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John Key: Berlusconi of the south pacific
hattip: William Joyce
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Open mike 19/11/2011
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Weekend social 18/11/2011
Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Small target
Outraging families of suicide victims. Insulting the Police as layabouts. Declaring war on the media. Negative teapot stories every day, now spreading to overseas coverage. The Nats are spinning that this was planned; that they decided to go nuclear on the media as a vote…
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International Federation of Journalists condemns Key’s suppression of media freedom
The International Federation of Journalists, an organisation representing half a million journalists worldwide, has condemned police demands for media organisations to hand over information about the tea tapes. The IFJ says it 'supports journalists at Radio New Zealand and other news media organisations for upholding their…
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Unbridled power
Kazakhstan police have ordered four media organisations to hand over evidence of an alleged illegal recording of President Nursultan Nazarbayev. The police said they would carry out searches to get the material. Opposition politicians have accused Mr Nazarbayev of trying to gag the media in…
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Spare time
John Key says that it's OK for the Police to waste time trying to intimidate the media on his behalf because they have "spare time" with the drop in crime. There were 220,000 unsolved crimes last year including 8 homicides. The cops solved 15,000 fewer…
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Mood of the Boardroom distinctly undemocratic
The Herald reports CEOs are moaning that MMP won't let them ram through unpopular policies: Ahead of election day referendum on the future of MMP as New Zealand's electoral system, the Mood of the Boardroom survey found 65 per cent of chief executives wanted it…
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Key loses plot under election pressure
The problem with a presidential campaign strategy is that when you put all your bets on one pony, there's not a lot of room for error. If that pony goes lame, or if it's a one trick pony and the trick stops working, you're in the crap. John Key…
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Teapot fiasco becomes an international embarrassment
I got an email from a mate in the UK this morning asking what the hell is going on over here. He'd just got into work and was being asked by his British workmates why the police were searching media outlets in the middle of…
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Main parties down minor parties up
The major parties poll high between elections. As the election approaches, and minor parties get publicity, the major parties tend to fall and the minors rise. This election is following the same pattern, with both National and Labour down in the two TV polls (though…
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Open mike 18/11/2011
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Search warrants against the media
Stephen Price, a lawyer blogging on media and ethics, has a quick blog on the question of the police seeking search warrants against the media. I’ve just stepped off the plane back from Melbourne to find that the police are following up a complaint from the Prime…
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National declines to discuss policy
RNZ has a great Policy Q&A site up. They list policy under many topic areas (Climate Change, Economy, Education etc.), with questions that they put to the parties, and the answers that they received. Here's a sample from the Agriculture & Primary Industry section: What will you plan…
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Peters leaking everywhere
Winston Peters is having the time of his life with the teapot tapes. He was widely rumoured to be releasing a transcript at a meeting in Invercargill at 2pm. He didn't, but he did leak more details. A 3 News summary: Peters claims knowledge of…
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Leave John Key Alone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6bx8j4d-Y We have the right to know if the man we elect and pay to be our prime minister is saying different things in private than he is saying to our faces. Whenever the PM is talking politics, that is a matter of public interest.…
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Key declares war on the media
This headline speaks for itself. Tea tape: TVNZ, RNZ to be searched - "Four media outlets, including Radio New Zealand and TVNZ, are to be searched for any material they might have in their possession that relates to the tea pot tapes". Radio New Zealand's…
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National Election agenda setting fail
And this is just from one news outlet. Stuff, the Herald, RNZ, TVNZ - they're all focussing on what's making Key looking like a fool. They aren't interested in hearing what National has to say about anything until they fess up. Nine days from an…
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Caption Contest
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Interesting poll results
Minor Leaders' debate: Winston Peters 36%, Hone Harawira 27%, Don Brash 14%. Fairfax Epsom poll: Paul Goldsmith 45.5%, John Banks 29.1%. Impact of Key endorsement: More likely to vote Banks 23%, Less likely 30%. Taranaki Daily news debate exit poll: Andrew Little 64.5%, Jonathan Young…
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“Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear”
Pop quiz, who said "Anyone who is innocent has nothing to fear"? Answer, just about every politician ever who was arguing for an increase in state powers, especially powers of surveillance. On this particular occasion it was John Key defending the powers of a newly…
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National’s deadwood thicket
hattip: William Joyce
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A matter of integrity
The Right's crying we should be talking about policy, not certain tapes. Funny, until recently they were mocking Labour for putting out so much policy. Fact is, we don't elect policy implementing automatons. We elect leaders for their policies and because we trust them to…
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Open mike 17/11/2011
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Did Key “stage” the teapot tape tantrum?
There's a theory going round that Key deliberately "staged" his walkout from questioning over the teapot tape fiasco (video). 3 News has a version, and Tracy Watkins really goes to town with it: Key ups the stakes over tea tape Prime Minister John Key has tried…
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Leaders’ debate tonight
The "minor" parties leaders' debate is tonight at 7pm on TV1. Will they manage a format that allows the leaders to actually debate this time? The main winner will be Winston Peters. Not only does he get a great public platform (hard to come by…
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Labour’s jobs policy
Phil Goff on RNZ this morning said that the teapot tape saga had descended in to farce, and that it was time to focus on the policy questions which should be defining the election. As good as his word, today Labour released its jobs policy:…
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Goldsmith removing Goldsmith signs
Most politicians crave attention, especially when they're trying to win an electorate. Not so National's Paul Goldsmith! A Standard reader (ht Jaynam) snapped these pictures of Goldsmith removing (apparently "unofficial") Goldsmith electoral signs. It's almost as if he doesn't want to get elected!
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[insert tea-related pun here]
The teapot tapes story (seems that's the name that's been settled on, despite the story involving neither teapots nor tapes) has evolved two distinct strands: the contents of the Key-Banks conversation, which is gradually coming out through the media, and the very aggressive, poorly conceived…
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Wall St Occupation evicted
As has been widely reported, the Wall Street occupation at Zuccotti Park was evicted in an overnight raid yesterday. Here's an Associated Press account: Police bust NY 'Occupy' protest in nighttime sweep NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raided the Occupy Wall Street encampment…