Property porn vs. reality
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Date published: 8:46 am, April 10th, 2017 - 41 comments
Categories: class war, economy, housing
Tags: build some houses, housing, housing crisis, liam dann, property porn
Sick of the property porn on the Stuff and Herald websites? It was refreshing to read the truth for a change.
Bid for Helen (for Women’s Refuge)
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Date published: 9:39 am, April 10th, 2017 - 4 comments
A rescued portrait of Helen Clark is raising money for Women’s Refuge via TradeMe.
Mediawatch on Hit and Run
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Date published: 9:17 am, April 10th, 2017 - 38 comments
“Has the meaning of book Hit and Run been obscured by all the claims and counter-claims in the media?” – Yes of course it has, and that is a deliberate strategy on the part of people who are desperate to avoid an inquiry.
Open Mike 10/04/2017
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Syria sarin capitalism and war
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Date published: 10:34 am, April 9th, 2017 - 47 comments
The dirty truth behind many of the wars that our political / media world gets itself so excited about is that they wouldn’t be happening without the arms that we (the “western” world) sell so copiously.
RNZ: The 9th floor – Palmer
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Date published: 9:01 am, April 9th, 2017 - 48 comments
On RNZ Guyon Espiner is running what will be a fascinating series, The 9th Floor, consisting of interviews with five ex NZ PMs. First up on Friday was Sir Geoffrey Palmer, “reflecting on the revolutionary fourth Labour government and his year as one of its three Prime Ministers”.
National’s Filipino campaign
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Date published: 8:11 am, April 9th, 2017 - 28 comments
National’s New Lynn candidate Paulo Garcia appears to be receiving campaigning assistance from the Philippine Ambassador for New Zealand. Is this appropriate?
Open Mike 09/04/2017
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National’s response to the Syria attack
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Date published: 8:06 am, April 8th, 2017 - 56 comments
Unlike the Australian and United Kingdom Governments’ response to the American attack has been muted and confused. Is this just the nature of anything that Bill English says or is it an attempt to assess public opinion before responding?
Green Party criticises US strike on Syria
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Date published: 7:08 am, April 8th, 2017 - 138 comments
“We expect and deserve cooler heads than this from our global leaders.”
Open Mike 08/04/2017
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Daily Review 07/04/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 7th, 2017 - 18 comments
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World War?
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Date published: 1:39 pm, April 7th, 2017 - 219 comments
Well…don’t know about you, but I’m feeling like I want to throw up.
MSD and our privacy
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Date published: 11:36 am, April 7th, 2017 - 16 comments
National’s plans for our privacy and access to social services are a perfect cocktail of over-reach and incompetence.
Dirty Politics done in the Netsafe style – part 3
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Date published: 10:17 am, April 7th, 2017 - 24 comments
No further information from either Netsafe or the complainant. I can’t proceed any further apart from writing explicit site HDCA instructions. The Daily Blog has had the samehappen, with an attempt to gag any public debate on their actions by Netsafe. Amy Adams has hurriedly issued a press release saying how wonderful the HDCA is… I guess she doesn’t like debate.
Independent media a losing battle
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Date published: 9:04 am, April 7th, 2017 - 10 comments
Unfolding in Australia, but obviously relevant here, bad news for Farifax media staff and their editorial independence.
What is neoliberalism?
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Date published: 7:27 am, April 7th, 2017 - 42 comments
George Monbiot explains in 2 minutes.
Open Mike 07/04/2017
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Daily Review 06/04/2017
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 6th, 2017 - 16 comments
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Thoughts are with Edgecumbe
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Date published: 12:14 pm, April 6th, 2017 - 43 comments
Photo from the Whakatane Beacon.
Resource Management Act Third Reading
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Date published: 9:53 am, April 6th, 2017 - 19 comments
Nick Smith’s RMA reforms are close to being completed. Will his high homes for the reforms be met?
Labour’s leadership team
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Date published: 9:22 am, April 6th, 2017 - 39 comments
Labour’s new tactic of featuring a leadership team seems to be working well.
Small on the Nats’ Key deficit on Hit and Run
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Date published: 7:53 am, April 6th, 2017 - 24 comments
Vernon Small thinks the B Team is missing Key.
South Dunedin and sea level rise
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 6th, 2017 - 44 comments
Dunedin now has a sea level rise database. Given the number of floods in the North Island in the past month it’s time for the rest of NZ to start taking climate change seriously.
Open Mike 06/04/2017
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Daily Review 05/04/2017
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The truth will out
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Date published: 9:07 am, April 5th, 2017 - 93 comments
English can squirm and deny, but according to Stephenson there is more Hit and Run to come.
Banks and the Housing Crisis
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Date published: 8:23 am, April 5th, 2017 - 15 comments
Because of our our central government’s refusal to build social housing and both NZTA and AT rigorously avoiding urban development integration, the default control of housing supply lies with Australian regulation of New Zealand’s retail banks and their lending.
Nurses ask us to vote for our health
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Date published: 7:01 am, April 5th, 2017 - 50 comments
You could vote for three more years of “brighter future”. Or you could listen to the nurses.
Open Mike 05/04/2017
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North Island weather bomb
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Date published: 9:01 pm, April 4th, 2017 - 28 comments
Further very heavy rain is expected over the North Island in the next 12 hours. Civil Emergencies have been declared in several places.
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