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  1. Ambrose to sue Key

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:41 am, December 9th, 2014 -  76 comments
    Categories: accountability, john key, journalism, Media
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    Key is carrying plenty of baggage now. Haunted not only by dirty politics, but also the scandal of the election before, the teapot tapes.

  2. First review results

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:56 am, December 9th, 2014 -  111 comments
    Categories: labour
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    “Labour’s review panel has reported its findings back about the party’s election campaign and the reasons for the low 25 per cent result, identifying problems ranging from a failure to unite behind former leader David Cunliffe to resourcing and confusion over its “Vote Positive” slogan.”

  3. The tipline has a SST column

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, December 7th, 2014 -  36 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, national
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    Judith Collins had her debut as a columnist in the Sunday Star Times today.  Her article was not contentious and raised issues of importance.  She also revealed that she never liked the name “Crusher” and Hager’s description of her was false in many ways.

  4. NZ Media and blogs vs blogs

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:32 am, December 6th, 2014 -  42 comments
    Categories: blogs, broadcasting, internet, journalism, Media, newspapers, radio, tv
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    Snippets from a detailed and interesting report on the ownership of NZ media, media trends and issues, and the role of blogs post dirty politics. One major quibble – not all blogs are created equal, no more than all TV is game shows, than all radio is talkback, or than all websites are porn.

  5. Police neutrality

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:50 am, December 5th, 2014 -  113 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, david parker, Dirty Politics, police
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    If anyone thought that David Parker was content to fade quietly into obscurity, they been proven thoroughly wrong. Parker has confronted one of politics’ sacred cows – police neutrality.

  6. National’s campaign of false equivalences

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:23 am, December 4th, 2014 -  102 comments
    Categories: blogs, john key, national
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    John Key has been advertising us in parliament. But he has a problem distinguishing how his right puppet blogs operate compared to the volunteer blogs of the left. It says more about how John Key thinks than it does about us. Key prefers sites that recruit prostitutes in order to blackmail reporters.

  7. Is John Key on the skids?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:25 pm, December 3rd, 2014 -  85 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Andrew Little, election 2014, john key, labour, national, national/act government, Politics, same old national
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    In the House today Megan Woods embarrassed John Key with some very simple yet direct questions about Jason Ede. Key’s attempts to joke away the issue was met with silence from his side of the house. Dirty Politics is clearly having an effect.

  8. Scott Campbell: Liar on The Nation

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:26 pm, November 30th, 2014 -  93 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, journalism, making shit up, Politics
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    Scott Campbell made a statement on The Nation this weekend about this site being used to attack him as a journalist in 2007/8. After having a good look around for evidence on site, I have concluded that Scott Campbell simply lied. Quite why this comms specialist for the right made this lie I don’t know. But I’m quite pissed off about it.

  9. Armstrong still pulling his punches

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:54 am, November 29th, 2014 -  41 comments
    Categories: accountability, john key, Media, spin
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    What does it take for Armstrong to call for Key’s resignation, the way he called for Cunliffe’s?

  10. Key’s repeated reflexive lies (and giving back double)

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 2:15 am, November 27th, 2014 -  162 comments
    Categories: accountability, blogs, john key, Judith Collins, making shit up, scoundrels
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    It is now clear that Key lies repeatedly and reflexively. It is all catching up with him. From the confusion of emails and texts that emerged last night it also looks like the Collins / Slater faction is back, and giving back double.

  11. Scope

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 4:59 pm, November 26th, 2014 -  5 comments
    Categories: national
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    Yesterday’s 2 reports are even worse for what they managed to conclude inside their scope. What was outside their scope shows things even more interesting.

  12. A Breakdown.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 10:44 am, November 26th, 2014 -  25 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, blogs, corruption, john key, journalism, Judith Collins, national, phil goff, spin
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    There’s a lot of smash flying around concerning the SIS, the PM’s office, OIA requests, Judith Collin’s and what not. So here’s a simple, stripped back, breakdown

  13. NRT: Abuse of power: The OIA / public records dimension

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:28 pm, November 25th, 2014 -  13 comments
    Categories: law, public services
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    Jason Ede deleted his personal emails. Some of those emails concerned ministerial business and should therefore are public records. There is a fine of $5000 per email destroyed. Similarly the SIS was illegally refusing media requests that are OIAs.  All as dodgy as hell. Time to charge some people violating public information acts?

  14. Key will apologise to Slater but not Billingsley or Vance

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 7:30 am, November 25th, 2014 -  21 comments
    Categories: david parker, john key, labour, national
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    John Key has apologised to Cameron Slater for releasing an email which details a campaign against a senior Public Servant.

  15. A late run succeeds

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:08 pm, November 18th, 2014 -  46 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, david parker, grant robertson, labour, Nanaia Mahuta
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    On October 4th Andrew Little was looking to see if he was even going to be in Parliament because he hadn’t achieved the near impossible task of winning New Plymouth. He was at the bottom of small list and only got back into parliament on special votes. But Andrew Little has a well deserved reputation is a organiser and a campaigner. It showed.

  16. In defence of John Key

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 9:09 am, November 18th, 2014 -  158 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, john key, Parliament, tax
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    Click-bait, moi?

  17. They’re lying to you

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 8:15 am, November 18th, 2014 -  37 comments
    Categories: accountability, making shit up
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    Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  18. Why does the right control the English speaking world?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:31 am, November 16th, 2014 -  116 comments
    Categories: australian politics, class war, climate change, global warming, International, john key, national, uk politics, us politics
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    Jason Wilson in the Guardian has asked a very relevant question.  Why is the right currently dominant in the English speaking Western World and what does the left have to do to change this?

  19. Slater’s OIA requests about David Bain

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:33 pm, November 13th, 2014 -  12 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, national
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    Megan Woods has discovered that three OIA requests processed within the same day by Judith Collins’ office for Cameron Slater were not entered in a log of successful OIA requests recently released by Amy Adams.

  20. Standard questions: Andrew Little

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:50 am, November 13th, 2014 -  64 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, labour, leadership
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    A couple of weeks ago we asked readers to suggest questions for written answers from the candidates. We chose / edited six questions, and sent them to the four campaigns. Here are Andrew Little’s answers.

  21. Lessons from the ’30s and 40’s: culture and the left

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 2:05 pm, November 10th, 2014 -  70 comments
    Categories: broadcasting, capitalism, cartoons, democratic participation, film, greens, labour, Left, news, telecommunications, tv, workers' rights
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    We often look to the first Labour Government for core left wing values, & a political way forward.  As well as massively restructuring of the NZ economy, work, welfare & housing, that Government aimed to restructure NZ culture & to combat capitalist-dominated popular culture.

  22. Where would you spend $26 million?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:25 am, November 3rd, 2014 -  52 comments
    Categories: identity, referendum
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    If you were the NZ government, with $26 million to spend, what would you spend it on?

  23. Should Right-wing newspapers just shut up?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 1:12 pm, November 2nd, 2014 -  75 comments
    Categories: blogs, journalism, newspapers, Satire
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    In the spirit of Philip Matthews…

  24. Nanaia Mahuta – live Q&A

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:53 am, October 30th, 2014 -  44 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    A statement from Nanaia Mahuta concerning the Labour Leadership contest.  She should be available to answer questions this afternoon between 2 pm and 3 pm.

  25. Distractify

    Written By:  Ben Clark -  Date published: 7:07 am, October 29th, 2014 -  28 comments
    Categories: john key, workers' rights
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    While shepherding through horrendous housing changes and removing workers’ rights – and hiding from Dirty Politics – John Key needs a big “look over there!”

  26. Slater sued

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:49 pm, October 28th, 2014 -  53 comments
    Categories: law
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    Radio NZ has a post up “Tribunal hears blogger privacy case”. A prosecution of Cameron Slater under the Privacy Act for breaching Matthew Blomfields privacy. I suspect that over the next 3-4 days Slater will ponce around acting out courtroom fantasies that have little to do with the law. And will probably get hammered. Good. (Updated)

  27. National losing the middle?

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 8:23 am, October 28th, 2014 -  133 comments
    Categories: housing, john key, national, workers' rights
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    In its first term, National was very careful to be incremental – Key hung to the middle, chipping away carefully at workers’ rights without doing anything dramatic. Having gained the public’s trust by continuing (outside the House) to be a clown they’d like to have a drink with, they went with one big hit with […]

  28. All Things Being Equal…

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 1:46 pm, October 27th, 2014 -  173 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, david parker, grant robertson, labour, Media, Nanaia Mahuta, Politics
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    Assuming that all four contenders for leadership of Labour are equally worthy, there is a defining factor that ought to be considered…vulnerability to attack.

  29. Hager vs police – suppressing debate

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:46 am, October 24th, 2014 -  71 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, David Farrar, law, police
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    The police and Hager are in the process of initiating legal proceedings against each other. The police action against Hager was and is designed to intimidate, to suppress debate. Rod Oram calls shame on dirty politics and the people who perpetrate it.

  30. Strategic voting

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 6:44 am, October 20th, 2014 -  196 comments
    Categories: election 2014, election 2017
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    It’s all very well taking the moral high ground on strategic voting, but the nice guys are finishing last. Enough already, time for the Left to use the same tactics as the Nats.

  31. The 4th estate & its pretenders

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:59 am, October 19th, 2014 -  63 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, brand key, democracy under attack, journalism, newspapers, same old national, telecommunications, uk politics
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    Some journalists continue to try to fulfill the fourth estate ideal of pursuing truth & speaking truth to power.  Others, with powerful links to corporate media & governments, work to suppress debate and democracy, often using threats, abusive nastiness & fear mongering.

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