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Open mike 27/06/2014
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NRT: So much for Ruataniwha
Reposted from No Right Turn Yesterday, the Hawkes Bay Regional Coucil voted to invest $80 million in the Ruataniwha dam. Today, the board of inquiry upheld its resource consent decisions, effectively shitcanning the project: The Board of Inquiry into the Ruataniwha Dam has upheld strict conditions which…
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Dear John Armstrong
Dear John I read your column this morning in the New Zealand Herald and I must admit that I was surprised. Yesterday's revelation that Donghua Liu had confirmed that he never actually bought a bottle of wine for $100,000 at a Labour Party fundraiser and that most…
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NRT: Evidence: The NSA is funding the GCSB
Reposted from No Right Turn Last week, The Intercept published details on the NSA's programs with partners to tap international communications cables. Most of the article focused on a program called RAMPART-A, which seems to involve Denmark and Germany, with each helping the NSA to spy on the…
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Imperator Fish: My statement to the New Zealand Herald
Reposted from Imperator Fish. #98473550 / gettyimages.com Dear Jared Savage I don’t know if you read the blogs. You should, because they’re dead good. Especially Kiwiblog and Whaleoil. Anyway, I’ve got another scoop for you. Please let me know when you plan to publish. MY…
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Polity: What tax would Warren Buffet pay in New Zealand?
Reposted from Polity I show that a large-scale equities investor in New Zealand can pay less than 10% in income tax. Some commentary on my post yesterday about tax rates suggested that, while New Zealand has relatively low headline tax rates for top earners, the various exemptions…
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John Roughan: NZ Herald’s white elephant
There is one thing that shines through in the coverage of the biography of John Key today. It is by a veteran arselicker of the right - John Roughan, veteran editorial writer and columnist for the NZ Herald. He is someone that I have no…
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John Key: the mumbo-jumbo man
I think that this poster from the Greens about the debate on the maui dolphin says it all about the shallowness of National and its leader. The guy is simpleminded fool and generally a dickhead. Rather than understanding an issue and dealing it, he prefers…
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Open mike 26/06/2014
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Take action against the Herald’s lies
The Herald's behaviour though the fake donations scandal has been appalling. Frankly the journalist who has led the coverage, Jared Savage, deserves to be sacked. And Herald editor, Tim Murphy, who had the audacity to claim on RNZ that he wouldn't release the statement because…
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Polity: Labour’s fiscal plan: B+
Reposted from Polity. I'm a glass half-full kind of a guy, so I want to start by emphasising the parts of Labour's just-released fiscal plan that I like. First, the commitment to paying off government debt during economic good times is laudable. In the past, some…
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Labour’s alternative budget
PRESS RELEASE A Labour Government will run surpluses while investing in health and education, and paying off National's record debt, Labour Leader David Cunliffe says. “Our Economic Upgrade will transform the New Zealand economy to higher value and higher incomes through higher investment, innovation and…
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CTU: Labour’s financial plan will make life fairer for working Kiwis
Labour’s Fiscal Plan shows a clear and positive difference from National. “Those who earn over over 150,000 will pay more tax and applying tax to trusts to combat tax avoidance, are welcome steps to reducing inequality and the unfairness of the tax system. It’s a…
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NRT: Climate Voter
Reposted from No Right Turn. On Monday, an alliance of environmental organisations launched the Climate Voter campaign. The aim is to get people to signal their intention to vote on the basis of climate change policy, in the hope of driving parties to compete for that…
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Key and Herald embarrassed as Liu statement changes
After a sustained week of media attacks on the Labour Party it now transpires that the NZ Herald and John Key claims about Donghua Liu's donations to the party are, shall we say, inaccurate. This has just been published on the Herald website: Controversial businessman Donghua…
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Being media again
I'll be in Wellington from the 4th to the 7th for the Labour party congress on the 5-6th. I'll be on a media pass again which will relieve me of the duties that I have usually had to undergo as a delegate, like having to think too…
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Smith plans sale of trees to fund DOC
National is to introduce urgent legislation possibly today. The use of urgency is often controversial and should normally only be permitted where the measure has budgetary implications, where there is a discovered defect in legislation which needs to be corrected or where there is otherwise…
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Tales from the underbelly of John Key’s NZ
How has it come this? 6 years under John Key's watch, and the underbelly of the "rockstar economy" still remains in the shadows: too far from the front and centre of media and the government's attention. Too many stories of homelessness are still surfacing. From…
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Open mike 25/06/2014
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Reverse ferret bites PM on arse.
PM John Key has performed a backflip by now suggesting businessman Donghua Liu should front up with evidence to support the NZ Herald's unsubstantiated claim that he donated substantial sums to Labour. This is a world away from his previous position that it was up…
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NRT: The Jones appointment
Reposted from No Right Turn Back in April, Shane Jones announced that he would be quitting Parliament to take up a position as a "Pacific Economic Ambassador", which the Herald noted had been "created by the National Government especially for him". Like many people I was curious about…
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Polity: TPP deal on rocks. Surprise!
Reposted from Polity Just a couple of days after President Obama told John Key what he wanted to hear on trade, realism has reared up again: Hopes of hammering out a final deal on the 12-country Trans Pacific Partnership agreement this year appear to be fading,…
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The spirit of ’35
Jan Logie published a post on Frog Blog yesterday, that deserved to be read and re-read by anyone interested in the future of NZ society, and the current state of the country's governance. In "Work and Income - stories from hidden people", Logie reports on her meeting…
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Why the left despair about NZ’s main stream media
John Key is a phenomenally good politician. This is not a compliment in a conventional sense. A politician should aspire to being more than just successful. There ought to be a public benefit arising from their stewardship. Key is from a long line of brutal National…
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Open mike 24/06/2014
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Labour’s Electorate-only Candidates
Before we get too carried away patting those Labour MPs on the back for withdrawing from the list process in order to 'give way' to fresh talent, someone should take a closer look at clause 356 of the Labour Party constitution: The Moderating Committee shall…
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NRT: Our misogynistic political media
Reposted from No Right Turn. In previous elections, the major parties have submitted lists heavily dominated by men, and this passes without comment. This year, Labour has submitted one with a slight imbalance (53:47) towards women. The reaction is sadly predictable: Not mentioned: Labour's list…
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Imperator Fish: Critics slam Labour list selections – again
Some things are so predicable that Imperator Fish can write about them years ahead. Like the typical reactions to the Labour list. Let us observe the predictability of the right and others to it today. The Labour Party is due to release its party list…
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Labour list announced
The Labour Party list has been announced. More details to follow! 1 David Cunliffe2 David Parker3 Grant Robertson4 Annette King5 Jacinda Ardern6 Nanaia Mahuta7 Phil Twyford8 Clayton Cosgrove9 Chris Hipkins10 Sue Moroney11 Andrew Little12 Louisa Wall13 David Shearer14 Su'a William Sio15 Maryan Street16 Phil Goff17…
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Polity: Colin Craig confused
Reposted from Polity. This morning's news from the Fairfax/Ipsos poll is that 81% of New Zealanders hate coat-tailing and want it gone. I agree with them. So does Labour. So do the Greens. So do Internet MANA. 1 National, of course, relishes coat-tailing. So - to the 81% -…
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