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The slow round of extended family xmas locations has this year located Lyn and I in Christchurch. Which has made for an interesting boxing day with a certain amount of rocking that is not attributable to the results of the gorging the day before. I've…
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Well 2010 has been a year for some political surprises such as Brown's landslide victory over Banks and Celia's win in Wellington and some not so surprising moments too such as Gerry and John's lies about the Hobbit and the announcement of ACC privatisation just…
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With only a couple of days left in 2010 the Herald has released its latest digipoll showing a slight closing of the gap between National and Labour. But that's not the interesting part. What is interesting is the preferred Prime Minister polling. As usual it…
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On Christmas Eve, our SAS soldiers in Afghanistan killed two security guards, wounded two others, and arrested 15. None of these people was involved in any terrorist activity. Did the SAS act negligently or was it an unfortunate accident? The Kabul Police want to investigate…
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First published, 21st October 2010, after Peter Jackson first claimed the Actors' Equity blacklisting of the Hobbit had created a serious risk that the production would move abroad. Over the last couple of weeks Actors Equity has been quietly negotiating for a minimum standards contract…
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New Zealand's most infamous anti-Ambassador Paul Henry has shamed us all once again. On TVNZ's Breakfast this morning, Henry asked John Key (at 6'30" into the interview) of our Governor General "Is he even a New Zealander" (Satyanand was born in NZ) and could the…
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If you haven't read this blog post by Charles Stross yet, and you're a science and/or science fiction nutter (or just interested), then you should probably do so. I'm going to take it as read that the idea of space colonization isn't unfamiliar; domed cities on…
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From Reading the Maps. Republished from the original with permission. In the twenty-first century we are continually being urged to register and express our emotions. The days of the stiff upper lip and suffering in silence have well and truly gone, as unctuous TV talk…
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The idea of this little series of posts is to look at the major areas of government activity and have an objective look at how National is doing - both against their own promises and things that we hold important. Let's start with the economy,…
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Back in 2008 it was clear what National wanted to do with wages and if Tane was still around he'd be able to say "I told you so" but instead we've resurrected one of his posts which does pretty much the same thing... The National…
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lprent: Post from No Right Turn. In this case I haven't asked for permission because I was irate about the suppression decision in the first place, but I'm sure I/S will understand. I haven't seen the variance to the suppression decision - but I consider…
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Much like the scriptwriters of American sitcoms, the writers at The Standard can get a little lazy at this time of the year and like those scriptwriters the cheap and easy answer is the clipshow episode. Let's get the ball rolling with a robinsod guest…
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The New York Times has an article about a continuing trend in technology. That of discrete stand alone solar and bio power - "African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power". This article is focused on the use where existing networks don't exist.…
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The link for the letter is here. It will be delivered to the Commanding Officer at the Quantico Marine Base brig by David House when he next visits Bradley Manning Meanwhile, Joshua Holland's informative and heavily out linked piece notes Glen Greenwald's observation that: Having…
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Kiwis frequently like leading the world in the many ways that outmatch our 'weight'. I wish we weren't leading the world in this one. We have one of the worst youth unemployment rates in the world. The Economist compiled this chart showing the ratio of…
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The day before Christmas, in what will surely be a forlorn attempt to bury the story, Bill English's office has finally relented after months of resistance and released under the OIA papers on how the unknown Pacific Economic Development Agency was awarded a $4.8 million…
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Say you run a large company. Say the manager of a division in your company chose do a deal that improves the division's own profitability instead of one that would have made the division less profitable but the company as a whole more profitable. You…
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In the spirit of Christmas, the government is playing Scrooge to caregivers. In an extra special present the government will now appeal, after the High Court agreed with the Human Rights Tribunal that people related to disabled adults should actually be paid for their work…
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The economy shrank by 0.2% in the September Quarter. None of the forecasters had dared to predict it would be this bad, except yours truly :) because I looked at the facts, rather than being taken in by Key's rosy spin. The money trader's economic…
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Couldn't resist this excellent BODY cartoon:
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I find that I'm increasingly bemused by the subjective component of the various diplomatic cables being leaked. What the hell is it with the US having a bit of a tizzy over the Labour Party screening Fahrenheit 9/11 as a fund raiser? I get that…
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I had hoped to be posting lighter Merry Christmas fare, but the government keeps rolling out its agenda under the cover of Christmas consumerism. So it is that we have TV6 to lose its commercial-free status, and our large amount of quality pre-school and family…