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  1. Labour has overseen massive inequality increase – Bernard Hickey

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 1:14 pm, January 27th, 2022 -  154 comments
    Categories: benefits, covid-19, Economy, inequality, Politics, Social issues
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    The Government’s Covid 19 response, mainly via Reserve Bank measures, has enabled a mind-boggling increase in inequality, according to influential financial commentator Bernard Hickey. Covid response has saved multiple lives, but its refusal to simultaneously address inequality via taxes raises uncomfortable questions about how a leftist government has overseen a once-in-a-generation shift in wealth

  2. Mike Hosking Covid Australia

    Australia’s Omicron problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:44 am, January 6th, 2022 -  132 comments
    Categories: australian politics, covid-19, Environment, health, jacinda ardern, long covid, science, uk politics, uncategorized, us politics
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    With over 61,000 new Covid cases reported yesterday Australia is in the midst of an infection surge that it has not seen before.  What lessons can New Zealand learn from Australia’s handling of the pandemic?

  3. Let’s punch for peace

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 4:28 pm, December 30th, 2021 -  34 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Today’s Herald editorial says New Zealand ‘wisely’ doesn’t punch above its weight in  military activities. That’s not true – I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear weapons and nuclear war that resulted in a knockout – New Zealand’s suspension from the ANZUS alliance on a point of principle.

  4. Astroturfers of the world unite

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:14 am, November 20th, 2021 -  52 comments
    Categories: act, feminism, making shit up, national, same old national, spin, tax, taxpayers union, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Two days before what is claimed will be the mother of all protests links between the Groundswell organisation and the Taxpayers Union have been discovered.

  5. Freedom Protesters are a pain in the ass

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:36 am, November 10th, 2021 -  74 comments
    Categories: covid-19, human rights, jacinda ardern, labour, Social issues, uncategorized
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    Human rights are a pain in the ass. Yesterday’s protesters were rude, unfit to invite home to dinner, shouty, and so incoherent that you could’t make any sensible point with them. They were and are a pain in the ass. But they are OUR pain in the ass.

  6. The Entrust election debacle

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:43 am, October 31st, 2021 -  56 comments
    Categories: C&R, climate change, elections, science, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National aligned C&R has shown how bad it is at running elections by running an election where less than one in ten eligible people voted.

  7. Slater smears again

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:33 am, October 18th, 2021 -  104 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, uncategorized
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    The Herald’s publication of an attack on Ardern by a wedding venue owner appears to have been sourced from Cameron Slater and brings into stark relief the Herald’s twin business model of funding serious journalism by both subscriptions and the use of click bait.

  8. Why did the chicken cross the road?

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 9:58 pm, September 21st, 2021 -  26 comments
    Categories: covid-19, health, vaccines
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    Government has taken a ‘calculated risk’ with opening up Auckland somewhat tonight.

  9. Where Is The Real Green Party?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:47 am, September 17th, 2021 -  48 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, greens, james shaw, science, uncategorized
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    Where’s the hairy knuckle-dragging woke when you need them?

  10. Dirty Politics does not work any more

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:53 am, September 11th, 2021 -  83 comments
    Categories: blogs, covid-19, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, making shit up, Media, Politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Egged on by a shock horror smear campaign on Cameron Slater’s latest post Judith Collins has attacked Dr Siouxsie Wiles by fat shaming her.

  11. Terrorist attack – Law changes may not have helped deal

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:19 am, September 7th, 2021 -  15 comments
    Categories: crime, human rights, immigration, International, police
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    A proposed urgent change in the law concerning preparing to commit a terrorist attack may not have stopped the New Lynn attack from happening.

  12. Judith’s very bad two days

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:12 am, September 2nd, 2021 -  50 comments
    Categories: act, covid-19, david seymour, grant robertson, greens, Judith Collins, labour, Media, national, Parliament, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Judith Collins’ insistence that Parliament be reconvened even at a time that the country was in lockdown level 4 has backfired spectacularly.

  13. The Top 20 Biggest U.S. Military Interventions, Best to Worst

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:39 am, August 31st, 2021 -  76 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, Africa, australian politics, China, class war, colonialism, defence, Disarmament, Europe, Iran, iraq, israel, Japan, Korea, Pacific, Palestine, Peace, Russia, Syria, uk politics, United Nations, us politics, war
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    With the last flights coming out of Kabul, it’s time to review whether this US attitude to the world is a good idea.

  14. Ardern Needs to do More Than Manage Crisis

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 2:23 pm, August 25th, 2021 -  24 comments
    Categories: australian politics, covid-19, economy, jacinda ardern
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    For a country that has sought to form advantage for itself with strong and hard COVID-19 lockdowns, we’re not gaining any more advantage than yet another binge-purge cycle of supply tension and shortages, rapid economic downturn softened by tens of billions of subsidy, followed by unsustainable booms, over and over again.

  15. The Covid vaccine may not be the nirvana

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:47 pm, August 21st, 2021 -  151 comments
    Categories: australian politics, boris johnson, covid-19, health, Media, uk politics
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    Claims that a comprehensive vaccination scheme will allow life to get back to normal ignores the experience of Israel, which despite having a large proportion of its population vaccinated is having a surge of new infections of Covid that is stretching its health system.

  16. Farewell Dr Michael Cullen

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:52 pm, August 20th, 2021 -  21 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, helen clark, labour
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    Dr Michael Cullen has died, and with him goes a real standard-bearer for Labour for three decades.

  17. Ways out of the climate catastrophe

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:05 am, August 10th, 2021 -  130 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, sustainability
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    As the IPCC drops its grim, damning report on humans and climate change, and as we are surrounded by social and mainstream media narratives of disaster, we desperately need cogent and hopeful visions of where we can go next, and stories of futures where things work out.

  18. Judith’s last stand?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:04 am, August 4th, 2021 -  43 comments
    Categories: david seymour, Judith Collins, national, same old national, uncategorized
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    Judith Collins has decided to attack the Government on the use of the Te Reo name for New Zealand even though the last National Government regularised its use.

  19. Why aren’t Labour acting on the housing crisis?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:30 am, July 27th, 2021 -  68 comments
    Categories: housing, labour
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    Bernard Hickey calls Labour’s inaction a scandal, and it’s hard to disagree.

  20. Our modern Olympics

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:46 am, July 26th, 2021 -  7 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Japan, sport
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    The Olympics is an opera that runs on one orchestrated symbol after another, and this Tokyo Olympics is a superabundant tragedy.

  21. What If Boris Is Right?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:51 am, July 24th, 2021 -  80 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, covid-19, health, uk politics, uncategorized
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    Now that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has “opened up” the United Kingdom from many of the Covid19 strictures that it had undergone, there is a lot at stake to his reputation and indeed to the lives and livelihoods of its citizens.

  22. Act likes some rights but not others

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:50 am, July 22nd, 2021 -  37 comments
    Categories: act, human rights, law, law and "order", the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    Following on from its campaign to protect freedom of expression Act has come out with policy on gangs which if enacted would involve some pretty egregious attacks on freedom of association and movement and due process.

  23. Freedom day

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:55 am, July 19th, 2021 -  58 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, covid-19, health, uk politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    As infection rates of Covid in the United Kingdom surge Boris Johnson has announced that today will be the UK’s Freedom day and will be removing pretty well all mandatory Covid restrictions, even the wearing of masks and social distancing.

  24. Trump and Russia

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:15 am, July 18th, 2021 -  41 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, Donald Trump, Media, politicans, Russia, us politics
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    The Guardian has reported on claims of a leaked Russian Government paper which on the face of it confirms Russian support for the Trump 2016 election at the highest level.

  25. Why Not Support The Farmers?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:43 am, July 17th, 2021 -  106 comments
    Categories: climate change, Economy, Environment, ETS, farming, food, Free Trade, national, trade
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    The Groundswell farmers movement want the new freshwater policy scrapped, the “ute tax” removed, lots of imported labour for farm work, parts of the ETS dumped the new Significant Natural Area policy dumped, the draft policy on indigenous biodiversity scrapped and Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill stopped.  How likely is this?

  26. If a thousand baby flamingos die in the desert does anyone hear them howl?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 3:06 pm, July 16th, 2021 -  43 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, farming, food
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    Farmers aren’t the problem here, they’re the mirror New Zealand is holding up to itself. We say we want change, despite the evidence.

  27. All the right words on climate have already been said

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:05 am, July 4th, 2021 -  19 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, journalism
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    So I was just driving around thinking, “Ugh it’s hot. Ugh there’s a new fire starting near me at least every other day. Ugh, how is this my life, also this is just the beginning, I feel like I should be waking up from this nightmare at some point and yet I am not,” when the editor finally reached me.

  28. Judith Collins is not John Key

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:52 am, July 2nd, 2021 -  168 comments
    Categories: blogs, internet, Judith Collins, Media, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    I honestly am not sure what Judith’s game plan.  Supporting someone who on twitter called for the lynching of a person with a contrary view is not a way to reach to the middle of New Zealand politics.

  29. Oppose this new hate speech bill

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:43 am, June 26th, 2021 -  206 comments
    Categories: human rights, International, labour, uncategorized, United Nations
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    Hate speech is about to get a lot more criminalised with much stronger penalties. It’s worth going back to what the Royal Commission actually considered, since that’s the basis of proposing this law. The Royal Commission in fact found that trying to protect religion from very strong opinions is simply not a good idea: … we acknowledge that there […]

  30. Todd’s going … who is next?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:31 am, June 24th, 2021 -  67 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, leadership, national, same old national, todd muller
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    Yesterday National suffered further damage to its ranks when Harete Hipango was outed as the MP with Parliamentary Services resources issues and Todd Muller announced that he will stand down as an MP at the end of this term nominally so that he can eventually spend more time with his family.