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Daily Review 31/03/2017
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Dirty Politics done in the Netsafe style – part 2
A letter from Netsafe asserts that the email from yesterday wasn't a "notice of complaint" under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. You could (and did) fool me. It had all of the provisions of one under section 24(2) listed below. I'd say that if…
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RNZ poll of polls
Polls are noisy, polls of polls are somewhat better. Here's the latest from RNZ: Peters could be kingmaker, 'Jacinda effect' kicks in ... Labour's polling average is up 4 percentage points on its December average, to 30.6 percent, but its running mate, the Greens, fell…
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HERALD EXCLUSIVE ON HIT AND RUN shows they haven’t read it
Breathless Barry Soaper in The Herald this morning - Exclusive: Another shadow cast over accuracy of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson book But a weapons expert, asked by NZME to identify the cartridges, said they couldn't possibly have been fired by SAS troops as they…
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Warnings on Auckland Housing
Warnings on the state of the Auckland housing market are coming thick and fast now. People who bought recently (at the peak of prices and low interest rates) are likely to get burned. From Stuff: Warning to Auckland home buyers: 'The game's over' ANZ's chief…
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Open Mike 31/03/2017
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Daily Review 30/03/2017
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Former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp: “As a nation we owe it to ourselves to find out”
Former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp, who was one of the sources for Hit and Run, has written more on Operation Burnham on Pundit this morning: Operation Burnham by Wayne Mapp We can honour both our soldiers and the Afghans, but only by finding out what…
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National’s policing problem
It seems that after 9 years the general population's tolerance of National is declining and the excuses are not working. Smiling and waving and hollering "its Labour's fault" is no longer working. Crime and policing are particular weaknesses for National. Its primary economic policy, rampant…
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Dirty Politics done in the Netsafe style.
Yesterday afternoon I received the email that you will see at the foot of the post (see updated note below). It starts with:- I’m emailing you on behalf of Netsafe about a complaint we have received. Under the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 (HDCA), Netsafe receives and…
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Brexit begins
Here we are then. Article 50 has been invoked, and the 2 year countdown to Brexit begins: Michael Heseltine, the Conservative former cabinet minister, told the Guardian the move represented the “worst peacetime decision taken by any modern postwar government”, with the power now all…
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Open Mike 30/03/2017
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Daily Review 29/03/2017
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Trumping Idiocy
Measures that governments have promised to put in place by way of the Paris Agreement do not address our need to avoid 2° C of global warming. If all emissions pledges are implemented in full, then global warming will be 'limited' to something like 3.5…
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Caption contest
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The 60th Anniversary of the European Union
Last week the main heads of the European Union governments got together to celebrate 60 years since the first declaration in Rome. The European Union President Donald Tusk started his opening speech with a singular pitch from its origins in World War 2’s destruction: I…
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Hit and Run developments
It appears that the questioned NZDF attack took place at the location claimed by the force, but hit the villages named by the book (coordinates used by various parties are off by 2km). See Scoop for the whole piece: Hit and Run authors reply to…
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Right-wing American stupidity is now a global crisis
It's been pretty painful to watch the Trump regime in action in America. But now it gets even worse. Now we're getting to the part where right-wing America truly starts to drag the rest of the globe down with it: Trump begins tearing up Obama's…
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Isn’t that convenient
A report into the Havelock North water contamination was due this month. Not any more, here's RNZ: Report into Havelock North water crisis delayed ... More than 5000 people in Havelock North became sick with gastrointestinal illness in August last year after the Hawke's Bay…
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Open Mike 29/03/2017
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Daily Review 28/03/2017
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China is in New Zealand to stay
At this moment, the U.S. government is signalling in its budget that it is in an accelerated retreat from aid and soft power influences, and a further retreat from international allegiances of any sort: the U.N., NATO, NAFTA. The U.S. proposed budget will shrink the…
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Why is National standing Todd Barclay?
Todd Barclay has made a real mess of Clutha-Southland. Even certified right-wingers can't stand the latest development - Rodney Hide: Not a good look for Barclay The only requirement of backbench MPs is to be tidy. Barclay failed in that one crucial task. But that's…
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Motels are not state houses
This is crazy: Motels given millions to house homeless Five Auckland motels have received more than $1.3 million of taxpayer money in just three months to house homeless people. ... The grants are given to people "when all other options are exhausted, to provide a…
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Another reason for water pricing
How unfortunate for the Government. Another example has arisen which gives it plenty of reason to seriously consider water charging, at least for corporations who want to get it for free and then export it at huge profit. From the Guardian: A plan to extract…
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Open Mike 28/03/2017
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Daily Review 27/03/2017
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Down the Gurgler.
Eleanor Ainge Roy (Dunedin based writer) has a piece in the Guardian referring yet another 'rip shit and fuck you' water scheme being prepared for NZ. An export company is proposing to collect 800m litres a month of the “untapped” glacial waters of Lake Greaney…
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Scots git on Q+A
I went to Q+A yesterday in search of political comment and was astonished to see John McTernan aka "Malcolm Tucker without the charm" given ten minutes to burble. McTernan promotes himself as a former political adviser to Blair and Gillard, but his last real job…
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Spinoff series – rent week
While much of the coverage of the housing crisis focuses on buyers, the situation facing renters is just as bad. Last week The Spinoff ran an excellent series on renting in NZ. Editor Duncan Greive summed up: After rent week: we know renting in NZ…