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David Cunliffe’s speech to the New Zealand Institute
Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. I would like to acknowledge the New Zealand Initiative and its Executive Director, Dr Oliver Hartwich. Oliver it’s great to be here with you today - and I know this group greatly values the open contest of ideas.…
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ImperatorFish: A statement from Shane Jones
This statement has been reposted from ImperatorFish and is believed to be a work of satire by Scott Yorke (who generously allows us to reproduce his posts). However with Shane Jones, one can never be too sure what is truth and what is fantasy. I’ve…
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NRT: A global cyberwar against everyone
The original of this post is here at No Right Turn. The latest NSALeak: the NSA is deliberately spreading malware on a massive scale to spy on everyone: Top-secret documents reveal that the National Security Agency is dramatically expanding its ability to covertly hack into computers…
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The Genesis share float – or is that share sink?
The details of the share float have now been announced. According to stuff: The Government has poured sugar on its offer of shares in Genesis Energy, pricing the company in a range below analyst valuations last month and offering a bonus share for every 15…
bill english debt / deficit national Privatisation same old national
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Open mike 14/03/2014
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Polity: Endangered! Polls without cell phones
From Rob Salmond at Polity, this post on an interesting graph. Here's a pretty astounding graphic from the US about cellphone vs landline use, via Anzalone Lizst Grove Research: The US is a few years ahead of New Zealand on mobile adoption and decoupling from landlines,…
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Caption competition
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LB: Greens hit the ground running
The original of this post appeared here at Local Bodies on Monday. It got overshadowed in the news cycle by burst of corrupt stench of self-entitled elitist behaviour from National, but is worth reposting anyway. bsprout (aka Dave Kennedy) is the Green candidate for Invercargill.…
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Stand up for fairness in & for NZ – TPPA, March 29
International, cronyist, corporate capitalism skews democratic processes in NZ, making it harder for the majority of battling Kiwis to get a fair go - harder to ensure all New Zealanders live in a society that works for them. And in such a society, it's hardest…
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Scandals
Just a wee list to try and keep track of the current scandals our dear friends in the National party are dealing with: Judith's milk problem (why does the self-styled 'Crusher' keep hiding from any parliamentary debate?) Amy's farming difficulty National Party families at the…
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Open mike 13/03/2014
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Elitist Fools
So the latest from National is Judith Collins 'promoting' her husband's company and Amy Adams promoting the interests of river-polluting Canterbury dairy farms when she herself owns Canterbury dairy farms. Naturally, neither minister can see any problem with this and so the take-home message from…
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Oravida employee of the month
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Five Eyes, One Network
The continuing revelations coming from Edward Snowden have revealed that internationally linked state surveillance, dominated by the US NSA (National Security Agency) has become intensive, pervasive, and somewhat devious. This is to be expected in the shadowy world of state run espionage. Some of this…
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Amy Adams has some explaining to do
If Judith Collins' difficulties with endorsing promoting while overseas on a Ministerial Trip the products of a firm of which her husband is a director and which has given significant amounts of money to the National Party was bad enough there is breaking news which…
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NRT: Proving my point
No Right Turn as usual was correct and John Key was wrong. The original of this post is here. Last week I argued strongly that we needed full transparency over Cabinet Office advice on ministers' conflicts of interest, because we couldn't trust the Prime Minister to…
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ImperatorFish: John Key explains to the media
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Let me explain. There has been no breach of Cabinet rules. This has been confirmed by the Cabinet Office. Not the real…
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Polity: “Promoting” vs “endorsing”
Rob Salmond at Polity sharpened the needle for John Key here The Orivida mess smells worse by the day for National. Yesterday, it turned out the Cabinet Office's advice clearing Judith Collins of any wrongdoing had failed to even look at the most important piece…
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Open mike 12/03/2014
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National – pissing debt against a wall.
Of course it could be that John Key announced the election yesterday to divert attention from the press release from Treasury today. The deficit was $637 million dollars bigger than expected. In fact it was more than double the expected size. Why? Well mostly because of…
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Polity: Why announce the election date this week?
Rob Salmond at Polity has a look at why National surprisingly announced the election date yesterday. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that it was a deflection from something. Rob thinks that National was worried about where a look at donations to National's campaign…
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Union communicators and RSS – please join the 21st century
Just at present I'm particularly interested in adding union sites with RSS feeds to our feeds. But it is somewhat irritating. Many of the sites don't have a RSS feed. They should have one. RSS (Rich Site Summary); originally RDF Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple Syndication, uses a…
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NRT: Did the NSA write John Key’s spy bill?
This is a re-post from here at No Right Turn NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden gave evidence to the European Parliament last week about the NSA and mass-surveillance. The most interesting revelation? The NSA's use of lawyers to subvert other countries limits on surveillance - including our own:…
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Key schemes with media at Whaleoil cafe.
‘ALLO, ALLO, ALLO, ALLO’ -By Senior Reporter Susan Nact STARRING CAMERON SLATER AS RENE AND JUDITH COLLINS AS EDITH. In this preview we bring you Episode Two of the new tv drama show “allo, allo, allo allo”, based on the TV series “Allo, Allo” from…
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a wee note to the msm
I’ll keep this short and simple. There is an independence referendum in Scotland on September the 18th. After that date, there may be a change to the Union Jack of 1801. The reason there may be a change is that the flag is seen by…
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Key, Peters and the early election
Just over three years ago, on February 2 to be precise, John Key announced that the date of the 2011 election would be November 26, 2011. At the time he said: "I believe it is in the country's best interests to know the date of…
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Open mike 11/03/2014
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The Race is Set
John Key has just announced the election date: September 20. Quite early, but the media has been being primed for the last 6 weeks, so won't see this as National being scared of dipping support, no claims of instability or going back to voters 'too…
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Ukraine
So, it’s emerging that the snipers who shot and killed 94 people in Kiev immediately prior to Viktor Yanukovych fleeing the Ukraine, may have been hired by elements within the Maidan movement. (Both police and protesters, it is being claimed, were shot by the same…