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Bryan Bruce, the award winning documentary maker, noted today on his Face Book page that Andrew Little had given permission to Phil Goff to cross the floor and vote with the Key government last week in support of the TPP. Bruce asks a simple question:…
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As reported by the Sunday Herald. Alex Salmond wants Tony Blair to face international criminal proceedings over Britain's involvement in the Iraq War - if the Chilcot inquiry finds the former British Prime Minister made a secret commitment to US president George Bush to support…
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Sunday 9:30 an on TV3, Mihingarangi Forbes fronts an excellent current affairs show, The Hui. This morning was a special report on poverty. From the Facebook page: Coming up on #TheHui.. Doing it tough.. We come face to face with some of Aotearoa’s most desperately…
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This tweet caused me some surprise when I first saw it. I respect the quality of Radio New Zealand's reporters and its commitment to the concept of quality journalism. But I scratched my head when I saw this tweet because the conclusion seemed completely overblown and so…
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The economic leadership that New Zealand has continues to come out of the Reserve Bank, rather than this government. The Reserve Bank has sent out yet another warning about New Zealand's exposure to debt from the dairy industry and from housing in Auckland. It is…
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Long time, regular commenter at The Standard, Travellerev, recently interviewed William Black. Travellev reports . . . ' "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system…
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In London Cameron's anti-corruption summit made some modest progress: World leaders pledge to tackle corruption at London summit David Cameron and John Kerry have warned that corruption and terrorism are dual threats to the world’s economy and security, at a summit aimed at tackling graft…
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The Commerce Commission has repeatedly proved it is more lapdog than competition watchdog, and you can safely bet it will stay true to form to approve the proposed merger of Fairfax Media NZ and NZME, leaving us essentially with one owner of all newspapers in…
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Prof Michael Hudson, economist, 1/8th Chippewa indian, whose father was a Trotsky stalwart, recently appeared on RT's Keiser Report. Hudson was promoting his new book "Killing the Host," on how financial parasites and debt bondage is destroying the civilised world. The following is my interpretation…
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Ironically the title is a very hearing idiom to use when I want to talk about an issue for the Deaf. It's that time of year, we get to recognise the 20,000 odd Kiwis who can't hear, it's New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) week. Yes,…
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Second in a series of obvious questions, why doesn't Key just commit to fixing our tax haven loopholes? What's the downside? A few lawyers lose an easy few million, but that isn't worth the damage to the country. So why not act? Toby Manhire puts…
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With the heavily opposed TPP Bill passing its first reading in Parliament last night it's time to take a look at its sister deal, Europe's TTIP. Not good: Leaked TTIP documents confirm major risks for climate, environment and consumer safety ... From an environmental and…
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No doubt someone will accuse me of suffering from Key Derangement Syndrome. But something he said today is rather odd. He was asked about his being thrown out of Parliament yesterday and chatted about a previous occasion. From Stuff: Funnily enough Helen Clark got thrown…
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National Party President Peter Goodfellow, may be selling out of Sanford Ltd, the giant, family-controlled fishing company, flicking a good chunk of his holding to Japan’s biggest seafood company, according to a report in the Nikkei Asian Review on Monday. Veteran New Zealand journalist Mike…
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But how do they achieve that? Watch and Learn The online version is written bullying. The patronising part is the same.
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The Welsh Assembly is deadlocked. Labour have 29 seats while Plaid Cymru, the Tories, UKIP and the Lib Dems have 31 seats between them. As reported by the Guardian, two people stood for the position of First Minister - Plaid Cymru's Leeane Wood and Labour's…
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Labour has set up a petition: Demand action on tax dodging Big multinational corporations are exploiting our weak tax laws to shift the profits they make in New Zealand offshore and avoid paying their fair share of tax here. The Tax Justice Network estimate New…
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We're a bit late getting to this, but, check out Break Free 2016: Break Free From Fossil Fuels is a two-week global wave of escalated action to keep coal, oil + gas in the ground. #breakfree2016 May 4-15, 2016: A global wave of mass actions…
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The repercussions of the Mossack Fonseca leaks are starting to make their way through New Zealand Politics. John Key and National were oddly silent for a while. Now they have worked out how to handle matters. The strategy they are using is the dead cat strategy,…
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I guess this was predictable: Land tax off table for now - Housing Minister Figures released yesterday showed only 3 percent of homes were sold to overseas-registered buyers in the six months between October and March. Officials have stressed the new figures do not accurately…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has just launched its new digital campaigning site - Together And their first campaign has been emailed out by Bertie Ratu - meatworker and a union member. My name’s Bertie Ratu - and if my employer Talley’s had…
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A new book, Silencing Science, by one of New Zealand’s leading scientists, Shaun Hendy, detailing how this government muzzles scientists, is just one chromosome of this government’s anti-science DNA. At the heart of this stance is this government’s refusal, or at best, extreme reluctance, to…
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https://twitter.com/rnz_news/status/730153345910902788 As previously discussed here, bad for the media, bad for democracy.
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