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From TheCenterForBalance.org via Information Clearing House. The Capitalist Commandments 1. Do unto others before they do it unto you. Beggar thy neighbor and trade their employments without offset, tariff, or compensation to secure a bountiful profit from the greater slave. Engage the most authoritarian of…
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Do you watch 5 second films? If not, you're wasting your life. Now, waste some more. In five second increments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oNjTuTz-8
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John Key tells a businesswoman he "would love to see wages drop". National makes sub-inflation minimum wage increase. National makes no effort to bring unemployment back down. Unemployment chokes wage rises. National attacks unions, the biggest driver of wage rises. Wage gap with Australia widens…
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"The Cabinet Manual clearly states that Ministers are responsible to me for their ethical behaviour, not for their judgment." "Mr Hide has carried out his affairs in a personal and private capacity to a high ethical standard." John Key, 22 Sep 2010
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The Dom Post reports that the government is backing Jackson's claim independent contractors can't negotiate as a group. Apparently it would be price fixing because these workers are not considered workers but are considered to be a whole lot separate businesses. Which is exactly the…
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Danyl over at DimPost has produced an excellent graph of the gains from National's Tax Swindle. This is using the Government's own figures as dutifully re-printed by the media - so no adjustment for the massive inflation caused by the budget that means that roughly…
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Despite Bill English's firm statement that "unemployment has peaked", jobs are still being lost in large numbers up and down this country and dole numbers are still rising. The papers are full of depressing announcements of job losses: 1500 council workers in Auckland. 150 mushroom…
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At the risk of following Bill's excellent post with something seriously lightweight, I just read this in the Listener and thought it was worth sharing for the pure joy of it ... "Surely if anyone in the Act Party was going to impersonate a dead…
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I put on the radio this morning to hear emails expressing concern about the CERRA being read out. Since I haven’t heard any such concerns being echoed back to me by any media, I briefly thought that maybe some abuse had flowed from ‘the Act’…
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Bernard Hickey has become one of the country's leading economic commentators, arguing from a position of the hardline neo-liberals - ie. the market is god. Now, he's changed his mind. He's come to the realisation that there's no invisible god's hand directing capitalist markets. Instead…
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I've had an illusion shattered this week. I always thought of Peter Jackson as an ordinary guy made good who hadn't let success make him an elitist prick. It looks like I was wrong. New Zealand taxpayers contributed hundreds of millions to his Lord of…
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Ever since Kris Fa'afoi put his name forward to be Labour's candidate in the Mana by-election, the National smear machine has been attacking him on his Tokelaun heritage. First it was 'oh, they're only going to choose him because he has a brown face'. Now,…
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Peter Jackson is now claiming that film workers can't be represented by a union because they can't be employees. According to today's Dom Post: Jackson has said MEAA wants a union-negotiated collective agreement covering all performers. Yesterday he told The Dominion Post a collective contract…
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Anne Tolley, Minister for wrecking primary education, is a fool. Sorry, but it's the only conclusion I can reach. She doesn't seem to have the first or faintest idea of what "national standards" are actually going to mean in practice. To maintain this blissful state…
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Reproduced from Pundit: An open letter to New Zealand’s people and their Parliament. We write as a group of concerned citizens with academic expertise in the area of constitutional law and politics. We share New Zealand’s deep concern about the physical damage to Canterbury and…
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While the cat's away the mice will play. And while the clown's sunning himself in Hawaii (again) the ideologues in his Cabinet will launch vitriolic attacks on public service workers. As teachers are forced to endure another day of loading the news sites and seeing…
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It's worth having a look at Bill English's performance on Q+A the other day. What's telling, to my mind, is that English can't present a real vision or even any spin-free information. Why not? Because his tax swindle is about taking from us and giving…
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Life isn't hard enough already for solo parents, according to the Nats. So they're going to make it harder: Govt sends solo parents back to work Woah! OK - stop right there. Anyone else spot the problem yet? From today, the Government will be forcing…
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Over the past few weeks there have been a few mainstream reports on Cuba (e.g. here, here, here and here). They all report that the Cuban state is going to lay off about half a million or a million employees. And this is reported in…
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There doesn't seem to be much coverage of the MEAA's side of the Hobbit boycott story but there's a lot of Saint Peter Jackson's side. That's why it's interesting to see the union's response appear on info news today. By the looks of things Jackson…
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It looks like No Right Turn has covered the GST on fruit and vegetables. Reproduced with permission. Labour's GST policy Today Phil Goff committed to axing GST on fresh fruit and vegetables if elected. Good. While originally against this idea, I've changed my mind after…
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Christopher Monckton has been one of the "highest profile" climate change deniers. We've written about him here once or twice (or more). Well, it looks like his days as poster pinup for the denier movement are well and truly over. He's busted: 'Chemical nonsense': Leading…
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Way back in August the National Business Review ran a well researched (but off-line) story by Matt Nippert titled Panic station: policy quashing on the ninth floor of the Beehive And I must say it's an interesting view into the strange bunker of spin that…
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Tories are shirkers. They never want to do their share, whether it is paying the taxes that run our country, taking the action necessary to save our environment, or supporting institutions that work for the collective good. I sometimes wonder if they ever stop to…
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The film-workers' union is finally having a go at getting some decent terms and conditions from Peter Jackson. Good. The film industry in New Zealand has been exploiting Kiwi workers for too long. I've known quite a few film workers over the years, workers who…
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Ed Miliband has narrowly beaten his brother David to become the new leader of Labour in the UK. It was a very tight race - Ed only got to the required 50 % and indeed only surpassed David in votes for the first time after…