destroying heavy vehicles will stay outside of our precious Auckland roads. But raising the Road User Charges in accordance to the general 4th power law would be more direct and have a better economic effect.

  20. The United States is becoming a rogue state

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:57 pm, June 20th, 2018 -  53 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, immigration, International, israel, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics
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    The United States of America in its support for Israeli trashing of Palestinian rights and the withdrawal of support for the United Nations Human Rights Council as well as the mass incarceration of children of parents who have tried to enter the United States without permission is displaying concerning signs.

  21. Sage refuses permission to mine conservation land

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:09 am, June 18th, 2018 -  94 comments
    Categories: Conservation, Economy, Environment, Mining, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage has incurred attacks from the right by refusing to allow the desecration of conservation land on the West Coast.

  22. Gluckman: Methamphetamine policy was a crock

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:19 am, May 30th, 2018 -  80 comments
    Categories: class war, drugs, labour, making shit up, national, paula bennett, phil twyford, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    The Prime Minister’s chief science adviser Peter Gluckman has described the previous Government’s policy on methamphetamine in Housing Corp houses as hysterical and concluded that there has never been a documented case of someone getting sick from third-hand exposure to methamphetamine.

  23. It’s Time for a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dairy Farming

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:42 am, May 29th, 2018 -  166 comments
    Categories: Conservation, Environment, exports, farming, farming, food, uncategorized
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    Not just, ‘we’ve got to make the good outweigh the bad’. I mean: why should dairy farming exist here?

  24. Doofus of the week – May 27, 2018

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:54 am, May 27th, 2018 -  28 comments
    Categories: doofus of the week, Gerry Brownlee, Judith Collins, national, paula bennett, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Lots of competition this week with Katie Hopkins preferring to be called a racist to being described as being on drugs, Judith Collins for fronting the most naff scandals in the last decade, and Simon Bridges for going on tour to strange places.  But the real contest was between Paula Bennett and Gerry Brownlee …

  25. Yulia wants to go home.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 10:55 am, May 25th, 2018 -  59 comments
    Categories: International, Propaganda, Russia, uk politics
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    Oops. Was this desire meant to be in the script?

  26. Algorithms are threatening our democracy

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:00 am, May 9th, 2018 -  36 comments
    Categories: China, community democracy, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, facebook, internet, interweb, Politics, twitter
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    Algorithms are a form of fascism – yet a fascism from data manipulation rather than from the state. Are they a threat to our democracy?

  27. The Schnews.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 1:16 pm, April 28th, 2018 -  7 comments
    Categories: Media, news, Propaganda, radio, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Apologies to the Schnews that was actually a pretty good wee publication that came out of Brighton, England.

  28. Bottom feeding fish

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:35 am, April 24th, 2018 -  99 comments
    Categories: clickbait, Dirty Politics, making shit up, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Yesterday the Herald said something stupid about Clarke Gayford, reported his response and then reported at how the country was divided by the article.

  29. The right to free speech

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:05 am, April 20th, 2018 -  105 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, journalism, Media, news, Propaganda, racism, sexism, social media lolz, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    This week has seen a number of examples where right wing and religious men have said stupid things and then had their statements defended on the basis that free speech should be protected.

  30. Homeless families are living in cars … and tents

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, April 13th, 2018 -  84 comments
    Categories: housing, john key, national, national/act government, phil twyford, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Remember how early on during his reign as National leader John Key talked about the underclass and how they were a blight on New Zealand society?  Well over the past year WINZ has been giving grants to homeless families to live in tents.

  31. Is this a new cold war?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 4:10 pm, April 11th, 2018 -  17 comments
    Categories: China, Europe, Globalisation, International, uk politics, us politics, war
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    It’s really easy to get cranky right now and believe the world is retreating into to a sad Cold War binary in which Russia and its allies are always in high tension with the United States and its allies. A new Cold War.

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