Disturbing.
Given the topic of this post, it seems appropriate not to attach an image.
Media
the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Water quality too important for bird-brained excuses
Nick Smith’s latest excuse for inaction on water quality is birds. Yes birds. You couldn’t make this shit up.
For a dose of blessed sanity, watch the (10 min) webcast by Dr Mike Joy explaining what the real problem is.
Key finally admits there is a housing crisis but says it is all Labour’s fault
John Key has used some very dodgy figures to claim that the housing crisis was worse under Labour than it is now.
Someone in Hamilton is racist as well as stupid
Someone in Hamilton thinks that someone who wears a turban must be an ISIS supporting terrorist.
Why do right wing politicians like stealing dead babies identities?
Savea Peseta Al Harrington Lavea, Auckland Future candidate for the Whau Local Board, shares an unfortunate similarity with David Garrett.
Auckland Future’s fuster cluck of a campaign
Auckland Future’s campaign has struck problems with candidates being nominated for the wrong positions, multiple right wing candidates running for the same positions and questions over whether the vetting of candidates has been as optimal as could be hoped for.
Chris de Freitas now is the time to be afraid
As the temperatures increase and the sea rises Chris de Freitas still claims that anthropogenic climate change is not a happening thing. And shows his inability to analyze by misinterpreting a Jarrod Gilbert article which describes climate change deniers as charlatans.
The phantom phantom hospital waiting lists
According to Health Minister Jonathan Coleman he is right, everyone else is wrong and there is no elective surgery hidden list in New Zealand.
Has Hillary Clinton hired Bernie Sanders’ social media team?
Overnight Hillary Clinton’s campaign team has released a video that not only elegantly mimics and repeats the 1964 classic campaign ad “Confessions of a Republican” but involves the same actor who for exactly the same reasons has decided he cannot support the Republican candidate for the presidency.
Refining an existing capacity to make the rubble bounce and bounce
UK Labour continues to embarrass progressives throughout the world after a majority of MPs voted to support renewal of the Trident program.
Shinbone Star: Bloody Hell
Reprinted with permission from John Palethorpe’s blog Shinbone Star where he analyses the current situation of the British Labour Party and analyses what happens if Jeremy Corbyn wins, and what happens if he loses.
The times they are a changing
Dedicated to the latest UMR poll that Bomber reports has Labour on 33%, the Greens on 12% and National on 41% …
America
John Key must apologise
Patrick Gower is off on one of his typical personal crusades against Labour again today: Andrew Little must apologise to John Shewan. Dita DeBoni has the perfect reply. Update: Patrick Gower must apologise…
Pay up Compass
Not only has Compass being serving below quality food to hospital patients but it appears that they may not have paid some long term employees what they are entitled to.
Mike Hosking should not be TVNZ’s frontman
Liz Gunn sets out why Mike Hosking needs to be removed as TVNZ’s frontman.
Tweets from a Donald Trump meeting
Jared Yates Sexton tweets about a recent experience he had when attending a Donald Trump meeting. We should all be worried.
National is missing Cameron Slater
The ham fisted attack on Hurimoana Dennis by Paula Bennett’s office must make National yearn for the heady days when Cameron Slater was in charge of their smears.
Scottish Parliament votes to ban fracking.
Imagine a country where the political divide is over whether to ban fracking outright or to be opposed to fracking but have a moratorium first in order to gather more evidence.
There is no housing crisis in New Zealand *
* according to Nick Smith and Paula Bennett.
The Sky City ghost jobs
Radio New Zealand has reported that the promised jobs relating to the construction of the Convention Centre are appearing. But in Thailand, not New Zealand. Updated with comment on the terms of the supplemental agreement.
The election campaign, the $6,000 toaster and the media beat up
In Australia in the midst of the election campaign an ordinary Australian, Duncan Storrar, talked publicly about how difficult it was to live and support his children on the minimum wage. The response of the right through News Corp was to attack and humiliate him.
Auckland’s housing crisis is just like Christchurch’s except …
Steven Joyce has claimed that Auckland’s housing crisis is like Christchurch’s. Has Auckland recently had two disastrous earthquakes?
The humour and wit of Joanne Hayes
Another National Backbencher has shown her prowess with social media.
Bennett admits she was wrong
Paula Bennett has basically apologised to Parliament for claiming that National would create 3,000 new social housing beds when all that it was doing is funding existing beds to make sure they did not disappear.
Apparently the housing crisis surge is a figment of our imagination
Nick Smith thinks that the recently developing housing crisis is a figment of our imagination.
Little’s $50 a week message getting through
A great reception for Little’s speech, and a take-home message that resonates well.
Jonathan Pie has election anger
Jonathan Pie rails against media attempts to attack Jeremy Corbyn and Labour over the recent local body election results.
In the middle of a housing crisis Housing Corp is selling state houses
John Campbell is covering the homeless crisis with stories that highlight the personal tragedies that are occurring and the complete indifference of the Government to their plight.
John Key’s dead cat strategy
National is hoping to avoid a proper debate about issues raised by the Panama Papers by raising a series of idiotic diversions.
Random impertinent question: Did Cameron breach his own name suppression order?
Has Cameron Slater created legal history by being a party to the breach of his own name suppression order?
John Key chickens out of #panamapapers interview
This morning John Key refused to be interviewed on Radio New Zealand after learning that they intended to ask him questions about the Panama Papers. And some elements of the media are for some strange reason trying to say there is nothing to see because he personally has not been implicated.
Compass serves up very little tax
Radio New Zealand has reported that Compass, supplier of our substandard hospital food, appears to be taking steps to minimise the tax it pays locally.
Herald editorial nails Government over climate change inaction
The Herald castigated the Government over its inaction over climate change in an editorial released this morning.
Key prepares to backflip on Auckland housing
John Key is preparing the ground for a reversal on National’s refusal to do anything about Auckland’s housing crisis.