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A conservative council in the UK sacked it's entire workforce and offered them their jobs again the next day if they accepted a 5.4% pay cut. This is direct fallout from the Global Financial Crisis of course - that monumental greed-made disaster caused by bankers…
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It puzzles me that the Nats have any female supporters. The Nats are no friends to women. During their three year term they have scrapped the Department of Labour’s Pay and Employment Equity Unit (PaEE), and killed off investigations aimed at improving the pay of…
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Of the 1,916 special votes reported on the night a bare 769 made it into the final results. Of which Hone Harawira got 454 and Kelvin Davis got 204. This slightly increased Hone's majority by 250 over election night, but there really isn't anything in it with a…
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What keeps our governmental 'Dream Team' of Bill Key and his sidekick Johnny English so busy that they can't comment on anything to do with their government (like why growth is even lower than forecast at the height of the financial crisis or why debt…
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There's an odd contradiction in right-wing 'thought'. On the one hand, they're Randian heroes, the wealth creators, modern day Atlases who support the world while 'parasites' try to take their wealth and bring them down. On the other hand, they're victims who need subsidies and…
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Retiring National MP John Carter has revealed that he has consumed $77K of public assets for no reason. But it's all such a funny lark! Carter permanently housed two cars at Parliament for 16 years. Hardly drove them. When he got in trouble for using…
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The buzz around the traps is that Labour will be announcing a capital gains tax next week. The journos are already calling it a bold move and John Key is ranting hysterically. That Labour's winning the media battle is great but, more importantly, this is…
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New revelations out today that hacker Glenn Mulcaire who bugged celebrity phones for Murdoch's News of the World also hacked into the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler after she went missing. NoW journalists deleted messages which gave Milly's parents false hope that Milly might…
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First, Key denies the SAS were in the Kabul hotel gunfight. Then, media reveals they were there and were injured. Key admits that but denies it was friendly fire. Now, media says SAS got an apology. Key 'can't rule out' friendly fire and is launching…
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There's a march in Auckland on Saturday, to protest the government's massive cuts to the quality and funding of Early Childhood Education sector, and proposal to end 20 hours free for 3-4 year-olds. This protest was meant to be in February, but then the Christchurch…
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Peter Shirtcliffe's Vote for Change is reeling. On Sunday, they had to boot out Alex Fogerty after the Young Nat's neo-Nazi affiliations were made public. Yesterday, they lost their token Leftie, Bob Harvey, when he realised that being used by a collection of capitalist elitists…
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Well, our hard working authors have pumped more than 8000 posts into The Standard since August 2007. A thousand of those have been done in the last 150 days (we passed it on Saturday) since Feb 2nd. This is a pretty awesome performance considering that…
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Bomber beat me to breaking the Alex Fogerty story. Peter Shirtcliffe's Anti-MMP Vote For Change group has just 16 members and one of them has turned out to be a neo-Nazi. Is it a case of being so short of mates they'll accept anyone who…
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No Confidence Written by The Jackal at 4:51 PM Steven Joyce was asked some hard questions today by Labour Minister of Communications and Information Technology David Cunliffe concerning Nationals Privatisation plans for New Zealand’s SOEs. Once again the speaker of the house Lockwood Smith came…
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A good piece of detective work by Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury at TUMEKE! has revealed that one of the founding members of the anti-MMP group "Vote for Change" is a white supremacist: So the usual list of National and ACT Party right wing money men are…
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John Key's government celebrated KiwiSaver's 4th birthday on July 1 with cuts to your entitlements. Your $20/week government top-up of your savings will halve, and you'll start paying tax on your employer's contribution. This was the budget that was originally touted as the 'savings' budget,…
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