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Slane: National’s clubs
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Live long and prosper
Sorry to hear today of the passing of Leonard Nimoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk6Y79vduEE
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Nats laundering donations (as ever)
Who owns your local Nat MP? You're supposed to be able to find out who donated to them, but in most cases you can't: Loophole: National Party donors stay secret An analysis of electoral finance declarations shows more than 80 per cent of donations to…
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Open mike 28/02/2015
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Weekend social 27/02/2015
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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Winston: We Will Fight Them on The Beaches of Northland!
NZ First leader Winston Peters has confirmed he will contest the Northland by-election. Labour has already selected Willow-Jean Prime as its candidate and National will confirm their nominee to replace Mike Sabin in a few days time. ACT will also stand a candidate, but, frankly,…
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Labour’s new president
From the Labour Party: "Nigel Haworth has been elected as Labour Party President following a vote conducted among the constituent organisations and elected representatives of the Party. This follows the resignation of Moira Coatsworth in December 2014. Nigel previously served on the Party's NZ Council…
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Politician salary rises and the minimum wage increase
My tourettes has been playing up again. Every time I have seen John Key recently I have had this overwhelming urge to swear. It usually manifests itself by the urge to repeat two words, the first starting with "f" and the second one being "liar". Clearly…
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Public support for the Iraq deployment (In which the insightful and knowledgable Mike Hosking springs to the defence of the embattled PM!)
Poor John Key. Unable to get support in Parliament for his military misadventure. Assailed on all sides by politicians and critics who prefer an independent foreign policy to slavishly following America into another ill defined war. Damned by his own words, we're going so as…
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Open mike 27/02/2015
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John Key channels Clarke and Dawe
From yesterday's General Debate: http://youtu.be/OeCTj2Ursc8
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NRT: John Key on MP’s pay rises
John Key has said today that he urged the Remuneration Authority not to give MPs a salary increase. Get that feeling of deja vu? Idiot Savant at No Right Turn explains why. Most MPs resigned to their 1.4pc pay rise, Dominion Post, 25 December 2010:…
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Andrew Little; leadership, loyalty and lasting the distance.
Its 100 days since the NZ Labour Party elected Andrew Little as its leader. What an inspired decision that has turned out to be! Little has galvanised the party, united the caucus and given John Key some serious opposition for the first time since Helen…
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Obama vetos Keystone pipeline
The Keystone pipeline would have been bad news for the environment: Keystone Pipeline Will Impact Climate Change, State Department Reports ...So the State Department has dug more deeply into the issue of greenhouse gases (pdf) as well and announced today that the Keystone XL pipeline…
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All the best Helen Kelly
Oh No. Union boss: I've never smoked and I've got lung cancer The head of the Council of Trade Unions has confirmed she has lung cancer. In an email to union delegates, Helen Kelly says she is undergoing further tests to determine the extent and…
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Get some guts
After the formal speeches on the Iraq deployment John Key set off on an extraordinary spittle-flecked rant against Labour. Watch it if you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1-UiUOjmE It ends with Key telling Little to "get some guts" (something that armchair generals are well known for of course).…
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Petition – Not In My Name
A petition to oppose sending troops to Iraq has gained over 9,000 signatures in its first 24 hours. You can sign the petition here. Tell John Key that he may be deciding to send troops to Iraq on your behalf, but he is not acting…
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Open mike 26/02/2015
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Carmel stood down for possible conflict of interest
From RadioNZ The Labour Party has stood down its social development spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni - following charges of benefit fraud being laid against her mother. Labour Party leader Andrew Little said the charges against her mother meant Ms Sepuloni had a conflict of interest in…
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The Continuing Fight for Justice at Pike River
Yesterday the families lost only a small bit of the battle for justice at Pike in an application to get some of the documentation relating to the decision to dismiss the charges against Peter Whittall relating to the Pike River Mine explosion. Most of the documents…
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Polity: Excluded middle
Reposted from Polity The National counterattack line on Iraq is now out and about - courtesy of DPF. It has two parts: Labour would have done exactly the same as National; and Labour are for doing nothing at all First, of course, those statements cannot…
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National’s electoral returns and the Donghua Liu donation
National has been busy constructing a story around recent news concerning Donghua Liu's donation of $25,000. The proposition is that John Key went to Donghua Liu's place for dinner, that Liu then gave a significant donation but it was not to the party or to Liu's BFF Maurice Williamson…
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Three speeches on going to war
The first three speeches from yesterdays session in Parliament on sending troops to Iraq - John Key, Andrew Little, Russel Norman. Little's speech is cogent, Norman's is brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhL1h6FFxRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSQSCMTqZQE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bn6J7G6gQ Russel Norman (0:26): We're going to supposedly defend democracy in the Middle East, but…
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NZ Banks are very worried…
New Zealand banks (which are really Australian banks) are REALLY worried (for themselves, oh and for us too). KPMG is reporting that NZ (read Australia) bank executives are scared for themselves due to the high rate of cashed up property buying foreigners gobbling up land…
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Open mike 25/02/2015
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Key’s Plazatoro guts
John Key's frothing exhortation to Andrew Little in Parliament to "get some guts" reminds one of opera's famous Duke of Plazatoro "who led his regiment from behind, he found it less exciting." Key's not going to Iraq - our soldiers are the ones in danger.…
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The price of the club?
Back in 2003, John Key had an interesting take on whether it was appropriate to send troops to Iraq: he seemed to think the only factor to consider was whether we got a free trade agreement out of it. [Content note: graphic images] http://youtu.be/zpIXgJ7r2vU From…
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ISIS. Crowdsourcing a solution.
Kiwi troops are going to help in the fight against ISIS. We will apparently be part of an ANZAC training group upskilling Iraqi soldiers. No doubt the SAS will also be involved as, at the very least, protection for the ground forces. There is a…
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National’s fruit flies
Brook Sabin pulls no punches laying the blame for the fruit fly outbreak at National's feet: Opinion: National to blame for fruit fly outbreak ... This is the fifth time flies have got across the border under National. ... It is no coincidence this has…
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Open mike 24/02/2015
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