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ImperatorFish: Dirty Politics book raises suspicions of broader hacking agenda
Scott at Imperator Fish kindly lets us republish his blogs. This one is originally here. Police are investigating whether a spate of seemingly unrelated incidents could be linked to Nicky Hager’s new book. Hager’s book Dirty Politics was released last week, and much of the book’s content…
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Gutless!
Key's giving Collins a "last last" chance! After she's outed an innocent public servant to an amoral blogger. Duncan Garner said it six months ago about Oravida: "John Key won't like this, but by Helen Clark's standards he looks weak." That's too generous - by…
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“Mr Slater’s made it quite clear”: Key standup transcript pt1
The standup that John Key did with the press, the day after the launch of Nicky Hager's book, Dirty Politics, is one which John Key was trying to repeat his hastily prepare spin lines of denial, denial, denial. He made various claims, some of which…
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Valuing child care: beyond ‘show me the money!’
Simon Collins in today's NZ Herald, has done a pretty good examination of various parties policies on social security (aka "welfare"): Election 2014: voters' choice between the carrot and the stick. He mainly compares the policies of National and Labour, with a small comment on…
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No Changes for Kiwiblog
David Farrar at Kiwiblog is trying to wash off some of the stench of Dirty Politics. Best quote "I don’t believe that the book shows me having acted in any way inappropriately." So "Princess Parties" are perfectly appropriate for David: His action points for cleaning…
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Judith Collins must go
Back in March of this year John Key issued Judith "Tipline" Collins a final warning after she misled the media and him over how many meetings she had with Oravida Management during that fateful visit to China. Stuff had this report: Prime Minister John Key…
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Aaron Bhatnagar – I barely know the guy
Judith Collins' utter contempt for Parliament and willingness to use its resources to her own and her family's advantage cannot reasonably be denied. The most brazen example comes from her actions on behalf of Oravida and the extended duck'n'weave aftermath played out in Parliament. The…
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Left wing blogs aren’t “the same”
On Morning Report yesterday John Key was busy casting all sorts of aspersions, and refusing to say that clearly odious behaviour by Judith Collins, Jason Ede and Cameron Slater was wrong1. But some of the aspersions were against shock horror left wing bloggers! As a left…
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Open mike 19/08/2014
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Will the real National Party please stand up
I think it's likely that the emails leaked to Nicky Hager for "Dirty Politics" have everything to do with the National Party. Nicky Hager identified the main source for his previous book "The Hollow Men" as six people from the National Party. He thanks "the…
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How Dirty Politics hurt low-paid workers
New bits and pieces from Dirty Politics are coming to the fore every day, painting a picture of a systematic, deliberate strategy to use muck-raking and dirty tricks to subvert political discourse in NZ. Today, the Building Services Contractors have demanded an explanation for emails…
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Key denies wrongdoing – the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsi51AajbFg&feature=youtu.be A video montage of Key's denials to recent reporter questions about Dirty Politics.
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Key’s farcical “Don’t ask, don’t tell” routine
John Key is sticking to his defensive strategy: deny everything, label Hager's book a smear campaign, and - when pressed on specific allegations - say he doesn't know the details. There is of course a very easy way for Mr Key to become acquainted with…
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The moral low ground
Revulsion. That's what's coming out from a range of people who have ploughed through the inner thoughts of the bottom-feeders in Nicky Hager's book. Slater, Farrar, Ede, Collins, Lusk, Odgers, Jordan Williams - all are repulsive.It's the strength of that gut feeling, that instinctive and…
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Casualty of Dirty Politics?
Jordan Williams may have problem that may be contributing to his current foul mood. He has been on the gallery for Franks & Oglivie a Wellington law firm for some time. The Wayback machine has him on the gallery page in March 2012 I looked at the gallery today.…
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Jordan Williams words & Nat sexism
A couple of telling messages were tweeted today. First Helen Kelly sent a tweet with an image of an extract from Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics. It says: Similarly Jordan Williams offered to write a post for Whale Oil comparing National and Labour women. Slater said…
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Muddying the waters: transcript Key on RNZ
John Key's interview on Radio New Zealand is quite telling. Guyon Espiner, patiently pursues some crucial questions, while Key diverts and twists and turns. He uses analogies that are not equivalent: a list of the All Blacks team under wraps, is not the same as…
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Why does Jason Ede still have Beehive access?
The first group of people who will have been incensed by the disclosures made in Dirty Politics are reporters who have seen Slater given preferential access to information from their OIA requests and who was then allowed to release the information and apply his own…
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Open mike 18/08/2014
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TVNZ’s Vote Compass
I had a go at TV NZ's new Vote Compass: It aims to provide a check of which party a participant is most likely to vote for. The explanation of purpose says: ONE News is hosting Vote Compass - an interactive online tool allowing voters…
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Metiria Turei’s speech at the Green launch
Aroha mai, Aroha atu. When love is given, love is returned. Green Party Co-leader Metiria Turei Address at the Green Party Election Campaign Launch 2014 AUT, 17 August 2014 Aroha mai, Aroha atu. When love is given, love is returned This…
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Greens launch billion dollar plan to reduce child poverty
lprent: Decided to just post this. The Green Party today launched a billion dollar package to significantly reduce child poverty in New Zealand. The details of the plan were released at the party’s campaign launch in Auckland. The plan is the core component of the…
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What is the bet that Slater gets it wrong?
Apparently Cameron Slater is going to "out" the identity of who got the emails off his system. What is the bet that he has it wrong - again? His track record is that he virtually always gets it wrong when he "outs" people. Look at…
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Green’s campaign launch
I'm heading off to get some lunch before going to the Green's campaign launch. It is (for those like me who forgot) at The details are: When: August 17, 2014 at 2pm - 4pm Where: Sir Paul Reeves Building, 86 Governor Fitzroy Pl in Auckland Make sure you put…
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Rob Gilchrist On Nicky Hager
lprent: Rob Gilchrist was a police spy on activists for a long time. He was unmasked by Rochelle Rees (rocky) and Nicky Hager. Being involved in many activist groups around the country he'd known Nicky Hager as a person to send stories to. Rob Gilchrist…
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Was a crime committed when Slater accessed Labour’s computer system?
Reposted from Occasionally erudite Following on from my earlier post regarding Nicky Hager’s new book, Dirty Politics, there’s the issue of Cameron Slater and Jason Ede accessing the Labour Party computer system. The Greens have filed a police complaint, but was a crime committed? In the NZ Herald, John…
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Open mike 17/08/2014
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The Left on policies and values
One of the bits of mis-truth that John Key stated in the press stand up last week (as on the TV3 video) was that the Left is into dirty politics because it doesn't want to campaign on policies, and can't win on policies. That is…
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