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The CTU have launched the latest of their quirky and cute campaigns. Job Survivor Island illustrates the effects on real people of the boss being able to sack you without cause while you are denied legal redress. 1 in 5 workers are sacked under fire…
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The Great Depression was marked by the rise of rightwing reactionarism. Out of reactionary movements came fascist governments from Brazil to Romania. We even had the New Zealand Legion, which claimed 100,000 members. Now, the Great Recession is spawning a new wave of militant reactionarism,…
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This year, as last year, we miss out on both Anzac and Waitangi days as holidays. They're probably our 2 most important days of the year as a nation, so we should value them more, not less, right? The Government refuses to do anything about…
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This post has been borrowed from the excellent site theoildrum.com, after originally being published on ourfiniteworld.com. We all remember the oil price run-up (and run back down) of 2008. Now, with prices similar to where they were in the fall of 2007, the question quite…
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Hard to imagine a bigger waste of money than sending a frigate to hunt fisherman who've turned to piracy because foreigners have illegally taken all their fish. How's about we spend the money on aid to Somalia instead? Oh right. Can't afford it says McCully.…
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Of all the mysteries of the present financial crisis, the most baffling is why government agencies have gone to such lengths to protect the value of bad investments made by large institutions and multi-millionaires. After all, under the rules of the capitalist game, owners of…
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Our prisons might be worth the current cost if the recidivism rate were not so high, but... half of the prisoners released this year are expected to be back in prison within three years. If our prison policies are failing half of the time, and…
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For years, the Right in America has been ramping up the violent undertones in its rhetoric. Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement have encouraged their followers to think that their guns are all that stands in the way of a socialist coup (and any…
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Been meaning to post about this for ages, but Campbell's post finally gave me the push. Trevor Mallard1 posted a very interesting Monbiot column a while back. It in turn was inspired by an excellent 100-page report by Tom Crompton, Change Strategist at WWF-UK. It's about how…
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No, this post isn't about Smile and Wave's failure to close the gap with Australia. It's about the widening gap between the tiny wealthy elite in this country and the rest of us. Even before the Great Recession, 10% controlled more wealth than the rest…
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Blinglish is confident that voters understand the economy and back the government's (lack of) direction. In fact he better hope that voters don't understand the economy, or notice National's lack of help to an economy shedding jobs and headed into double-dip recession, or he won't…
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I just had an edited letter published in the Herald. They printed this: I see that if National is not reelected to power then John Key may resign from Parliament. He should give serious consideration to becoming a list only MP. This way if National…
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Campbell has a good post on the problem of voters' emotional reactions to Key and Goff as exemplified by the Sunday-Star Times Horizon poll (the striking thing is how little emotional response they elicit). I'll look at the party numbers. I don't look at every…
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The Sunday Star-Times has produced an interesting article on the role of emotion in people's voter choices leading into this year's General Election. While the results are not great news for Labour supporters, it's the first poll of its kind to be made public in…
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Only one US Congressperson has ever been assassinated - Leo Ryan during the Jonestown Massacre. Gabrielle Giffords may become the second after a gunman shot her and others, killing at least one, in Arizona. This appears to be part of a rising tide of violence…
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Farrar and Slater are trying to knee-cap a poll in the SST tomorrow. They know the numbers because Key's office told them. Obviously jittered. Slater says it has NZF at 8.9%. Movement of ipredict stocks suggests bad news for Nats and Labour. If Nats are…
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I'm puzzled as to why New Zealand's lack of a fast jet military capability is suddenly an issue. We been fine without it for nine years. Renowned defence expert David Farrar weighs in on the "terrible decision" to disband the Skyhawk and Aermacchi squadrons, citing…
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Youth unemployment is 19.8%, but is there much coverage of a shockingly high number? That's 1 in 5 young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEETs to the initiated); higher than the OECD average. If you're not listening to Radio NZ, you're not to…
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Back to civilisation after a few days bush. First thing I see in the paper - another kid killed in a police pursuit. 20 in the last 12 months. Makes me so fucken angry. Police policy needs to change. I don't have the answers. But…
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With oil heading back to $100+ a barrel, food prices are also rising. That makes sense, fuel and fertiliser from oil are major food production costs. The global food price index is now higher than it was in 2008. In New Zealand, we're supposed to…
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I never, ever thought I would say this but there's a very good article in Investigate this week. It's about the Pike River disaster. With methane sensors in place, alarms should have gone off well before the gas reached combustible level. Investigate reveals the sensors…
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The editorial on Granny Herald by an anonymous writer on the 29th1 entitled "Rail shutdown casts doubt on service's value" really casts more doubt on the value of the use of editorials than anything else. It displays more of the writers divergence from practical realities…
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The British website False Economy has just put up "12 essential posts" on the significance of the British student protests. My favourites are this, this, this, and this one. There's no doubt that this is evolving into something big, in ways that the main stream…