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  1. Abusive and creepy

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:30 am, April 24th, 2015 -  274 comments
    Categories: john key, Minister for International Embarrassment
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    Of all the ways Key could have shot his leadership and his legacy in the foot – this really was the stupidest.

    Image from Emmerson in The Herald – definitive.

  2. International laughing stock

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:49 am, April 23rd, 2015 -  72 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, john key, workers' rights
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    John Key has finally achieved the world fame he has clearly always wanted, but not in a good way. Here’s a roundup of the international coverage of his harassment.

  3. My Little Ponytail

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:49 am, April 22nd, 2015 -  407 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, blogs, health and safety, john key, workers' rights
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    A really strange story has appeared on The Daily Blog. It claims to be a first person account of PM John Key regularly physically harrassing a staff member in his local cafe over the summer. While it may be much ado about nothing, the Prime Minister really should tell NZ his side of the story. Or resign if it’s true.

    Update: It’s true. Key’s office has confirmed the harassment.

  4. Cameron Slater has a idiot for a lawyer

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:00 am, April 14th, 2015 -  42 comments
    Categories: articles, blogs, journalism, Media
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    Instead of taking the shot granted by the High Court of simply making an appeal, some incompetent legal dunderhead made the idiotic move of not filing. Then they took the much harder step of belatedly attempting to get the Court of Appeal to allow them to appeal. Complete stupidity. But this is a lawyer with Cameron Slater for a client..

  5. Who is Miranda Devine?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:30 am, April 13th, 2015 -  46 comments
    Categories: articles, australian politics, john key, making shit up, Media, national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Miranda Devine is the person who recently wrote a really obsequious article on John Key in the Daily Telegraph where she described him as one of the best Conservative Prime Ministers in the world.  But a reading of her other published material suggests that caution should be applied before applying too much weight to her opinions.

  6. A police investigation – Part One

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:00 am, April 12th, 2015 -  84 comments
    Categories: john key, Judith Collins, law and "order", national, police
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    There’s nothing particularly wrong with Bryce Edwards’ article except that it ignores how National Ltd™ Police Ministers have successively sat by and done nothing in response to the on-going police failings.

  7. 900,000 comments

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:02 am, March 18th, 2015 -  28 comments
    Categories: admin, blogs, gender, The Standard
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    Yesterday morning we went though 900k comments. We have done another 100k comments in 188 days since September 10th. We are slightly behind our long predicted exponential growth to a million comments in August.

  8. All Apologies

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 12:49 pm, March 17th, 2015 -  332 comments
    Categories: crime, Ethics, patriarchy, sexism
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    Did commenters on the recent Julian Assange post overstep the mark in their defence of the Wikileaks founder? Are they really rape apologists?

  9. Defining the truth

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:31 am, March 17th, 2015 -  12 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, internet
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    Changes being considered at Google have far reaching implications. Who gets to decide what is true?

  10. Two views on Titirangi’s Kauri

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:24 pm, March 15th, 2015 -  24 comments
    Categories: Conservation, david cunliffe, Environment, national, same old national
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    Rodney Hide has published a column about the ancient Titirangi Kauri which predictably argues that land owners should do what they want. But John Roughan has argued to the contrary in an article that will make you wonder if he is actually a greenie at heart.

  11. Little: ACC levies need to come down

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 2:30 pm, March 8th, 2015 -  30 comments
    Categories: ACC, Andrew Little, labour, national
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    A National government which loves to cut taxs + workers and business being overcharged ACC levies = levy cuts, right? Wrong!

  12. National has to win Northland (plus Armstrong’s amazing U-turn)

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:27 am, March 8th, 2015 -  153 comments
    Categories: by-election, john key, spin
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    In which John Key denies the bleeding obvious, and John Armstrong risks whiplash with the speed of his U-turn.

  13. Nudge Nudge in Northland

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 11:07 am, March 7th, 2015 -  97 comments
    Categories: accountability, Andrew Little, by-election, campaigning, john key, Politics, winston peters
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    Two interesting changes in the Northland by-election overnight.

     

  14. On Northland

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 1:44 pm, March 4th, 2015 -  117 comments
    Categories: by-election, elections, greens, labour, mana, national, nz first, political parties
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    I’ve been getting tired of the fantasy elections that some political commentators seem to enjoy playing. Currently the fantasises is in Northland, with the same old tiresome lines. It is a pity that most of those playing this game don’t ever seem to think about the behaviours of real voters, real candidates, and real parties.

  15. Spock was a socialist

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:01 am, March 1st, 2015 -  23 comments
    Categories: class war, Conservation, Environment
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    If you analyse the many things said by Spock you would come to the conclusion that he was a strong progressive.

  16. Local Bodies: The Greens and Labour

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:51 pm, February 20th, 2015 -  136 comments
    Categories: greens, labour
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    Politics involves competition, opposition and robust debate as parties jostle to capture media time and to promote their policies and points of difference. But Andrew Little has recently mismanaged his relationship with the Green Party. There is an acceptable line between promoting the interests of ones own party and maintaining a working relationship with future coalition partners.

  17. The house always wins

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:01 am, February 16th, 2015 -  23 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, john key, national, same old national, Steven Joyce
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    The flaws in the process whereby SkyCity promised a free convention centre in consideration of legislative changes are now clear to see.  Through an act of brinkmanship SkyCity has embarassed the Government and caused it political damage.  And it has achieved a return for investors, the legislative changes will be the same despite there now being a smaller cheaper convention centre.

  18. War HUH!

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 8:18 am, February 13th, 2015 -  417 comments
    Categories: class, Ethics, human rights, International, iraq, Left, socialism, Syria, war
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    NZ is again being asked to go to war in Iraq. The Clark Labour Government said no a decade ago, but in 2015 there may be a compelling reason to join the fight; this time it’s the right thing to do. New Standard author te reo putake puts the case for NZ entering the battle against ISIS.

  19. Tino Rangatiratanga

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:51 am, February 8th, 2015 -  309 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, Deep stuff, john key, law, Maori Issues, national, newspapers, same old national, treaty settlements
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    It has been claimed that Andrew Little has advocated for Maori to have law making powers. What he has done is reflect on a recent Waitangi Tribunal decision which concluded that Maori never ceded sovereignty to the Crown and properly concluded that this is an issue that needs to be considered.

  20. Armstrong and Small on Nick Smith’s RMA reforms

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:05 am, January 24th, 2015 -  26 comments
    Categories: journalism, local government, Media, national, newspapers, Politics, same old national
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    Senior political reporters Vern Small and John Armstrong have both chosen to pan Nick Smith’s proposed RMA changes using remarkably similar logic.  Update: and Fran O’Sullivan has a go too.

  21. The mathematics of surveillance

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:30 am, January 22nd, 2015 -  30 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, International, Spying
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    Mass surveillance cannot accomplish its stated goals, and it’s likely that many within the security / government system understand this full well.

  22. The price of the club

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:17 am, January 21st, 2015 -  179 comments
    Categories: iraq, john key, war
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    Yesterday Key justified our likely military intervention in Iraq as “the price” of being in “the club” with other Five Eyes countries.

  23. RMA reforms … be very afraid

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, January 20th, 2015 -  97 comments
    Categories: act, Environment, greens, housing, labour, national, national/act government, peter dunne, sustainability
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    Nick Smith today announced proposed changes to the Resource Management Act. It is likely he will resuscitate the reforms that were stalled after Peter Dunne refused to support them last year. ACT’s David Seymour has said he will support the changes even though he did not know what they are. Treasury are to release a paper with proposals for change. Updated lprent – yep National stupidity reprised.

  24. Whaleoil is the only person John Key apologised to this year

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:16 am, December 15th, 2014 -  12 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    John Key’s only formal apology this year was to serial privacy breacher Cameron Slater for breaching his privacy.  Not to any of the victims of dirty politics or to any of the victims of this Government’s policies.  Why is it that National is continuing to allow Slater to undermine the Prime Minister’s position so effectively?

  25. NZ Media and blogs vs blogs

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:32 am, December 6th, 2014 -  42 comments
    Categories: blogs, broadcasting, internet, journalism, Media, newspapers, radio, tv
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    Snippets from a detailed and interesting report on the ownership of NZ media, media trends and issues, and the role of blogs post dirty politics. One major quibble – not all blogs are created equal, no more than all TV is game shows, than all radio is talkback, or than all websites are porn.

  26. exports trading partners 2012

    Losing money

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:32 am, December 2nd, 2014 -  26 comments
    Categories: Economy, exports, farming, trade
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    The economic news is depressing for NZ at present. After riding a dairy commodity boom for the last few years, the payout for farmers looks like it will drop from a high of $8.50/kg last season to $4.85/kg this coming season. Meanwhile National has neglected our most sustainable resource – people. So expect a busted economy for the next few years.

  27. The week that was

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:32 am, November 30th, 2014 -  55 comments
    Categories: john key, national, uncategorized
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    The past week has been a terrific one for Andrew Little and a very bad one for John Key, thanks to Cameron Slater.  Key failing to cut contact with Slater is bizarre.  It makes you wonder what Slater has on Key.

  28. NRT: Least preferred option

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:33 pm, November 17th, 2014 -  40 comments
    Categories: International, iraq, us politics, war
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    Back in September, John Key said that sending the SAS to Iraq was his “least preferred option”, “at the very outer edge of what we’d be wanting to do”. Today, he’s changed his tune in his predictable way. Such a poodle wanting to have his belly scratched by his masters.

  29. The United States mid term Elections

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, November 9th, 2014 -  86 comments
    Categories: us politics
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    Some brief thoughts on what happened in the United States election this week combined with a guest post by Ad on the challenges that progressive parties are facing in the Western World.

  30. Reds under the beds

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:17 am, November 6th, 2014 -  82 comments
    Categories: defence, human rights, Spying, war
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    Governments have always used external threats (real or not) to expand their powers. Supposedly “small government” types seem the most keen to grab more powers, for some strange reason.

  31. Time for a real Police Tribunal?

    Written By:  rocky -  Date published: 4:30 am, October 31st, 2014 -  21 comments
    Categories: activism, police
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    Yesterday the “Independent” Police Conduct Authority released its report into the conduct of Police during the 2012 mass arrest of students at the “Blockade the Budget” protest. In the “About the Authority” section near the bottom the document claims that the IPCA is similar to a court

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