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What is it with National Party leaders and their apparent desire to commit political suicide on bFM? First Don Brash's sensational harakiri moment when, after a week of teeth pulling torment as he wiggled and squirmed away from the truth, he finally admitted that he…
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Apparently when the senior members of the National Party are having a tough time, they take it out on their workers. How else to explain today's meltdown by National Party blogger and HQ staff member, David Farrar? DPF isn't his usual chirpy self at all…
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John Key's new line is that he was answering a different question to the one everyone heard him asked on RNZ yesterday. Three times in this latest bFM interview Key claims that he was answering a question on the invasion. This is his new line…
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I thought I'd dive in with a little post on another subject.just to give John Key a small respite from single-handedly ending the war in Iraq. It seems that the Real Estate Institute, that great business body charged by its members with protecting the interests…
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...all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, said Abraham Lincoln. John Key appears to be learning that lesson the hard way, much as Brash did with the…
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Too late - John's humiliation is now global. Here's the UK Guardian's blog. "New Zealand's opposition leader, John Key, the head of the centre right National Party, has an interesting take on the Iraq war, one perhaps not seen since George Bush stood on the…
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The major papers, radio and political blogs picked up John Key's War is Over story but neither of the main TV channels ran with it last night. Why is that? A photo in the Herald this morning shows Key surrounded by a swarm of press…
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But seriously. Can you imagine it? Clark and Key are chalk and cheese & and hardly anywhere more so than on their grasp of foreign policy. While Clark has spent the last week or so furthering our country's interests abroad, Key's had his foot firmly…
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People have been asking for details from this morning's eye-opening RNZ interview with John Key. First, here's the staggering quote from Key: powered by ODEO The interview kicked off with comment from Phil Goff on National's recently released foreign policy document: HON PHIL GOFF: Oh…
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The media is clearly tiring of John Key's vacuousness. You know the tide is turning when even Paul Henry turns on the Nats. I've embedded a two minute clip to show the tone of the interview. Here's the link to the full piece.
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"Until Mr Key put me wise, I had assumed the US and its coalition allies were bogged down fighting an intractable insurgency in Iraq that had seen a surge in US troop numbers earlier this year. "The deaths of 805 US troops and at least…
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My surprise has given way to anger. How dare John Key belittle the ongoing death and suffering in Iraq by dismissively claiming the war is over? Evidently he's of much the same mind he was to begin with: Iraq is "too far away" to have…
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John Key said on National Radio this morning "The war in Iraq is over". Apparently that's why no mention of it's made in their lightweight foreign policy document. I'll post on this later but in the meantime the audio of Phil Goff and Key is…
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In case anyone hasn't noticed, the Ports of Auckland have been ground to a halt by strike action from 250 members of the Maritime Union. These guys are on as little as $13 an hour and have had their pay negotiations stalled by the company…
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If you thought Herald columnist and shill for big business Fran O'Sullivan couldn't get any worse, think again. Here she is on Sunday, discussing a Business Council for Sustainable Development report on the health system: There is no evidence that trade-offs, such as people working…
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And still the criticism of National pours forth. I'm tempted to post this whole piece by Colin Espiner entitled "There is a tide...", there are some great lines in it. Essentially he points out that while the government's riding high after successfully rolling out one…
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The Register reports that (link maybe NSFW) "a Tory blog has been penetrated by an act of classic web waggery after it leeched bandwidth via a picture used to illustrate a posting about party fees". Rather than host their own image on their site the…
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I just rediscovered Toothpaste for Dinner. Having narrowly recovered from a somewhat grueling experience reading this post over at Kiwiblog I thought I might just pass DPF a little friendly pictorial advice.
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Kiwiblogblog has a great undercover photo (you can tell 'cause it's grainy) of John Key at National Party HQ. I won't ruin the surprise by posting it here. Go check it out!
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If you've got work to do, don't read this post. Play This Thing has a review of The McDonald's video game. It's flash-based so runs right in your web-browser. Your job is to run a sucessful McDonald's. The game's splashscreen notes: Making money in a…
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Yesterday NZ First's Brian Donnelly said schools were "not a commodity to be exploited for profit by National's privatising mates" and rightly asserted "The key question National has failed to answer is who will get rich from its plans..." Well a day later we know.…
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No wonder National's education policy (what we know of it so far, anyway) includes more money for private schools. I know a staff member in an EB school (whose identity I have promised to protect) who said he had heard from high levels within the…
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all_your_base has already posted on Tony Ryall's weasel words on yesterday's Agenda programme, but what struck me about the interview was Ryall's utter hollowness on policy. Here he is farming out elective surgery to the private sector: GUYON: Okay let's talk about elective surgery because…
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If you read yesterday's post about music and copyright this might be of interest. If not, umm, well sorry. Radiohead are about to release their new album: In Rainbows. They're pre-releasing it via their website where you can choose to purchase it as a special…
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This almost defies belief. Just as I was thinking that Ryall couldn't screw up the release of their health policy any further... He shows up on Agenda and by refusing to answer Espiner's direct question only adds to the impression that National's not being straight…
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If you're National you know you're in trouble when even the Herald editorial comes out swinging. The National Party was doing very well until it started to announce policy... During the month it produced three policies: work for the dole, partial privatisation of state companies…
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Some pics from Saturday's rally for Burmese democracy: More at Auckland's Burning and Indymedia.
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