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  1. Jacinda is not like Muldoon

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:49 am, May 13th, 2020 -  97 comments
    Categories: health, health and safety, jacinda ardern, law, law and "order", national, same old national, Simon Bridges, uncategorized
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    National has decided to play politics with Covid 19 and is opposing the Government’s attempt to pass legislation to secure level 2 arrangements. And has made the extraordinary claim that Jacinda Ardern is just like Rob Muldoon but with slogans.

  2. Parker gives Bridges a lesson in constitutional law

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:01 am, May 9th, 2020 -  175 comments
    Categories: david parker, health, health and safety, law, law and "order", national, same old national, Simon Bridges, uncategorized
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    In a Facebook Live event David Parker has schooled Simon Bridges on basic principles of constitutional law. And it appears that Bridges demand that legally privileged advice be handed over is heading to the Privileges Committee.

  3. A Response to ‘No Exit’.

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 1:48 pm, May 3rd, 2020 -  91 comments
    Categories: culture, Environment, Ethics, global warming, religion, science
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    In a recent post, Bill hit his straps with – “Either way, wind power won’t save us. Solar power won’t save us. Carbon capture and storage won’t save us. Your God won’t save us. Nothing but ourselves will save us.”

    I felt miffed and more than a little grumpy at Bill’s flippant reference to God, and so sent through this long form response.  ~ Adam.

  4. Running for cover

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 9:38 pm, April 21st, 2020 -  41 comments
    Categories: food, jobs, poverty, uncategorized, us politics, welfare
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    More 1% Americans are heading our way, according to Bloomberg. The Texas company building underground bunkers is getting more enquiries. They’re not running from the virus but fear the aftermath when the breadlines turn.

  5. From the inside out

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:32 am, April 8th, 2020 -  62 comments
    Categories: blogs, covid-19, david seymour, Economy, health, International, Media, Politics
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    I feel that many kiwis are quite unaware exactly how exceptional our plague performance has been so far. It is interesting reading the perspective published in the Washington Post by a recently returned kiwi. Less interesting was the mathematical illiteracy on the MP David Seymour who managed to ignore all medical facts while advising on how to bulk kill our citizens.

  6. The right is splintering on climate change

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:30 am, January 23rd, 2020 -  70 comments
    Categories: australian politics, climate change, Donald Trump, Environment, global warming, national, paula bennett, same old national, science, uncategorized, us politics
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    The right appears to be splintering on climate change, with former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull describing Donald Trump as the world’s leading climate change denier.  And locally National MP Andrew Bayley has talked the profound effects of climate change on Antarctica’s ecosystems at the same time as Paula Bennett is attacking educational material designed to make children think about climate change.

  7. News Corp climate change denial attacked by (checks notes) James Murdoch …

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:04 am, January 15th, 2020 -  116 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, Media, science, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    News Corp has had a bad week in the media with many questioning its continued climate change denial and its support for politicians refusing to accept the reality of climate change.  But the most surprising opposition has been expressed by Rupert Murdoch’s son and News Corp director James Murdoch.

  8. Why the Tories won the UK election?

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 2:29 am, December 30th, 2019 -  9 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, Brexit, International, politicans, uk politics
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    Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog 

  9. The freedom to lie during an election campaign

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:55 am, December 11th, 2019 -  75 comments
    Categories: election 2020, electoral commission, electoral systems, labour, making shit up, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Two recent National advertisements involving drastically inaccurate graphics have attracted attention.  And at the same time National is opposing changes to the Electoral Law that would extend the time that it is an offence to publish a false and misleading advertisement during an election period.

  10. UK Elections: Parties positions on Brexit

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 11:15 am, November 9th, 2019 -  6 comments
    Categories: Brexit, Europe, uk politics
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    Nick Kelly gives a summary of each major United Kingdom political party.

  11. Farage – thorn in the side of the UK Conservatives

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 1:01 pm, November 5th, 2019 -  4 comments
    Categories: Brexit, uk politics, uncategorized
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    Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog 

  12. Later climate change deniers

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:01 pm, October 15th, 2019 -  73 comments
    Categories: climate change, elections, Environment, global warming, local body elections, local government, Politics, science
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    The recent local government elections resulted in a number of people committed to addressing climate change being elected. And an apparent thinning of those who think that it is a hoax.

  13. 5G flip flop

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, July 2nd, 2019 -  62 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, Donald Trump, International, tech industry, us politics
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    Six weeks after banning China’s leading tech firm Huawei from contracts with U.S. businesses, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to have reversed it after meeting China’s Premier Xi Jinping.

  14. Death tax fake news

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:47 am, May 21st, 2019 -  62 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, australian politics, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, facebook, interweb, journalism, making shit up, Media, Politics, tax, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Social media was responsible for the repeated broadcasting of the claim that Labor in Australia intended to bring in a death tax.  What should happen when claims that are clearly wrong are made?

  15. US China trade talks and New Zealand

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, May 12th, 2019 -  91 comments
    Categories: capitalism, China, Donald Trump, Economy, exports, International, socialism, tourism, trade, us politics
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    Donald Trump’s trade war with China is way, way bad for New Zealand.

  16. Letter From the United Kingdom

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 2:50 pm, April 24th, 2019 -  116 comments
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    Jeremy Corbyn’s class  performance has been driving the MSM, the Tories, and the Blairite remnants crazy

  17. Life and Death in Aotearoa – Debating Euthanasia

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 9:48 am, April 3rd, 2019 -  210 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, david seymour, death with dignity, Deep stuff, discrimination, Parliament, Politics, Social issues
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    David Seymour’s Private Member’s Bill on euthanasia is back for debate in Parliament. Maggie looks at one of the great social issues of our time.

  18. Guest post: Epitaph for a species

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 9:00 am, January 20th, 2019 -  69 comments
    Categories: climate change, disaster, Environment, global warming, science, sustainability
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    In a guest post Tony Veitch [not etc.] imagines his last few days as the world dies …

  19. Emergency Wall

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:30 am, January 9th, 2019 -  28 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, International, us politics
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    President Trump is preparing the ground to use the State of the Union address to declare that the Congress delaying funding of the wall on the Mexican-U.S. boundary is a national emergency.

  20. Too many jobs being created

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 2:20 pm, November 7th, 2018 -  14 comments
    Categories: business, capitalism, economy, Economy, employment, making shit up, unemployment
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    The latest unemployment data showing the jobless rate falling to under 4% follows the equally bad 1.0% economic growth in the September quarter and a budget surplus of $5.5b, confirming the economy is going down like Donald Trump, as predicted by the ANZ Bank’s business confidence survey

  21. Petrol, Zero Carbon, and 15,000 Submissions

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:21 am, October 9th, 2018 -  139 comments
    Categories: australian politics, climate change, Conservation, energy, Environment, global warming, greens, jacinda ardern, james shaw, sustainability
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    Get ready, according to the AA, for petrol at $3 a liter for Christmas.

  22. RIP Penny Bright

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:11 am, October 5th, 2018 -  33 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, activism, auckland supercity, local body elections, local government, Politics, supercity
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    Veteran Auckland political activist Penny Bright has died.

  23. 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 […]

  24. 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?

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. Miners having a whale of a time

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 6:15 am, July 13th, 2018 -  59 comments
    Categories: Environment, Mining
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    Ironsands Offshore Mining Ltd allowed to drill and extract bulk samples from the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary

  28. The extent of the right to free speech

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:02 am, July 8th, 2018 -  354 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, blogs, clickbait, internet, law, law and "order", Media, Politics, racism, scoundrels, sexism, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter
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    Lauren Southern’s cancelled lecture has caused some debate about what freedom of speech is, is it absolute, and if not where is the line to be drawn?

  29. Russell McVeagh

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:11 am, July 6th, 2018 -  31 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, alcohol, sexism
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    Dame Margaret Beazley has concluded in her report into Russell McVeagh, New Zealand’s Goldman Sachs, that it has serious problems including instances of excessive drinking and in some instances crude, drunken, and sexually inappropriate behaviour, a failure of governance and pockets of bullying.

  30. Bridges believes in trickle down

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:58 am, May 14th, 2018 -  199 comments
    Categories: Keynes, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has committed the twin political sins of not only believing in trickle down but in publicly confirming his belief.

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