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Open mike 19/12/2015
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Daily Review 18/12/2015
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What was National’s role in the police raid on Nicky Hager?
The repercussions of Justice Clifford's decision that the police raid of Nicky Hager's home was illegal are starting to be felt. The decision itself is a scathing condemnation of the police behaviour and you really have to wonder how the police got things so wrong.…
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Child poverty has been monitored – now what?
So now we know how child poverty was affected by the Global Financial Crisis. Our tory friends have taken their annual two-pronged approach, with distraction arguments about whether individual poverty measures measure poverty and the old stereotype that poor people are poor because they do…
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NZ and the emissions scams
Yesterday in The Herald: NZ achieved emissions reduction targets: Paula Bennett New Zealand has achieved its first round of emissions reduction targets and is on track to meet its 2020 target, Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett says. In the first commitment period in the Kyoto…
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Open mike 18/12/2015
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Daily Review 17/12/2015
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Police raid on Hager ruled illegal
Reprinted from Scoop. High Court finds police raid on Nicky Hager was illegal Thursday, 17 December 2015, 4:15 pm Press Release: Felix Geiringer Wellington High Court judge Justice Clifford issued his judgement today on the legality of the police search of Nicky Hager's home on…
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The ink wasn’t dry on COP21 when…
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/676903980539211783 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/676927691619237889 Here's the Green's press release...
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Key – too far even for his fans
While there is a certain amusement value in having a performing monkey for a PM, his participation in the great rape jape yesterday was too far even for his fans. Barry Soper: Has John Key gone a step too far? The trouble with John Key…
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Christmas and Freedom
In the spirit of Christmas, the last post was a provocation about a version of Christianity that would fit quite happily with the kind we celebrate at this time, in this society. Here's another version. Christmas is essentially about the Mystery of God becoming one…
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Open mike 17/12/2015
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When Animals Attack!
Well, this is awkward. And won't somebody think of poor Michael Woodhouse? It's like seeing Dad kiss the au pair. Are you my new mum? Alternate captions welcome! Hat tip, veutoviper, via Giovanni Tiso.
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Daily Review 16/12/2015
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Key is blaming child poverty on – wait for it – – drugs!
I don't think that it's possible for the depths of Key to surprise me any more, but this certainly came close: John Key: Drug abuse major contributor to child poverty John Key says drug dependency is a major contributor to New Zealand poverty. The latest…
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Obesity is a structural problem
If I might plagiarise myself for a minute, obesity is a difficult topic to write about, so some quick preliminaries. First, people have a lot of natural variation in healthy body shapes and types, it is perfectly possible to be “fat” and healthy. Second, obesity…
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Supply side Jesus
You'll get the drift of what I mean by Supply-Side Jesus from this link. Jesus, rather than being some commie big-state redistributor, was incredibly serious and canny about money, spending, and tax: In Matthew 17 we learn: After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the…
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Apparently solar panels suck up all the sun’s energy and cause cancer
No the date is not April 1. A town in America has citizens and elected representatives who think that solar panels may suck up all of the sun's energy, may prevent plants from photosynthesising and may cause cancer. From the Independent: A US town has…
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Open mike 16/12/2015
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Daily Review 16/12/2015
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Child poverty – it’s not choice
As widely reported this morning: Child poverty on the rise in New Zealand again - report The latest annual Child Poverty Monitor report has found 305,000 children in 2014 were living in poverty, a 17 per cent rise from 2013's 260,000. After taking into account…
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Protection of National Security Information
Law Commission has completed its review on the use of national security information in legal proceedings. What should happen when information is relevant to legal proceedings, but disclosing it might prejudice national security? This is the question at the heart of the Law Commission’s review…
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Rhetoric and reality: Nats on climate change
The Nats want to wallow in the feel-good rhetoric of COP21 action to address climate change: Government hail historic climate deal The New Zealand Government has hailed a historic deal on climate change, saying it is "the first truly global agreement on climate change". Climate…
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Open mike 15/12/2015
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This Year
As the year winds down, I've been thinking about The Standard, particularly this blog's influence in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We're sometimes called an echo chamber, a far left talk fest or, memorably, a "dreadful 21st century bastardisation of a once proud Labour broadsheet". The truth is…
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Daily Review 14/12/2015
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John Key is relaxed about COP21
The line has been drawn. The world's leaders want to restrict the increase in global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. This is the increase required so that the Pacific Islands can stay more or less intact. Any greater increase than this will mean they will…
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Truthiness
They say that reality has a left-wing bias. Turns out that truth does too. (Source)
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COP21 – More than we expected, less that we needed
After some initial optimism based on early reports, it's clear that we didn't get what we needed from Paris. A surprising number of politicians and activists are upbeat, e.g. Avaaz: Victory! The end of fossil fuels has begun... World leaders at the UN climate talks…
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On Shooting the Messenger
It is an unfortunate reality that speaking out publicly often has considerable repercussions both for individuals and for organisations. Over the past decade we have seen sophisticated attacks against academics and NGOs who challenge government or industry. These attacks often appear organic in nature, but…
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