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Defend Nicky Hager
We can contribute to his defence fund here. It's one way to help - this is going to be a long fight.
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Labour Day essay competition (Southern)
The Inaugural Labour Day Celebratory Essay Competition 2014 may be of interest to potential entrants in the stated age group within your social and family networks. Please feel free to share the information below and encourage participation in this essay competition. Please note that because…
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Jason Ede located
It's uncanny...
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How far will the harassment of Hager go?
Yesterday Nicky Hager released a statement which began: Statement by Nicky Hager on police seizing property On Thursday, 2 October, five police arrived at my home with a warrant to search and seize property. I was in Auckland at the time for two days of…
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Two tier strategy on spying
As described in Hager's Dirty Politics, the Nats run a very successful "two tier" communications strategy. Key is Mr nice and blokey, Key's people run the vicious dirty politics stuff. It's a stunningly successful formula. Key ditching responsibility for the GCSB and SIS, and adopting…
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Open mike 07/10/2014
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About those other police complaints …
So the police has raided Nicky Hager's home seeking information that may lead to the discovery of who Rawshark is. The investigation is obviously very politically charged as the raid could have a chilling effect on journalists investigating the Government using information which may have been…
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Police raid Hager
Update: Nicky Hager's statement is here. Breaking... https://twitter.com/mizjwilliams/status/518957442772660224 https://twitter.com/pitakakariki/status/518957876929261568 https://twitter.com/radioovermoscow/status/518958883310555136 https://twitter.com/norightturnnz/status/518959605594869760 https://twitter.com/keith_ng/status/518961122418765824
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On Navel Gazing and Looking Out.
The British Labour Party isn’t so dissimilar to the NZ Labour Party. Both have embraced or accommodated neo-classical economic orthodoxy to various degrees at various junctures, these past 30 years . Both have had fairly extended periods in government pursuing ‘third way’ policies associated with…
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Auckland power outages
Well the power just went out at work at 1315. Looks like the Auckland is getting the rolling outages as they repair the Penrose systems. The main TS server in Grey Lynn appears to be unaffected at present, as does the subsidiary one that doesn't…
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Polity: National’s new ministry: Key fires himself!
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The long reach of “5 Eyes”: re-post
With Chris Finlayson just announced as minister in charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) and minister responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), working closely with Key in the prime minister's new role as minister for national security and intelligence. I thought it…
accountability business democracy under attack same old national Spying us politics
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Mediawatch on the media orgy
RNZ's Mediawatch is a bright spot in the media wilderness! This weekend's episode examined the media's orgy of hyperbole and spin on the Labour leadership contest. Also featuring censorship of satire during the election campaign. Well worth a listen: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mwatch/mwatch-20141005-0907-mediawatch_for_5_october_2014-048.mp3 Update: Link above doesn't seem…
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Starving the universities
We desperately need governments that think long term. We don't get them. National are the worst, the stupidity of their policy, economically, environmentally and socially, makes me despair. How stupid do you have to be, for example, to run down the university sector? Professor Harlene…
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Open mike 06/10/2014
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A Little Goes A Long Way
Now that the final votes are in Andrew Little has been confirmed as a list MP. He has now said that he is considering his options around running for leader. He would be a great choice. He's left, he's already identified some of the reasons…
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Boots Theory: Numbers are meaningless when families are living in cars
(Originally posted at Boots Theory. You can follow Stephanie on Twitter.) Housing affordability was an issue in the election – but the discussion was derailed by arguments about the intricacies of capital gains tax and exactly how many hundreds of thousands of dollars constitutes “affordable” house…
cost of living Economy employment housing jobs Media minimum wage poverty
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Taxpayers support Mr “Small Government”
If ACT were made up for a show like “The Thick of It”, or “Veep”, they would be dismissed as too ridiculous and extreme for the audience to swallow. “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver would surely ask, “How is this still a thing?” And…
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Open mike 05/10/2014
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Answering climate change myths
I ran across this youtube video "Thirteen misconceptions about global warming" handling the basic myths used by our climate change dummies. Perhaps they should watch it before I and others have to waste too much of our time rubbishing their inane ideas (again and again and…
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National lose majority
Official results. From The Herald: Final election result National: 47.04 (60 seats) Labour: 25.13 (32) Green: 10.70 (14) New Zealand First: 8.66 (11) Maori Party: 1.32 (2) Act Party: 0.69 (1) United Future: 0.22 (1) Conservative: 3.97 (0) Internet Mana: 1.42 (0) Some highlights: National…
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Unaffordable housing & the culture of greed
The unaffordable housing crisis in Auckland (and elsewhere) continues, in spite of all the media coverage and government policies claiming to address the issue. The problem is not "tinkering" by increasing the supply of dwellings. that just plays into the agenda of the investors and…
auckland supercity capitalism child welfare cost of living crime democratic participation equality health housing same old national wages
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Final election results due out today
By 2 pm today the Electoral Commission is expected to announce the final results in the 2014 election. The announcement could be interesting. There are potentially 330,000 special votes to be counted and if they break the same way special votes did last time then a…
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Feed the kids
Hone Harawira said "farewell" to Parliament yesterday, in a well attended event. He left behind him a challenge: Mana Leader Hone Harawira has said farewell to Parliament with a challenge to pass his "feed the kids" bill at its first opportunity. ... His bill, which…
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Open mike 04/10/2014
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Weekend social 03/10/2014
Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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David Farrar gets it wrong on abortion law in NZ
(This post originally appeared at Boots Theory.) Oops, two posts criticising DPF in a row, that’s a little weird – a consequence of the Labour Party’s leadership dominating the news, and my reticence about wading into that issue, I suspect! But I have to correct him…
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A paean about Grant Robertson
Like many on the left, I was disillusioned with the election result. It felt pretty hopeless on election night that despite record levels of poverty, home ownership being out of reach of more New Zealanders than ever before and dirty politics, John Key could romp…
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First they sold Auckland, then the rest of NZ…?
So, John Key has quietly (secretly?) shifted the already dodgy SkyCity deal. Meanwhile, in Auckland, the Auckland Transport Authority has apparently done a deal to sell oversight of all of our daily lives to a US corporate, and thereby rendering the data accessible to the US…
accountability auckland supercity capitalism democracy under attack john key Public Private Partnerships same old national slippery Spying
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How very Orwellian
Orwellian - "connotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, and manipulation of the past". Yesterday members of the Labour Party received an email from president Moira Coatsworth which urges restraint and good behaviour during the leadership campaign. The…