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Rob Salmond's view on the Internet Party launch today. Today is the day the Internet Party, which amusingly abbreviates to IP, will actually launch. More importantly, today marks 146 days until Kim Dotcom winds up the Internet Party because it isn't polling near 5% and…
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So Kim Dotcom has a copy of Mein Kampf signed by Adolf Hitler. I am not so sure how relevant this is. I recall having a copy of this book when I was at university. I never read it but I have always taken the…
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Blogs are about to be offered the possibility of being covered by Press Council rules and regulations. I think it is totally wrongheaded. Either the Press Council does not understand blogs, or they want to try to control them - at least to some extent.…
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I can't think when the last time I'd been along to a gig or a concert was. Years probably. But Lyn dragged me (kicking and screaming) to the concert by Billy Bragg last night at the Powerstation in Auckland that was pretty damn good. These days…
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Just when you think that Hekia Parata couldn't make more of a shambolic mess of the Kohanga Reo review, it turns out that she could and did. Rob Salmond at Polity (and Audrey Young of the Herald) has a look at it. Audrey Young in your…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn allows us to cherry pick and reproduce his interesting posts for comment like this one. The "big" political news today (this being a non-sitting week when the politicians are on holiday, some of them literally) is that the Internet Party is in talks…
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Check it out... THE WORLD NEEDS A BETTER WAY TO MAKE DECISIONS TOGETHER. Democracy isn’t just about politics - it’s people getting together and deciding how things should be. It’s a skill we can practice with people wherever we are: in our workplaces, our schools,…
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The concern and debate over the loss of funding to the Problem Gambling Foundation has focused a lot on the PGF's opposition to the SkyCity deal and the government's, especially Peter Dunne's, possible role in the de-funding decision. Powerful pokie trusts & non-transparent manipulations However,…
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Radio New Zealand has reported this morning that since 2008 the number of power disconnections has soared at the same time that hardship grants by WINZ for electricity and gas are falling. Work & Income made nearly 7,000 fewer hardship grants last year than in…
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Scott Yorke at Imperator Fish generously allows us to repost his posts. In this case he has been performing satire at the expense of one of our more colourful commenters (at least I hope it is satire). 6:08 am I had a dream last night,…
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In the ongoing saga about the Problem Gambling Foundation, No Right Turn points out that the Salvation Army were unaware that the Ministry of Health had decided that they would take over as the national provider. They hadn't even applied for it. It appears that…
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Rob at Polity points out National's intensely unstrategic view about investments and asset sales. It is almost as if they wanted to waste taxpayers funds eh? “Buy low, sell high” intones the finance industry. Search out a down period in the market, biding your time.…
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Apparently one of the most important things in our world today was that Key cracked a joke: "You can now convert New Zealand dollars into renminbi, if you are of such a mind to do so. So, life after politics, I might go back to…
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bsprout at LocalBodies has a look at the hysteria about polls over the last few weeks. In an earlier post I questioned the danger of reading too much into polls and predicting elections based on a couple of polls months out from an election. Many commentators were…
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The Herald this morning had another puff piece on beloved leader John Key. The paper is starting to resemble a North Korean propaganda sheet such is its blind regurgitation of beloved leader's musings. So what does John Key want to work towards when he leaves…
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I've been thinking about politics, assumptions, and justice. I sat in on a recording of The Egonomist on Friday - thanks for having me there, guys! - and we discussed some of the issues and reactions to Sarah Wilson's articles on WINZ, specifically the backlash…
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OK in an effort to preserve open mike for other discussions as well the Herald is reporting this morning that Dotcom says he has signed up one sitting MP for his new party. So who is it? I suspect that Karol has it right that…
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Recently Australian PM Tony Abbott decided to speak to a group of 14 year olds who were visiting Parliament. Unluckily for him this particular group of 14 year olds were very sophisticated and asked him a series of questions which neatly skewered four of his…
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No Right Turn looks at one reason why Yahoo moved from the UK to Dublin. Escaping the ubiquitous and ever increasing surveillance requirements of paranoid "security" agencies who appear to only be interested in protecting elites rather than citizens. As it is, it is already…
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New Zealanders have every reason to join next Saturday's (29 March) Day of Action against TPP. It's an agreement being strongly pushed by various major US multinationals, including those of the motion picture industry, computer industries and "Big Pharma". This article on the website for…
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As reported on TV3 news a few nights ago, John Key said that "I have a very strong sense of how precious children are..." The children, that is, of Chinese consumers who are buying milk powder... As for kiwi kids, well...how precious are they, John?…
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So we allegedly have a "rockstar economy" with NZ's economy coming out of the recession and everything looking pretty rosy? Well, that's the NAct news that too often gets repeated by journalists in the mainstream media (MSM). So let's hear it for another chorus of…
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The original of this post is here at Polity. The news this morning has all kinds of finger pointing between Hekia Parata, Derek Fox, John Key, the Kohanga Reo trust board, and others. Why are so many people pointing fingers all over the place? Because…
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This is awful. The government has cut funding to the Problem Gambling Foundation, and National MP Tau Henare says on twitter it is because the PGF "criticises" too much. Apparently National doesn't like it when a charity set up to minimise problem gambling has an…