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  1. The Jami-Lee tapes

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:22 am, November 5th, 2018 -  141 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, labour, national, paula bennett, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, trevor mallard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Newshub has released a further Jami-Lee Ross tape which contains a promise by Simon Bridges that if Ross stood down for health reasons he could come back in the new year and be promoted.

  2. Jacinda Ardern’s speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:03 pm, November 4th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, Politics
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    The text of Jacinda’s speech being delivered to the Labour Conference in Dunedin today.

  3. Morongate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:29 am, November 4th, 2018 -  13 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, International, internet, journalism, making shit up, Media, social media lolz, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In America a young 20 year old Trump supporter has been branded with the hashtag morongate for the most inept dark op smear you could ever imagine happening.

  4. Our rail revival

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 1:41 pm, October 31st, 2018 -  96 comments
    Categories: business, climate change, Economy, energy, global warming, greens, labour, nz first, Shane Jones, sustainability, transport
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    Yesterday the government announced that it was reversing the previous government’s decision to kill off the electric trains.  The decision is one of many recently made that suggests that the future of rail is bright.

  5. National’s Judith problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:54 pm, October 30th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, housing, Judith Collins, labour, national, phil twyford, same old national
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    Judith Collins has landed herself in trouble for publicising details of a young couple who just bought a Kiwibuild home.

  6. Let’s talk mental health

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 10:51 pm, October 21st, 2018 -  298 comments
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    With the news about Jami-Lee Ross being taken into care, now’s a good time to talk about mental health, and how it should be handled in politics.

  7. Simon Bridges is totes relaxed about his leak inquiry

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:11 am, October 13th, 2018 -  26 comments
    Categories: 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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    After spending over a hundred thousand dollars on the inquiry into who leaked his travel information Simon Bridges now claims that he is no longer worried about who leaked his travel expense information.

  8. Fighting for a just cause is empowering

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 8:49 am, October 8th, 2018 -  29 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, quality of life
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    A purpose in life is an awesome Force of Nature.

  9. Jami-Lee Ross takes time out

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:50 pm, October 2nd, 2018 -  107 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, national, Politics, Simon Bridges
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    Jami-Lee Ross has announced he will be taking time out for personal health reasons.

  10. Trump laughed at for waving his toad at UN

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:46 am, September 26th, 2018 -  45 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, Economy, us politics
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    What can one say about Trump’s daft bragging at the UN, that raised a chorus of laughter at what he was saying. Clearly his toad is out of control.

  11. Police spying must be investigated

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:13 pm, September 17th, 2018 -  14 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, activism, Deep stuff, Media, Politics, Spying, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Amnesty International is calling for an inquiry into the actions of Thompson and Clark to be expanded to include their involvement in police activities.

  12. We are failing kids from poor families

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:21 am, September 16th, 2018 -  77 comments
    Categories: articles, class, Deep stuff, education, journalism, labour, Media, newspapers, Politics, Social issues, tertiary education
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    Kirsty Johnston has produced an in-depth analysis of the current rate of young people from poor backgrounds entering professional ranks.  And the news is not good.

  13. They got bailed out and we got sold out

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:05 pm, September 15th, 2018 -  56 comments
    Categories: business, capitalism, class war, Economy, uk politics
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    Ros Wynne Jones in the Daily Mirror excoriates the excesses of the Banking system and wonders why the rest of us tolerate bankers’ behaviour.

  14. Farrar peddles climate change denial nonsense

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:57 am, September 3rd, 2018 -  151 comments
    Categories: blogs, climate change, David Farrar, dpf, Environment, global warming, national, same old national, science, you couldn't make this shit up
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    David Farrar has posted a guest post by climate change denialist Bryan Leland where he has criticised the Royal Society of New Zealand for accepting that climate change is an actual phenomenon.

  15. Australia bans Manning but lets in Au pair for rich Liberal donors

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 5:14 pm, August 30th, 2018 -  45 comments
    Categories: australian politics, clickbait, International, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Following recent news it appears that in Australia Au Pairs of the rich and connected are welcomed and helped.  Seriously ill refugees are ignored.  And click bait racists are fine but peace activists are shown the door.

  16. Simon’s first six months

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, August 28th, 2018 -  106 comments
    Categories: Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, trevor mallard, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges has now been leader of the Opposition for six months.  What has he to show for his time? People are questioning his judgment over his fixation on who leaked his travel information early.

  17. Remembering Chris Morley

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 3:21 am, August 27th, 2018 -  7 comments
    Categories: class war, employment, jobs, local government, public transport, transport, Unions, workers' rights
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    On Friday 27 July 2018, Wellington Tramways Union Vice President Chris Morley passed away after a short battle with Cancer, aged 62. Chris had been a Wellington bus driver since 1978, when public transport in the city was run and controlled by Wellington City Council. In 2008 I was privileged to be elected to the Tramways Union […]

  18. Racial bias in RNZ world reportage, or just giving people what they want?

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 10:37 am, August 14th, 2018 -  64 comments
    Categories: accountability, broadcasting, disaster, International, journalism, Media, radio, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    GUEST POST:

    Is Radio NZ meeting its obligations to report the news of the world fairly or is it just once over lightly at the public broadcaster? Some thoughts from regular TS contributor Adrian Thornton.

  19. About freedom of speech

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:44 am, August 12th, 2018 -  97 comments
    Categories: australian politics, clickbait, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, don brash, journalism, newspapers, Propaganda, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Wilson in the Herald neatly skewers suggestions that Donald Brash is a free speech warrior and raises important issues about the interplay between free speech and attacks on “political correctness” also known as tolerance and respect.

  20. Of course Judith should #DeleteTheTweet

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 9th, 2018 -  69 comments
    Categories: clickbait, Judith Collins, making shit up, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Project has called on Judith Collins to delete her tweet retweeting a link to a fake news story falsely claiming that France had legalised paedophilia at the behest of an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise paedophilia.

  21. The most likely result from Colmar Brunton's 5th august poll as a pie chart: 7 Greens, 51 Labour, 6 NZF, 1 ACT, and 55 National MPs.

    Pollwatch: 5th August, 2018

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:30 am, August 6th, 2018 -  40 comments
    Categories: act, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, maori party, national, nz first, polls, Simon Bridges
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    The Return of the Pollwatch: Are Labour getting a baby bump? Are National in decline? Are the Greens in existential danger? And do all the previous questions have the same answer?

  22. No Mates National

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 1:10 pm, July 15th, 2018 -  68 comments
    Categories: conservative party, election 2020, greens, internet party, labour, mana, national, nz first, Politics, TOPS, united future, workers' rights
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    Peter Dunne has some sage advice for National; phone a friend. If you can find one.

  23. Free Tommy Robinson *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:29 am, July 15th, 2018 -  66 comments
    Categories: racism, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    * with every purchase.

  24. Families Package and Auckland Regional Fuel tax kick in

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:24 am, July 2nd, 2018 -  48 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, benefits, child welfare, class war, Economy, jacinda ardern, labour, making shit up, Media, national, poverty, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, tax, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, wages, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Labour’s Family Package and the Auckland Regional Fuel tax have both kicked in.

  25. And then there was….

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 12:08 pm, June 29th, 2018 -  38 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, International, journalism, Media, Politics, Propaganda, Syria, uk politics, useless
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    The aftermath of Douma chemical attacks and Skripal poisonings…

  26. Soper gets sucked in by National’s fake Ardern quote

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:35 pm, June 28th, 2018 -  51 comments
    Categories: Economy, journalism, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, Unions, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Barry Soper in the Herald has fallen for National’s fake news concerning something said by Jacinda Ardern that was taken totally out of context.

  27. Shock horror, National is telling fibs about Labour’s Industrial Relations policy

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, June 27th, 2018 -  102 comments
    Categories: Economy, jacinda ardern, making shit up, national, poverty, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, Unions, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National has claimed that Jacinda Ardern ruled out national strikes during the last year’s election campaign.  And has trimmed a video and taken comments out of context to justify its claim.

  28. Student Fees

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 11:36 am, June 26th, 2018 -  26 comments
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    Reposted from Nick Kelly’s Blog One of the big policies the NZ Labour Party took into the 2017 election was to start reintroducing free education. Labour in the UK took a similar policy into their 2017 election, which is thought to have contributed to the “youth quake” which saw young voters turn out and vote for […]

  29. The All Blacks should give up

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:45 am, June 24th, 2018 -  49 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, sport
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    The All Blacks keep winning everything and it is incredibly bad for the game.

  30. It’s Time for a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dairy Farming

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:42 am, May 29th, 2018 -  166 comments
    Categories: Conservation, Environment, exports, farming, farming, food, uncategorized
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    Not just, ‘we’ve got to make the good outweigh the bad’. I mean: why should dairy farming exist here?

  31. Deep Trawling.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 9:14 am, May 24th, 2018 -  21 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, Conservation, Deep stuff, economy, Environment, food, identity, labour, nz first, Politics, quality of life, science, Social issues, sustainability, winston peters
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    Is NZ’s fishing industry just a domestic version of the tobacco companies? And how much would that really matter?