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Date published: 9:26 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 33 comments
There’s a lot of it around. The Democrats and their media and spook allies are in a complete lather over Putin’s supposed personal influence in the US election. Confident of victory and its spoils up till midday on election day, the Clinton team are incapable of assessing just what a debacle of a campaign they ran, still less what they need to do now. Lessons abound.
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Date published: 2:14 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 16 comments
One of the claims made by Edward Snowden was that there were no effective channels in the NSA to whistle blow to. This claim appears to have been spectacularly validated thursday with a POGO report that the NSA’s Inspector General, its final whistleblower protector, has been suspended for retaliating against another whistleblower.
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Date published: 1:17 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 96 comments
Donald Trump’s telephone call with the Taiwanese president has created a response which it seems clear he did not anticipate.
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Date published: 8:36 am, December 17th, 2016 - 76 comments
Apparently it’s “getting homeless people into homes”. Given the ongoing explosion of homelessness, just think how much scope she has to make herself proud next year…
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 17th, 2016 - 164 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 16th, 2016 - 18 comments
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Date published: 3:09 pm, December 16th, 2016 - 31 comments
A scapegoat for the failure of the Nats’ first “social bonds” programme has been found. Turns out it was the fault of government officials! Shocker!
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Date published: 11:13 am, December 16th, 2016 - 96 comments
Andrew Little has undertaken a minor reshuffle of the Labour caucus.
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Date published: 8:30 am, December 16th, 2016 - 44 comments
Current governance structures for our cities that rely on corporate management are proving to be ineffective and are not delivering the sort of result our democracy needs.
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Date published: 7:37 am, December 16th, 2016 - 198 comments
The English honeymoon came to an abrupt end yesterday as the new PM copped an earful in Kaikoura. And bad goes to worse as Brownlee loses his rag (again). Key would have handled it better.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 16th, 2016 - 208 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 15th, 2016 - 93 comments
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Date published: 3:27 pm, December 15th, 2016 - 26 comments
Murray McCully has announced that he too is standing down from politics at the next election and his removal as a Minister this week appears almost inevitable.
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Date published: 12:06 pm, December 15th, 2016 - 97 comments
3 stories from Checkpoint yesterday that add up to a picture of National’s response to housing: waste on unacceptable temporary housing; empty state houses where they’re needed most; and vilify anyone who dares complain.
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Date published: 9:58 am, December 15th, 2016 - 53 comments
In March the Nats were still rejecting the idea of a crackdown on multinational companies’ tax avoidance. But there has been – in large part due to the work of Matt Nippert in The Herald – a partial back-down. Another Labour policy adopted!
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Date published: 8:51 am, December 15th, 2016 - 240 comments
Jay Kuten writing in the Wanganui Chronicle: “Most of these folks couldn’t reliably run a bath.”
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 15th, 2016 - 112 comments
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Date published: 7:32 pm, December 14th, 2016 - 5 comments
NoRightTurn: The police’s illegal raid on Nicky Hager’s home has got even more expensive
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Date published: 3:14 pm, December 14th, 2016 - 39 comments
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Date published: 3:09 pm, December 14th, 2016 - 41 comments
Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga has announced that he will stand down from Parliament at the end of the current term. He will be a loss to National.
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Date published: 8:17 am, December 14th, 2016 - 88 comments
A depressing feature in The Herald this morning explores the exploitation of migrant workers. The same pattern as the private sector’s treatment of foreign students. This paints a shameful picture of New Zealand. Greed has made us forget who we were.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 14th, 2016 - 288 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 13th, 2016 - 32 comments
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Date published: 3:47 pm, December 13th, 2016 - 48 comments
The Pike River families have presented expert reports at Parliament today to establish the mine is safe to re-enter.
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Date published: 12:48 pm, December 13th, 2016 - 205 comments
Andrew Little talks about what a Bill English leadership may look like. John Key promised to lift up the underclass, to fix the housing crisis, and to close the wage gap with Australia but failed. Will English be the same?
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Date published: 12:47 pm, December 13th, 2016 - 29 comments
Could be that the Auckland property market is turning downwards.
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Date published: 8:04 am, December 13th, 2016 - 264 comments
The 2016 Child Poverty Monitor Technical Report is out today. As usual it paints a bleak picture. What will Bill English’s government do about poverty – evasions, words, or actions? Update: Bill fails.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 13th, 2016 - 88 comments
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Date published: 7:25 pm, December 12th, 2016 - 76 comments
Bill English tells the families he’ll meet them “later”. They’ve waited for justice for six years. It’s always “later”.
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