On #Planetkey everyone owns a home
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Date published: 7:39 am, August 10th, 2016 - 16 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, brand key, john key, national, same old national, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: homeless, homeless crisis
In Parliament yesterday John Key showed a clear lack of understanding of what being poor in New Zealand entails.
Leggett in Parkin’s pocket?
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Date published: 9:05 pm, August 9th, 2016 - 12 comments
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Former Councillor Chris Parkin interviewed in Wellington’s DomPost shared his ambitions – investing in property in central Wellington, and getting Porirua mayor Nick Leggett elected in Wellington, of all places. Word has it that large billboards for Leggett around the town have been funded by Parkin. The last thing Wellington needs is a mayor who’s in a property investor’s pocket.
Open mike 10/08/2016
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Daily Review 09/08/2016
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Date published: 6:11 pm, August 9th, 2016 - 6 comments
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Clinton on “trickle down” economics
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Date published: 12:34 pm, August 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
Lefties have been saying it since forever, but it’s nice to have Hillary Clinton on record.
PSA
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Date published: 10:14 am, August 9th, 2016 - 7 comments
Yeah Happy Birthday JK. But – does anyone actually fall for this?
Labour’s Kiwibuild is popular
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Date published: 9:49 am, August 9th, 2016 - 70 comments
More good news for the political left in the fine print of yesterday’s Newshub-Reid Research poll.
John Key’s Lies Since the 2014 Election (UPDATED)
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Date published: 8:03 am, August 9th, 2016 - 18 comments
There is one item on the list concerning whether John Key knew about the brewing trade squabble with China regarding the dumping of cheap steel on the local market.
Why are wages flat?
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 9th, 2016 - 105 comments
The Nats would have you believe that the economy is in good shape, in which case there is no excuse for the ongoing stagnation of wages. Of course it’s not as simple as that.
Open mike 09/08/2016
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Newshub Poll: Key Stuffed
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Date published: 6:50 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 111 comments
The latest Reid Research poll is grim reading for the Nats. Labour and the Greens are closing fast.
Daily Review 08/08/2016
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Date published: 6:04 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 21 comments
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Wahine toa
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Date published: 5:04 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 21 comments
Nanaia Mahuta will tomorrow become the first woman MP to wear the moko in Parliament.
NRT: Calling bullshit on “P-contamination”
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Date published: 2:20 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right Turn writes on meth testing, false positives, and Housing NZ.
Financial capital is crazy OP. Time to strip it back to basics.
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Date published: 12:08 pm, August 8th, 2016 - 72 comments
Financial capital is way over powered in our current political economic system. Every aspect of our lives has been financialised and securitised, from our homes to our educations. From our drinking water to our power supply.
Nats contradicting each other on panicked infrastructure policy
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Date published: 8:40 am, August 8th, 2016 - 29 comments
From Newshub:
Stiglitz on the globalisation revolt
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Date published: 7:54 am, August 8th, 2016 - 69 comments
Globalisation is facing a popular revolt. Economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why.
Open mike 08/08/2016
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The Unitary Plan: Rodney’s Dream
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Date published: 1:45 pm, August 7th, 2016 - 59 comments
Rodney Hide must be sleeping well, because Auckland’s proposed Unitary Plan will deliver all he and his NACT patrons ever hoped for. The Council should reject the Plan in its current form, cherry-pick those aspects consistent with a democratic and liveable city and sheet home the responsibility to those that created the mess.
Happy Birthday WWW
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Date published: 12:05 pm, August 7th, 2016 - 11 comments
Despite being an early adopter I completely failed to spot the potential of the web.
Lefty book reviews: Don’t Buy It
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Date published: 10:00 am, August 7th, 2016 - 96 comments
Cross-posted from Boots Theory. Where to start with Anat Shenker-Osorio’s Don’t Buy It: The Trouble With Talking Nonsense About The Economy? This review seems redundant, because literally every person I’ve encountered in the past year has been subjected to my near-evangelist recommendation of it. I don’t know every lefty in New Zealand (despite what Matthew […]
Foreskin’s lament
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Date published: 9:17 am, August 7th, 2016 - 49 comments
The Waikato Chief’s mad Monday shows that Rugby’s attitude to women are still mired in the past and a threat to New Zealand’s interests, as well as an affront to all women.
Open mike 07/08/2016
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Wasted food and carbon footprint
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Date published: 12:34 pm, August 6th, 2016 - 17 comments
The Italian intiaitive encouraging supermarkets to give unsold food to those in need is a great move. Helps the poor, reduces waste, win win. But it’s just a start. We need to massively change attitudes and behaviour to reduce food waste.
Al Jazeera on NZ homeless – watch it and weep
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Date published: 7:02 am, August 6th, 2016 - 289 comments
Al Jazeera: Once a pioneer of the social welfare state, New Zealand now has over 40,000 people who are homeless, forced to live in their cars and in garages as a result of rapid house price and rent rises and a shortage of social housing. Al Jazeera … charts the country’s fall from and egalitarian society to one with deep divisions of wealth
Open mike 06/08/2016
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Daily Review 05/08/2016
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Date published: 6:00 pm, August 5th, 2016 - 5 comments
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Housing dreams should not be blocked
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Date published: 2:18 pm, August 5th, 2016 - 54 comments
Unions Auckland’s Housing Action Committee is planning to highlight the homeless crisis tomorrow by protesting at a Block NZ’s open home to highlight the absurdity of the current housing market.
Employers failing Kiwsaver obligations
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Date published: 11:40 am, August 5th, 2016 - 35 comments
In a sign of just how stressed our economy is: “Inland Revenue is chasing employers for unpaid KiwiSaver contributions worth tens of millions of dollars.”
Fewer police, more crime
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Date published: 8:56 am, August 5th, 2016 - 39 comments
The number of police (per head of population) is falling, and crime figures are rising. But no doubt National will play the “tough on crime” card again next year.
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- Gallagher Media Statement on Chiefs InvestigationGallagher firmly believes in equal, fair treatment of women and absolutely does not condone any kind of behaviour to the contrary. We understand a full and formal investigation is underway and support the Chiefs management in following due process. ...5 days ago
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