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Open mike 08/10/2014
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NRT: A surprise policy
Reposted from No Right Turn Remember National's social housing policy? The one they campaigned on? The one that talked about how much money they were spending and was all about upgrading and investing in state houses? Somehow, post-election, its transmogrified into selling off a third…
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Defend Nicky Hager
We can contribute to his defence fund here. It's one way to help - this is going to be a long fight.
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Labour Day essay competition (Southern)
The Inaugural Labour Day Celebratory Essay Competition 2014 may be of interest to potential entrants in the stated age group within your social and family networks. Please feel free to share the information below and encourage participation in this essay competition. Please note that because…
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Jason Ede located
It's uncanny...
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How far will the harassment of Hager go?
Yesterday Nicky Hager released a statement which began: Statement by Nicky Hager on police seizing property On Thursday, 2 October, five police arrived at my home with a warrant to search and seize property. I was in Auckland at the time for two days of…
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Two tier strategy on spying
As described in Hager's Dirty Politics, the Nats run a very successful "two tier" communications strategy. Key is Mr nice and blokey, Key's people run the vicious dirty politics stuff. It's a stunningly successful formula. Key ditching responsibility for the GCSB and SIS, and adopting…
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Open mike 07/10/2014
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About those other police complaints …
So the police has raided Nicky Hager's home seeking information that may lead to the discovery of who Rawshark is. The investigation is obviously very politically charged as the raid could have a chilling effect on journalists investigating the Government using information which may have been…
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Police raid Hager
Update: Nicky Hager's statement is here. Breaking... https://twitter.com/mizjwilliams/status/518957442772660224 https://twitter.com/pitakakariki/status/518957876929261568 https://twitter.com/radioovermoscow/status/518958883310555136 https://twitter.com/norightturnnz/status/518959605594869760 https://twitter.com/keith_ng/status/518961122418765824
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On Navel Gazing and Looking Out.
The British Labour Party isn’t so dissimilar to the NZ Labour Party. Both have embraced or accommodated neo-classical economic orthodoxy to various degrees at various junctures, these past 30 years . Both have had fairly extended periods in government pursuing ‘third way’ policies associated with…
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Auckland power outages
Well the power just went out at work at 1315. Looks like the Auckland is getting the rolling outages as they repair the Penrose systems. The main TS server in Grey Lynn appears to be unaffected at present, as does the subsidiary one that doesn't…
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Polity: National’s new ministry: Key fires himself!
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The long reach of “5 Eyes”: re-post
With Chris Finlayson just announced as minister in charge of the NZ Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) and minister responsible for the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), working closely with Key in the prime minister's new role as minister for national security and intelligence. I thought it…
accountability business democracy under attack same old national Spying us politics
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Mediawatch on the media orgy
RNZ's Mediawatch is a bright spot in the media wilderness! This weekend's episode examined the media's orgy of hyperbole and spin on the Labour leadership contest. Also featuring censorship of satire during the election campaign. Well worth a listen: http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mwatch/mwatch-20141005-0907-mediawatch_for_5_october_2014-048.mp3 Update: Link above doesn't seem…
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Starving the universities
We desperately need governments that think long term. We don't get them. National are the worst, the stupidity of their policy, economically, environmentally and socially, makes me despair. How stupid do you have to be, for example, to run down the university sector? Professor Harlene…
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Open mike 06/10/2014
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