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And don't forget selling our assets offshore! Doesn't look like much compared to CGT, tax-free zone, GST off fresh fruit and vegetables, R&D tax credits, ETS on farming, skills and training investment .... image by William Joyce.
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Spotted in an English pub. Check out the artist's name.
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I was going to do a post on the ACT party list. But then I realised that I just don't care. http://youtu.be/xCwLirQS2-o [An interpretative dance based on Hilary Calvert's political career? - Eddie]
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With the world's markets in turmoil (again) how are the Nats going to hock off those assets? Fire-sale time! http://youtu.be/GbGiTDfxrWI Starts November 26th, unless you stop them.
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Ok, now we have you in looking at this silly idea. Well it makes Wellywood look pretty darn pathetic and I'm sure that a combination of Peter Jackson and Warner brothers could help John Key drop his pants looking for the spare change to get…
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http://youtu.be/NwgsqhMH3oE h/t http://www.politicaldumpground.com/
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Lifted* from Scott at Imperator Fish and privatized in accordance with the "What's yours is mine to privatize, but what is mine is mine" principles of the Business Roundtable. Congratulations! Your new Tory is now ready for operation. Below are the care instructions for your…
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About now or very shortly, Trevor Mallard and Cameron Slater should be dismounting from the cycling race that has obsessively awaited by the right on the blogosphere. I've been aware of that this 'political' event was going to happen because of the frequent waffling that…
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I see there is another round of Labour leadership rumour mongering going on. Goff has patiently (yet again) rubbished the "claim", and pointed out that it is just stories spread by the Nats to try and distract from the mess that they are in. Goff…
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h/t g.blog
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It seems that the US has lost an experimental hypersonic space plane: Fastest-ever plane goes missing on test flight A US military plane developed to fly anywhere in the world in an hour has gone missing on its second test flight. The unmanned hypersonic plane…
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Did anyone else see the Herald article beginning: "A priest working as a senior executive at the Auckland University of Technology has resigned after "accounting discrepancies" involving hundreds of thousands of dollars." and think "the money was just resting in my account"? No? Just me?
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Absolutely brilliant from Imperator Fish: ....Australia has a capital gains tax. Australia was also once a penal colony. Is that the kind of future we want for our kids? Countries like the US and UK have capital gains taxes too. They also have nuclear weapons.…
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There are murmurings in ACT today over their new 'high profile' candidate, ex-farming guy who's on the telly sometimes ranting about climate change Don Nicolson. The party's current policy priorities are lower wages for young people, weakening student unions, and beating up on Maori and…
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English's Budget that counted asset sale revenue but not costs appears to be part of a wider maths problem for our Finance Minister. Perhaps this explains the Double Dipton affair.
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Tipped off by robertguyton in comments I see that DPF has posted the following little gem at Kiwiblog: Kiwiblog Outage Kiwiblog will be off air this Sunday between 6 am and midday approx. The server it is on is being cleaned and moved. Now, cleaning…
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Vote for Change, Peter Shirtcliffe's anti-MMP vehicle a grassroots movement discussing the need for change in the electoral system, has launched an ad competition for their movement. There's $10,000 in prizes. I guess they raised the money from cake stalls. Naturally, the Standardistas encourage you…
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Stolen without permission from the Tertiary Education Union (here) - but I pays my dues so I figure they wont mind. -- r0b Te Tai Poutini Polytechnic is receiving an additional $750 million funding from Minister Steven Joyce after changing its name to the South…
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Sometimes you have to simply start from 1.0 for Godwin's Law. This pretty much applies to anything re-subtitled from the movie "Der Untergang" (english "Downfall"). The latest one that I have seen is this side splitting rendition of exactly what has been going on inside…
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What about: 'see ya, I'm off to India'?
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Now this is genuinely hilarious: Though if you've got half an hour this performance for Campbell Live is possibly even funnier. H/T @davidfarrier (no no, the good one)
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accountability caption contest disaster Gerry Brownlee leadership
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Randian superhero David Henderson has withdrawn his genius from New Zealand in protest at the collectivist government that has persecuted him and attempted to distribute the fruits of his talent to parasites. In a short statement after leaving the country, Henderson said other Atlases would…
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More incisive hilarity from Danyl: "It works like this: Paul Holmes gets to live in a state house for a year with a one year old baby, surviving on only the $288 dollars/week allocated to beneficiaries on the DPB, and at the end of the…
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A few overlooked videos from plumedekiwi. The short and potty history of the pavlova going to its awful conclusion... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wIyrqA9gLE And a similar look at the Wellywood sign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deyi7rSzVZw