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There's a strange story in the Sunday Star-Times today. The premise is rumours that Don Brash has a love child but that seems to be baseless. The real point of the story is the Brash-ists trying to kill off Rodney Hide now, rather than wait…
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Over at scoop, Selwyn Manning, has revealed that sources inside National are admitting John Key is considering not sticking it out through a full second term. Even if National win the election. John Key is tiring of being prime minister, he feels restricted by the…
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Some thoughtful reading for a Sunday morning: It goes against our nature; but the left has to start asserting its own values The progressive attempt to appeal to self-interest has been a catastrophe. Empathy, not expediency, must drive our campaigns So here we are, forming…
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The National Government has relaxed the rules for so-called business migrants, those who can get easy access to a passport by investing in New Zealand. The Minister is proud that the scheme has now raised $562 million. He says it is part of the government's…
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The week that was 30 April - 6 May Written by The Jackal at 11:21 AM New Zealand has the third-highest rate of children living in single-parent homes, an OECD study says. This means nearly one in four Kiwi children are growing up in single-parent…
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"We see you on TV a lot. What else do you do?" - schoolkid to John Key at yet another photo-op. In other news, Key was lying when he said he doesn't have any choice over his DPS entourage. Helen Clark dismissed her DPS cover…
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John Key got caught out on the blow out in costs of his nice to have diplomatic protection. So the Nats have been spinning a line about extra security for Key because "at least one person" (i.e. one person) has been "charged for threats" in…
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Hard to feel terribly sorry for Britain's Liberal Democrat Party: Liberal Democrats have taken 'big knocks', says Nick Clegg Lib Dem leader admits party taking brunt of anger at coalition amid worst local elections performance in 30 years The Liberal Democrats appear to have suffered…
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The semi-hysterical responses of some of the unreconstructed left and pseudo-left about some at the Standard supporting Hone Harawira and the Mana Party has really been quite revealing. They seem to think, with a clarity of logic Garth George would surely envy, that refusal to endorse a…
hone harawira labour mana-party racism rodney hide Shane Jones The Standard
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Results are coming in for council elections in England and for the Welsh and Scottish Assemblies. The most interesting result will be the referendum on Alternative Vote for the whole UK. It is likely to go down according to the polls. David Cameron came out…
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John makes fun of the help (that we pay for): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQXfj1t-Ejo&feature=player_embedded
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http://youtu.be/hxleH60hDJY
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Bonus question for a week's supply of kudos: what is the link between a Roman official's ceremonial bodyguards, like the ones in front of the emperor in the picture, and a major 20th century political ideology? And why?
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In a few short replies, the Nats said so much this week about their out of touch, entitled worldview. The stories have been rolling out almost too fast, in fact. Each needs following up, each minister needs to be hounded, but there are so many…
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What a massive sense of entitlement these Nats have. Bill English rorting the taxpayer for tens of thousands in accommodation allowances by pretending that he lives in Dipton. (After Key "reformed" the allowance system, and just as we predicted, ministers are claiming even more cash.)…
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So Judith Collins has broken protocol to reveal "serious threats" to John Key after we find out his use of DPS as a vanity prop has cost us $800k. And yet when it comes to him spending our money to chopper to a golf club…
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Watch Obama do Donald Trump like a dinner at the White House Correspondents' party. Trump didn't like it. Crybaby.
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When the news of Hone Harawira's "support for Osama Bin Laden" broke in the Herald I was suspicious of it - there was no byline on the story and it wasn't on the front page. Surely such a revelation would be headline news and surely…
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Looks like John Key's need to look like a celebrity has cost the tax payer $800,000 - that's the blow out in cost for his DPS entourage, a cost that includes $30,000 for sending officers to Hawaii. So let's get this straight. $500k for the…
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Can't remember if we've posted these two videos readers have sent in: http://youtu.be/VgLyShghYxE http://youtu.be/rJdPkrpFXBM
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It's not often that the Nats do anything praiseworthy, so I like to take note when they get it right. Their new youth jobs scheme, even though it only partially reverses their previous cuts to youth training, is at least a step back in the…
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Since Paula Redstock was pushed out of the Commerce Commission with a lot of the other brilliant staff, there has not been one cartel or monopoly abuse case prosecuted by the Commerce Commission. This is the very same Commission that was saving us millions of…
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Wayne Mapp revealed that Murray McCully's air force flights to Vanuatu cost $65,000 in fuel alone and that he tried to stop McCully. Meanwhile, Key got a free helicopter ride from a photo-op but decided it was a bad look so he paid $2,000 for…
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The Nats are obviously worried about public reaction to the recent revelations on the role of the SAS in Afghanistan. And as is usually the case when they feel threatened by a story, the Nats are striking out, trying to discredit or intimidate the source.…
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Here's an interesting Wikileaks cable on the 'objectivity' of the New Zealand msm, particularly the Herald. The cable relates to the period leading up to the last election. Most of it seems like a pretty fair appraisal to me, despite it perhaps being a little…
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