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The media are reporting the chance of the US defaulting as a 'debt crisis', as if the problem is too much debt and people won't lend to them. It's not. The US is still borrowing at half the cost we borrow at. The problem is…
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Rightwing violence fetishists are exploiting the Norwegian terror attacks as a justification for looser gun laws. 'If only one of those teenagers had a handgun to take on the drugged up zealot with the automatic rifle'. Fact is, the 'guns save lives' myth was destroyed…
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Some are linking Labour's polling to National's in 2002. Well, I think it's worth remembering the other side of the 2002 polls. Labour's support plunged 13% in the last month of the campaign from 50%+ support to the point where a Nat-led government was a…
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Two pieces of news have recently linked Anders Breivik's Utoya island massacre of members of Young Labour and New Zealand. First, the news that Breivik, in his "manifesto", quoted words published at a far right conference here: Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's NZ link Norwegian…
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The government has put out a new policy statement on transport. Total funding is unchanged. But cost of the RoNS is rising before they're even built. So, it's more money into white elephant highways. Less money for road safety, local roads, road policing, and public…
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Telecom realised some time ago that home phone lines & cell phones companies will become a thing of the past before long. We will all be communicating over the internet using the likes of Skype, wireless internet etc in the very near future. So instead…
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Did anyone else see the Herald article beginning: "A priest working as a senior executive at the Auckland University of Technology has resigned after "accounting discrepancies" involving hundreds of thousands of dollars." and think "the money was just resting in my account"? No? Just me?
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Last week, Jim Anderton said that the tidal wave of youth unemployment we're experiencing will lead to more suicides. He's right. The best response from the Right: slash young people's wages and that might create a few more jobs. But Te Ururoa Flavell's suggestion to…
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Much ado in the commentariat about the latest Fairfax poll which has Labour on 28%, with Phil Goff 6% for preferred PM (Edwards at Politics Daily has his usual good summary). Yes it's another bad result for Labour, no denying that. But some of the…
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A classic from stuff: Prime Minister John Key said the Government had had very little room to move on the economy. ''The public recognises that the rest of the world isn't in great shape and so New Zealand is having to contend with that global…
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They usually show the exchange rate the other way round. This way's more relevant. If you export and get paid in US dollars, the number of NZ dollars you can buy with the same US earnings has gone down 17% in the last 4 months.…
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The Republicans are playing chicken with the world economy over the debt ceiling. They are trying to extract as much as possible in spending cuts and permanently shrink the government by appearing more willing to go over the edge than the Democrats without actually going…
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Kids are the canary in society's coal mine. They tell us about the health of a country. Child poverty was reducing under Labour. Now it is rising again under National. Child poverty is rising because National's perpetual beneficiary-bashing rhetoric has made it politically impossible to restore benefits to the liveable pre-1991…
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Just after Irish has discussed how little it takes to jump from the violent language of the NZ Right to the violent actions of Anders Breivik (and an 'expert' had said it can't happen here), we learn of a rabidly anti-socialist businessman who planned a…
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The Right is whining that Key said "If [the Norway massacre] is an act of global terrorism, I think what it shows is no country large or small is immune from that risk and that's why New Zealand's played its part in Afghanistan" . 'IF!…
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June's Metro contains an article by Chris Harris called 'The Ticky Tacky Death of a Dream'. According to the article, 127 hectares of prime urban land in Albany, publicly owned by the Housing Corporation, were sold to a Malaysian-owned land development consortium for $21 million,…
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It's cold in Christchurch. Yeah I know it's cold in lots of places, but Christchurch is of particular concern, with so many houses, and so much infrastructure, trashed in the quakes. So WTF is going on here? Bizarre’ delay in Christchurch heating programme The Government’s…
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One of the things that has shocked a lot of people about Anders Behring Breivik is the fact he appeared so normal and how he wasn't on the authorities radar because he wasn't part of some neo-nazi or skinhead organisation. Of course in retrospect they've…
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Gotta love the piece in the Herald today about Key[s]'s meeting with Obama. No mention of what was discussed or achieved (nothing). Just 'oh they got along. And Key would have made Obama laugh. If Obama wasn't busy with important stuff'. Best part in this…
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Tolley's running a nasty little smear through Cameron Slater. See, non-profit kindergartens have millions in the bank while saying they need more cash. It must be a rip-off, eh? Yeah. Nah. The kindergartens just have the cash they've been given for future operations. So, why…
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Anyone who takes a gun and starts killing innocent people is fundamentally deranged. Such people will probably always exist, and some of them will act. Not all such cases have political motives, but some do. Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City federal building. There's a…
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The US is embroiled in the most extraordinary of crises. Unique among nations, the US has a legal debt ceiling. This artifice has allowed the Republicans to create the current 'crisis'. For 30 years, Republicans have cut taxes and upped (defence) spending. Strategic deficits that…
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Classic Key on his holiday very important series of very important meetings that were very important and achieved all kinds of important things: "I've got to be the luckiest Prime Minister of New Zealand in the last 25 years. I've come to Washington and every…