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For trying to procure a hack of this blog Cameron Slater was offered the soft option of diversion - community service with no conviction. In a series of tweets last night Nicky Hager's lawyer Felix Geiringer set out 7 reasons Slater didn't qualify. The text…
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Preliminary housing data purchase data was released yesterday (keen to try and bump the tax haven revelations from the headlines?). Unfortunately it is too preliminary and confused to be useful. Here's Bernard Hickey's take on RNZ: Foreign buyers 'very under reported' The figures released by…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Can I point out to the media, Cameron Slater, and for that matter the legal dimwits at the West Auckland site Lauda Finem. I don't own The Standard. I haven't even owned the domain name for more than 6 years. I used to own the domain…
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As reported by Newshub: Whale Oil blogger revealed as man behind hack plot Newshub can reveal controversial right-wing blogger Cameron Slater was at the centre of a plot to hack political website The Standard. His motivation was to embarrass and undermine Labour leader Andrew Little…
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Australian sources are reporting: APN and Fairfax mull over kiwi merger APN News & Media and Fairfax Media are considering a merger of their New Zealand businesses. APN owns The Herald and Newstalk ZB, Fairfax publishes the Dominion Post and the other Stuff resources. There…
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Contrary to Prime Minister John Key’s categorical assertion, his “lawyer”, Ken Whitney, has been found to have links to Mossack Fonseca, the Panama law firm at the centre of a global scandal on tax evasion and avoidance, TVNZ reported today. When it was first revealed…
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John Key says it is "utterly incorrect" that NZ is a tax haven. Someone better tell Wikipedia, as we appear on their page listing tax havens. Somebody better tell sites like taxhaven.biz: Tax Haven New Zealand ... Although New Zealand is said not to be…
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Ken Whitney, John Key's long time lawyer, has strong links to disgraced tax haven firm Mossack Fonseca. And, crucially, so did most of the people in the room when the then Revenue Minister Todd McClay folded on the potential moves to moderate New Zealand's foreign…
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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 …
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I'm currently working in Christchurch. Cycling around the central city my first weekend here left me gobsmacked. Cafes, pubs and bookshops I used to know are gone. The landmarks I got used to when I first lived here at the turn of the century are…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...
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What the Panama Papers expose, and what John Key and his supporters, fail to grasp, or wilfully won’t grasp, is that there is no possible justification for tax havens. Key quibbles about whether New Zealand is a tax haven, but his government set up a…
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A steady stream of Northland logging truck accidents and roll overs in recent months have put locals on edge and made it to the national news media. It has been reported that excessive speed, some of the lowest pay rates in the country and trucking…
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The Radio New Zealand TV One Nicky Hager release of analysis of the Panama Papers is underway and the media response is fascinating. First up John Key pulled out of his regular Radio New Zealand interview after learning what he was to be questioned about.…
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Not content with a fine crop of domestic poverty, it seems that NZ is in the poverty export business. To quote an earlier post: Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is a moral grey-zone. They both cost governments income that could be used to further…
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A new release of Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca papers absolutely confirms New Zealand is a tax haven, said investigative writer Nicky Hager, who along with TVNZ and Radio New Zealand, has been given access to the huge wad of files. And ironically, it is…
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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 …
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I was asked by trp to respond to his post earlier today separately. I'll start by re-quoting a comment from Anne: I can vouch for the truth of that statement. That is not to degrade the ever present ‘intimate’ violence perpetrated by men against women…
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Panama Papers whistleblower “John Doe” in his “manifesto” published Friday drew attention to Pacific island tax havens for the same good reason he singled out New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, as the only national leader to be named. Doe noted Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca,…
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A new charity has been set up to use GiveALittle to raise funds for people who have actually been granted access to a medial cannabis product (there are only two products being administered) to help them pay for them. We are now in the absurd…
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There is a cringeworthy opinion piece in the Herald on Sunday by broadcaster Tony Veitch. He claims to have grown up in the ten years since he repeatedly beat his then partner. Strangely, Veitch seems to have forgotten her name; it's Kristin Dunne-Powell. Nowhere in…
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It's already been noted in comments, but I thought that marking this great event deserved its own post. To me, this really signals who is running the show, who is still running the show, and what their values are. Meanwhile, the rest of you can…
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Rodney Hide is a member of ACT, a party of the 1%. Not only does this reflect the party's support in the polls but it also reflects who the party supports. He is a former botanist who comments occasionally on economic issues. I think he…
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The political landscape is pretty lively at the moment, but back in the real world Alberta is burning. At time of writing (Saturday night) the wildfire is still getting worse: 'Terrifying' Canada Wildfire May Double In Size A "terrifying" Canadian wildfire is predicted to double…
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It’s been a shocker week for John Key and his mates Friend and “lawyer”, Ken Whitney, who isn’t actually a lawyer, was told by Key he was sloppy as the prime minister slithered deeper into the mire over the Panama Papers scandal and the role…
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Interesting news: Labour's Sadiq Khan elected mayor of London Tooting MP becomes first Muslim mayor of an EU capital after beating Tory Zac Goldsmith by 57% to 43% Sadiq Khan has been elected mayor of London, reclaiming the post for Labour after eight years of…