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  1. Right and Righter

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:05 am, October 17th, 2014 -  34 comments
    Categories: Media, national, radio
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    Hosking, Henry, National and SkyCity – it’s all so cozy…

  2. Nats illegally gaming the OIA process

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 8:17 am, October 16th, 2014 -  75 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, corruption, national
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    It is clear to anyone who has read Dirty Politics that the National government illegally games the OIA process for political gain. Now we have Key’s confirmation of the fact.

  3. How Slater manufactures smears

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:45 pm, October 14th, 2014 -  55 comments
    Categories: blogs
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    Unusually the IPCA chair Judge Sir David Carruthers has written a letter to Matthew Blomfield clarifying that “perjury” is a illusion of the rogue “journalist” and fantasy blogger Cameron Slater. Plus news on the theft of Blomfield’s hard disk. Another judge destroys Slater’s carefully inflated memes with facts.

  4. Dishonourable Judith Collins

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 6:25 pm, October 14th, 2014 -  62 comments
    Categories: john key, Judith Collins
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    Even John Key can’t bring himself to call Judith “Honourable”

  5. Progressive social media

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:27 am, October 10th, 2014 -  70 comments
    Categories: blogs, david cunliffe, election 2014, grant robertson, labour, Media, national
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    Now that the dust is settling on the 2014 general election it is a good time for progressives to review our and our opponents’ use of social media and what can be done better.  And how do we respond effectively to the approach of the right which is now thanks to Nicky Hager painstakingly clear.

  6. Even the police sense the hypocrisy

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 4:20 pm, October 9th, 2014 -  89 comments
    Categories: john key, police
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    It looks like even the police can sense the rank smell coming off their theft of Nicky Hager’s systems and documents. They ignored a complaint about Cameron Slater two years ago. But the police are still on a holiday. This looks like a limp PR exercise by the police to prove that they aren’t John Key’s poodles. Updated.

  7. John Key’s police poodles

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:41 am, October 8th, 2014 -  194 comments
    Categories: john key, police
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    The search of Nicky Hager in response to a complaint by Cameron Slater contrasts strongly with the lackadaisical investigation of a similar complaint by Matthew Blomfield against Cameron Slater. I guess the police take things seriously if you are a friend of John Key, just as they did in 2011 with the teapot tape saga. How far has John Key corrupted the police?

  8. How far will the harassment of Hager go?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:16 am, October 7th, 2014 -  241 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Ethics, police
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    Hager has said that he will go to prison rather than reveal the identity of the Rawshark / Whaledump hacker.

  9. Two tier strategy on spying

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:54 am, October 7th, 2014 -  30 comments
    Categories: brand key, john key, Spying
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    Key ditching responsibility for the GCSB and SIS, and adopting the newly created title of Minister for National Security and Intelligence, is another example of the dirty politics two tier strategy.

  10. About those other police complaints …

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 6:51 pm, October 6th, 2014 -  52 comments
    Categories: david parker, greens, john key, labour, national
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    Police action in obtaining a warrant to search Nicky Hager’s home in politically charged circumstances raises issues why in other politically charged incidents no similar action has been undertaken.

  11. Police raid Hager

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:07 pm, October 6th, 2014 -  401 comments
    Categories: election 2014, police
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    Breaking news, police raid Nicky Hager.

  12. National lose majority

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:18 pm, October 4th, 2014 -  216 comments
    Categories: election 2014
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    The final results are out – National lose a seat (and their majority), Greens gain a seat, Andrew Little is safe.

  13. A paean about Grant Robertson

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:40 pm, October 3rd, 2014 -  385 comments
    Categories: grant robertson, labour
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    Like many on the left, I was disillusioned with the election result. It felt pretty hopeless on election night that John Key could romp home to victory on the back of dirty politics. But there is hope. Here are my ten key reasons why I am voting for and supporting Grant Robertson to be our next Prime Minister.

  14. Slater capitulates

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:19 am, September 30th, 2014 -  71 comments
    Categories: accountability, democracy under attack
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    Cameron Slater has capitulated and ended his case against various media organisations.  He faces the prospect of a significant award of costs against him.  There is now no restriction on the media using the Rawshark dumps the media have been apparently provided with.  So far nothing has been published.  Why the delay?

  15. The Monkeywrench

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 2:01 pm, September 29th, 2014 -  75 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, democratic participation, election 2014, labour
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    Some thoughts from a different angle on ‘what went wrong’, or maybe just saying stuff along the lines of what plenty of other people are thinking

  16. Jackal: The truth will out

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:39 pm, September 28th, 2014 -  114 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, food
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    Cameron Slater is a complete arsehole. He gets paid to exercise these talents as was exposed in Dirty Politics. So the question is who is paying him to attack researchers in public health? Do we have a National Minister of Health yet? Or is it the junk food industry or the tobacco lobby? And does he declare his earnings to the IRD?

  17. Pick up the ball

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:53 am, September 28th, 2014 -  30 comments
    Categories: climate change, election 2014, energy, mana, peak oil, uncategorized
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    In the spirit of new badly needed Left Unity. The Left opposition needs to start setting the agenda. First “feed the kids” needs to be picked up. Second the corporate welfare for Solid Energy needs a lot of scrutiny. So does the the state funding of oil exploration.

  18. Boots Theory: Creepy behaviour from David Farrar

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:49 am, September 27th, 2014 -  78 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, tertiary education, welfare
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    David Farrar continues the Dirty Politics strategy of trying to intimidate critics of the government into silence.

  19. What will Kim Dotcom do next?

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:34 am, September 27th, 2014 -  173 comments
    Categories: election 2014, internet party, mana-party, Media
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    Nice to see one Journalist speaking up about National’s vicious personal attacks on Kim Dotcom. What will Dotcom do next? My guess is that he will stay out of NZ politics from now on.

  20. National education

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 8:24 am, September 27th, 2014 -  10 comments
    Categories: act, national
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    So National will continue their rorts by giving ministries to their tame poodles, Rimmer and the Hair.  Despite each making the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party look like it has a serious electoral mandate.  I guess it makes it look like National has friends, and Act and UF appreciate the extra cash. But Seymour will probably […]

  21. Labour obviously never worked out MMP

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:59 am, September 26th, 2014 -  104 comments
    Categories: election 2014, greens, labour, national, nz first
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    Perhaps it is time for activists to have two parties. The one that specialises in electorates and the one that focuses on party vote. Because it is becoming evident that Labour is unlikely to ever manage to make the transition to being a MMP party. Their MPs clearly don’t care for the party or the brand.

  22. WANTED: new ideas on child poverty

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 1:00 pm, September 24th, 2014 -  88 comments
    Categories: bill english, child welfare, john key, national, paula bennett, poverty, welfare
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    It’s great to see John Key taking a sudden interest in addressing child poverty in New Zealand. But why the change of heart?

  23. Clean it up

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:00 am, September 23rd, 2014 -  70 comments
    Categories: accountability, blogs, brand key, david cunliffe, David Farrar, democracy under attack, john key, Left, news, spin
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    Action Station has a full page ad in today’s NZ Herald, asking to clean up dirty politics. Dirty Politics is not any isolated attack politics or criticism of those in power.  It is a relentless two track strategy, an orchestrated smear machine, aimed at moving politics rightwards & disengaging (left wing) voters. Update: Hager comments on the election.

  24. Lessons

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, September 22nd, 2014 -  482 comments
    Categories: election 2014, labour
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    Greetings from the sanity of Dunedin North. Every pundit and their dog is opining on the lessons of Saturday, so I might as well have a go too.

  25. Another 3 years of work (first notes)

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:36 am, September 21st, 2014 -  126 comments
    Categories: Politics
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    My first notes on the election results. Labour has to maintain stability internally and start campaigning now. Obviously the dirty politics is the current leverage but the tanking economy is an issue as well. Some of National puppet parties are really looking like gutted husks..

  26. My morning thoughts on the night before

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 9:20 am, September 21st, 2014 -  34 comments
    Categories: accountability, capitalism, class war, democratic participation, equality, Left, Spying, sustainability, workers' rights
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    It will take a flax roots, bottom-up, community-based movement to rebuild democracy and a fair, caring and sustainable society.

  27. Next time …

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:59 am, September 21st, 2014 -  174 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, greens, Kelvin Davis, labour, national
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    National has an outright majority and the left has gone backwards.  Some thoughts on what may have happened.

  28. Have a happy and legal election day

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:05 pm, September 19th, 2014 -  17 comments
    Categories: election 2014, electoral commission
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    At 12pm tonight, the comments section on this site will (largely) stop accepting comments. I will (probably) be putting up a post tomorrow morning to accept, store and act on private electoral complaints from anywhere around the country. Take a snap of violations and log it. Lets keep the buggers honest. Updated.

  29. A clean start

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 11:17 am, September 19th, 2014 -  27 comments
    Categories: accountability, election 2014
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    If Team Key manage to stagger over the line it will be a government paralysed from the start by scandal and investigation – inward looking and defensive. A rather Pyrrhic “victory” at best. We need a Labour led government so that we can put this nightmare behind us. We need a clean start.

  30. Stability vs Change

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 8:22 am, September 18th, 2014 -  79 comments
    Categories: election 2014, greens, labour, national
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    This election there are two very different visions of the future on offer. I know which I prefer.

  31. Jackal: A conspiracy theory too far

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:15 am, September 17th, 2014 -  114 comments
    Categories: election 2014, internet mana party, john key, national, same old national, Spying
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    Over the last month John Key has been displaying behaviour of being  a raving right wing conspiracy theorist. Over the weekend megalomaniacal John Key even said that he wants the governor general to stage a coup to allow him to remain in power. The Jackal summarises recent nutty right wing conspiracy theories from the PM and others.

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