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  1. A police investigation – Part One

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:00 am, April 12th, 2015 -  84 comments
    Categories: john key, Judith Collins, law and "order", national, police
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    There’s nothing particularly wrong with Bryce Edwards’ article except that it ignores how National Ltd™ Police Ministers have successively sat by and done nothing in response to the on-going police failings.

  2. Save Campbell Live!

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 5:41 pm, April 9th, 2015 -  285 comments
    Categories: broadcasting, Dirty Politics, Media, news, tv
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    It looks like NZ’s last outlet for daily TV investigative journalism is going to be axed. TV3’s owners, Mediaworks, are going to focus all their resources into propping up the odious Paul Henry’s breakfast show. The bad taste jokes don’t end there, though. Campbell Live is going to be replaced with a comedy show. No, really. Updated with links to petitions.

  3. Government in disarray as MP’s offending revealed

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:40 am, April 2nd, 2015 -  16 comments
    Categories: accountability, australian politics, Dirty Politics, Politics
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    Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Labor Government’s majority is on a knife edge after recent revelations that Labor MP Billy Gorton had criminal convictions he did not declare to the Labor Party and after a former partner alleged that he had subjected her to sustained domestic violence.

  4. Generous welfare makes people more likely to want to work

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:36 am, April 2nd, 2015 -  49 comments
    Categories: benefits, class war, welfare
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    Evidence on levels of welfare and willingness to work suggests that yet another nasty right-wing myth is wrong. Reality and its well known liberal bias strikes again.

  5. Woodhouse: tough on bad employers?

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 3:30 pm, March 26th, 2015 -  22 comments
    Categories: employment, Unions, workers' rights
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    Michael Woodhouse is talking tough on bad employers … but what does it really mean, coming from this government?

  6. A Bright Spark Burning…

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 1:39 pm, March 11th, 2015 -  40 comments
    Categories: activism, community democracy, democracy under attack, democratic participation, International, Left, patriarchy, political alternatives, political education, Politics, Revolution, Syria, vision, war
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    A further piece on the peoples’ revolution within Northern Syria.

  7. John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 5:00 pm, March 10th, 2015 -  41 comments
    Categories: ACC, Andrew Little, john key, national
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    John Key and his MPs were acting like they’d scored a real hit on Andrew Little in Question Time. The reality is … not so impressive.

  8. National Ltd™ Battling Truth On Two Fronts

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 10:16 am, March 6th, 2015 -  13 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, brand key, capitalism, democracy under attack, john key, Media, Politics
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    The lies and media pap being distributed for public consumption by the boys down at “The Club” are old and worn out now. Politicians, public commentators, and media heads who really think they can get away with this flimsy “rinse and repeat” justification of the indefensible are treated us with contempt. 

  9. NZ spies on its Pacific neighbours

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:29 am, March 5th, 2015 -  170 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, International, john key, national, Politics
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    Nicky Hager and the Herald have reported that the GCSB has been collecting data en masse from New Zealand’s pacific neighbours and handed it over to the Americans for inclusion in xkeystore.

  10. Nats laundering donations (as ever)

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:09 am, February 28th, 2015 -  28 comments
    Categories: accountability, national
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    National have found new ways to launder their donations. Makes you wonder what they’re hiding.

  11. Andrew Little; leadership, loyalty and lasting the distance.

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 1:19 pm, February 26th, 2015 -  64 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, david shearer, john key, labour, Politics, polls, Unions
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    Its 100 days since the NZ Labour Party elected Andrew Little as its leader. What an inspired decision that has turned out to be! Little has galvanised the party, united the caucus and looks set to be the next PM. How has he turned Labour around?

  12. Carmel stood down for possible conflict of interest

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:48 pm, February 25th, 2015 -  231 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour
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    Carmel Sepuloni’s mother has had charges of benefit fraud being laid against her. Andrew Little has done the sensible thing and stood down her as its social development spokesperson. While I’m sure that we will still get the dribbling trolls, this is how potential conflicts of interest should be handled. Updated.

  13. The more complete Donghua Liu timeline

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:34 pm, February 22nd, 2015 -  90 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    Yesterday’s Herald revealed that Donghua Liu made a second donation to National in 2013 which was repaid to him after last year’s election.  A brief timeline was provided but in the interests of greater understanding I thought a fuller timeline would be helpful.

  14. Questions on Key’s housing sell-off

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:12 am, January 30th, 2015 -  71 comments
    Categories: housing, john key, national
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    Key’s state house asset sale policy doesn’t make sense at any level, and the questions are piling up…

  15. TV3, Cameron Brewer and more of the same

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:06 pm, January 17th, 2015 -  39 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, journalism, labour, Media, national, same old national, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    TV3 recently interviewed Cameron Brewer to provide adverse commentary on a story about Labour seeded by David Farrar and Cameron Slater.  And they did not even mention Brewer’s links to the National Party.

  16. The difference between the left and the right

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:10 am, January 10th, 2015 -  250 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, john key, national, The Standard, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The recent handling of Charlie Hebdo by the Standard and by Kiwiblog provides a startling contrast.  And neatly underlies the reality that the left wing blogs are in no way just the same as the right wing blogs despite what John Key may say.

  17. John Key on media freedom

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 11:02 am, January 9th, 2015 -  37 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, john key, Media, national
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    Yesterday John Key condemned the attacking of journalists going about their daily work and said that it was an attack on the fourth estate and the democratic principles of freedom of speech and expression. But his track record on respecting the independence of journalists leaves a lot to be desired.

  18. Free speech and surveillance online

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 12:00 pm, January 7th, 2015 -  46 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, human rights, internet, interweb, Spying
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    A long, fascinating piece by Glenn Greenwald on The Intercept this morning.

  19. ‘The future will be green or not at all’

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 9:41 am, January 2nd, 2015 -  275 comments
    Categories: business, child welfare, climate change, Economy, Environment, greens, john key, labour, Metiria Turei, Mining, national, sustainability
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    Yesterday, on Outspoken at RNZ, Craig McCulloch interviewed Jeanette Fitzsimons, Gareth Morgan and Metiria Turei on the future of the Green Party. Morgan wants the Greens to shift away from “scary” economic policies.  Turei and Fitzsimons explain why not.

  20. The ten most popular Standard posts of 2014

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:36 am, December 31st, 2014 -  26 comments
    Categories: The Standard
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    Following on from yesterday’s ten most commented on posts this post sets out the details of the ten most read posts for 2014.

  21. The Standard’s ten most commented on posts in 2014

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:42 am, December 30th, 2014 -  61 comments
    Categories: The Standard
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    Details of the ten posts in 2014 that attracted the most lively discussion.

  22. The Socialist Pope

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 1:26 pm, December 29th, 2014 -  54 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, climate change, Conservation, discrimination, Environment, global warming, International, poverty, science, socialism
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    Pope Francis has created a stir recently.  He has been instrumental in the ending by the United States of sanctions against Cuba, he has criticised the Curia for being inwardly focussed and not sufficiently concerned for the poor and he has reached out to Muslims.  And to top things off he is intending to issue a Papal Encyclical on climate change and will be urging countries to enter into a meaningful agreement on climate change.

  23. We need to talk about the F word… closely followed by the V word.

    Written By:  mhager -  Date published: 1:43 pm, December 19th, 2014 -  70 comments
    Categories: families, feminism, human rights, sexism, Social issues, uncategorized
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    Feminism is a reaction. A position. A belief that women should, by right, be entitled to all the same ‘privileges’ as men: fair pay, high quality free education, control of their own money (and bodies), freedom to choose who to love and how to act. Freedom of movement, association, dress, beliefs. Respect as an equal. Opportunity. Equity in decision-making. A voice.

  24. Lone nutters and suicide by cop

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:27 am, December 16th, 2014 -  89 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, australian politics, International, making shit up, police, Politics
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    As anticipated, the Sydney cafe siege was caused by a lone nutter with a dubious history. He committed suicide by cop apparently after killing a hostage. Meanwhile we have had opportunistic jerkoffs like National MP Mark Mitchell displaying their paranoid fantasies (probably as urine dribbles down their leg) to justify recent poorly written and rushed legislation.

  25. Whaleoil is the only person John Key apologised to this year

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:16 am, December 15th, 2014 -  12 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    John Key’s only formal apology this year was to serial privacy breacher Cameron Slater for breaching his privacy.  Not to any of the victims of dirty politics or to any of the victims of this Government’s policies.  Why is it that National is continuing to allow Slater to undermine the Prime Minister’s position so effectively?

  26. Rushing in to Freed?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:50 am, December 13th, 2014 -  28 comments
    Categories: blogs, journalism, newspapers
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    Herald journo John Drinnan seems all excited about Freed. That’s the dirty politics model that you’re celebrating John. You really want journalists to become pawns to paid attack politics? WTF?

  27. Latest Roy Morgan Poll

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:30 am, December 13th, 2014 -  120 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little
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    The last Roy Morgan poll for the year provides Andrew Little and Labour with welcome news.

  28. This is not business as usual. This is not some hippy over-reaction. This is serious shit!

    Written By:  mhager -  Date published: 4:18 pm, December 11th, 2014 -  55 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, climate change, community democracy, cost of living, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, election 2014, Environment, minimum wage, poverty, Privatisation, social democracy, socialism, Spying, sustainability, war, water
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    New author Mandy Hager joins us with some reflections on having become a grandmother: “So that’s why I’m speaking out now, every opportunity I get. Not because I like the exposure (shudder), but because I love this tiny little person and I will fight for his future, come what may. It’s the right thing to do. …”

  29. New Zealand Betrayed – Again

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 3:05 pm, December 10th, 2014 -  95 comments
    Categories: labour, Spying
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    A guest post from BLiP on Labour’s support for the “terrorism” legislation.

  30. Denying the truth no way to run a country

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 12:09 pm, December 10th, 2014 -  16 comments
    Categories: accountability, bill english, class war, economy, spin
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    Right-wingers recently got all hot and bothered about the idea of “recall elections”. Perhaps we do need them, not for the scandal of a Mayor having a bathroom, but for governments that systematically and cynically deny the truth, to the detriment of us all.

  31. ImperatorFish: A statement from the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:23 pm, December 9th, 2014 -  22 comments
    Categories: Satire
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    The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union is outraged at the scandalous behaviour of Auckland mayor Len Brown. The people of Auckland deserve better than a mayor who spends public money discharging his bodily wastes.

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