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  1. 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 […]

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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…

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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 […]

  13. 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.

  14. 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?

  15. 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?

  16. New Zealand trade negotiations with Europe

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 11:00 am, May 23rd, 2018 -  7 comments
    Categories: China, david parker, Economy, International, labour, us politics
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    On Thursday 31 May at the University of Auckland, the Fabians are hosting Max Harris on the topic “Is it time for an independent foreign policy?” What would be the costs of a really independent foreign policy, over the benefits of salving our conscience with greater national independence?  And where does Trade fit in?

  17. The law and order debate and the grade one tosser

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:43 am, May 22nd, 2018 -  36 comments
    Categories: act, Andrew Little, crime, Deep stuff, democratic participation, labour, Left, national, newspapers, prisons
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    The Government has announced it will not proceed with the Waikeria mega prison as part of its policy to decrease the prison muster by 30%.  And the called for public debate starts off with one of the major players using a study the author of which subsequently retracted because the data he relied on was wrong.

  18. Industrial action is one way to increase wages

    Written By:  Matthew Whitehead -  Date published: 8:30 am, May 17th, 2018 -  20 comments
    Categories: Economy, employment, spin
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    The National Party has recently been on the Government’s case for increasing strikes under their watch. But is that really a fair criticism, and does it jive well with the other things the Opposition has been claiming to value?

  19. The Failed Estate: Kabuki Economics

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:56 am, May 13th, 2018 -  19 comments
    Categories: australian politics, Economy, International, Media
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    Jim Parker dissects the Australian customs around the presentation of the Budget with comments that are just as applicable to New Zealand’s system.

  20. Dunedin Hospital

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 10:02 am, May 8th, 2018 -  22 comments
    Categories: david clark, Environment, health, quality of life, science, Social issues, sustainability, useless, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Yes, Dunedin needs a new hospital, but…

  21. Media Sprays and Leaves.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 11:25 am, May 5th, 2018 -  24 comments
    Categories: International, making shit up, Media, Propaganda, rumour, spin, useless
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    Fed up of being fed bullshit just so your opinions can be nurtured for harvesting? I am.

  22. The real conspiracy facing New Zealand

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, May 3rd, 2018 -  55 comments
    Categories: International, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up, youtube
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    Rhys Darby has discovered the real conspiracy facing New Zealand by judicious use of the Internet.  And Clarke Gayford does not feature.

  23. Police scotches dirty politics rumours about Clarke Gayford

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:30 am, May 2nd, 2018 -  209 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The police have publicly scotched rumours that have been circulating about Clarke Gayford by saying that Gayford is not and has not been the subject of any police inquiry and has not been charged in relation to any matter.

  24. Then and Now.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 11:54 am, April 30th, 2018 -  13 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, International, journalism, Media, Politics, Propaganda, Spying, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Claims that “Russian bots” helped Labour during the 2017 UK General Election…

     

  25. New Zealand Is all right, at the end

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:30 am, April 28th, 2018 -  27 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democratic participation, elections, Europe, Globalisation, International, jacinda ardern, leadership, Left, Politics, uk politics, us politics
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    Democracy’s permanence is not inevitable.  Its imagining is not beyond imagining.  And New Zealand is one of the shrinking number of democracies who really have it.

  26. David Tamihere was framed

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:01 am, April 27th, 2018 -  25 comments
    Categories: crime, law, law and "order", police, suppression orders
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    The identity of the secret witness who assisted in the conviction of David Tamihere for the murder of two Sweedish tourists has been revealed.  And the incident shows the danger of using secret witnesses.

  27. Bottom feeding fish

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:35 am, April 24th, 2018 -  99 comments
    Categories: clickbait, Dirty Politics, making shit up, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Yesterday the Herald said something stupid about Clarke Gayford, reported his response and then reported at how the country was divided by the article.

  28. Bullshit upon Bullshit.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 9:31 am, April 18th, 2018 -  34 comments
    Categories: articles, International, journalism, making shit up, Media, news, Propaganda, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Doctors being intimidated.

  29. The political honeymoon that keeps on ending

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:01 am, April 18th, 2018 -  43 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, dpf, greens, jacinda ardern, journalism, labour, making shit up, Media, national, nz first, Politics, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Media pundits are claiming on the evidence offered by one poll that the Government’s political honeymoon is over. But the same claim was made four months ago.

  30. Megan Woods’ speech to the Petroleum Conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:49 pm, March 29th, 2018 -  18 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, global warming, labour, science, sustainability
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    The text of Energy Minister Megan Woods’ speech to the recent petroleum conference where she outlined the Government’s approach to the oil industry and the Government’s intention to achieve sustainable change.

  31. Joyce may have been right about the Fiscal hole

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, March 28th, 2018 -  100 comments
    Categories: health, labour, national, same old national, spin, Steven Joyce, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Steven Joyce’s prediction of a $11.7 billion deficit in the Government’s finances may be true.  But this is because the last Government has underfunded health and hidden problems.

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