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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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. 

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Simon Bridges is rooting for the Greens*

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 4:12 pm, March 9th, 2019 -  28 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, Deep stuff, Environment, greens, leadership, national, Politics, Simon Bridges
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    Simon Bridges makes a passionate plea for the environment and for a mate.

  16. Venezuela, China and Russia

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:41 pm, March 4th, 2019 -  54 comments
    Categories: China, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, International, us politics
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    In the new world order of robber barons in which most states are collectively so weak that they no longer effective resistance against large corporations, we should start to view states as diplomatic fronts for corporations.

  17. ‘Taxpayers union’ – too ‘stupid’ to understand tax?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:30 am, February 26th, 2019 -  59 comments
    Categories: capital gains, Dirty Politics, Economy, journalism, Politics, tax, uncategorized
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    There is a classic piece of waffle in the NZ Herald about when capital gains tax will apply to the family home. But the conditions when this applies are extremely simple and obvious. However professed experts on taxation like the so-called ‘taxpayers union’ can’t understand them. Probably because they are paid not to.

  18. Pollwatch: Colmar Brunton 18/02/2019

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:29 pm, February 19th, 2019 -  13 comments
    Categories: greens, labour, national, nz first, polls
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    Do good things come in twos? This Pollwatch suggests that perhaps they do, and that maybe the news is rosier than the last one suggested.

  19. Digital Corporations: Pay Us What You Owe Us

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:17 am, February 19th, 2019 -  75 comments
    Categories: facebook, internet, Media, tax, tech industry, twitter
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    The Government has indicated that it will seek to tax digital companies from overseas.

  20. The NZ National Party is the Wizard of Oz

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 2:57 pm, February 16th, 2019 -  32 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, journalism, leadership, making shit up, Media, national, political parties, politicans, Politics, rumour, same old national, Simon Bridges, vision
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    The National Party is a sad, confused, slightly dazed white old man behind the curtain.

  21. Blomfield beats Slater

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:58 am, February 16th, 2019 -  26 comments
    Categories: articles, Dirty Politics, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard
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    Matt Blomfield has obtained judgment in his long running defamation case against Cameron Slater.

  22. a SLEEPING cat

    Dead cats and silly sausages

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:15 pm, February 14th, 2019 -  125 comments
    Categories: labour, national, trevor mallard
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    Today in distractions: David Carter is covering for Simon Bridges’ polling results by upsetting the whole idea of non-partisan accountability of the Government to Parliament in select comittees, I give some free advice to the National Party comms team knowing they won’t pull it off, and Mallard has lost patience with non-answers

  23. Sheepgate the final chapter

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:38 am, February 12th, 2019 -  44 comments
    Categories: david parker, national, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, trade, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The final chapter of the Saudi Sheepgate saga has now been written with David Parker pulling the pin on the deal and saving the country $1 million.

  24. Ardern’s state of the nation speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:15 am, February 8th, 2019 -  56 comments
    Categories: Economy, jacinda ardern, labour, Politics, tax, trade
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    The text of Jacinda Ardern’s speech delivered this morning.

  25. Simon Wilson thinks Epsom could be offered to Blue-Greens

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:17 am, February 1st, 2019 -  62 comments
    Categories: act, climate change, Conservation, david seymour, Environment, ETS, farming, journalism, Media, national, public transport, same old national, science, transport
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    Simon Wilson has suggested that the only way National may have to establish a Blue Green presence in Parliament is to offer them the seat of Epsom.

  26. The Blue Green oxymoron

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:18 am, January 28th, 2019 -  252 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Environment, greens, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, sustainability, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National appears to be well advanced in the formation of a new puppet party, one with an environmental theme that will present a challenge to the Green Party.

  27. 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 …

  28. Elizabeth Warren and Foreign Policy

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:45 am, January 9th, 2019 -  17 comments
    Categories: China, defence, Donald Trump, International, us politics
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    An analysis of recent public comments made by Elizabeth Warren and the possible implications for New Zealand of a Warren Presidency.

  29. Julian Assange and the Streisand Effect.

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 6:45 pm, January 7th, 2019 -  161 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, class war, crime, Deep stuff, Ethics, International, law, Media, suppression orders, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Wikileaks has tried to silence media organisations on behalf of Julian Assange. Why is a ‘transparency’ organisation opposed to free speech and have they made things worse for the Aussie hacker?

    UPDATE: The list has been leaked. Link in post.

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