Did Police give Slater ‘mates rates’?
If explaining is losing, Slater is chewing off both sides of his mouth today as he publishes 10 000 word blogs trying to explain why he broke the law.
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Cameron Slater – the man who decries suppression orders has just had his lifted and he has been charged with funding a hacking
Slater has managed to implode and this latest cocktail of hypocrisy and criminal offending must signal his end of influence in civil society.
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The Number Of The Beast: The New Zealand Left’s Abiding Obsession With John Key
The Left constantly fails to register the brute realities of living in a society driven by the neoliberal imperatives of twenty-first century capitalism. In a world where the interests of the successful individual trump everybody else’s, avoiding and/or evading tax has become an industry in its own right.
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EXCLUSIVE: Waitangi Tribunal ruling on TPPA – “it was unlikely that the Tribunal in this claim would opt to talk truth to power”
As I have pointed out over many years, the Waitangi Tribunal itself is an agency of the Crown as part of the judicial system. Members are appointed by the government. In this Tribunal they included three Pakeha men – a Maori land court judge, a former National Party cabinet minister, and a special counsel to a major law firm – along with a kaumatua of great mana, but who is not a lawyer, and a younger Maori woman with experience in the commercial world.
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Why John Key and Patrick Gower just ‘don’t get it’ about the Panama Papers
Gower is on TV telling everyone that there is ‘no king hit’ in the Panama Papers. That suggests an incredible miscomprehension by Mr Gower. The ‘king hit’ is that we are a Tax Haven, Gower’s inability to understand anything that can’t be splurged out in a 30 second sound bite is a limitation we shouldn’t allow cloud our vision of what the Panama Papers have shown us.
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Faith restored
I believe in the collective wisdom of people and the importance of democratic participation but it is easy to get disheartened about what appears to be an apathetic public fed a diet of reality TV and Government spin.
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John Key’s New Zealand – 5.7% unemployment, 105 000 domestic violence call outs and 80 000 hungry children
Beneficiaries swell the number of homeless unable to find a place to live alongside working class and middle class Gen X + Y and all Key can do is build tax havens.
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The political question NZers need to ask themselves in wake of new Panama Paper revelations
Claiming it is ‘legally compliant’ means nothing if the crooks and the elites write the bloody laws!
Past Key’s sophistry, the simple political question for NZers to ask themselves is this…
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Gerry Brownlee meets the butcher of Qana – National Party hugs war criminals
If Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee felt nauseous when he shook hands last week with renowned war criminal and Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon he didn’t show it.
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London’s Green mayoral candidate was under Police surveillance
Labour’s Sadiq Khan won the London mayoralty despite anti-Muslim slanders from his main opponent, Zac Goldsmith.