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		<title>Trumpwatch: The Art of Deflection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[With the Cult of Hyper Individualism, "taking Personal Responsibility"  is the corollary of the "Small State" and reduced government services. The Right demand Personal Responsibility from everyone. (So when an individual 'fails', the fault - and responsibility - must lie with  him/her, rather than the State's tilting the playing field toward the rich and the powerful.)
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		<title>What&#8217;s Behind National&#8217;s Sudden Police Priority? Winston!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2016 19:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Curwen Rolinson]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Accept no imitations. The only time National's generally serious about bolstering the number of 'boys in blue' is when they're out electioneering to increase their Caucus. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>National &#8211; Party 4 Sale?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2016 22:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Setting the Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign donations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earl Hagaman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Niue]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whilst details are hard to confirm by the very nature of these highly secretive deals - many made informally - the questions arising from these (and other) murky 'arrangements' is sufficient to underscore a recent downgrading of our Transparency International Corruption Perception Index;
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		<title>In response to Orwellian National Supporters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Deconstructing Headlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Macskasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I see that National Party apparatchiks are up to their usual disingenuous tricks, trying to suggest that Labour was a worse manager of the New Zealand economy than National;
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