Needs a caption?
From the Flicker pages of William Joyce, we have this cogent visual comment on Murray McCully and his diplomatic skills. But the image needs a good caption… š
Media
The Standard
PM punts for growth
Prime Minister John Key today conceded that growth remains too weak, unemployment is too high, and that it is unacceptable that workers’ wages are going backwards when he promised they would match Australia’s in just 15 years. Speaking to a rapturous crowd of schoolchildren and journalists, Key announced a bold new economic agenda.
Open mike 15/07/2010
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Open mike 14/07/2010
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Open mike 13/07/2010
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Open mike 12/07/2010
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Open mike 11/07/2010
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Mum & Dad investors keen to put a few mil in privatised assets
Kiwi Dad Michael Fay and his wife Sarah announced today that they would be keen to invest in any SOEs the government privatises. “My old mate David Richwhite and myself made $500 million off the last round privatisation.” said Fay, “It was a great success. We used other people’s money to buy public assets. Asset-stripped, flogged them off and walked away”
Open mike 10/07/2010
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Party central
Enough was written yesterday about the latest instalment of the slow motion train wreck that is John Key’s “Party Central”. So here’s Emmerson’s visual take.
Open mike 09/07/2010
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Open mike 08/07/2010
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Blubbering into oblivion
I had to laugh at this comment by Mako about my least favorite wingnut… More desperate anti-Brown smearing from Slater. His latest allegation […]
Open mike 07/07/2010
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World Cup according to genius bankers
Economists, bankers, Treasury officials, financial wizards of various kinds, they like to pretend that they know what they’re talking about. All too often they don’t. Predicting the behaviour of complex systems is hard. Consider for example, the big banks’ predictions on the winner of the Football World Cup…
Open mike 06/07/2010
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God, she writes like she talks
Paula Bennett in a letter to Tariana Turia: “Because of that sort of addiction it can be really tough on them and you see, certainly, financial hardship being increased and I think also with that sort of stress you can look at domestic violence,”. I don’t think that sentence would pass the national standard.
Open mike 05/07/2010
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Open mike 04/07/2010
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Mummy! The bad man cut my pre-school’s funding!
John Key had a busy day playing rodeo-clown yesterday. Before having the Air Force fly him to Ohakune for the opening of 16 whole kilometres of cycleway Key had photo-op with children. It’s is a John Key favourite. The perfect distraction from lying in the House, the weak economy, and Anne Tolley. But the clown show doesn’t always go off without a hitch š
Open mike 03/07/2010
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Enigma: Gravity of Love
Enigma have for a long time one of my favorite sounds to listen to while programming from the early 90’s onwards. There have been bug-hunting exercises where Enigma has literally been on my playlist all day. You can just queue all of their albums, knuckle down, and kill those tiresome and frustrating bugs. Since it is going to be a programming weekend, including some site tweaking….
Open mike 02/07/2010
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Great Leftie Debate
If you’re at a loose end in or near Palmerston North tomorrow. This looks interesting and will help raise campaigning money for next […]
Open mike 01/07/2010
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If real life were more like the internet…
Ā Ring any bells? Tom Tommorrow at Salon is a great satirical cartoonist, for more of his work have a look at This […]
Open mike 30/06/2010
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Open mike 29/06/2010
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Key bullish on Kiwi, bearish on pandas
Itching to get back into the markets, and having solved all New Zealand’s economic and social woes in 18 short months, John Key has announced he is putting aside his Prime Ministierial duties to become the country’s head trader in exotic animals.
Open mike 28/06/2010
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Open mike 26/06/2010
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That’sĆ¢ā¬Ā¦ odd
I was looking through the physical versions of this weeks’ newspapers for something yesterday. I don’t normally do that and I saw some bloody odd stuff. Did you know that the PM asks permission from his staff before he does things? Do you what academic means? Because Paula Bennett doesn’t. And do you know statistics are behind the changing number of school children?
Open mike 25/06/2010
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The media
The frequently brilliant xkcd on the state of the media.