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I don't know a lot about South Korea, but I was under the impression it had a booming economy, was at the forefront of development of digital technologies, and had a pretty successful screen production industry. So I was interested in a report I saw…
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The situation David Cunliffe has found himself in this week over Labour’s new early childhood policies neatly demonstrates one of big problems with Labour’s communications strategy – information overload. Perhaps it is something of a hangover from the days of Helen Clark, who was on…
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In an interview with the senior reporter, Susan Nact, John Key revealed that he was not ruling out going into coalition with Labour after the next election. Nact: Who would be your first choice to be in coalition with? Key: Well Labour is the second…
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Media bias has been a topic of conversation for lefties this week. TV3 has shown, shall we say, questionable judgment, Karol has set out the divergence of treatment shown by the Herald to National's and Labour's state of the Nation speeches and the media in…
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Tim Watkins has written a piece on Labour's Best Start policy. Down in the comments were the most incredible remarks I have read in support of the policies. They cut through all of criticism of the policy in way which I had not seen before…
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Election year is now upon us and both National and Labour have started aggressively. National knows that its prospects for the election are not good. With no viable coalition partners it has been forced to talk up the Conservative Party and make overtures to NZ…
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This talk will describe the development of mass surveillance systems during the past generation and New Zealand's part in this story. He will discuss Anglo-American intelligence history, digital electronics and the war-on-terror environment that together have led to a scale of spying that threatens the…
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The infotainment, ratings/sales driven basis of our news media, results in the skewing of political news in various ways: whether or not such skewing is intentional. One of the things the MSM does with this "neoliberal"-supporting approach to news, is to focus on human interest…
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Minister of Labour Simon Bridges today said he welcomed the Review of Forestry Safety and that he has asked Worksafe NZ to review the Approved Code of Practice (ACOP) into the forestry sector to “clarify them”. Chris Finlayson was the Minister when the current regulations…
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This post isn't a ‘contrast and compare’ piece on the policy announcements of National, the Greens and Labour. It's enough to say that National are pursuing privatisation while both Labour and Green are at least trying to do good things. Shame about the reality of…
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Sometimes I despair for our media. I mean, the latest parroting of Key's line on Best Start is the stuff of black comedy. Apparently Key's claiming David Cunliffe misled people about eligibility because they don't get the payment while they also get paid parental leave.…
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Whaleoil is in trouble. He claims that a denial of service attack has knocked his website offline and that he has been receiving death threats to him and his family. He has wondered if Dotcom may be involved because orchestrating a DOS attack is an expensive…
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It was a life long and well lived, and he had to go sometime. However, he will be remembered, and revisited whenever politics of the people is revitalised in culture and music. I came of age at a time when folk music, especially political folk…
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The last couple of days have been interesting. There has been a well orchestrated media onslaught on Labour's Best Start policy. And when you have a look at what is being said you have to wonder about the independence of the media. An example of…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. And then Paddy Gower goes and does this. it makes you wonder if Imperator Fish is actually Paddy Gower ... I was lucky enough to…
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So Labour has launched the Best start policy and the criticism from National and its followers has been swift and well coordinated. And, like the bulk of National's attacks on it opponents, it also has no basis in reality. The criticism of Labour's Best start policy…
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The PM made his statement in the House today - it was a bit of a diversionary fizzer: just looked like a government out of ideas, and going for more of the same, plus tacking on a few responses to opposition policies; a lot of…
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Following David Cunliffe's announcement of Best Start New Zealand's right wing took it upon themselves to show how useless and venal they are. It started with Jordon "the new Cameron Slater" Williams and the National front group Taxpayers' Union's eviscerating attack on "Middleclass Welfare" (honestly guys…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgxoQMKHRzg Three weeks ago I stood on top of a 1200-metre peak on the edge of Kahurangi National Park with my 12-year-old son. It was a six-hour slog to the summit, and worth every minute: the sense of achievement, the amazing outlook over Golden Bay.…
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Metiria Turei delivered a very strong, inspiring, and well-targeted speech yesterday at the Picnic for the Planet. She began with some powerful words: words that outlined a fractured set of values, torn apart by the ruthless "neoliberal" onslaught against strong community values; words for an…
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For Labour party members and supporters in the Auckland region if you are looking for something to do today come along and see David Cunliffe's state of the nation speech. Stuff has already hinted at what might be in the speech: [David] Cunliffe last week…
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There's another sign National is getting a bit desperate at the beginning of election year 2014, as they reach in to the Tory trick-bag of voter suppression in the revised Electoral Amendment Bill reported back to the House on 18 December 2013. The Select Committee's…
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Trickledown is one of the most hated phrases in the progressive lexicon. It is based on the premise that to improve the plight of everyone all that we need to do is give the already wealthy more and the benefits will trickle down to everyone…
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