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No Right Turn on our already secretly changed foreign policy. Yesterday, we learned that the government was reviewing its future contribution to peacekeeping missions, with an eye to turning us into an American footstool. As I pointed out, this would be a major shift in our foreign policy,…
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Lincoln Kidd was killed in a forest just before Christmas last year. He was 20. Rebecca Macfie wrote powerfully about him and his family in this Listener article. The new health and safety organisation Worksafe had six months to press charges in relation to this workplace…
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I have been around at the Mt Albert electorate office over the last 25 years voluntarily helping them out with their balky computer gear many times. So David Cunliffe is possibly wrong when he said that he dealt with Donghua Liu. A letter has mysteriously appeared…
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So apparently forgetting about signing a form letter for a constituent 11 years ago is a resignable offence now. It seemed odd when the donation story came out - even if Liu (probably) donated to Labour, cash for access (as we've been seeing with the Cabinet…
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John Key on Iraq in the Herald today: We are not a country out there looking for a fight. John Key on Iraq 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpIXgJ7r2vU
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No Right Turn points to potential unacceptable changes in the basis of our foreign policy and the deployment of our armed forces. Since 1945, New Zealand's foreign policy has been based around a commitment to international law, collective security, and UN peacekeeping. Since 1972, and…
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This site frequently has opinions from authors and comments promoting promoting political positions and telling people who they should vote for or not vote for, and why. Because of whining in previous election periods by some of the more obnoxious fools around the blogosphere, you'll…
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So conservative right wing voters. Had a guts full of National abandoning their principles? Have you had enough of their arrogance and their refusal to follow the asset sales referendum (although the anti-smacking referendum was frankly rather confusing). Had enough of the two waka Government? Want…
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Hi there. I'm James Macbeth Dann, the author of the blog Rebuilding Christchurch. You may have read it, as sometimes bits of it get quoted here. Or you may have just found your way over to the site. Anyway, I'll be joining the authors here,…
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Rob Salmond at Polity looks at the Herald poll published this morning and looks at what ground the left has to make up. Over recent polls the right vote appears to have been consolidating more and more strongly behind National over the course of this…
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No Right Turn highlights the problem of police and security forces who often seem to consider themselves to be beyond the law. Their propensity towards excessive surveillance of people who are following peaceful and legal paths towards societal change without any evidence is rather legendary amongst activists…
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David Cunliffe and David Parker have announced Labour's Kiwisaver Policy for the election. Details are here. The headlines are: KiwiSaver will be made universal for all workers apart from the self employed. Students, beneficiaries and those with an income below a yet to be set level…
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The storm that raged through NZ last Tuesday night-Wednesday morning got major news coverage on Wednesday. There was much reporting of power cuts, floods, and wind damage to start with. Then, after most households elsewhere in Auckland had their power reconnected, the news media seemed…
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Poor David Farrar, he can't write a post without getting accused of hypocrisy these days. It must have to do with that rancid stench he emanates whenever he gets on his high horse to lecture others.. Here is Rob Salmond at Polity. Here is Hypocrisysmeller Persuivant David…
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The Middle East has been in the news recently for all of the wrong reasons. Syria has been disintegrating as the the effects of a brutal civil war become more pronounced. It started in March 2011 after protests against President Bashar al-Assad, inspired by uprisings…
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Rob Salmond at Polity approves of the Internet Party's stand on electoral reform. Especially because he was mentioned in it :) Here is an Internet Party initiative I thoroughly approve of (Also on TV3): Who do we want to petition? The NZ House of Representatives. What do…
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Reposted from bsprout at Local Bodies. I have attempted numerous time to comment on Ele Ludemann's Home Paddock blog in response to her post on Free Trade Agreements and promoting the false perception that they are vital to our economy. While I can't imagine that Ele would be deliberately…
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This morning I was reading the Transport Blog on The Draft 2015-2025 Government Policy Statement released by the Ministry of Transport. This is the main starting point for a number of the transport planning documents over the coming decade(s). Ignoring the questions about the climate change…
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The most important thing that needs to be learned is that money is nothing. Or, to be more precise, money is a tool that can be used to distribute the resources available to a society. In and of itself it has no value nor does…
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My weekend viewing highlighted the differences in power and resources available to the top percentage of wealthy international banksters, and the powerless people struggling to support young families in NZ. On Al Jazzerra, a special report on "Goldman Sachs: The Bank that Rules the World"…
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A guest post from Poto Williams, Labour's MP for Christchurch East I am attending the Independent Forestry Safety Review consultation and am lucky enough to participate with forest owners, forest managers, contractors and government officials to discuss the factors influencing Health and. Safety in the…
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So it appears the intended non-partisan deeper engagement with politicians that is the Otago University Vote Chat has been taken over by the National Party. This is very disappointing as you expect academic independence from universities, not a partisan production. The 3 Producers are local…
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I wonder if the poster on the left was inspired by the poster on the right?
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Rob Salmond at Polity on what has landed in his mail box paid for by your GST and also close to the wrong side the permissible limits of Parliamentary Services funds. Or perhaps this is something for "NZ Taxpayers Union" to moan about wasting taxpayers money…
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Wayne Mapp has a post at Pundit "Free trade: The end of the cosy arrangement?" about the possibility of Labour backing away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). For decades now National and Labour have had a cosy little arrangement when it comes to free trade.…
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