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There's a discussion started on the "Where is this democracy" thread, about the demise of public service radio. Partly this is in response to Guyon Espiner being appointed to Morning Report on RNZ. What would it take to set up and run a regular progressive…
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There were a couple of interesting stories yesterday relating to the mainstream media and the blogs. Firstly it was announced that Guyon Espiner will become the new host on Morning Report. This has caused some comment. His appointment from the Mediaworks stable is unhelpful. Radio New…
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And by popular demand here are the ten most commented posts for 2013. Open mike posts, which often contain a number of comments, were not included. Collectively the posts show the desire to tease out the subtleties of issues as well as the need to…
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Normally we'd put "ImperatorFish: " because, well, the post come from that site and purportedly from the fertile satirical mind of Scott Yorke. But in this case it is clear that someone else must have written the post. They couldn't get the sequence of events right and…
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There is always a fool who prefers to invent a story rather than trying to understand it. Rob Salmond points out that David Farrar is one of them. Of course as he also implies that it might be simply convenient for a National puppet to…
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How about if I was to have a right to meaningfully engage in processes of decision making, roughly to the extent that potential decisions flowing from any deliberations would impact me? And of course, you’d get to exercise the same level of deliberative power for…
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I have had one or two little discussions with poverty denialists on the The Standard lately - usually denialists from the right of politics, and some pushing posts from one of the well-known right wing blogs. They continue with their denialism, in the face of…
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Rob Salmond over at Polity always finds some of the really interesting offshore political/social studies Cool-yet-depressing finding on why some people change their mind on climate change from one day to the next. The skinny of this Roll Call article is: Democrats generally believe in climate change;…
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A couple of recent articles in Salon both deal with a subject that even 20 years ago would have been unthinkable, that the United States of America is becoming a third world nation because of its failure to look after many of its people. Firstly…
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There has been this feature that I turned on in google analytics on or about September 18th. It shows in rough round figures the number of queries (ie impressions) that google dealt with where our site was on one of the displayed search pages. It…
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Matthew Yglesias at Slate is speculating that Microsoft may kill the bing search engine. His logic is compelling. As the person responsible for running the operations of this site, all I can say is to kill it. Please Microsoft - let the pain of your ratshit spiders…
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Remember Key's great innovative cycleway project that was his great idea for creating more jobs? Well it seems it's been limping along with some pretty poor planning, and inadequate government oversight: if they really cared about it, they wouldn't be suddenly needing to look for…
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Should be the name of a group from a bizarro version of the 1960's. But no, it is what passes for the governance of the Auckland City Council these days. There is our mayor with his wet dick. Then we have the five perverts who…
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First came the consumerist perversion of an (allegedly) Christian festival, leading up to the 25th December. During this period, the original *Christian message related to the birth of Jesus ("peace and good will to all men") was marginalised. As Wednesday approached, the MSM kept tally…
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It is that time of year where you are expected to gaze at your navel and reflect on the events of the past 12 months. I thought that a post of the Standard's ten most popular posts would give a feel for the events that…
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The 25th of December is a good day for traveling around Auckland and visiting a historic site or 2. Yesterday I went to the Michael Joseph Savage Memorial on Auckland's waterfront, next to Bastion Point. So much political history in one small area! Like Richard…
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Exactly 40 years ago to the day I was having a white Christmas - on the summit of Mr Fyfe overlooking Kaikoura. Today I celebrate another Christmas, high on another mountain, in another part of the world - with a light dusting of very dry,…
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In 1977 the Huddersfield fire fighters were in the midst of a bitter strike and families had been without an income for some time. Christmas was looking bleak. But the Sex Pistols stepped in and played a legendary benefit gig for the families. It was organised…
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To the people working today, tomorrow and other public holidays to keep needed services running: transport, hospitals, retirement homes, emergency services, and all others working today To the people who will be providing meals today at various city missions and other places To the parents…
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No Right Turn nails what National means for Christmas. Long term costs for our society because they choose to deprive kids of an even chance. Instead they prefer being the government for the rich, and those less affluent can bugger off overseas. National's New Zealand:…
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As we close the year I’d just like to wish you and your loved ones a happy, safe, and relaxing holiday season. Around our beautiful country, Kiwis are getting together with their families and friends to celebrate special times, rest and relax. But for too…
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In keeping with the dominance of political game playing that has been prevalent since the 1980s "neoliberal revolution" recent focus on personality politics has diverted from, and masked the very real structural problems of Auckland Council. These problems relate to the limitations in local democracy,…
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R0b posted these suggestions last Christmas and they are still very relevant. Merry Christmas to one and all and may you and your families enjoy your time together and may your christmas celebrations go light on the planet yet improve the plight of humanity. "Merry…