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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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. 

  4. 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.

  5. 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…

  6. 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 …

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

     

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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..

  16. 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.

  17. The hard change of forestry

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:41 am, May 18th, 2019 -  98 comments
    Categories: climate change, Conservation, Economy, employment, Environment, ETS, farming, farming, global warming, health and safety, nz first, Politics, quality of life, Shane Jones, sustainability, unemployment, workers' rights
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    Forestry is forcing an important tilting point between mitigating climate change and land use, and it’s going to affect the viability of some North Island towns.

  18. Jacinda achieves international commitment to social media change

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:09 am, May 16th, 2019 -  97 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, facebook, International, internet, interweb, jacinda ardern, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter
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    Jacinda Ardern has shown true international leadership by achieving considerable international consensus to effecting change in the way that social media operates.

  19. 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.

  20. 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

  21. Confirmation bias

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:03 pm, April 21st, 2019 -  134 comments
    Categories: activism, clickbait, community democracy, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, facebook, International, internet, interweb, Media, Politics, twitter, us politics
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    The internet neatly divides us into separate isolated tribes with polarised views of what are the issues and what is reality.  How do we engage in a civilised discussion to educate each other and reach a consensus of what we should be doing?

  22. National’s culture review shambles redux

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:19 am, April 15th, 2019 -  32 comments
    Categories: culture, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    Simon Bridges has given a train wreck of an interview this morning on Radio New Zealand’s morning report about National’s culture review. It appears that National is keeping the report secret because of fears that the report may be leaked.

  23. Support Tax Fairness Reform

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 12:15 pm, April 9th, 2019 -  16 comments
    Categories: capital gains, education, equality, health, housing, tax, welfare
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    The Tax Justice Network has started a campaign to gain support for taxing capital as income to support and improve our public services. If you would like to support the campaign, you can sign the petition here or donate here. All funds donated will go to the campaign advertising.

  24. Tax Justice Aotearoa starts campaign in support of CGT

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:46 am, April 8th, 2019 -  168 comments
    Categories: capital gains, class war, tax
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    Tax Justice Aotearoa has started a public campaign in support of a capital gains tax.

  25. Leading a feminist Pacific

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 3:19 pm, March 28th, 2019 -  63 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, International, jacinda ardern, Politics
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    It’s time to convert Ardern’s massive global symbolic capital into a lasting legacy for the Pacific. It’s time for a feminist international development policy.

  26. Did Hanson’s One Nation Party seek funding from the NRA and the Koch Brothers?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:05 am, March 27th, 2019 -  23 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, australian politics, corruption, democratic participation, International, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Pauline Hanson’s One Australia party is trying to defend claims that it should funding to oppose gun restrictions from the NRA and the Koch Brothers by stating that its chief of staff was drunk.

  27. Human Rights decision is quite pointed

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:54 am, March 13th, 2019 -  13 comments
    Categories: blogs, Media
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    A decision released yesterday by the Human Rights Review Tribunal that went against Cameron Slater is very clear. The gratuitous publication of personal details on its own simply isn’t newsworthy in any news medium. The topic has to actually be newsworthy to get the exemption in the Privacy Act for news mediums. 

  28. Magicked-Up Weapons

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 10:30 pm, March 11th, 2019 -  116 comments
    Categories: australian politics, China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, kremlinology, making shit up, Propaganda, spin, uk politics, us politics, war
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    I’m glad Anne-Marie Brady will get the chance to present her “Magic Weapons” paper to the select committee examining the last election. At long last it might get given some proper critical examination, of its content as well as it provenance. In my opinion it reads like a long list of the blindingly obvious, mixed with a large dose of conspiracy theory. It certainly doesn’t show much sign of the sort of critical thinking one might expect from an academic.

  29. The School climate strikes

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:20 pm, March 11th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, global warming, sustainability, transport
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    Details concerning the School strike day of action against Climate change scheduled for this week.