NRT: Urgency for abuse
I/S at No Right Turn: “The House has just gone into urgency for two key (for the government) bills – the first to punish retroactively people who have already been punished, the second to steal from the poor.”
More Rawshark Rachinger Slater stuff
Keith Ng has been wading through some not-previously-released material on the Rawshark Rachinger Slater affair. No useful way to summarise it – go read it on Keith’s blog.
Labour fundraising
Removing Beneficiary rights retrospectively
There is a suggestion that the Government may move to retrospectively take away the rights of beneficiaries and former beneficiaries to claim for benefits properly owing to them.
Paris as an excuse for more useless surveillance
The Paris attacks are being used as an excuse for another ill informed debate about surveillance and encryption – which doesn’t address the communication channels that terrorists are actually using. The tools that our governments want can be used very effectively to spy on you and me though (as Key effectively acknowledges in passing).
Open mike 17/11/2015
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Daily Review 16/11/2015
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Death throes of journalism at TV3
Spinoff has the story.
A Government of spin redux
The Herald has withdrawn a story that reported on Government pressure on the ERO to rewrite a report after what appears to be pressure from the Government to do so.
Last day to support Scoop
It is the last day of Scoop’s fundraising campaign at PledgeMe, and they are less than $1,000 from their goal. Why not help them over the line?…
Paris 3 – common sense from Democrats
The fallout from the Paris attacks continues. The American political reaction is as important as it is predicable.
Open mike 16/11/2015
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The Tide is High
I’m pleased about the Roy Morgan result. The last RWC was worth 2-3% in the polls to National. This RWC … nothing. And in the days since that poll, John Key has overseen an astonishing attack on the women of Parliament. I think we’ve reached Peak Key.
Scoop’s second Hager document release
Scoop has released a second collection of documents from the Hager v Attorney General case. Among them is comment by a former Police Commissioner expressing surprise at the amount of resources put into the case and the involvement of a senior member of the Police Executive.
Slack on our craven human rights record
David Slack is on fire this morning with his take on our craven human rights record – in the form of imagined NCEA questions.
Paris 2
From Hollande’s reaction it seems likely that the terrorists will accomplish their goal.
Open mike 15/11/2015
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Roy Morgan says…National governs alone, again.
National on 49%, GR + LAB 41.5%. Government confidence rating up 9.5 to 131.5.
Paris
Hopefully not ushering the beginning of the end for the European public’s recent empathy for refugees.
A government of spin
Two recent articles suggest that this Government is more interested in spin and PR than in achieving good. And one of the articles previously posted in the Herald has mysteriously disappeared.
NZ Herald: Damning report rewritten after ‘war-room’ meeting
The Herald seems to have accidentally deleted the online version of yesterday’s big story from Kirsty Johnson on how the government manipulates media perceptions. However could that have happened?
Open mike 14/11/2015
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Daily Review 13/11/2015
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Power Corruption and Lies
A National List MP has been snapped trying to heavy the Housing Ministry into funding a lift in her personal profile. Remember John Key’s ‘higher standards in Government’? Nick Smith’s Ministerial office apparently doesn’t care too much about about such trifles. Worse, the Housing Ministry has been caught trying to cover up for the Tories by redacting an OIA request. Here’s your Brighter Future, folks. Enjoy.
Petition: It’s Not OK Prime Minister
This petition at ActionStation is closing in on 5,000 signatures.
Groser flips the bird to the Judiciary and NZ Laws
The Law? That’s not for Cabinet Members, the Law is for the lazy malcontents who don’t want to work hard.
TPPA national day of action
Saturday November 14 is a national day of action against the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement. Details of all protests are set out in the post.
New Zealanders who may have committed horrendous crimes, such as murder and sex offences – I’ve still been standing up for them and getting them a better deal.
You won’t believe this Herald hack’s hilarious homophobia!
Really Fran?
Open mike 13/11/2015
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Making the Opposition the Enemy –
It takes fortitude to admit you are wrong. That’s right, not weakness but, strength, courage, resilience, grit, determination, endurance, guts, and staying power. When you won’t admit you are wrong you end up having to justify wrong decisions. That takes time and energy (and money) away from what actually needs to be done for the greater good. John Key won’t admit he is wrong. Because of this he has to keep going down several paths of “wrongness”, and because he is Prime MInister, he is taking us all with him. Some people think he does admit he made mistakes. But when you examine the few instances closer (if you can find them), it looks like something else.
Daily Review 12/11/2015
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Social media disasters – Paula Bennett tweets
The first of what may be an ongoing series of posts where social media interaction by Politicians ends in disaster.
When survivors speak out
Previously posted at Boots Theory. Content note: discussion of sexual violence and the experience of survivors. Yesterday I did a round-up of the […]
EPA to be gutted – for doing its job
Looks like National is planning to take over the Environmental Protection Agency.
Who would James Bond vote for?
Ad poses the theoretical question of which political party the current James Bond would support.