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  1. A Matter of Simple Logic

    Written By:  Bryan Gould -  Date published: 4:54 pm, September 16th, 2014 -  103 comments
    Categories: election 2014, john key, Media, Spying
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    One of the few journalists to do his job properly over the course of the dirty politics scandal has been Guyon Espiner. He has, without in any way breaching his duty of impartiality, seen it as his responsibility on Morning Report to put questions to, and demand answers of, the Prime Minister – and, when […]

  2. Slip, slip, slip

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 1:48 pm, September 16th, 2014 -  82 comments
    Categories: john key, slippery
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    John Key will no doubt – like with Dirty Politics – keep saying that “most of it is proven false” about the Snowden revelations… while slowly admitting most of the charges against him.

  3. Jackal: A coalition with Winston Peters

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:54 pm, September 14th, 2014 -  79 comments
    Categories: election 2014, john banks, john key, national, nz first, winston peters
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    Jackal has compiled a number of the reasons why NZ First and particularly Winston Peters are unlikely to form a coalition or even to support National and John Key. Probably the way that National through their sockpuppets Act, David Farrar, and Whaleoil attacked with spurious charges  in 2008. That he came back must have been a shock…

  4. Blue on the polls

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:04 pm, September 14th, 2014 -  62 comments
    Categories: act, brand key, conservative party, david cunliffe, greens, john key, labour, Minister for Overseas Holidays, national, nz first, same old national
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    Landline polls are a traditional gripe for lefties. But this election polls look seriously out of whack with reality.  Is National at 55%, 50%, 48% or 46%? But it’s always far too large for a party at National’s current stage in the political cycle. Just unbelievable and highly unlikely.

  5. Jackal: Spin Hooton spin

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:02 pm, September 13th, 2014 -  32 comments
    Categories: spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Jackal cleared up some more strange tweeting behaviour from Matthew Hooton. It appears that he has been tweeting that he has heard from a “left source” that The Standard have the last whaledumps. Yeah right…. Perhaps he should ask before making a fool of himself.

  6. My Thinks: A manufactured consent

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:02 pm, September 13th, 2014 -  28 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, john key, Media
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    Here we sit just a week out from an election. It’s a week in which you face a stark choice. Three more years of smile and wave dirty politics or a new direction.

  7. Nat two track strategy – March to Sept

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 9:58 am, September 13th, 2014 -  26 comments
    Categories: accountability, blogs, class war, democracy under attack, dpf, election 2014, internet, Media, news, same old national, spin, telecommunications, tv
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    Nicky Hager has exposed the two track strategy of the Whale Oil, Kiwiblog, Nat smear machine.  Why is it allowed to continue?

  8. Authenticity

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 7:39 am, September 13th, 2014 -  34 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, john key, Media
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    Is Cunliffe inauthentic? Does Key get to have his own facts? And when will we get proper (ie not game) analysis from our pundits? (spoiler warning: praise for Josie Pagani)

  9. Popcorn time: how craven is Slater?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:36 pm, September 12th, 2014 -  34 comments
    Categories: law, suppression orders
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    A nice decision by Justice Asher. We are now sort of journalists. But it left Cameron Slater naked in front of the clipping shears of Matthew Blomfield’s defamation case.

  10. Bombs Away?

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 5:00 pm, September 12th, 2014 -  73 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, election 2014, greens, making shit up, Media, Politics
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    So much for any abatement of dirty politics…

  11. The extent of public interest hacking?

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 11:46 am, September 10th, 2014 -  35 comments
    Categories: accountability, democratic participation, internet, Spying
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    Last year, there was a major hack, in which data from some GCSB staff, parliamentary staff, police, & others were copied & stored in various places globally.  Surveillance technologies can be used by both state agencies and its critics. Update: Some 2013 history & Anonymous

     

  12. Slater backs down

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:08 am, September 10th, 2014 -  67 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, john key, Media, national, same old national
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    The Slater application for an injunction against various media outlets has been settled by the media agreeing  to not to use information that was not in the public interest, including but not limited to Mr Slater’s wife, children, medical information, the death of his mother and other inherently personal information regarding Mr Slater and his friends.  The way is now clear for further stories on Dirty Politics.

  13. Emmerson – What they did in the shadows

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:36 am, September 10th, 2014 -  16 comments
    Categories: accountability, cartoons, national
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  14. Poverty a National disgrace

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:12 am, September 10th, 2014 -  82 comments
    Categories: accountability, john key, national, poverty
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    Advocacy groups are calling for action. People are marching for action. The parties of the left are ready to take action. Only National stands in the way.

  15. No One’s Fault But Ours

    Written By:  Bryan Gould -  Date published: 5:45 pm, September 9th, 2014 -  66 comments
    Categories: john key, tax
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    Nothing so clearly demonstrates John Key’s contempt for the New Zealand voter as his confidence that we will believe whatever he tells us. He has had ample experience to back up that confidence. The course taken by the dirty politics saga is perhaps the most obvious case in point. If the polls are to be […]

  16. Vid of Nicky Hager talk tonight, Waikato

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 9:11 pm, September 8th, 2014 -  32 comments
    Categories: blogs, brand key, democracy under attack, election 2014, internet, news
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    Nicky Hager’s talk at the University of Waikato was very well attended. It was livestreamed.  A video of it is now available online,

  17. Is National’s sleaze unit feeding the Slater again?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:10 am, September 8th, 2014 -  138 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, john key, Media, national, same old national
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    Cameron Slater, National’s attack blogger has written a sleaze post on Martyn Bradbury. This shows far too much intelligence for the ever lazy Cameron to have researched it. Has National’s research unit (into dirt) resumed using that sock puppet again? We should be able to look and find out which blackmailed journalists they touch up as this story progresses. Time to follow the dots.

  18. Where is Jason Ede?

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:54 am, September 8th, 2014 -  19 comments
    Categories: accountability, blogs, brand key, David Farrar, democracy under attack, election 2014, john key, national, news, slippery, telecommunications
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    Jason Ede’s disappearance from public view suggests a cover up in response to Hager’s Dirty Politics.  The book implicates Ede (past PM staffer) in a coordinated black ops smear machine working with blogs like Whale Oil. Key may need to come clean soon about some of Ede’s activities.

  19. National’s mating dance with the Conservatives II

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:39 am, September 8th, 2014 -  30 comments
    Categories: act, colin craig, conservative party, david cunliffe, john key, labour, national
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    National is now talking up the possibility of a post election accommodation with the Conservative Party.  But the thought of the Conservatives having a significant say in policy formation should make all progressives very afraid.

  20. Meet The Standard

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 4:39 pm, September 7th, 2014 -  30 comments
    Categories: admin, The Standard
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    Some of you will be wondering what the announcement at the top of the screen about an outage tonight is about. I have to power down the system to put in uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) to handle possible power outages. After 5 years on server farms, The Standard has moved home

  21. Airbrushing the VRWC

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:10 am, September 7th, 2014 -  111 comments
    Categories: blogs, brand key, capitalism, class war, David Farrar, democracy under attack, election 2014, news, newspapers
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    In today’s Sunday Star Times, is an article on a Matthew Hooton & the VRWC (Vast Right Wing Conspiracy). Hooton criticises John Key, does a couple of mea culpas, but ultimately, airbrushes the whole disgusting mess of dirty politics. [Updated: comment from Bill]

  22. ImperatorFish: Hands off!

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:32 am, September 7th, 2014 -  19 comments
    Categories: humour, labour
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    Scott feels we need to keep up the fight.

  23. Two weeks to go …

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:05 am, September 6th, 2014 -  139 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, john key, labour, Media, national, newspapers, same old national, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Two weeks to go and polls suggest that National’s slide in the poll may be arrested.  But for how long?

  24. Slater deleting posts

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 7:56 am, September 6th, 2014 -  66 comments
    Categories: accountability, blogs
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    Cameron Slater is deleting posts from his Whaleoil blog. Down the memory hole. Anything he deletes is, of course, of interest in the current dirty climate. Most of it relates to Cathy Odgers / Cactus Kate, but there are exceptions (written by or paid for by others?).

  25. Slater’s bid- fail!

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 5:40 pm, September 5th, 2014 -  121 comments
    Categories: blogs, brand key, election 2014, internet, news, tv
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    TV3 News reports Slater’s bid to gag the media has failed. High Court decision is that media can report on previously published material, & material they already have. doesn’t apply to previously published material. Rawshark had already given remaining material to the media and departed. [Updated]

  26. The Big Lie in action

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 12:30 pm, September 5th, 2014 -  13 comments
    Categories: David Farrar, election 2014, labour, making shit up, national, spin
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    This morning Rob Salmond did a great post about the “big lie” – the spin coming from the Right that Labour hasn’t concentrated on policy, just dirty politics.

    Like clockwork, David Farrar has a post up about the latest polls, suggesting “Their focus on hacked e-mails instead of policy  is backfiring.”

  27. Polity: The big lie

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:05 am, September 5th, 2014 -  44 comments
    Categories: labour
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    Rob Salmond looks at the Big Lie technique coming from the right and being gormlessly swallowed by some pundits. That Labour and the left aren’t talking about policy. They have been brimming over with policy. The right have vague possible ideas. Pundits are too obsessed in dirty politics to look at the detail of actual policies.

  28. National’s sockpuppet is trying to muzzle press?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:18 pm, September 4th, 2014 -  218 comments
    Categories: law, suppression orders
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    Cameron Slater looks like he is the front person for National’s attempt to muzzle the press over their dirty politics for the next few weeks. How else can someone who has been pleading poverty in court seeks a High Court injunction against reporters writing about whaledumps of his emails? Updated with a offer to keep feeding and publicising the whaledumps.

  29. Local Bodies: Whale Oil and Tolley Attacked Principals and Myself

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:50 pm, September 4th, 2014 -  25 comments
    Categories: accountability, education, Politics, schools
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    The stench of National’s dirty politics is reeking like decayed blubber. Today it appears that Anne Tolley appears to have used Cameron Slater  to attack critics of their flawed education policies. The question is how much taxpayers funds did the ministers use on their vindictive support for the countries most despicable ‘blogger’?

  30. Nasty negative Nats

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 10:02 am, September 3rd, 2014 -  20 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, Media, spin
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    Disgraced ex minister Collins calls Cunliffe a moron. Another John Ansell negative billboard campaign coming. The Nats are nasty as well as dirty. If only there was some positive alternative…

  31. National’s campaign train wreck

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:33 am, September 3rd, 2014 -  243 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, john key, labour, national, same old national
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    So far National’s election campaign has been a train wreck.  What was meant to be a leisurely walk to the finish line has turned into a limp.  David Cunliffe is more than holding his own against John Key.  And dirty politics is having a gradual corrosive effect on National’s support.

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