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  1. The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2018

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:37 am, December 31st, 2018 -  14 comments
    Categories: internet, The Standard, The Standard line
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    The Standard’s ten most read posts of 2018.

  2. The Standard a decade on

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, December 28th, 2018 -  113 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, dpf, internet, Media, The Standard
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    LPrent and I had the chance recently to talk about the Standard and how it is going.

  3. Review into Thompson and Clark finds widespread breaches of Citizens’ rights of privacy

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:43 am, December 19th, 2018 -  129 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, activism, democracy under attack, Politics, Spying
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    A State Services Commission investigation review has released a damning report into the use of private investigator Thompson and Clark’s services by a number of Government agencies.

  4. All that is wrong with America’s democracy

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:46 am, November 10th, 2018 -  40 comments
    Categories: articles, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, elections, International, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In Georgia, despite the Repbublican candidate who oversaw the election process engaging in the mass disenfranchisement of Democrat voters, the removal of voting machines to make voting in Democrat areas more difficult and baseless smearing of the Democrat candidate, the result is on a knife edge and a second vote is a possibility.

  5. Simon Bridges wants a new senior social media advisor

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:00 am, November 6th, 2018 -  36 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, humour, internet, interweb, Media, national, same old national, Satire, Simon Bridges, social media lolz
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    Simon Bridges has advertised for a Senior Social Media advisor.

  6. Morongate

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:29 am, November 4th, 2018 -  13 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, International, internet, journalism, making shit up, Media, social media lolz, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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    In America a young 20 year old Trump supporter has been branded with the hashtag morongate for the most inept dark op smear you could ever imagine happening.

  7. National’s Judith problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 4:54 pm, October 30th, 2018 -  50 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, housing, Judith Collins, labour, national, phil twyford, same old national
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    Judith Collins has landed herself in trouble for publicising details of a young couple who just bought a Kiwibuild home.

  8. An Ineffectual Opposition Is Bad News

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 6:00 am, October 28th, 2018 -  42 comments
    Categories: broadcasting, clickbait, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, elections, internet, jacinda ardern, journalism, leadership, making shit up, Media, news, newspapers, Parliament, politicans, Politics, radio, spin, tv
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    An ineffectual Opposition creates a vacuum that will be filled by the Mainstream and Social Media as they will assume the role of unelected and non-representative opposition in effectuo.

  9. Eye of the storm

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:31 am, October 27th, 2018 -  106 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, internet, Judith Collins, Media, national, paula bennett, same old national, Simon Bridges, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges thinks that he is past trouble caused by the Jami-Lee Ross incident.  But the way things are developing he may be in the middle of things.

  10. Duped?

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 10:41 am, October 25th, 2018 -  136 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, making shit up, national, useless
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    Were you just taken for a ride?

  11. Everything is awesome

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:28 am, October 21st, 2018 -  463 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, articles, Dirty Politics, labour, Media, national, Politics, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    National is trying to say that everything is fine with Simon Bridges’ leadership, that he has handled the Jami-Lee Ross crisis well and that his leadership is assured. I beg to differ.

  12. Jami-Lee Ross: But Wait, There’s More!

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 6:09 pm, October 19th, 2018 -  191 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, class war, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Politics, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Jami-Lee Ross has twisted the knife a little further into Simon Bridge’s back this arvo, releasing a second tape and announcing he won’t be quitting Parliament. Turns out he may need the income to fund a divorce.

  13. No smoking gun but plenty of sunlight from Bridges tape

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 3:32 pm, October 18th, 2018 -  207 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Dirty Politics, electoral commission, national, Politics, Simon Bridges
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    Maybe not a smoking gun, Jami-Lee Ross’s tape recording of Simon Bridges sheds plenty of sunlight on the influence that money can buy within the National Party, casual racism endemic within National, the manipulation of ethnic communities and, most importantly, insights into the wielding of “soft power” by China.

  14. The Jamilee tweets

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:49 am, October 18th, 2018 -  246 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Dirty Politics, internet, Media, Politics, Simon Bridges, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Jami-Lee Ross has released the tape of his talking with Simon Bridges where the suggestion was made that two Chinese MPs would be more valuable than two Indian MPs. And Melanie Reid has published an article containing the allegations of four women against Ross of inappropriate behaviour.

  15. The Taxpayers’ Union’s identity problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:23 pm, October 3rd, 2018 -  45 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, dpf, john key, Media, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    David Fisher in the Herald has reported that the Taxpayer’s Union has used numerous fictitious identities to make Official Information Act requests.

  16. The Meka leak

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:38 am, September 27th, 2018 -  229 comments
    Categories: Gerry Brownlee, labour, leadership, national, same old national, trevor mallard
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    The Herald claims to have been leaked a draft copy of the report into Meka Whaitiri. And the indications are that it may have come from a National Party source.

  17. Ghahraman speaks out about online trolls

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:21 am, September 11th, 2018 -  134 comments
    Categories: greens, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has talked to the New Zealand Herald about the online treatment she has received and described the nature of the attacks and the absurdity of the allegations made against her.

  18. The Greens. Do We Need ’em?

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 7:20 pm, August 20th, 2018 -  139 comments
    Categories: class war, election 2020, Environment, greens, james shaw, labour, marama davidson, national, nz first, Politics, Unions, workers' rights
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    What’s the point of the Green party? Do we really need them? Really?

  19. Of course Judith should #DeleteTheTweet

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 9th, 2018 -  69 comments
    Categories: clickbait, Judith Collins, making shit up, Media, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Project has called on Judith Collins to delete her tweet retweeting a link to a fake news story falsely claiming that France had legalised paedophilia at the behest of an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise paedophilia.

  20. UK Labour’s Big(otry) Issue

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 9:45 pm, July 30th, 2018 -  36 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, International, israel, Jeremy Corbyn, racism, uk politics
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    Ahead in the polls and with the Tory Government on the Brexit rack, the UK Labour Party should be prepping for victory at the next election. Instead, the party and leader Jeremy Corbyn are under attack for perceived bigotry. Do Labour have a case to answer?

  21. Трамп; проследить за деньгами!

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 6:30 pm, July 24th, 2018 -  93 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, class war, International, overseas investment, Politics, Spying, us politics
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    Is Donald Trump’s grovelling to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki proof that he is some how fatally compromised or even a long term Russian intelligence asset? There seems to be growing suspicion that it’s Moscow gold not golden showers that’s at the heart of the American President’s Putin problem.

  22. Nurses deserve our support

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 6:30 am, July 12th, 2018 -  101 comments
    Categories: health, Privatisation
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    Perhaps the Labour-led coalition might choose to reflect on it priorities – the sufficient funding of essential public services or buying billion-dollar war machines from the Donald Trump regime.

  23. The extent of the right to free speech

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:02 am, July 8th, 2018 -  354 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, blogs, clickbait, internet, law, law and "order", Media, Politics, racism, scoundrels, sexism, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter
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    Lauren Southern’s cancelled lecture has caused some debate about what freedom of speech is, is it absolute, and if not where is the line to be drawn?

  24. The Stuart Nash fundraiser

    Written By:  redfed -  Date published: 2:33 pm, June 23rd, 2018 -  9 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, labour, Politics
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    Stuart Nash this week withdrew from a fundraiser organised for him by Matthew Hooton.

  25. Where have our rights gone?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:00 am, June 20th, 2018 -  49 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, Dirty Politics, Left, national, police, same old national
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    Great to see that the State Services Commissioner has widened the investigation into the use of private investigators hired by the state against its citizens. But. They should go further.

  26. Bottom feeding fish redux

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 3:26 pm, June 18th, 2018 -  24 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, journalism, labour, Media, newspapers, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Newsroom has released details of media emails sent to the police about the Clarke Gayford rumours.

  27. Police agree to apologise to Nicky Hager and pay substantial damages

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:09 am, June 12th, 2018 -  55 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, Media, Politics
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    Text of a statement issued by Nicky Hager indicating that police have settled his claim for a breach of his rights by payment of costs and significant damages and the issuing of an apology.

  28. Winston sues

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:10 am, June 12th, 2018 -  78 comments
    Categories: bill english, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, election 2017, national, paula bennett, Politics, same old national, Steven Joyce, winston peters
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    Winston Peters has commenced legal proceedings against Anne Tolley and Paula Bennett because of the leaking during last year’s election campaign of private information about a superannuation overpayment he received.

  29. Fairs fair : how to complain, how not to and why not

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:10 am, May 16th, 2018 -  21 comments
    Categories: admin, Dirty Politics, internet, The Standard
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    Phil Quin has been his usual dickheaded self on the net. Trying to bully people about material that they probably didn’t write on this site is not a way to get it looked at. For that everyone need to follow the procedures detailed in our contact page and the pages linked to it. The alternatives aren’t nice. Ask Dermot Nottingham. Updated

  30. Everyone applauds Labour’s homelessness plan … except National

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:56 am, May 5th, 2018 -  133 comments
    Categories: housing, jacinda ardern, labour, making shit up, national, phil twyford, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Labour’s announcement of $100 million spending on homelessness has attracted praise from everyone, except National.

  31. Then and Now.

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 11:54 am, April 30th, 2018 -  13 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, International, journalism, Media, Politics, Propaganda, Spying, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
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    Claims that “Russian bots” helped Labour during the 2017 UK General Election…

     

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