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  1. John Armstrong – a person worth disagreeing with

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:14 am, October 17th, 2015 -  25 comments
    Categories: journalism, Politics
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    Today John Armstrong published his swansong at the NZ Herald. He is losing his long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Like most things that John wrote, it is worth reading. Certainly that was how he was regarded here. More than 500 of our 17,000+ posts referenced his work.

  2. Where is Peseta Sam?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:06 am, October 3rd, 2015 -  13 comments
    Categories: john key, national, Politics, Public Private Partnerships, same old national
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    This week we have had the release of the Priestley Report into the escape of Phillip Smith which details a litany of problems within Corrections and overnight there have been reports of rape and assault on a person moved from segregation in Serco managed South Auckland Correctional Facility.  But no sign of Corrections Minister Sam Lotu Iiga.  Where is he?

  3. Pandas WTF?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:01 am, October 1st, 2015 -  41 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, spin
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    Pandas – one lightweight piece of fluff too far?

  4. The Rainbow Warrior apology

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:03 am, September 7th, 2015 -  22 comments
    Categories: history, International
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    The French secret service agent who attached the mines which sank the Rainbow Warrior has stated an emotional apology during an interview. While the apology is welcome, it changes nothing.

  5. Syria and Internationalism

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 4:02 pm, September 6th, 2015 -  90 comments
    Categories: aid, democratic participation, Ethics, human rights, International, Media, Social issues, Syria
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    I wonder if the current public outpouring of sympathy for Syrian refugees is nought but a ‘fashion’, or whether it’s the beginnings of a renaissance for internationalism.

  6. TPP – dooming our grandchildren to poverty

    Written By:  tracey -  Date published: 9:36 am, August 25th, 2015 -  31 comments
    Categories: business, capitalism, copyright, Economy, farming, jobs, uncategorized, welfare
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    … up to 45% of current jobs will cease to exist.

  7. Groser: an arrogant git with a tin ear

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 4:08 pm, August 15th, 2015 -  36 comments
    Categories: Economy, exports
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    I’m amazed about how ignorant Tim Groser is in his costly pursuit of the TTP. But his completely weird and idiotic remarks on how the ICT industry runs really do reach a new level of mindless – even for a fool from MFAT. The TTP will bring us no advantages, and are likely to cause major disruptions to the innovation that is driving the ICT export sector.

  8. Zero by 50

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 5:34 pm, August 9th, 2015 -  139 comments
    Categories: capitalism, climate change, energy, Environment, Ethics, global warming, science
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    In Copenhagen, our government committed itself, and by extension, us “To hold the increase in global temperature below two degrees Celsius and to take actions to meet this objective, consistent with the science and on the basis of equity”

    And yet…

  9. ABC: The Lexicon of Labour

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:10 am, July 23rd, 2015 -  63 comments
    Categories: crosby textor, elections, International, Politics, uk politics
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    In a major shock, it appears veteren socialist Jeremy Corbyn is set to win the leadership of the UK Labour Party. Can his anti-austerity platform lift Labour up following their drubbing at the general Election? And can his ideas impact on our Labour Party here?

  10. So much for the competitive market

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, July 23rd, 2015 -  18 comments
    Categories: class war, housing, making shit up, Privatisation
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    I love how right-wing ideology is just some thing that can be switched on and off at will. Case in point, ownership of state houses…

  11. Treaty of Versailles – Greek edition

    Written By:  Colonial Viper -  Date published: 11:42 am, July 14th, 2015 -  101 comments
    Categories: Europe, International
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    Just like there clearly are first class Euros and second class Euros, it is just as clear that there are first class Europeans and second class Europeans. Nothing is settled and the chance of further conflict is high.

  12. Blood on the Tracks

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 10:27 am, July 10th, 2015 -  127 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Bill English’s budget has thrown a two year lifeline to Kiwirail. But it’s not nearly enough and its hopelessly shortsighted. Rail isn’t a cost, it’s a benefit. What’s needed is investment and planning, not slash and burn.

  13. “Labour values” are more than a talking point

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 8:30 am, July 10th, 2015 -  164 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    What does it actually mean when we say “my values are Labour’s values”?

  14. The Canterbury rebuild

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:58 am, July 9th, 2015 -  20 comments
    Categories: blogs, christchurch earthquake, democratic participation, disaster, Gerry Brownlee, national, same old national
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    The Canterbury Rebuild grinds on with news that CERA is to be replaced by a new entity dubbed Regenerate Canterbury.  But is a name change all that is required?

  15. Rashbrooke on poverty in NZ and UK

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:23 am, July 9th, 2015 -  15 comments
    Categories: benefits, class war, International, poverty
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    Max Rashbrooke has a major article in The Guardian today looking at poverty in NZ and the UK, and what each country can learn from the other.

  16. Armstrong is Craig’s last fan

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 3:31 pm, June 27th, 2015 -  5 comments
    Categories: colin craig, conservative party, journalism
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    John Armstrong is apparently the last political “commentator” to take Colin Craig seriously. It’s really quite sweet.

  17. Lift the refugee quota

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:16 am, June 23rd, 2015 -  69 comments
    Categories: australian politics, class war, human rights, im/migration
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    Refugees are people, but they get treated as a political football, as recent events in Australia and NZ have demonstrated once again. It is long past time that NZ raised its refugee quota.

  18. Colin Craig’s Contempt for His Victim

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 7:30 pm, June 22nd, 2015 -  113 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, colin craig, conservative party, sexism, workers' rights
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    The Conservative Party’s Colin Craig has victimised his former Press Secretary by deliberately breaching a confidentiality settlement in order to frame his inappropriate behaviour as a minor matter they were both equally responsible for. Well, that’s crap, Colin. It’s actually a rich man using his power and privilege to belittle a woman. Again.

  19. Pope Francis has much to say

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:20 am, June 22nd, 2015 -  219 comments
    Categories: climate change, global warming, religion
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    pope-francis-the-earth-filth

  20. A short history of The Standard – Maoriland Worker

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 3:22 pm, June 21st, 2015 -  43 comments
    Categories: history, The Standard
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    I saw earlier this month that typically the bombastic one from The Daily Blog Bombast was managing to not mention our site name in a post about hiring a hacker to crack into our site. Of more concern was his lack of local history. Is he too in love with his own voice to learn the lessons of the past?

  21. Iain Lees-Galloway: how many meathooks to the head will it take?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:00 pm, June 19th, 2015 -  22 comments
    Categories: health and safety, workers' rights
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    Some strong stuff from Labour’s spokesperson for Labour, Iain Lees-Galloway, in Question Time yesterday.

  22. Sheepgate: the McCully mess

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:33 am, June 3rd, 2015 -  20 comments
    Categories: Globalisation, International, john key, national, national/act government, newspapers, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    The media have joined opposition demands that Murray McCully’s actions in relation to sheepgate are investigated.  If John Key really expects high standards from his ministers this is the least that should be done.  Update: And a claimed “independent audit” of the tender process was conducted by none other than MFAT.

  23. Finlayson calls Key wild eyed on National Radio

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:28 am, May 15th, 2015 -  23 comments
    Categories: john key, Media, national, national/act government, radio, same old national
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    Chris Finlayson has described a comment made by John Key as “wild eyed stuff” on National Radio,

  24. Uncomfortable reading for Key

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, May 12th, 2015 -  40 comments
    Categories: john key, Minister for International Embarrassment
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    Two opinion pieces yesterday make uncomfortable reading for Key.

  25. Congratulations Mhairi Black of the SNP

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 5:21 pm, May 8th, 2015 -  7 comments
    Categories: elections, International, uk politics
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    One of the outstanding results in the UP election was the result in the seat of Paisley where a young 20 year old woman Mhairi Black defeated Labour heavyweight Douglas Alexander.

  26. Worst. Interview. Ever.

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:30 am, May 4th, 2015 -  85 comments
    Categories: john key, making shit up, Minister for International Embarrassment, Satire, workers' rights
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    On Radio NZ this morning John Key gave an interview that was cringe-worthy, defensive and accidently hilarious. The man is a joke … and not even an original one.

  27. Numerical illiteracy at the Herald

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 1:21 pm, April 29th, 2015 -  46 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, Media, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Today, we see a Herald ‘editor’ demonstrating exactly how useless they are at interpreting polls. They are saying that a poll where almost all of the sample was taken before the Ponygate story broke, indicates that it doesn’t matter much. To rub home just how stupid and out of touch the Herald editors were last week, it then whines about nasty social media. What can one say of these cloistered monks of  ‘journalism’… Plenty.

  28. I Fought the Law

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 8:28 pm, April 28th, 2015 -  148 comments
    Categories: Ethics, human rights, john key, law, Minister for International Embarrassment, national, uncategorized
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    A quick look at the legalities of Ponytailgate as it affects the worker, the cafe, the NZ Herald and the PM. There could be court, tribunal and commission hearings that drag on for months, with potential big financial and political implications for the players.

  29. Pull the other one… ponytails, minimisation and male privilege

    Written By:  mhager -  Date published: 5:48 pm, April 25th, 2015 -  407 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, blogs, broadcasting, corruption, discrimination, feminism, gender, john key, Left, news, patriarchy
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    From pulling ponytails to police minimisation, there is a deep problem in our country with attitudes towards women and to sexual violence.

  30. Pillock of the week

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:30 am, April 24th, 2015 -  48 comments
    Categories: broadcasting, class, john key, Media, national
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    Although John Key clearly wins the award this week for unbecoming insensitive and bizarre behaviour there is a media figure who did their best to provide him with competition.  And it is not Rachel Glucina.

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