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  1. Nicky Hager announces new book release

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:08 am, March 20th, 2017 -  160 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, Media
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    Nicky Hager’s latest book is to be launched this Tuesday at Unity Books in Wellington.

  2. Bowron on English’s ‘useless druggies’ smear

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:54 am, March 6th, 2017 -  33 comments
    Categories: bill english, useless
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    Bowron: “Prime Minister Bill English’s reputation as a safe pair of blands taking the reins after the mysterious disappearance of John Key took a dive last week when he ruthlessly and cynically turned on Kiwi youth.”

  3. Images of the week

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:59 am, March 5th, 2017 -  6 comments
    Categories: humour, social media lolz
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    Just a selection of images that sum up the week in politics (courtesy of the twitter).

  4. Coalition building – deft politics from Little

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:45 am, March 3rd, 2017 -  87 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, greens, labour, leadership, nz first
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    Helen Clark wrote the book on MMP coalition government, shoring up alliances on the left and the right. Looks like Andrew Little has read the book. Labour + Green + NZF = government.

  5. Government will not support victims of domestic violence

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:33 am, February 14th, 2017 -  19 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, greens, labour, maori party, national, peter dunne, same old national, united future
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    The Government is refusing to support Jan Logie’s bill aimed at helping the victims of domestic violence despite the bill receiving support from the ANZ and Business New Zealand supporting the bill going at least to select committee.

  6. Godzone for billionaires

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:59 am, January 26th, 2017 -  93 comments
    Categories: john key, labour, national, us politics
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    Peter Thiel’s fast tracking of his citizenship application needs some explaining by the Government.

  7. Be afraid!

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:24 am, November 4th, 2016 -  19 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, defence, law and "order", rumour
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    Reports of an unconvincing “domestic terrorism” plot, and of further illegal GCSB spying.

  8. NRT: Against anti-whistleblower laws

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:48 pm, August 17th, 2016 -  11 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, activism, law, national, Spying
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    I/S at No Right Turn does great analysis of legislation. His coverage of the new spying laws has been excellent. Here he is on National’s clumsy and misguided attempt to re-impose official secrets. Criminalised for reading The Guardian?

  9. Spy vs Us

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:08 am, August 16th, 2016 -  135 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, democracy under attack, Spying
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    Today National introduced a bill that will enable the NZ Government to spy on its citizens.

  10. Another Key lie is why this government can’t be trusted with increased spying powers

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:07 am, August 16th, 2016 -  33 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, john key, national, Spying
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    When caught abusing new powers the response will be the same as when caught out abusing the old – meh, so sue us.

  11. John Key’s Lies Since the 2014 Election (UPDATED)

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 8:03 am, August 9th, 2016 -  19 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, john key, national, slippery
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    There is one item on the list concerning whether John Key knew about the brewing trade squabble with China regarding the dumping of cheap steel on the local market.

  12. GPS

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, June 23rd, 2016 -  219 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, democracy under attack
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    GPS may offer the perfect way to enforce a fuel tax but how do we feel about the Government knowing where we are and where we are heading every minute of the day?

  13. A Design for Living; Guest Post

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 10:33 am, April 10th, 2016 -  56 comments
    Categories: activism, Economy, Environment, political education, Politics, thinktank
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    Young Labour member and regular TS reader TheSocialDemocrat has drawn up a manifesto for change. As neo-liberalism enters its twilight phase, now is the time to redefine the debate about what makes a society great.

  14. What could be causing the ‘crisis of distrust’ in government?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:11 am, April 6th, 2016 -  43 comments
    Categories: accountability, john key, national
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    It’s a bit of a mystery really.

  15. The great big list of John Key’s big fat lies (UPDATED)

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:00 am, January 27th, 2016 -  79 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, activism, alcohol, assets, auckland supercity, benefits, brethren, business, child welfare, christchurch earthquake, climate change, Conservation, crosby textor, cycleway, Dirty Politics, disaster, economy, Economy, education, employment, energy, Environment, equality, exports, farming, farming, Financial markets, flip-flop, food, global warming, Globalisation, greens, health, health and safety, human rights, infrastructure, International, john key, Keynes, kiwisaver, labour, loan sharks, manufacturing, Maori Issues, minimum wage, Mining, Minister for International Embarrassment, Minister for Overseas Holidays, Minister for Photo-ops, monetary policy, national, national/act government, overseas investment, Parliament, political parties, Politics, poverty, Privatisation, privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, public services, racism, schools, science, scoundrels, slippery, Social issues, socialism, spin, Spying, superannuation, sustainability, tax, telecommunications, tourism, trade, transport, treasury, treaty settlements, unemployment, Unions, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    How many more lies will John Key tell today in his so-called State of the Nation address? Virtual chocolate fish to whomever guesses the closest number.

  16. CORTEX Trojan horse?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:35 am, December 11th, 2015 -  16 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Spying
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    The government plans to roll out a new “cyber security action plan”. Given their record of secrecy, lies, and misuse of surveillance, I think we the people would be naive to believe this will be anything less than another escalation of the surveillance of New Zealanders.

  17. Collins and the “monster” board

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:21 am, December 7th, 2015 -  43 comments
    Categories: accountability, auckland supercity, Judith Collins, law, Maori Issues
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    Idiot turn of phrase or deliberately inflammatory? You be the judge.

  18. Paris as an excuse for more useless surveillance

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, November 17th, 2015 -  67 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Spying, us politics, war
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    The Paris attacks are being used as an excuse for another ill informed debate about surveillance and encryption – which doesn’t address the communication channels that terrorists are actually using. The tools that our governments want can be used very effectively to spy on you and me though (as Key effectively acknowledges in passing).

  19. Joining the dots

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:04 am, November 11th, 2015 -  90 comments
    Categories: accountability, australian politics, john key, spin
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    Was Key’s “outburst” in Parliament yesterday an outburst, or was it a strategy?

  20. NRT: The SIS is unfit for purpose

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:09 pm, November 4th, 2015 -  8 comments
    Categories: accountability, Spying
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    I/S at No Right Turn writes on today’s IGIS report: “The overall picture is that SIS is a mess and highly resistant to change…”

  21. Forget worm farms the Health and Safety Reform Bill proposes secret trials

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:54 am, August 26th, 2015 -  23 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, national, Politics, same old national
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    The Government has snuck into the Health and Safety Reform Bill a provision that allows for withholding from the parties to court proceedings of classified security information and for decisions affecting their rights to be made on the basis of information they have no access to.  This was not in the original bill and you have to wonder why such a contentious provision has been introduced so late.

  22. Owning the news agenda

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:20 am, May 24th, 2015 -  47 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, journalism, Media, spin
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    He who pays the piper calls the tune. The killing of Campbell Live is just the latest example.

  23. Mapital Mains Max

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 5:26 pm, May 18th, 2015 -  14 comments
    Categories: john key
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    John Key is now arguing that black is white – that a Tax on Capital Gains isn’t a Capital Gains Tax.

    “Typical politician” many will say – and that shows how far John Key’s skills have fallen.

  24. 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,

  25. Daily Review 11/05/2015

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:01 pm, May 11th, 2015 -  49 comments
    Categories: open mike
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    Daily review is also your post.  This provides Standarnistas the opportunity to review events of the day.  The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).  Don’t forget to be kind to each other.

  26. Parsing John Key

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, April 21st, 2015 -  32 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    John Key’s recent public response to the news of the likely interception of Chinese diplomatic communications resemble those of a used car salesman rather than those of a New Zealand Prime Minister.

  27. But they do it too …

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:53 pm, April 19th, 2015 -  23 comments
    Categories: China, International, john key, national
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    With revelations that New Zealand has potentially been involved in the interception of Chinese diplomatic communications the questions arise did John Key know about it and did he authorise the activity.

  28. Spying on China

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:37 am, April 19th, 2015 -  100 comments
    Categories: China, Spying
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    So great, now we’re trying to spy on China. What could possibly go wrong?

  29. Spying for torturers

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:27 am, April 17th, 2015 -  19 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, International, Spying
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    The most disturbing allegations yet in the Snowden leaks on the activities of the GCSB.

  30. Ten Bridges Too Far

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:15 am, April 17th, 2015 -  18 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, by-election, crosby textor, Dirty Politics, john key, making shit up, national, Parliament, slippery, spin, transport
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    With Crosby Textor by his side, John Key has since learned to employ all manner of specialist PR techniques including ad homs, blame-shifting, distraction,  use of Dirty Politics proxies to defuse the situation, and false equivalence, all woven together in an intricately performed semantic shuffle designed to  provide wiggle room for when he does get caught.

  31. A culture of intimidation

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:35 am, April 16th, 2015 -  61 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Dirty Politics, national, uncategorized
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    National is leading by example in creating a culture of intimidation and fear. The latest case, a threat to withdraw funding a rape prevention group for speaking out.

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