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Open mike 13/01/2014
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UBI (1). Memes and Paradigms.
This post is a follow up from. /ubi/ (Thanks for all the comments to date. Still digesting them). The way human beings process information means that memes and slogans are powerful ways of influencing people. We are all aware of the persistence of memes…
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ImperatorFish: Unity!
There was a overwhelming compulsion to reproduce ImperatorFishs powerful message of unity for the left. No violence was involved, and despite rumours to the contrary, it was not sympathy for his tortured tale of a blogger and lawyer who was forced to enjoy himself at…
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The puppet party, the Mega party and the pro assault party
There are three interesting stories in the media this morning each of which have implications for this year's election. Firstly the SST is reporting that there will be a push to put the anti smacking law (or as I prefer to call it the anti…
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Oil Free Otago’s day of action
If you are looking for something to do today and live near Dunedin Oil Free Otago is holding a day of action. From Pasupial (and apologies for missing yesterday's events): Originally planned to coincide with the beginning of Anadarko’s drilling operations off the Otago coast, this…
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Open mike 12/01/2014
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Here’s an idea: electoral funding
Yesterday Standardista freedom posted a suggestion for electoral funding on open mike. Here is freedom's suggestion/blue print (in black print) - in freedom's own words: Want to get some transparency back into politics funding in New Zealand? Tired of electoral funding skullduggery? I suggest NZ…
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Its not easy being Green
There have been a couple of recent contributions to the debate about whether Labour should adopt an aggressive or a cooperative strategy with respect to the Greens this election year. Stuart Nash suggests at the daily blog that the Green's polling will decline back to…
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Open mike 11/01/2014
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Obama’s TPPA bid to over-ride democracy
This article on today's NZ Herald reinforces some of the Jane Kelsey's statements indicating a bit of a tussle between Congress and Obama's push to get the TPPA though as soon as possible. In November, Kelsey stated there was a conflict between the US House…
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Open mike 10/01/2014
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Even David Cameron believes in climate change
The past couple of weeks has seen an orgy of right wing glee claiming that recent weather events provide conclusive proof that climate change is not occurring. Rodney Hide provided the most striking local example, claiming that an increase of pack sea ice around Antartica…
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Open mike 09/01/2014
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Local Bodies: Shell and the Great South Basin
bsprout at Local Bodies has kindly allowed us to reprint any posts we find interesting. Here is a timely post on oil drilling in the deep south. The Southland Times devoted the whole of the front page to celebrate Shell's decision to do some exploratory drilling in…
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NRT: The NSA spies on its own government
No Right Turn asks the question. Since Edward Snowden leaked proof of widespread NSA spying on US citizens, people have been wondering who exactly they're spying on. Are they spying on their own government? Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wanted to know, so he asked them…
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Open mike 08/01/2014
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UBI
Thanks to NZ Femme who put up this link. https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money-to-everyone/31639050894-e44e2c00 "‘It Can Be Done! Conquering Poverty in the US by 1976’, James Tobin, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize, wrote in 1967. At that time, almost 80% of the American population was…
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The Japanese are slaughtering whales again
Back in February 2010 John Key said that he had a potential solution to solving the whaling crisis which he would discuss with Hillary Clinton and that he would take his plan to the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting. Regrettably nothing ever came of it. As Eddie…
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Open mike 07/01/2014
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Local govt is on the move
Under this NAct Government, local government is increasing in size from smaller units to bigger. Does this matter ? On a personal level, I think it does – it has the effect of removing the “local” from our democratic processes, and makes it difficult for…
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Garth George’s best column … ever
As part of my holiday reading I happened to come across a copy of the Bay of Plenty Times. Former Herald columnist Garth George has retired to Tauranga and writes the occasional column for the local paper. He is no stranger to TS readers. Over…
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Consumerism’s ‘desert of the real’
The phrase 'desert of the real' comes from the movie the Matrix. This comes from the point when Neo perceives the 'real reality" behind the computer simulated reality in which he has been living. Morpheus says "Welcome to the desert of the real". http://youtu.be/tgBViHeiSKM Zizek…
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Open mike 06/01/2014
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Enter the Zombie Apocalypse
Ah, heard this on weekend radio on radio NZ this afternoon. Perfect satire for the last election in the US. Beware the zombie apocalypse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo Filmmaker Joss Whedon explains why voting for Mitt Romney was such a good idea. Time for the kiwi comedians to…
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New Zealand is doing nothing about climate change
In 2008 John Key and National campaigned on the basis they would generally be just like Labour but also give a tax cut. One of their policies was to slightly soften the already modest greenhouse gas emission targets that Labour had committed to. For Labour…
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Open mike 05/01/2014
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Snowden performed a public service
While I was looking for background on the GCSB yesterday, I happened on this AFB article "New York Times backs Snowden in US online spying row" Washington — The influential New York Times hailed fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden as a "whistleblower" on Thursday and…
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Open mike 04/01/2014
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GCSB: They do listen
This year the biggest burst of political knowledge for me last year has been the role that the GCSB has in NZ (and security services elsewhere) and how pathetic the political and legal oversight of their role currently is. In NZ it is a self-supporting…
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Josie Pagani replies
lprent: Josie Pagani objected to mickysavage's post objecting to her post at Pundit, and wanted me to publish this as a right of reply. That is something that doesn't exist on this or any blog. After all there is always another site to put content…