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I love the Labour Party dearly. As an activist, I have given huge chunks of the last 18 years of my life to trying to get individuals as well as the party itself elected to office – sometimes successfully and sometimes not. I have seen…
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My twitter feed has been full of reports of the dossier released yesterday by Buzzfeed detailing Trump's relationship and interaction with Russia. My first response and the response of many was "eew". But then as further detail emerged the papers, if their contents can be…
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You have to say he is not afraid to take on the heavy mob. A very direct attack on Big Pharma and consumer drug costs - a US version of Pharmac? A very direct attack on the armaments industry's star program the F-35 fighter-bomber and…
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This a WHITE man’s island. Just remember that Just remember that you used to be here, and now you’re not Like all the forests Like all the birds Like all the words of your ancestors tongue scrubbed clean off this landscape that’s what we’ve done…
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Tired of jokes about Trump and golden showers? Want to read a real political speech? Well here is the text to Barak Obama's last political speech as POTUS. "It’s good to be home. My fellow Americans, Michelle and I have been so touched by all…
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The Taxpayers union think they are on a roll. They claim to have discovered that MFAT under Murray McCully have been paying huge amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation no doubt for nefarious reasons. But there are a couple of slight problems with their…
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I/S at No Right turn writes: Denying the obvious The above is a graph showing the distribution of declared taxable income in 2015. The Greens' James Shaw points out that he spike just below $70,000 - the level the top tax rate kicks in -…
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John Key paid a lot of attention to the centre. He liked to be liked (his only legacy is really popularity & kicking the can down the road), so always made a show of reaching across to those outside the traditional National support base. His…
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On January 11th Mr Michael Pompeo will have his confirmation hearing to be President Elect Donald Trump's Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. For some reason it reminds me of a diligent U.S. Senator called Frank Church. In the summer of 1975, on…
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2014 - Housing taking more of incomes 2014 - Rise in housing costs outpaces income 2015 - Auckland rents keep soaring, others slip 2016 - Rising Auckland rental prices causing financial stress 2016 - The surging cost of renting an Auckland house, in one terrifying…
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In this traditionally slow time of year any sort of news tends to make a splash. Over the past few days we have had the ongoing saga of the Mad Butcher and the strange PR advisor who thought the best approach to minimise the damage…
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It is MAD. In the frenzy leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration, we have the extraordinary spectacle of the CIA interfering in the US election by accusing the Russians of interfering in the same election. The CIA used only to interfere in other people's elections,…
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As long predicted and widely reported, 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year ever: Last year was the hottest ever record, according to a European climate agency and a US-based climate centre. While not all of the world's major climate organisations have yet officially…
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Interesting call from English. PM Bill English won't attend Waitangi Day commemorations - Prime Minister Bill English will spend Waitangi Day in Auckland, which means for a second year in a row the country's leader won't attend commemorations. English - "After the issues surrounding the…
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The advertisement in question, Press release from Greenpeace, Thumbs up for controversial Greenpeace TV ad Press release - January 8, 2017 The Dairy Industry has failed in its attempts to shut down a hard-hitting TV ad by Greenpeace. An advertising watchdog has ruled the…
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We are but a few days away from Donald Trump's Presidency of the United States. His policies from the campaign trail are now clarified by the people he has hired to implement them, and by the broader policy intent of the Republican Party that has…
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There was some unusual activity yesterday day from the Wikileaks Twitter account. In the space of a day it managed to insert both feet into its mouth and trash its reputation. First it complained about the US Government leaking information. https://www.twitter.com/seanmdav/status/817415931899035648 Strange thing for an entity…
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Warning: do not spark up any illegal substances for the imbibing thereof before reading the linked report lest you become stranded on the floor gasping for breathe in fits of uncontrollable and possibly life threatening laughter. US Intelligence Report (pdf) This report is a declassified version…
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In 2015 the Government passed changes to the Employment Relations Act. Some of the changes were clearly ideological and designed to weaken the position of unions. The Government pressed on with the charges even though Business New Zealand chief executive Phil O'Reilly said at the time that the…
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I recently followed Asher Woolf on twitter. I understand that is a nom de plumb. She is a Green Activist based in Melbourne, Australia and her profile says that she is a founder of the Cryptoparty. Wikipedia confirms this and states that the Cryptoparty is…
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Sometimes people forget to say thank you. A small but common discourtesy and meanness. So let me make this minor adjustment to the world. Robert Guyton wrote a good number of posts here in the two months before Christmas. I've never met the man. I…
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George Monbiot writes, There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics…
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