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This week we have an international winner. I was tempted to award the prize to various members of the National Party for their complete mischaracterisation of the budget. But I realised early on that their efforts were not because they did not understand, rather it…
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Great speech from Marama Davidson this week on the budget. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=106&v=TryKwaC_Qro Reprinted from the Green Party website. Let me reassure the members of the Opposition that this is not a dream, there is nothing wrong with their television sets, and the…
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Before Thursday, I was expecting a fair few budget posts to be penned, and/or comments made, lauding or expanding on aspects of Grant Robertson's first budget. Funnily enough, that hasn't happened, and in all honesty, I haven't yet come across a wholly positive budget piece. …
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Graphic courtesy of @ArrestJK The sixth Labour Government has released its first budget and it is reassuring. Fiscally cautious but there is lots of money being pumped into health and education. And a big chunk into the environment. Which is a good thing. I enjoyed…
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The following graphic is from the Israeli Defense Forces facebook page. It is, apparently, to be treated in all seriousness. As are, equally apparently, all the other 'required reading' posts on the "2 million followers" official IDF page. Upon publication, Donald Trump immediately banned the…
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An evolving post to cover budget announcements. Treasury's budget at a glance summary is very helpful as is Scoop's commentary (thanks r0b). $3.2 billion more for health services over the next four years https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/996936130846253056 More money for conservation ... https://twitter.com/docgovtnz/status/996935516070268928 More money for Christchurch. https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/996936652596506624…
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Despite Simon Bridges' confidence in discredited economic theories and their protestations to the contrary, the Nats seem intent on doing everything they can to fight ordinary workers getting a pay increase by creating a false narrative that Labour has somehow caused an unreasonable number of…
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For about half an hour President Trump looked like he was right. And then ... Maybe he was right to criticise and withdraw funding support for the United Nations. Except the U.N. General Assembly is now fast isolating the United States about Gaza, in the…
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Nancy Pelosi, the Leader of the Democratic Party in "the House of Representatives" thunks that What should have been a beautiful and joyous commemoration of Israel’s 70th anniversary was marred by bloodshed and follows that up by saying Israel has a right to defend its…
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One of the loudmouth irrelevancies of the Labour past has been harassing Greg Presland recently on social media alleging issues with something that seems remarkably undefined written on this site. I know Phil Quin moderately well after observing his behaviour during the 90s when I…
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National is not handling losing power very well. The latest evidence is a male National MP calling Jacinda Ardern "a stupid young girl" and refusing to own up to it. Newshub reports: In Parliament last week, while the Prime Minister was speaking, a National Party…
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55 people dead and over 1000 injured, and the the US president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, celebrates the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem to clapping and cheering from American and Israeli VIPs. (The Guardian) Meanwhile, from the White House's Daily Briefing held by Raj Shah.…
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When it comes to Israel, it looks to me like Donald Trump and the US are channeling Sandy Shaw. Let's be clear. As far as the Middle East goes, the USA is finished. Yes, they have their ongoing and lucrative relationship with the region's sponsors…
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There have been ongoing complaints from the left about BBC's editorial independence. You would think that the doyen of world journalism would do its best to make sure that it treated UK politics in a fair and balanced way. But there have been grumblings for…
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National's strategists must be shaking their head. Simon Bridges believes in the power of trickle down, that is the transfer of wealth to the already wealthy in the hope it will then trickle down to the less fortunate. I can't think of a more loaded…
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In possibly the greatest burn since the great fire of London in 1666 the Canterbury Rugby Union at the same time tried to console Israel Folau for being in a team that lost an unloseable game and ridicule his homophobic beliefs. The context was that…
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