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When I first heard a labour staffer had accidentally sent Amy Adams' office a document on ICT my first thought was "here we go again." But then I heard Adams' weird and defensive interview on Checkpoint. So I took a look at the actual paper…
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No Right Turn succinctly points out the impact of the International Monetary Fund changing its mind on the adverse effects of inequality in the economic sphere. A case of an accumulation of facts overriding dumb ideology. We've known for a while that inequality is bad…
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Colin Craig has announced that he has commenced proceedings against Russel Norman, or at least I think this is what he has done. From his press release: Craig Continues Push for Honesty Colin Craig today advised that the defamation claim against Russell Norman will be…
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Looking back at the 1980s from the second decade of the 21st century, NZ's bold nuclear free stance seems like a bit of an illusion, or at best, a temporary bright spot. Two news items this week have NZ looking like a client state of…
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Rob Salmond at Polity points to the right wing publicists who pose as independents, set up publicity shells for nutters, and who seem to make outright lying their hallmark. Perhaps it is time that journalists start describing them as they are rather than quoting them…
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John Key is attacking David Cunliffe for using a trust to obscure some donations - whilst repeating the word 'tricky' about Cunliffe as many times in one sound-bite as humanly possible. It's an astonishingly brazen stone to throw given National's glass house. Do no reporters…
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I commented a few weeks back that I’d become bemused by Mark Ames commentaries on Snowdon and the NSA leaks. The reason I became bemused was because Ames used to write stuff I considered informative and worth reading. Now, it seems, he’s on a mad…
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The Taxpayer's Union is one of the first astroturfing organisations we have seen in Aotearoa. Nominally independent it has as its members the Government's chief blogger, and is based in the law firm of Franks & Ogilvie whose partners include former ACT and National candidate…
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