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  1. Labour Greens joint State of the Nation livestream and discussion

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:30 pm, January 29th, 2017 -  121 comments
    Categories: greens, labour
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    Be part of the movement to change the Government. Sunday 2pm.

    Updated with speeches

  2. Trump’s Muslim travel ban

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:38 am, January 29th, 2017 -  150 comments
    Categories: im/migration, us politics, war
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    Welcome to the new America.

  3. Peter Thiel’s citizenship and consequent questions of corruption

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:28 pm, January 28th, 2017 -  52 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, bill english, im/migration, peter dunne, Politics
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    Journos have been looking at how Peter Thiel gained citizenship. Not because he shouldn’t have been made a citizen. But it was done without any public notice using a special section of the immigration act. That reeks of a corruption route by a minister or officials. Reasons need to be made public for this and other decisions done this way.

  4. Starting out with an obvious lie

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, January 23rd, 2017 -  195 comments
    Categories: spin, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Trump / Spicer claim that the inauguration crowds were “the largest audience ever to witness and inauguration, period” are such an obvious lie that it seems unhinged. But there could be method to the madness.

    (Update: Apparently in Trump speak these are “alternative facts”.)

  5. Women to protest Trump’s inauguration

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:07 am, January 17th, 2017 -  39 comments
    Categories: activism, feminism, us politics
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    Various events are planned in protest around Trump’s inauguration. One of them is a series of marches organised by and for women. There are (at time of writing) 386 marches organised world wide, including in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.

  6. English’s three strikes

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 1:23 pm, January 16th, 2017 -  32 comments
    Categories: bill english
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    The Herald’s John Roughan is not impressed with Bill English so far. And today English put his foot in it again.

  7. English in England

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 8:48 am, January 15th, 2017 -  48 comments
    Categories: bill english, spin, trade, uk politics
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    The usual media suspects are digging pretty deep to try and find anything supportive to say about English’s UK visit. English himself sounds like he has been put in his place.

  8. The Trump Dossier

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:30 am, January 12th, 2017 -  176 comments
    Categories: International, spin, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Buzzfeed’s release of the Dossier suggesting that Russia has considerable leverage over Donald Trump has caused ructions the effects of which will be felt for months.

  9. Obama’s last speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:19 pm, January 11th, 2017 -  94 comments
    Categories: International, us politics
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    Tired of jokes about Trump and golden showers?  Want to read a real political speech?  Well here is the text to Barak Obama’s last political speech as POTUS.

  10. The St Johns Industrial Dispute – #HealthyAmbosSaveLives

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:43 am, January 7th, 2017 -  51 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, class war, health and safety, jobs, labour, national, same old national, Social issues, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, Unions, wages, workers' rights, you couldn't make this shit up
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    St Johns is one of the first organisations to use new Industrial powers brought in by the Government and is attempting to refuse to negotiate with First Union and is docking workers pay for wearing a campaign t-shirt.

  11. Pathological consumption

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 2:23 pm, January 5th, 2017 -  84 comments
    Categories: boycott, business, capitalism, climate change, disaster, Economy, Environment, sustainability
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    On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a free trip to the landfill and a subscription to the end of the world as we know it.

  12. The Briefing Papers: NZ’s time on the Security Council

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:45 am, January 3rd, 2017 -  9 comments
    Categories: International, war
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    The Briefing Papers assesses NZ’s time at the UN Security Council, which came to an end on 31 December. Here are extracts from pieces by commentators Grant Duncan and Paul Buchanan.

  13. Living without our fridge – 4-6C hotter

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:56 pm, January 1st, 2017 -  100 comments
    Categories: climate change, global warming, science
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    My first degree about 35 years ago was in earth sciences. And one of my lifelong passions has been reading the history, prehistory, and evolutionary history of humans. The timescales give me an appreciation of the farcical attempts of humans to stop crapping in our narrow evolutionary space over the last century. We’re going to live in a hot hot world we weren’t evolved for.

  14. Facebook, fake news and Donald Trump’s election

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:33 am, December 26th, 2016 -  72 comments
    Categories: International, making shit up, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Donald Trump’s success in the recent Presidential Election may have had a lot to do with very judicious use of targeted Facebook advertising and the proliferation of fake news stories.

  15. Briefing Papers: And so this is Christmas…

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 6:10 am, December 23rd, 2016 -  107 comments
    Categories: class war, human rights, quality of life, welfare
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    Alicia Sudden reflects on Christmas at The Briefing Papers: “Yet this brief annual window excludes the elephant in the room: that this poverty is a consequence of our welfare system failing to provide the support it was intended to.”

  16. Housing? A National mess

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 12:06 pm, December 15th, 2016 -  97 comments
    Categories: housing, national, tenants' rights
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    3 stories from Checkpoint yesterday that add up to a picture of National’s response to housing: waste on unacceptable temporary housing; empty state houses where they’re needed most; and vilify anyone who dares complain.

  17. The Political Scientist: Is that all there is?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:30 am, December 10th, 2016 -  131 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    Puddleglum has perhaps the most accurate description of the Key years and equates it as the equivalent of a Big Mac, perfectly engineered but ultimately deeply dissatisfying.

  18. Opinions

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 8:43 pm, December 9th, 2016 -  162 comments
    Categories: The Standard
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    “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are only entitled to what you can argue for.”

  19. Mr Key’s Achievements

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 4:55 pm, December 6th, 2016 -  56 comments
    Categories: john key
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  20. Key’s 4th term – something doesn’t add up

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 6:49 am, December 6th, 2016 -  145 comments
    Categories: john key, kremlinology
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    Key has long craved a “historic” 4th term. Interviewed on 24 September he was still saying he wanted it, he now claims he had already decided to quit. While rumours are hard to believe, something doesn’t add up here.

  21. Trump’s broad international challenges

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:00 am, December 1st, 2016 -  10 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, aid, China, International, us politics
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    Barak Obama is leaving Donald Trump a number of international crises to face.  What will the Donald do and will he make America great again?

  22. Clearing the decks

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, December 1st, 2016 -  127 comments
    Categories: election 2017, elections, labour, Media, national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National is readying itself for the next election by getting rid of some MPs.  And Nick Leggett has finally disclosed his true political colours.

  23. Everyone has advice for Labour!

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:17 am, November 30th, 2016 -  148 comments
    Categories: journalism, labour, spin
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    In which pundit r0b has a wee rant about media pundits. Yeah I know…

  24. Andrew Little: Promises to Pike families must be kept

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:57 am, November 20th, 2016 -  81 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, disaster, Environment, health and safety, john key, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national, slippery, Unions, workers' rights
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    Yesterday marked the sixth anniversary of the Pike River disaster. Here is a statement released by Andrew Little urging that the mine not be sealed and the deaths of the miners be investigated and their bodies brought home.

  25. Andrew Little: The Kaikoura Earthquakes

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:45 am, November 15th, 2016 -  193 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, disaster, Environment, labour
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    Andrew Little on the Kaikoura Earthquakes.

  26. Lessons?

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 8:05 am, November 12th, 2016 -  116 comments
    Categories: Politics, us politics
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    What can we learn from the election of Donald J Drumpf?

  27. Michael Moore’s Morning After To Do List

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 2:09 pm, November 10th, 2016 -  24 comments
    Categories: us politics
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    In trying times, it’s good to have something to do.

  28. Andrew Little At Labour Conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:28 pm, November 8th, 2016 -  35 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    Here’s the video of his speech for you to get the full rousing impact.

  29. The best you can hope for, after the Local Government elections

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:07 am, October 11th, 2016 -  55 comments
    Categories: accountability, activism, auckland supercity, Economy, local body elections, local government, Politics
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    Now that the local government elections have been completed what is the best that local communities can expect of their elected representatives?

  30. Cronyism

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 9:51 am, September 29th, 2016 -  70 comments
    Categories: same old national
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    So Paula Bennett has been giving a lolly scramble to her National mates with the Rules Reduction Taskforce.

    Which is fine, because the Taskforce did great work in finding out that the ‘loopy’ rule of lolly scrambles being illegal wasn’t in fact true.

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