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  1. Why does Jason Ede still have Beehive access?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, August 18th, 2014 -  37 comments
    Categories: john key, national, uncategorized
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    Andrea Vance has reported that as late as last week Jason Ede still had access to the Beehive.  And Key’s replies to her questions concerning this suggest that there is a lot that he does not know.  It makes you wonder why he can be so insistent that Nicky Hager’s allegations are wrong when he has such little information.

  2. Rob Gilchrist On Nicky Hager

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 12:24 pm, August 17th, 2014 -  88 comments
    Categories: articles, Media, Politics
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    Unmasked by Hager, former activist and police spy Rob Gilchrist says “It may come as a surprise but I have the utmost respect for Mr Hager, He doesn’t write ’baseless allegations’, ’what-ifs and fanciful speculation’ Mr Hager is also not a ‘conspiracy theorist‘, he’s just extremely good at finding conspiracies.”

  3. Was a crime committed when Slater accessed Labour’s computer system?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:32 am, August 17th, 2014 -  46 comments
    Categories: greens, labour, law, national, police
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    Occasionally erudite disagrees with one part of rocky’s analysis of the legality of Cameron Slater and Jason Ede’s accessing and copying the data from the Labour party’s computer. However he still thinks it is likely to be criminal.

  4. The Left on policies and values

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 7:53 pm, August 16th, 2014 -  6 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, democratic participation, election 2014, greens, internet mana party, john key, labour, Left, Metiria Turei, news, tv
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    In spite of what John Key & some of the media claim, Labour & the Greens have continued to campaign positively on policies and values throughout the week.  The Greens officially launch their campaign tomorrow.

  5. Naming and Shaming

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 7:02 pm, August 16th, 2014 -  11 comments
    Categories: accountability, john key, Judith Collins, making shit up, Politics
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    Judith Collins naming the eponymous Simon Pleasants to Cameron Slater as the suspect in a document leak is unconscionable.  She cannot remain a Minister, otherwise Key’s claim to a high standard when it comes to Ministerial behaviour is in tatters. This time the John Banks  defence “I haven’t read it” and “I have taken his/her word” will not do.

  6. John Key’s defence to Hager’s book starts to unwind

    Written By:  redfed -  Date published: 4:29 pm, August 16th, 2014 -  155 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    The Herald is reporting that the first of Key’s denials about the allegations in Dirty Politics has been refuted. National did hack Labour’s crippled server in 2011 and even apologised for it but Key claims National had no involvement.

  7. Helen Kelly on Vote Chat: Questions for PoA & Key?

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 1:35 pm, August 16th, 2014 -  17 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, blogs, democracy under attack, election 2014, news, tv, Unions, workers' rights
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    Helen Kelly is interviewed on Vote Chat.  Kelly raises questions about the Ports of Auckland & Key’s role in Dirty Politics. She has read some of Dirty Politics, & was axed from today’s the Nation Panel, then replaced by Josie Pagani.[Updated]

  8. Some confirmation about Collins and Slater

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:27 pm, August 16th, 2014 -  31 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins
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    Over at The Ruminator there is a post corroborates the Judith Collins and Cameron Slater mutual back-scratching in private vendettas. It appears to me that there has been rather a lot of fiddling of the OIAs in recent years. In particular I’m thinking about the OIA requests on Liu for TV3.

     

  9. Who took Slater’s emails?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 16th, 2014 -  58 comments
    Categories: john key, national
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    Some interesting comments on Hager’s book by John Armstrong and Danyl McLaughlan and the nagging question of who is responsible remains …

  10. Pagani and the Straw People

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 10:34 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  41 comments
    Categories: labour, making shit up, Media, The Standard
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    I don’t like listening to talkback radio, it’s not my thing.  But I was prompted to listen today to a clip of Josie Pagani as she apparently named 3 regular ‘anonymous’ Standard bloggers.  More on that in a bit. Whilst I’ve got as frustrated as others who have posted, I’ve not had an anti-Pagani post […]

  11. The Credibility Stakes: John Key vs Nicky Hager

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 2:12 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  58 comments
    Categories: john key
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    BLip comments on John Armstrong’s article yesterday. Then he updates his “Honest Man” list about John Key and his limited understanding of the truth.

  12. Hi Guyon!

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 1:25 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  22 comments
    Categories: democratic participation, Media, radio, The Standard
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    In which I glow in the fame of being mentioned on Morning Report (and answer most of Guyon’s questions) and also encourage turnout in the wake of Dirty Politics.

  13. Well-known conspiracy theorist

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 12:52 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  13 comments
    Categories: brand key, Satire, spin
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    It’s John Key. In a wide-ranging interview, he tried to explain how “the left” conspired to ensure over the last three days that they burnt an effigy of him, used a few swear words about him on You-Tube, ran a satirical video, and Nicky Hager launched a book at the normal after-work time! No wonder his minders would rather he didn’t do stand-ups.

  14. The Hager Book – National fights back

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:07 pm, August 15th, 2014 -  91 comments
    Categories: books, john key, national
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    Two days after Nicky Hager’s book has been released and National’s response has been interesting. They are doing everything from attacking the author to the means of obtaining the information, to saying that it is politics as usual and Labour does it too. But John Key’s recent response to TV3 looked desperate. And the veracity of what he said needs to be checked.

  15. But the door was open…

    Written By:  rocky -  Date published: 5:00 am, August 15th, 2014 -  277 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, corruption, David Farrar, democratic participation, election 2014, Ethics, john key, Politics, spin, Steven Joyce
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    The intention of this post is to examine the similarities and differences between the hacking of Cameron Slater’s communications on the one hand, and the hacking of the Labour Party donor database on the other. There are two important issues to determine in both cases and I will cover them separately. The first is the legality of the hacking and the second is the ethics of using the resulting information regardless of whether the obtaining of the information in the first instance was unlawful.

  16. Irritated and up early

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:27 pm, August 14th, 2014 -  72 comments
    Categories: Steven Joyce
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    There has been a bit of pestering of authors by media in the last few days and some inadvisable waffling by fools ignorant of the blogging world about this site. I’ve had to bestir myself to talk about it. I’m not too happy about the time wasting. But on a happier note, the site is performing superbly under load..

  17. Join the dates

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 11:02 pm, August 14th, 2014 -  18 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    According to John Key, allegations about Jason Ede’s muckspreading activities in cahoots with Cameron Slater are nothing to do with him because Ede now does not work any more on the 9th floor of the Beehive for the “Office of the Leader of the National Party.” The National Party employs him apparently. I would like to know exactly when Ede changed employers and email dates should establish exactly who paying for and managing him when the comments were made. Leader or Office – it’s the National Party spreading dirt – and many good people who are members will not be happy.

  18. National Response

    Written By:  Bunji -  Date published: 10:18 am, August 14th, 2014 -  155 comments
    Categories: national, scoundrels, Steven Joyce
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    National’s standard response is to ridicule – other political parties, Jon Stephenson, scientists etc have all had it. It slots nicely with Cameron Slater’s style. Now they’re ridiculing Nicky Hager, but they need to be taken up on each allegation.

  19. Just made for Winston

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:59 pm, August 13th, 2014 -  26 comments
    Categories: nz first, winston peters
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    I think I know someone who 5 weeks out from an election who thinks he has just had a few percent tacked on to his parties votes. After all remember the “cup of tea” in Epsom last election. And he may have read some parts of the book?

  20. Cameron Slater dirties John Key (or vice versa?)

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:11 pm, August 13th, 2014 -  138 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, election 2014, national
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    I haven’t read the Nicky Hager’s book “Dirty Politics” yet. But I’m not surprised that Cameron Slater is up to his neck in dirt provided by John Key’s dirt merchant Jason Ede. That he has been given information sourced from the SIS is extremely surprising. I had not thought that John Key was quite that stupid.

  21. Bracing for the book

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:40 am, August 13th, 2014 -  104 comments
    Categories: accountability, capitalism, democracy under attack, election 2014, john key, Spying, us politics
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    Nicky Hager has certainly got the attention of political circles in NZ, by announcing his (untitled) book launch today at 5.15pm. J[update: 3 news Livestream of book launch] Update: Title “Dirty Politics” – on attack politics – implicates John key & Slater]

  22. ACT goes weird

    Written By:  redfed -  Date published: 8:05 am, August 12th, 2014 -  43 comments
    Categories: act, election 2014, national, same old national
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    ACT Epsom candidate David Seymour is complaining that left voters in the seat may vote tactically.

  23. Labour – “Ready to Win”

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:10 pm, August 10th, 2014 -  135 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, labour
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    David Cunliffe’s campaign launch speech.

    Added a video of the speech.

  24. NRT: Election 2014: A clear choice on clean rivers

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:37 am, July 15th, 2014 -  6 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, election 2014, Environment, farming, greens, national, Politics, same old national, sustainability, water
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    The National government’s policy for economic growth has been simple: pump up dairy production, export more low-value milk powder, and keep low-value farmers as the “backbone of the economy”. To achieve this, they have dismantled the protections for and then defiled our fresh water on an industrial scale. The Greens want to reverse that and thereby ensure a long-term future for both our farming and peoples. Updated.

  25. David Cunliffe’s speech to the Labour Party congress

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:41 pm, July 6th, 2014 -  109 comments
    Categories: david cunliffe, election 2014, labour
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    David Cunliffe’s speech to the Labour Party congress delivered today.

  26. John Key - spy vs lie

    Irascible: The Herald and Key duck, scuttle and run as Donghua Liu story loses credibility

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:19 pm, June 28th, 2014 -  35 comments
    Categories: john key
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    It looks like the powers that be on the Herald’s editorial board are starting to realise that being a paid shill for the Key owned National Party is not as wise a move as they thought. Particularly as the realisation that the allegations fed from John Key and those around Donghua Liu are proving to be a quicksand that is sucking the already doubtful credibility of the paper as a crusading, principled record of fact away from it.

  27. Why the left despair about NZ’s main stream media

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:03 am, June 24th, 2014 -  257 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    The media seem to be mesmerized by John Key.  He can start a media beat up by talking publicly about a rumour then get a sympathetic headline when stating that Donghua Liu should reveal his evidence, even though it was Key who made the claim publicly.  Yet after a week of bad press for Labour over a claim for which there is no real proof Key’s role is not scrutinised and he seems to get away with it.

  28. Turn out and vote National out

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:00 am, June 21st, 2014 -  110 comments
    Categories: corruption, david cunliffe, election 2014, national, public services, same old national
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    At the last election, the high non-vote spoke to one important truth – many voters saw no reason to turn out. The media had told them that National would win by a landslide and they either didn’t mind or thought that one vote wouldn’t make any difference. This election is radically different. It is rapidly becoming clear that we are losing control of our country.  Vote on September 20, and vote against this Government.

  29. Local Bodies: National’s Campaign Strategy Stinks

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:58 am, June 20th, 2014 -  25 comments
    Categories: corruption, david cunliffe, education, election 2014, Environment, greens, john key, Mining, Minister for Photo-ops, national, same old national
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    We all know from reading Nicky Hager’s The Hollow Men (or watching the documentary) that the National Party actually advocates for a small section of society. Their policies rarely support most New Zealanders and after each period of a National led Government we have costly messes like leaky buildings and dead miners as the aftermath. This isn’t to say that Labour shouldn’t take responsibility for not repealing dodgy legislation, but National has always stood for less regulation, fewer protections for workers and the environment and an upward flow of money to the already rich.

  30. Stand up – for an inclusive, caring & sharing NZ

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 7:21 am, June 19th, 2014 -  57 comments
    Categories: activism, class war, cost of living, democratic participation, election 2014, infrastructure, Left, poverty, workers' rights
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    Stand up: fight back: We know what we are up against. We’ve seen the depth of the negative, right wing campaigning.  NZ wants and needs better politics, and a more inclusive society.

  31. Internet Mana: the sell-out and the reaction

    Written By:  Stephanie Rodgers -  Date published: 5:30 pm, May 27th, 2014 -  191 comments
    Categories: election 2014, hone harawira, mana
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    A common response I saw to the Mana/Internet alliance today was, “Oh great, Mana’s sold out. Mana’s meant to be grassroots! Mana and the Internet Party have nothing in common!”

    The thing is, it largely (not entirely) came from people who aren’t Mana members or supporters. It came from Labour supporters.

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