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International, cronyist, corporate capitalism skews democratic processes in NZ, making it harder for the majority of battling Kiwis to get a fair go - harder to ensure all New Zealanders live in a society that works for them. And in such a society, it's hardest…
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Just a wee list to try and keep track of the current scandals our dear friends in the National party are dealing with: Judith's milk problem (why does the self-styled 'Crusher' keep hiding from any parliamentary debate?) Amy's farming difficulty National Party families at the…
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So the latest from National is Judith Collins 'promoting' her husband's company and Amy Adams promoting the interests of river-polluting Canterbury dairy farms when she herself owns Canterbury dairy farms. Naturally, neither minister can see any problem with this and so the take-home message from…
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The continuing revelations coming from Edward Snowden have revealed that internationally linked state surveillance, dominated by the US NSA (National Security Agency) has become intensive, pervasive, and somewhat devious. This is to be expected in the shadowy world of state run espionage. Some of this…
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If Judith Collins' difficulties with endorsing promoting while overseas on a Ministerial Trip the products of a firm of which her husband is a director and which has given significant amounts of money to the National Party was bad enough there is breaking news which…
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No Right Turn as usual was correct and John Key was wrong. The original of this post is here. Last week I argued strongly that we needed full transparency over Cabinet Office advice on ministers' conflicts of interest, because we couldn't trust the Prime Minister to…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Let me explain. There has been no breach of Cabinet rules. This has been confirmed by the Cabinet Office. Not the real…
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Rob Salmond at Polity sharpened the needle for John Key here The Orivida mess smells worse by the day for National. Yesterday, it turned out the Cabinet Office's advice clearing Judith Collins of any wrongdoing had failed to even look at the most important piece…
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Of course it could be that John Key announced the election yesterday to divert attention from the press release from Treasury today. The deficit was $637 million dollars bigger than expected. In fact it was more than double the expected size. Why? Well mostly because of…
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Rob Salmond at Polity has a look at why National surprisingly announced the election date yesterday. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that it was a deflection from something. Rob thinks that National was worried about where a look at donations to National's campaign…
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Just at present I'm particularly interested in adding union sites with RSS feeds to our feeds. But it is somewhat irritating. Many of the sites don't have a RSS feed. They should have one. RSS (Rich Site Summary); originally RDF Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple Syndication, uses a…
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This is a re-post from here at No Right Turn NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gave evidence to the European Parliament last week about the NSA and mass-surveillance. The most interesting revelation? The NSA's use of lawyers to subvert other countries limits on surveillance - including our own:…
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‘ALLO, ALLO, ALLO, ALLO’ -By Senior Reporter Susan Nact STARRING CAMERON SLATER AS RENE AND JUDITH COLLINS AS EDITH. In this preview we bring you Episode Two of the new tv drama show “allo, allo, allo allo”, based on the TV series “Allo, Allo” from…
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I’ll keep this short and simple. There is an independence referendum in Scotland on September the 18th. After that date, there may be a change to the Union Jack of 1801. The reason there may be a change is that the flag is seen by…
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Just over three years ago, on February 2 to be precise, John Key announced that the date of the 2011 election would be November 26, 2011. At the time he said: "I believe it is in the country's best interests to know the date of…
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John Key has just announced the election date: September 20. Quite early, but the media has been being primed for the last 6 weeks, so won't see this as National being scared of dipping support, no claims of instability or going back to voters 'too…
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So, it’s emerging that the snipers who shot and killed 94 people in Kiev immediately prior to Viktor Yanukovych fleeing the Ukraine, may have been hired by elements within the Maidan movement. (Both police and protesters, it is being claimed, were shot by the same…
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David Cunliffe announced yesterday Labour's intention to introduce a digital bill of rights which will establish four basic rights for people. There were four aspects mentioned: Guaranteed access to the internet by New Zealand citizens. The right to protection from mass surveillance and the digital…
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Truth to Power: serving the public interest A 4th Estate media should be, in Hagar's terms, serving the public interest, informing the public on crucial issues. This often means speaking truth to power on behalf of the less powerful section of the public. There are…
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Sheila Holt, in the UK, is in a coma for 2 months. She has also just been invited to "intensive job-focused activity" by the Dept of Work & Pensions. She's suffered severe bipolar disorder since childhood and hasn't been in paid employment since 16. Despite her…
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My brother has posted across at Red Alert on Steven Joyce’s bungling oversight of AgResearch’s current $100 million restructure. The Crown Research Institute is New Zealand’s largest, and a recipient of generous Government support. Andy West, the former head of AgResearch stands to gain as…
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Is David Cunliffe really that much of an enigma? I guess one of the problems for the right/ media about banging on with questions about "who is David Cunliffe" and the ‘enigma’ of Cunliffe is that you might actually get an answer to your question.…
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Last week when Patrick Gower went on about David Cunliffe last year failing to declare a personal trust in time while he awaited the official opinion on whether he had to (along with a number of other unmentioned MPs), I thought things were getting a…
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The reason we know about John Key's Antoine's dinner donations was that they were grouped into a single donation that had to be declared. Not that we know who all the individual donors are: they're hidden behind the dinner loophole. But what about all the…
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The recent distractions over funding and trusts etc are just that, filibusters. Key/National are working very hard to emphasise this sideshow stuff. If they can just keeeep talking until the election they figure they'll have the election in the bag. They will do absolutely anything…