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It's a bit of a worry that the PM seems to be clueless about the complexity and interdependence of the world economy. Only from a state of blissful ignorance could Key be claiming that she'll be right: PM not too worried by IMF's alarm bells…
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The global economy to 2015 and 2030 ABSTRACT: The western world economy is currently in an even more dangerous condition than in late 2008 after the Lehman collapse. Then policy makers were in a cognitive fog, but at least they stumbled on the right recipe:…
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The Greens launched their economic policy today - I attended on behalf of the Fabian Society. Titled "100,000 green jobs for New Zealanders, it follows their plan to bring 100,000 children out of poverty by 2014. The focus was on leveraging green priorities, by using…
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http://youtu.be/WazeyJtY7UQ Very, very funny. Where the fuck is Webb Ellis? hat tip: Trevor Mallard at Red Alert
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The Police have known for years that the kind of surveillance they carried out in the Ureweras was illegal. They went ahead and did it anyway. They were betting that the Courts would permit illegally gained evidence to be used in prosecuting serious offences (no…
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I want to start this article with an apology. A couple of weeks ago, I attacked Labour for its criticism of National's performance on the Christchurch rebuild while not having released its own recovery policy. I now realise that my line was illogical for two…
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Economist Paul Krugman argues that governments the world over need to wake up to the fact that they've been trying to solve the wrong problem: A Constant Flow of Bad News for Europe and the US In the United States, we have zero job growth,…
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Pissing on the rule of law - NoRightTurn Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled that covert video surveillance evidence against the Urewera 18 was inadmissible, because it had been obtained unlawfully. This was no surprise to the police; they had known that the use…
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This graph is from the review of the Emissions Trading Scheme. A few points to note: Net emissions rise when the pine forests planted in the 1990s are felled and then fall as the next generation of trees mature are replanted, before starting to rise…
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John Pagani has an excellent piece on the lack of National substance in the lead-up to this election. Like last election we're seeing Labour say what they would do, presenting one alternative, as National fail to present theirs; relying on that nice man John Key's…
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Two news snippets yesterday seemed to me to capture the essence of John Key PM. The first: Govt rejects 'fairer' pension scheme suggestions The Prime Minister said he has "too much on his plate" to act on recommendations to make the pension scheme fairer. This…
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118 years to the day when NZ became the first country in the world to give women the vote. You can imagine how incredibly proud Kate and the sisterhood must have been. You can imagine them lifting their eyes to the future and seeing women standing shoulder to…
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We're going to need a lot of innovation to survive the coming decades. I'm going to feature the kinds of clever ideas that will help as posts whenever I see them (I started with this one a while back). Today's innovation (ht to AAMC in…
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We already knew that voters prefer Labour's policies to the Nats. Capital gains tax vs. asset sales. A focus on children and poverty vs. an abdication of responsibility. A real youth training program vs. ineffectual bootcamps. In short, policies that help us to Own Our Future.…
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The Campaign for MMP has a series of vids that we'll be running. This one looks at how MMP has lifted the representation of women in Parliament. Makes you wonder about the people who want to send us backwards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wvQGvAfZeo By the by, due the…
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The Press reports: "The Central Christchurch recovery is under threat as quake-weary property owners start using their insurance money to buy new buildings in Auckland and overseas." Hmm. If only they had been repeatedly warned about this for the past seven months. /tag/christchurch-rebuilding/ /tag/christchurch-rebuilding/page/2/ /tag/christchurch-earthquake/…
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I guess they didn't trust him to get it right. Outstanding: And now the trains are bare This time the trains were ready - and most fans went by road or walked. Passengers were outnumbered by security guards by three to one at Auckland's central…
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In the 2008 general election over 600,000 eligible people didn't vote. That made No Vote the third biggest "Party" after National and Labour. There are many different reasons for this, but overall it doesn't reflect well on the health of our democracy. Particularly concerning is…
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From the miscellaneous bits of news department - a particularly grim Roy Morgan poll for the left: The latest New Zealand Roy Morgan Poll shows support for Prime Minister John Key’s National-led Government is virtually unchanged at 61.5% (up 5.5%). Support for Key’s National Party…
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The warnings on the economy are coming thick and fast now, both globally and nationally. Here's the head of the World Bank: World in new economic danger zone: Zoellick The head of the World Bank says the world has entered a new economic danger zone…
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Denmark has ended the 10-year reign of the right supported by the anti-immigration Muslim-baiting Danish People's party. The Social Democrats headed by their first woman PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt will move away from the right's favoured austerity and spending cuts to more investment in education, welfare…
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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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When it comes to making any kind of effort towards saving the planet from catastrophic climate change I guess being even a "fast follower" was just a little too ambitious for the Key government. Now it seems that they're content to be slow followers instead:…
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http://youtu.be/nuQM1Oko8IE lolz. Btw, what was up with Key referring to the "Web Ellis Trophy" in his speech? It's the Web Ellis Cup. Little thing compared to the organisational shambles Murray McCully and Key handed us on Friday. But another sign of a government that can't…