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  1. 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 

  2. Truth, boomer memes and the next election campaign

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:05 am, October 26th, 2019 -  54 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, Donald Trump, facebook, Media, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Thanks to Facebook’s lax attitude to fact checking it appears that the next election campaign is going to be a rough one.

  3. Reality kicks in for US trolls.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:35 am, October 18th, 2019 -  17 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, Media, national, Social issues
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    It has been an interesting few days looking at political reality kicking in on politics and the net in the UK and the US. The first story I read yesterday was in the US, about one of the lying dimwitted conspiracy nutcases who claimed that the 2012 Sandy Nook school massacre never happened, but was […]

  4. “Extinction Rebellion blanket ban chilling and unlawful”

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:10 am, October 16th, 2019 -  74 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, police
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    Amnesty International condemn police blanket ban on Extinction Rebellion protests in London.

  5. Elizabeth Warren on Facebook and the US presidential election

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:16 am, October 10th, 2019 -  72 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, corruption, democracy under attack, facebook, Politics, Propaganda, us politics
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    “They’re allowing Trump to spend over $1 million a week right now for ads on their platform—including ones that air the same lies that TV stations won’t.”

  6. Extinction Rebellion on Lambton Quay

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:10 am, October 7th, 2019 -  76 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment
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    Extinction Rebellion NZ starts off an international week of Climate Rebellion designed to encourage governments to act in meaningful terms on the climate crisis.

  7. Unrelentingly negative

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:19 am, September 26th, 2019 -  29 comments
    Categories: climate change, Donald Trump, global warming, jacinda ardern, science, Simon Bridges, uncategorized, United Nations
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    National has chosen to attack Jacinda Ardern on her trip to New York for doing too much and not enough at the same time.  It seems to be a pattern.

  8. Lying : the preferred denier behavior

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 3:45 pm, September 22nd, 2019 -  26 comments
    Categories: australian politics, climate change, Donald Trump, Environment, International, politicans, science
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    In a striking example of the typical climate change denier, the “Australian Young Coal Coalition” released a photo bemoaning the mess left by friday’s climate change strike rally in Hyde Park. Pity that it was a lying fake. Being put out by climate change deniers, of course it was just a lie. That is all […]

  9. National’s rhetoric problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:48 am, September 21st, 2019 -  19 comments
    Categories: national, phil twyford, same old national, Simon Bridges, transport, uncategorized
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    National has displayed a concerning level of rhetoric this week involving a misrepresentation of the GDP figures and the attacking of a board appointee who cannot respond.

  10. Every day New Zealanders

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:37 pm, September 18th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: facebook, jacinda ardern, Media, Simon Bridges, social media lolz, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges thinks that Jacinda Ardern’s international campaign to change the way that social media handles hate speech and terrorism a big talkfest that will achieve nothing, even though Facebook has as a result announced significant changes to its platform.

  11. An unfortunate rush to judgment by the media?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:55 am, September 17th, 2019 -  124 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, national, paula bennett, same old national, uncategorized
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    A release of information from Labour Council member Simon Mitchell has raised issues about what members of the Labour Party knew about recent sexual abuse allegations and when.

  12. National’s double standard

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:31 am, September 15th, 2019 -  100 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, Media, national, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    National has a rather murky past when it comes to dealing with issues relating to the behaviour of its Members of Parliament.

  13. The Civilian has a fish-hook

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:37 am, September 6th, 2019 -  2 comments
    Categories: humour, jacinda ardern, Satire, Social issues, uncategorized
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    The Civilian is New Zealand’s pre-eminent source of online news, and indeed the purest form of news that you can consume without having an apoplectic seizure. Today they detail the course of a vaccination on live TV. Please put your hot drinks down before reading.

  14. Brexit?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:15 am, September 4th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: Politics, uk politics
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    “The bill will attempt to extend the date of Brexit to January 31, 2020 in the event of no deal being agreed or passed through Parliament. If the bill passes Boris Johnson is expected to call a general election.”
    Updated: Bill passed second reading. 21 Conservative MPs effectively expelled from parliamentary party. Boris wants a new election. Corbyn reluctant.. Blond clusterfuck.
    Updated:  And Boris Johnson just lost vote for a general election.

  15. National gather fuel for their political dumpster fires

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:17 am, September 2nd, 2019 -  21 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, democratic participation, farming, greens, national, Parliament, political alternatives
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    Not so much Zero Carbon as Zero Shits. While National look set to monkey-wrench our climate legislation, we can remember that the real power in addressing the climate crisis lies outside of parliament.

  16. RIP David Koch

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:54 am, August 24th, 2019 -  54 comments
    Categories: climate change, global warming, science, uncategorized, us politics
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    David Koch, the man possibly most responsible for the growth of climate change denialism, has died at the age of 79 as the Arctic melts and the Amazon burns.

  17. Protect Ihumātao hīkoi to Jacinda Ardern today

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:09 am, August 22nd, 2019 -  55 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, Maori Issues
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    Protect Ihumātao are taking the invitation to meet to the Prime Minister. The petition is live and can be signed during the hīkoi today. 

  18. What if there were only 34 31 more whitebait harvests left?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:15 am, August 20th, 2019 -  66 comments
    Categories: Conservation, disaster, farming, sustainability, water
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    If we want to prevent the extinction of whitebait it’s time to stop buying and selling it.

  19. Taking out the trash – Whaleoil site sold to Blomfield

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 2:29 pm, August 9th, 2019 -  67 comments
    Categories: blogs, books, crime, David Farrar, dpf, Media, police, Social issues, uncategorized
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    Matt Blomfield has brought the Whaleoil site from the official assignee. This fulfills a long held wish of, not only Matt, but a whole pile of people that this arsehole-run paid-for defamation lying site have damaged over the years. Chapter 27 of the Margie Thompson’s Whale Oil book is now available online…

  20. Five days is a long time in politics

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:20 pm, August 6th, 2019 -  27 comments
    Categories: Economy, employment, iain lees galloway, Iain Lees-Galloway, internet, jacinda ardern, labour, making shit up, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, unemployment, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Five days ago Simon Bridges predicted that unemployment had gone up.  The latest figures show that the unemployment rate is at its lowest rate for the past eleven years. Update: My enthusiasm was too high. It has been pointed out to me that the Bridges tweet was from last year. My apologies to Simon …

  21. Australian right wing commentators suffer from deranged Jacinda syndrome

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:48 am, July 24th, 2019 -  76 comments
    Categories: australian politics, jacinda ardern, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    Australian right wing commentators are losing their shirts at the thought that Jacinda Ardern may be in the running for a Nobel Peace prize.

  22. Simon Bridges Going Blue in the Face Barking at Green Cars

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 3:48 pm, July 14th, 2019 -  51 comments
    Categories: climate change, cost of living, Environment, facebook, julie anne genter, making shit up, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, transport, uncategorized
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    Simon Bridges is barking madly at green cars.

  23. Is POTUS up to the job?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:34 pm, July 8th, 2019 -  275 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, International, uk politics, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    A senior Psychologist thinks that POTUS Donald Trump is not up to doing the job. And the UK Ambassador to the US says that the Trump White House is uniquely dysfunctional and inept.

  24. Folau’s rights to free speech are not being attacked

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:11 am, June 30th, 2019 -  240 comments
    Categories: culture, law, religion, rugby league, sport, uncategorized
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    Israel Folau’s difficulties are not examples of an attack on free speech or religious beliefs.

  25. National keeps digging itself into a hole on budget leaks

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:57 am, June 12th, 2019 -  141 comments
    Categories: national, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    National continues to attack the Government on its handling of the Treasury budget leak. But it still has not properly explained why its behaviour should be considered ethical.

  26. FiveEyes on our elections

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 3:56 am, June 12th, 2019 -  94 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, australian politics, China, election 2017, elections, Russia, Spying, uk politics, us politics
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    Andrew Little’s letter to the Select Committee on election interference puzzled me – it seemed to be out of the blue and not particularly relevant to our system. Then I read about a meeting on the Gold Coast last year and it became clear as to why – FiveEyes pressure.

     

  27. A Confession.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 5:10 am, June 7th, 2019 -  174 comments
    Categories: Environment, global warming, Politics, science
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    I confess that I wear underpants and that my body is exactly like Dan Carter’s – except maybe for some details around shape and size.

  28. Bene bashing

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:27 am, June 1st, 2019 -  101 comments
    Categories: babies, benefits, Carmel Sepuloni, child welfare, class, families, greens, human rights, labour, national, nick smith, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, Social issues, welfare
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    National has engaged in the most crass form of beneficiary bashing in opposing Government changes to the benefit system announced in the budget and passed under urgency.

  29. Whale Oil – the book

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:45 am, May 29th, 2019 -  15 comments
    Categories: blogs, law, Media, police, Social issues, uncategorized
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    Whale Oil by Margie Thomson is about the Blomfield vs Slater case. Lost by Cameron Slater because after 7 years of trying to delay it, he was unable to mount a credible defense before a judge. But there is a lot of detail behind that that is worrying in an internet age..

  30. Will the Christian Conservatives rise again?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:07 am, May 20th, 2019 -  78 comments
    Categories: abortion, Abuse of power, australian politics, climate change, democracy under attack, Environment, global warming, International, Mining, national, new conservatives, religion, same old national, science, Simon Bridges, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has conceded that his claim that talk about Alfred Ngaro setting up a conservative party was “rumour and speculation” was not actually true.  And Ngaro has gone on the offensive describing abortion as an unholy holocaust.

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