Cough-cough. That ‘old rugby injury’ of Winston’s has now taken 3 weeks
We all wish Winston a speedy recovery from his, old rugby injury.
New Zealand Politics
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How come the entire Western media knew about American torture after Abu Ghraib, yet our Intelligence Agencies had no idea at all?
The SIS and GCSB KNEW the information was coming from CIA black sites, what the hell did they think was happening at those CIA black sites? The information was being tickled out of people?
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MEDIAWATCH: The Spinoff Labour Party Sex Scandal
The extraordinary journalism on display today at The Spinoff by Alex Casey demolishes any facade that the allegations were a mistaken interaction that has been over hyped.
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Council’s callous indifference to East Christchurch
It was the ninth anniversary of the September 2010 earthquake last week, the first of the two big earthquakes to hit the city, but driving through some parts of East Christchurch you might think the earthquake was last week.
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GUEST BLOG: Mike Lee – Auckland’s local Body elections: “Whose city is it anyway”? and the groundswell for Tamihere
I was at a community meeting recently when a woman, who runs a business on High Street, and was evidently so frustrated with Goff and the council that she told the meeting, “I don’t like John Tamihere or his track record – but I intend to vote for John Tamihere.” There was momentary silence in the room as we all took this in.
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Government still waiting for the collapse of Capitalism before borrowing big
When this Government first formed, I argued that key members involved in the negotiation process believed an enormous crash was looming, and that once that economic crash occurred, we would see a genuinely transformative Government.
The only problem was that economic crash didn’t happen.
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Farmers are screaming about water. Yawn.
The Framers are bitching because they are selfish little clowns and the Government is too timid to force real change on them.
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The most distressing part of the Peter Ellis miscarriage of justice
The most distressing part of the Peter Ellis miscarriage of justice, is that if those allegations had been made today on twitter, the outcome would have been the same.
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Political Podcast – Sean Plunket vs Damien Grant vs Bomber: This week – KiwiBuild reset, Governments water plan, free speech case + Boris & Brexit
This week – KiwiBuild reset, Governments water plan, free speech case + Boris & Brexit
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New Zealand Government are serving the Israel Lobby
On 25 August we sent an email to the NZ Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, essentially similar to those already emailed to Jacinda Ardern and Ron Mark, concerning the Ministry of Defence proposal to purchase $9 million-worth of military equipment from Israel, and asking that the order be cancelled. The responses from Jacinda Ardern’s Office and Ron Mark can be seen in previous blogs.