What Possibility a Mid Winter Celebration?
According to the Herald on Sunday, some people aren’t just sitting back waiting for the Chilcot report to be released before deciding what to do. Some people are getting geared up.
TV3 – The Hui – Special report on poverty
TV3’s excellent current affairs show, The Hui (Mihingarangi Forbes) just screened a special report on poverty. What happens to people who are kicked off a benefit?
Matthew Hooton and the Radio New Zealand post
Radio New Zealand recently published a piece penned by well known supporter of the right Matthew Hooton. What has happened to the concept of balance?
Economic Leadership
The Reserve Bank is doing more for New Zealand than the National Government.
Interview with William Black
William Black consented to a rare interview with a young New Zealand local radio host and longtime Standard commenter.
Open mike 15/05/2016
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Take action on tax haven corruption? NZ says – meh
The Nats are all over the place on this, and they’re trashing our reputation in the process.
Competition lapdog a cert to approve newspaper monopoly
“The newspaper market is buggered anyway. I wouldn’t expect we will have any daily newspapers in ten year’s time,” says Brian Gaynor.
Open mike 14/05/2016
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Laundering earnings vs laundering money
When a corporation launders its earnings in a tax haven, it is completely upfront about where the money came from and who it belongs to, which differentiates the activity from “money laundering.”
It Feels Kinda Half Baked.
Maybe you didn’t hear that this week is NZ sign language week…
Fixing the tax haven – what’s the downside?
Fixing our tax haven loopholes is easy but Key won’t act. Why?
What the TTIP teaches us about the TPP
TTIP, TTPA, same game around the globe, a take-over by American corporations, with the rights of the public held in no regard whatsoever.
Open mike 13/05/2016
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It must have been on Planet Key
John Key thinks that he was thrown out of Parliament straight after Helen Clark a few years ago. The only problem is that Hansard thinks it was Don Brash.
Daily Review 12/05/2016
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National Party President selling out?
The $25 million deal prompted considerable curiosity because it involved an off-market purchase of shares from Sanford’s second biggest shareholder, Avalon Investment Trust, which is run by the family of Peter Goodfellow.
75% of group discussion is dominated by men
But how do they achieve that? Watch and Learn The online version is written bullying. The patronising part is the same.
Welsh Assembly.
A post to illustrate how fixed term parliaments work…off the back of some really woeful reportage.
Petition on tax dodging
Break Free 2016
Break Free From Fossil Fuels. There are still events coming up in NZ, including today in Dunedin.
John Key’s dead cat strategy
National is hoping to avoid a proper debate about issues raised by the Panama Papers by raising a series of idiotic diversions.
Land tax – what’s the down side?
The Nats are using spurious data to justify dropping a proposal for a land tax on foreign buyers of housing. Why?
Open mike 12/05/2016
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Daily Review 11/05/2016
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Key thrown out of Parliament
John Key was given his marching order from the House today for repeatedly disobeying the speaker.
Talley’s don’t want you to read this
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions has just launched its new digital campaigning site – Together
And their first campaign is focused on Talley’s
Silencing scientists integral to National’s anti-science DNA
“It’s gone too far. The spin and message control has got stronger. They are less willing to put scientists out there to talk to the public because of the inability to control the message” – Shaun Hendy.
Fairfax and NZME and merger talks on
As previously discussed here, bad for the media, bad for democracy.
Key lashes out with the smears over tax haven status
Key was disgraceful in parliament yesterday, doing his buffoon act to try and trivialise the tax haven issue, and lashing out with the smears.
Random impertinent question: Why did Cameron get diversion?
Why did the police offer Cameron Slater the soft option of diversion when he doesn’t qualify?
Random impertinent question: Did Cameron breach his own name suppression order?
Has Cameron Slater created legal history by being a party to the breach of his own name suppression order?
Hickey on Housing data
“Mr Hickey said the actual figure for foreigners buying homes here could be anywhere between 3 and 48 percent.”
Open mike 11/05/2016
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Daily Review 10/05/2016
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I don’t “own” The Standard
Can I point out to the media, Cameron Slater, and for that matter the legal dimwits at the West Auckland site Lauda Finem. I don’t own The Standard. I haven’t even owned the domain name for more than 6 years. I used to own the domain up until 2010. But that was signed over in that year to be the property of The Standard Trust.