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Barak Obama's success in the last US election was in part due to the quality of his opposition. The Tea Party dominated Republican Party was just too scary and extreme. This turned off swinging voters and energised progressive activists for who a Mitt Romney White…
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Who says the 'threatening texts' in the Brown/Slater/Palino came from Brown's camp? Didn't the threatening text push Chuang into the affidavit, after weeks of being pressured by Palino advisor, Wewege? Doesn't that make those texts awful useful for Slater/Palino? Do you believe Palino knew nothing…
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Hi Standardistas. As a proponent of democratic socialism who is influenced by resilient systems thinking, I often find financial sites like marketwatch.com highly informative. On the evening of October 10, the front page stories on marketwatch.com included how NZ Government debt was a superior investment…
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Here's a graph of all the Roy Morgan polls going back to the 2008 election. National led the combined Labour+Green vote for 76 successive polls. But how times have changed. The Left's led 10 of the last 14 polls, and all the last five. With…
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Some Standardistas have pointed out various contradictions in Cameron Slater's continual reworking of his Brown-Chuang story, in the comments below micky savage's post, 'Palino and Slater have to be joking'. In his interviews with journalists, Slater superficially attempts to present himself as a responsible journalist, just following a…
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So let me get this right. Luigi Wewege knows for a while that Bevan Chuang has been involved in an illicit relationship with Len Brown. Luigi Wewege is an aspiring right wing politician who is described as a key member of John Palino's campaign and…
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Last week there was a Fabian debate between Wayne Mapp and Jane Kelsey about the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement that New Zealand started originally as a free trade agreement. Bearing in mind the short notice there were a quite credible audience. However to enhance the audience,…
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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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It's looking pretty shredded. Increasingly, it seems that John Banks has "got nothing to hide" - behind. The key question all along has turned on what John Banks knew when he signed his declaration recording donations from Kim DotCom and Sky City as anonymous. Banks'…
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There is an increasing groundswell of opinion from a number of commentators across the political spectrum that signal Labour will be returned to Government at the 2014 General Election. A question that has yet to be answered is: by how much? And for how long?…
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The first causalty of the Len Brown fiasco has occurred and he is a totally unexepected victim. Senior Reporter at the NBR Jock Anderson has been fired. The background is that he wrote and posted a pro Len Brown editorial, it was removed from the…
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Imagine if cigarette makers gave out free packs to target groups to get them hooked and if you were trying to quit smoking and you had a 'loyalty' card with your cigarette maker then, when they noticed you had stopped making purchases, they sent you…
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Simon Bridges rose to John Banks' defence in today's snap debate in Parliament. For one of National's supposed bright hopes, a leader of the future we are told, I thought he was pretty pathetic. It took him a long time to work out what his…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll has Labour 37%, Green 12.5%, and National down to 41.5%. As Roy Morgan says, this is the closest Labour has been since 2008. Morgan's comment: If a National Election were held now the latest New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll shows…
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So Metiria Turei got thrown out of the Chamber for... what? Calling the government's Sky City deal "sleazy"? Or because she raised a point of Order about it? It arose during the supplementaries for this Question in Question Time today 2. METIRIA TUREI to the Minister for…
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No Right Turn reports on a case that is symptomatic of just how out of control the police in NZ are getting. The response of Wellington's Tactical Policing Unit was both completely disturbing in its use of violence to try to create the type of…
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Bill English praised the Cullen Fund on its 10th anniversary yesterday: "The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is recognised as one of the best-structured sovereign wealth funds in the world". He noted it has achieved an average return of 8.84%, well above its target. He failed…
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John Banks is to stand trial for knowingly submitting a false electoral expenses return. He's charged, thanks to the private prosecution after the Police failed to act, with breaching s134(1) of the Local Electoral Act (National and Banks have since repealed that section, but without…
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We have two politicians in trouble in New Zealand. One is facing two years jail. The other is facing opprobrium for inappropriate moral behaviour ... Of course the politician who breached the moral code is facing the most examination. And there has been extensive analysis…
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The Herald reports today that John Palino's campaign team were up to their eyeballs in the Len Brown dirty digging (or should that be "pantie sniffing") with Bevan Chung releasing evidence that it was a calculated political move. Their response? A whole lot of implausible…
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The decision in the Auckland District Court today that John Banks will stand trial for signing a false declaration of his donations signals the beginning of the end of the Key government which increasingly resembles the last days of the Shipley government, only worse as…
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Judge Gittos has ruled that the private prosecution against John Banks is to proceed. I understand the Judge says that the issue at trial is whether Banks closed his eyes to the obvious and that the evidence shows an apparent intention of Banks to treat…
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Yesterday John Key, some MSM journos and a few Standard commentators were gloating that recently released Census 2013 data showed David Cunliffe was wrong with his statement that: people were fleeing the regions in droves, was incorrect. The NZ Herald reported, that in looking at…
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No-one's happy with the revelations about Len Brown's private life, apart from Slater (himself also an adulterer) who is wallowing in all the details that Chuang seems only too happy to provide. But what's interesting is that this is clearly a political play. Who's behind…
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The Republican majority in the US House of Representatives changed their standing orders to remove the right of any Representative to move that a Senate resolution be adopted. Watch Rep Chris van Hollen explain it here. If his motion was allowed to come to the…