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Date published: 9:38 am, January 12th, 2017 - 41 comments
You have to say he is not afraid to take on the heavy mob. A very direct attack on Big Pharma – a US version of Pharmac? A very direct attack on the armaments industry’s star program the F-35 fighter-bomber and its cost overruns. Then there is the intelligence community and the mainstream news media. Read the transcript for yourself.
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Date published: 8:41 am, January 12th, 2017 - 76 comments
Just remember that
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2017 - 109 comments
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Date published: 7:19 pm, January 11th, 2017 - 94 comments
Tired of jokes about Trump and golden showers? Want to read a real political speech? Well here is the text to Barak Obama’s last political speech as POTUS.
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Date published: 10:39 am, January 11th, 2017 - 114 comments
The Taxpayer’s Union has shown a concerning inability to comprehend in its criticism of MFAT for supporting an aid initiative to address malnutrition in Africa.
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Date published: 8:57 am, January 11th, 2017 - 44 comments
I/S at No Right turn writes on Revenue Minister Collins’ denial of obvious tax avoidance.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 11th, 2017 - 290 comments
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Date published: 3:33 pm, January 10th, 2017 - 124 comments
And a return to the politics of division by Blinglish…
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Date published: 11:03 am, January 10th, 2017 - 17 comments
Mike Pompey is Donald Trump’s chosen head for the CIA. He is someone who believes in the mass collection of all metadata and combining it with all publicly available information. Are we going to see the unprecedented destruction of rights of privacy?
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Date published: 10:21 am, January 10th, 2017 - 12 comments
Already sky-high Auckland rents are set to rise further.
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Date published: 8:30 am, January 10th, 2017 - 71 comments
Bill English has used a proposal for timing of his Waitangi speech to wrongly claim that he is being silenced. And most of the media bought it.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 10th, 2017 - 144 comments
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Date published: 10:47 pm, January 9th, 2017 - 127 comments
It is MAD. In the frenzy leading up to Trump’s inauguration, we have the extraordinary spectacle of the CIA interfering in the US election by accusing the Russians of interfering in the same election. The CIA used only to interfere in other people’s elections. On the serious side this intervention means the war party hasn’t given up yet, no matter what Trump may say.
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Date published: 10:48 am, January 9th, 2017 - 13 comments
As long predicted and widely reported, 2016 has been confirmed as the hottest year ever. Watch the NIWA stream on the situation in NZ, live at 11am.
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Date published: 9:07 am, January 9th, 2017 - 191 comments
I don’t think it does a PM any harm to shut up and listen for a change instead of talking, but this does not seem to be possible for the Nats.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 9th, 2017 - 119 comments
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Date published: 8:24 pm, January 8th, 2017 - 163 comments
The Advertising Standards Authority rejects all 12 complaints about the ad, including one from Dairy NZ.
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Date published: 9:00 am, January 8th, 2017 - 79 comments
The implications for the world of Donald Trump’s forthcoming ascendancy to the office of President of the United States.
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Date published: 8:00 am, January 8th, 2017 - 222 comments
In the space of a day Wikileaks managed to complain about another entity leaking information, threaten to dox pretty well every reporter, delete the tweet and then sound like Donald Trump.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 8th, 2017 - 142 comments
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Date published: 12:59 pm, January 7th, 2017 - 155 comments
In all seriousness. Apparently.
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Date published: 10:43 am, January 7th, 2017 - 51 comments
St Johns is one of the first organisations to use new Industrial powers brought in by the Government and is attempting to refuse to negotiate with First Union and is docking workers pay for wearing a campaign t-shirt.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 7th, 2017 - 122 comments
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Date published: 11:07 am, January 6th, 2017 - 29 comments
In Australia the Turnbull Government is implementing a policy that will demand in 12 months at least 200,000 Australians repay benefits they were entitled to because of faulty data mapping.
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Date published: 8:30 am, January 6th, 2017 - 11 comments
Robert Guyton deserves many thanks for the series of posts he recently wrote for the Standard.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 6th, 2017 - 165 comments
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Date published: 2:23 pm, January 5th, 2017 - 84 comments
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a free trip to the landfill and a subscription to the end of the world as we know it.
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Date published: 11:03 am, January 5th, 2017 - 155 comments
Peter Leitch has hired Michelle Boag to deal with publicity issues caused by his comment that Waiheke is a white man’s island. She has not helped.
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Date published: 6:12 am, January 5th, 2017 - 31 comments
We’re taking some time out for the holidays. Hope you are able to do the same – enjoy! Open Mike will continue, but other posting will be low volume if at all.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 5th, 2017 - 125 comments
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Date published: 11:32 am, January 4th, 2017 - 188 comments
What have we become?
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