Explore the archive
Find articles and conversations by date, subject or search expression.
Searching: posts Sorted by: newest Results: 451–480 of 2,046
Post
In an interesting (but entirely predicable) turn of events the David Fisher at the Herald is reporting Police are reviewing a two-year-old criminal complaint against Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater over material he used on his website. The review is studying how Slater obtained a vast quantity…
Post
The usual tory cheerleaders have been quick to heap further bile on Hone Harawira: Harawira's recount bid backfires Mana leader Hone Harawira has failed in his bid to overturn the result in Te Tai Tokerau after an official recount delivered his opponents more votes. The…
Post
Andrew Little has formally announced that he is also seeking the Labour Party leadership. From the Herald: Mr Little confirmed he would stand this morning after signalling he was thinking about it over the weekend. In a statement he said his background as the head…
Post
The legal defense fund for Nicky Hager is approaching $20,000 $25,000 $35,000 $40,000. Why not help it over the line?
Post
Key clearly intends to play the terrorism card for all it's worth during this term: Key plans major speech on terror threat [Key] has signalled a shake-up of Security Intelligence Service laws after announcing a big break with tradition by relinquishing day-to-day oversight of the…
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike ...
Post
Reposted from No Right Turn Over the past few days, John Key has been talking up the "threat" of kiwis fighting in Syria, and the need for new laws to stop them leaving or returning to New Zealand. On the latter point, there's an obvious…
Post
Last month the Australian covered "the biggest anti-terrorism raid in Australia's history" extensively, complete with picture of a sword "that police claim they were planning to use" according to Channel 10, and comment from prosecutor about the one person who turned up in court At…
Post
The legal defense fund for Nicky Hager is about to hit $20,000 $25,000. Why not give a little?
Post
On Tuesday, some police in Wellington raided Nicky Hager's house and in the course of 10 hours five police grabbed and held as evidence all of the computers, documents, cameras and any device that might contain data. The purported reason for this was not to…
Post
Good news citizens! The National government has revealed unto us today the cause of poverty and inequality: Is it the neoliberal paradigm which has seen these problems skyrocket since the reforms of the 80's/90's? No! Is it the broken economic system which rewards the accumulation…
capitalism housing local government national poverty spin you couldn't make this shit up
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike ...
Post
Reposted from No Right Turn Remember National's social housing policy? The one they campaigned on? The one that talked about how much money they were spending and was all about upgrading and investing in state houses? Somehow, post-election, its transmogrified into selling off a third…
Post
We can contribute to his defence fund here. It's one way to help - this is going to be a long fight.
Post
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…
Post
It's uncanny...
Post
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…
Post
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…
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike ...
Post
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…
Post
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
Post
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…
Post
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…
Post
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
Post
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…
Post
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…
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike ...
Post
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…
Post
(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