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Daily Review 26/02/2018
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Facebook Bullshit
From Macedonia to the San Fransisco Bay, clickbait political sites are cashing in on Trumpmania - and they're getting a big boost from facebook. - wrote The Guardian back in August 2016. In November 2016, the Washington Post ran with "This is how facebook's fake news…
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Auckland Rail Industrial Action
Thanks to Warren Doney for referring to this in open mike this morning. The importance of the rail system to Auckland is being shown because limited industrial action (working to rule) is resulting in major traffic congestion. As he points out we are only getting…
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Damien Grant thinks National is stuffed
Credit where credit is due. In the past Damien Grant has received some rather negative opinions posted on this site about his articles. For instance he was awarded the doofus of the week award for his weird views about tertiary education. But his latest article…
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Open Mike 26/02/2018
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Why does Criminal Justice have to be so politicised?
Yesterday I posted on Andrew Little wanting a mature discussion about our criminal justice system and where it is heading. The hope was that there would be debate and political consensus for change, because clearly the current system is not working. But judging from the…
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Open Mike 25/02/2018
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Special laws for rich people
This made me laugh. Idiot Savant at No Right Turn reports that Queenstown Lakes District Council wants an exemption on luxury houses from the government's foreign buyers ban. Because no-one in New Zealand can afford to buy those houses, very rich people that live in another…
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Doofus of the week – David Seymour
Hot on the heels on the news that he is going to spend valuable time dancing with the stars David Seymour has engaged in a good old fashioned piece of fat shaming. From Anna Bracewell-Worrall at Stuff: ACT party politician David Seymour has openly fat-shamed…
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Little proposes radical shake up of the Criminal Justice system
Andrew Little is proposing a radical change of approach to the Criminal Justice system. From David Fisher in the Herald: Minister of Justice Andrew Little has laid out a vision for criminal justice reform which sees sentencing law relaxed and a rejection of "tough…
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Joyce stands down as National struggles to find new leader *
In Australia New Zealander of the year finalist Barnaby Joyce has announced that he will be standing down as leader of the National Party. The media frenzy was clearly becoming too much for him. News that his family values were not that good hurt, publication…
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Open Mike 24/02/2018
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Daily Review 23/02/2018
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Arm me with
The Florida school massacre has created a groundswell I hope will result in America being a better place. There is a growing group of politicised young people demanding that things are changed so that they and their friends and other young people in their situation…
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Open Mike 23/02/2018
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Daily Review 22/02/2018
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National’s meh leadership contest
We have entered week two of National's leadership contest. I was heavily involved in the last two Labour leadership campaigns. They were really interesting events, prospective leaders touring the country talking about what drives them to be involved in politics and seeking the support of…
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Climate change is not an accident
https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/966178292847071232 https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/966177523800436736 https://twitter.com/BMHayward/status/966086903077339140 https://twitter.com/NathanJonRoss/status/966115981864067072 https://twitter.com/RGDudley/status/966185493779148802 https://twitter.com/28WordAverage/status/966114929316044801 Meanwhile, https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/966028605724610560 https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/966027263748669440 https://twitter.com/Forest_and_Bird/status/966081764409012224 The 2nd Pacific Climate Change Conference is on Weds - Fri this week. #pccc2018
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Open Mike 22/02/2018
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Daily Review 21/02/2018
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Democratic burn
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It’s Our Future: Complete U-Turn by Labour and NZ First on TPP
Press release via Scoop: __________________________________________________________________ Monday, 19 February 2018, 9:50 am The government are planning to sign the re-branded Trans Pacific Partnership in Chile on March 8th. Then they will begin the ratification process. The TPP might have been re-branded as the CPTPP but it's…
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Hager posts Dirty Politics chapter on Mark Mitchell on web
As a service to the body politic Nicky Hager and the publishers of Dirty Politics have made the chapter of Dirty Politics that deals with Mark Mitchell freely available on the web. It is available here. Hager obviously thinks that it is important for the…
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Open Mike 21/02/2018
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Tax Haven Man in Town
The Lord Mayor of the City of London is visiting New Zealand. Its not Sadiq Khan; Charles Bowman is a PwC partner leading London's financial centre lobby. He's here to talk to business and regulators. He'll no doubt be talking up more deregulation. "Trust Us',…
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Daily Review 20/02/2018
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Poll Watch: Colmar Brunton Poll 2018-2-19
Kia ora koutou and welcome to the second edition of Pollwatch, where I, your host, copy polling into spreadsheets and analyse what its margins of error mean so that you don't have to, and try to share some dispassionate and hopefully objective analysis on trends.…
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The battle of the five political midgets
Two further candidates for National's leadership have been announced. Yesterday Mark Mitchell said he wanted the top job. He botched the announcement though and showed some difficulty counting to two. For his sake I hope it is not reflective of his current support. https://twitter.com/jo_moir/status/965400946523086849 He…
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Us and them – what will Labour do about WINZ?
The Standard author Bill has said in the past that you can tell a lot about a political party by how it uses language especially in regards to us and them (when parties talk about themselves as separate from the rest of us). I was…
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Open Mike 20/02/2018
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