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  1. NZ and the emissions scams

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:02 am, December 18th, 2015 -  11 comments
    Categories: accountability, climate change, global warming, spin
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    I/S at No Right Turn did some excellent work yesterday on the scams that underly New Zealand’s claims to be meeting its emissions targets.

  2. Obesity is a structural problem

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:20 am, December 16th, 2015 -  59 comments
    Categories: class war, health, national
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    Structural problems need structural solutions. Progress on this major public health issue has been set back by a decade because we elected a useless National government.

  3. Offending comment was made from Giltrap!

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:20 pm, December 5th, 2015 -  56 comments
    Categories: blogs, law, making shit up, spin, suppression orders, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The court order obtained by the internet pest Marc Spring against the YourNZ blog and Pete George to remove references about Spring AND his employer the Giltrap Group, was obtained using a comment made from the place of work of Marc Spring. It was probably made by Marc Spring in a deliberate perversion of the course of justice.

  4. #Sheepgate – but wait there’s more

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:39 am, December 4th, 2015 -  28 comments
    Categories: farming, national, same old national, Steven Joyce
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    At the same time that there is an Auditor General’s investigation into the appropriateness of the Government spend on the sheep farm in the middle of a Saudi desert the Government has announced a further spend of $2.6 million on a kit set abattoir.  And the resumption of live exports by ship may be in the pipeline.

  5. Jarrod Gilbert 1 – Windmills 0

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:09 am, November 29th, 2015 -  22 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, climate change, crime, crosby textor, democracy under attack, human rights, john key, Media, police, privatisation, same old national, science, spin, Steven Joyce, uncategorized
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    About time the Police got around to becoming a “very evidence based” service. Building great relationships with academia is a sensible way to start.

  6. Jarrod Gilbert is tilting at windmills

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:33 am, November 27th, 2015 -  38 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, class war, corruption, crosby textor, democratic participation, Dirty Politics, Ethics, health and safety, human rights, john key, Judith Collins, law, Politics, science
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    The Official Information Act is now moribund and access to information beyond its scope is granted only to a chosen few and under strict conditions.

  7. Chris Trotter is on fire

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:32 am, November 19th, 2015 -  160 comments
    Categories: capitalism, Economy, Environment, political parties, Revolution, Social issues, socialism
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    “What differentiates the Left from the Right is the former’s fundamental rejection of the strongest human-beings’ proclivity to dominate, coerce and exploit the weakest. Without this proclivity, none of the economic and social systems elaborated by armed minorities throughout history could have endured.”

    Indeed.

  8. His name was Jonah Lomu

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 4:10 pm, November 18th, 2015 -  26 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Ad provides some thoughts on the death of Jonah Lomu.

  9. Removing Beneficiary rights retrospectively

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:49 am, November 17th, 2015 -  309 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, benefits, Politics, welfare
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    There is a suggestion that the Government may move to retrospectively take away the rights of beneficiaries and former beneficiaries to claim for benefits properly owing to them.

  10. New Zealand needs a new Speaker

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:00 pm, November 11th, 2015 -  85 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Annette King, john key, Judith Collins, Kelvin Davis, national, phil twyford, Politics, same old national
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    David Carter’s refusal to rule John Key’s “backing the rapists” comment out of order raises issues about his ability to properly do the job of speaker.

  11. There is Hope.

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 9:00 am, November 10th, 2015 -  65 comments
    Categories: class, class war, democracy under attack, democratic participation, political alternatives, Revolution, socialism
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    Anarchism, past and present.

  12. Inequality is a choice

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:10 am, November 10th, 2015 -  65 comments
    Categories: class war, economy, labour, national, poverty
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    Inequality is a choice. It isn’t a choice made by individuals, it is a choice made by governments. Check out Joseph Stiglitz’s new book Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity.

  13. Andrew Little’s speech to the Labour 2015 conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 12:07 pm, November 8th, 2015 -  182 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    Details of Andrew Little’s speech to be delivered today to the Labour Party conference.

    Updated with the full text of the speech.

  14. Grant Robertson’s speech to the 2015 Labour Conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:43 am, November 7th, 2015 -  68 comments
    Categories: grant robertson, labour, Politics
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    The text of Grant Robertson’s speech to the 2015 annual Labour Conference.

  15. Finally Fighting for Democracy?

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 10:50 am, October 31st, 2015 -  31 comments
    Categories: International, Syria, war
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    Boots on ground.

  16. US ship visit and nuclear free NZ

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:05 am, October 31st, 2015 -  77 comments
    Categories: defence, identity, us politics
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    The US has been invited to send a ship to NZ. One News has a headline about a “nuclear ship”. Explosive if true, but I think this is an error. There is some confusion on the matter, let’s hope it is cleared up fast.

  17. Rugby or global leadership?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:30 am, October 18th, 2015 -  45 comments
    Categories: brand key, Environment, International, john key, national, same old national
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    John Key seems to prefer that New Zealand provides leadership in entertainment than in the areas that really matter.

  18. John Armstrong – a person worth disagreeing with

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:14 am, October 17th, 2015 -  25 comments
    Categories: journalism, Politics
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    Today John Armstrong published his swansong at the NZ Herald. He is losing his long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Like most things that John wrote, it is worth reading. Certainly that was how he was regarded here. More than 500 of our 17,000+ posts referenced his work.

  19. Jane Kelsey on Groser’s proven breach of duty

    Written By:  tracey -  Date published: 9:34 am, October 16th, 2015 -  24 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Economy, Environment, International, making shit up
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    “Throughout the TPPA negotiations Minister Groser sought to justify their obsessive secrecy with a mantra that ‘it’s always done this way’. That was parroted unquestioningly by every fellow travelling journo and politician, and others who were unwilling to challenge the Minister, despite being told that was untrue.

    Groser changed his tune during the case, arguing that ‘every agreement is different’ and the TPPA is special. Why the shift?

     

  20. Christine Fletcher’s dear Phil letter

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:48 pm, October 15th, 2015 -  17 comments
    Categories: len brown, local government, phil goff, Politics, supercity
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    Christine Fletcher has penned an open letter to Phil Goff where she criticises in trenchant terms super city’s current performance and offers some thoughts on where improvement can be made.

  21. Helen Kelly’s speech to the CTU Conference

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:01 pm, October 14th, 2015 -  16 comments
    Categories: health and safety, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    Speech notes from Helen Kelly’s address to the CTU Conference given today where she talks about the importance of the union movement and some of the achievements she has been involved in over the past few years.

  22. TPP roundup

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:34 am, October 7th, 2015 -  161 comments
    Categories: capitalism, economy, farming, Globalisation, International, overseas investment, trade, us politics
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    A roundup of the best analysis of and reaction to the TPP. The gains are minor and delayed, the losses are real. In NZ we don’t have any democratic input into ratification, but the US does, and the deal may fall there.

  23. Where is Peseta Sam?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:06 am, October 3rd, 2015 -  13 comments
    Categories: john key, national, Politics, Public Private Partnerships, same old national
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    This week we have had the release of the Priestley Report into the escape of Phillip Smith which details a litany of problems within Corrections and overnight there have been reports of rape and assault on a person moved from segregation in Serco managed South Auckland Correctional Facility.  But no sign of Corrections Minister Sam Lotu Iiga.  Where is he?

  24. Speech to UN height of hypocrisy

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:52 am, October 3rd, 2015 -  34 comments
    Categories: accountability, International, john key, Syria, war, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Key’s little lecture to the UN would have been delivered with a lot more moral authority if it wasn’t built on the heights of hypocrisy.

  25. Jarrod Gilbert on National’s Lies

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 3:09 pm, September 29th, 2015 -  26 comments
    Categories: same old national
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    There’s a hard-hitting piece in the Herald today – from Jarrod Gilbert on how National has lied to the country’s face and got away with it. Tolley claimed before the election that 34% of drug offences and 25% of homicides were by a small group of gang members – and here was National’s policy response […]

  26. What other countries are doing about climate change

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:30 am, September 29th, 2015 -  27 comments
    Categories: climate change, Conservation, Environment, ETS, global warming, International, john key, Minister for International Embarrassment, national, same old national, science, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics
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    There is hope that the cumulative effect of all the international pledges for the Paris climate change conference may buy the world some time to prevent runaway global warming.  Some countries are pledging to becoming carbon neutral.  New Zealand’s pledge is pathetically weak in comparison.

  27. Goff: Collins planning her move

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:53 am, September 28th, 2015 -  75 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, leadership, national, phil goff, uncategorized
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    Goff: “Judith’s column this week is the opening shot in her campaign to succeed John Key as National’s leader.”

  28. Pope Francis speaks

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:32 am, September 26th, 2015 -  98 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, climate change, Environment, International, poverty
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    Pope Francis has given two important speeches recently.

  29. Paula Bennett’s loopy rules do not actually exist

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:30 am, September 23rd, 2015 -  26 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, health and safety, national, paula bennett, Politics, same old national, workers' rights
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    The Government has admitted that at least some of the loopy rules mentioned by Paula Bennett in support of the Loopy Rules review do not actually exist.

  30. Twelve long months

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:03 am, September 20th, 2015 -  103 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, crosby textor, election 2014, greens, john key, labour, Minister for Photo-ops, national, privatisation, same old national, slippery
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    Twelve months on from the last election and that brighter future we were promised has not happened.

  31. Cameron Slater – still technically (and legally) incompetent

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:31 pm, September 19th, 2015 -  17 comments
    Categories: blogs, Dirty Politics, law, suppression orders
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    Loaded with paper and irrelevant arguments, Cameron Slater managed to add 7 counts of contempt of court to his every growing sheet of convictions. It is a pity that he doesn’t put that level of effort into the technical job of policing his site. I look at 6 of those convictions.

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