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Open mike 19/10/2013
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Palino and Slater have to be joking
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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TPPA: Kelsey vs Mapp debate
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 18/10/2013
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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The “cabbage boat” defence.
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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Note to Labour leader: Rudimentary thoughts I
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 NBR and Editorial Independence
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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Stopping casinos hurting our communities
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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Open mike 18/10/2013
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Bridges over troubled waters
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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Roy Morgan – easy win for Labour/Greens?
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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Point of order, Mr Speaker!
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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NRT: More police crime
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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Double Dipton’s doublethink
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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The two legs of Banks’ defence trip each other
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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In defence of Bevan Chuang
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 sick state of the right
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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Open mike 17/10/2013
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The fish rots from the head
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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John Banks to stand trial
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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Making sense of the census: regional decline
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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What’s the play?
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 Land of the Free
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…
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Operation 8: Te Putatara
As the resulting court battles die away and the suppression orders lift, the level of sheer dumb stupidity and outright silly paranoia of the police and other agencies involved in Operation 8 becomes clearer. It is time to start examining the fools amongst the officers…
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The attack on Auckland’s Democracy
OK Len has been a silly boy. He is not the first middle aged man to do something really stupid and he will not be the last. I hope that his family recover and wish them all aroha to deal with a situation that is…
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Where did Mighty River get that spare $50m?
So, Mighty River Power has so much spare cash at the moment that it just doesn't know what to do with it. Rather than pay out a special dividend, they're going to buy back some shares (it's more 'tax-efficient' than dividends, because it allows investors…
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Open mike 16/10/2013
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Why drop on Len today?
Len's acknowledged affair can't have been a secret until today - there are apparently affidavits involved. It can't have been about affecting the campaign for mayor - otherwise the Slaters, dad and boy, would have dropped it well in advance of the election date. I'm…
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Dotcom on what Banks knew
The District Court is hearing evidence in Auckland today as to whether John Banks should stand trial for signing a donations return that he knew to be false. Kim Dotcom has given evidence - the Herald reports that when he agreed to give Banks a…
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This is how it’s done
Cunliffe shows yet again that he knows how to front the media on current issues, and can respond to journalists questions clearly and decisively while being informed on the issues. Scoop youtube video of Cunliffe stand-up in Parliament corridors - presumably today because he talks…
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