Open mike 09/03/2010
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Media
The Standard
Open mike 08/03/2010
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Open mike 07/03/2010
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NZ Fabian Society lectures
This looks to be a fascinating set of lectures. I’ll be going – will you?
Economic orthodoxy continues to fail New Zealand. This failure is systemic, not cyclical. Despite this, prevailing political and economic orthodoxy has become almost immune from scrutiny. It seems that policymakers have yet to comprehend that the status quo will inevitably lead to economic collapse.
Come on Granny
Come on Granny Herald. You’re almost there…
Open mike 06/03/2010
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Open mike 05/03/2010
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Alternate forms of protest
Now this is pretty damn funny and just adds to todays absurdities over the waste of money on rugby world cup TV in 2011. Veteran Springbok Tour protester John Minto has found himself at the centre of a new Eden Park storm, with a controversial plan to name a nearby $3 million road after him.
Will the supercity transition authority now want to stop community boards from naming streets?
Obey the moderator
This is the shortened and lyrical version of the policy.
Glorious school building opened by honourable leader
Beloved Leader of People’s Constitutional Monarchy of New Zealand, Honourable John Key, attended glorious opening of school building on Tuesday.
Several youths were overcome by the glory of Honourable Leader’s appearance as were several members of the press corps.
Open mike 04/03/2010
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150k comments and rising…
Well the discussion keeps going on, and as you know I like marking these occasions as the database steadily grows (and my backup […]
Open mike 03/03/2010
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Open mike 02/03/2010
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Open mike 01/03/2010
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Tsunami warning
The alert has now been downgraded to an advisory (4:30pm), though surges and rapid changes in sea level could still occur for the next 24 hours.
According to Newsroom “A series of ongoing large offshore earthquakes continue to rock South America with widespread destruction in Chile…
Open mike 28/02/2010
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Re:Cycle (re-run)
We received this guest post about half an hour after John Key announced his cycleway. At the time, the very sensible criticisms it raises were ignored by an enamoured media.
How prescient it looks now, on the anniversary of the Prime Minister’s Jobs Summit.
Open mike 27/02/2010
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Open mike 26/02/2010
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Updating the blogroll
I’m about to start sweeping the blogroll for dead or moribund sites over the next week. The general rule is that I mark […]
Open mike 25/02/2010
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Why not a Maori minimum wage too?
The faulty logic behind Roger Douglas’ bill to cut the wages of young workers could just as easily be applied to any number of groups hit hard by the recession – Maori, students, men, dropouts, singles, people in Northland. What if we were to change a couple of key words in his bill?
Open mike 24/02/2010
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John Key discovers new word. Country celebrates.
This morning the DomPost ran an article by Tracy Watkins about several ministers misusing their ministerial credit cards for personal entertainment. They obtained the information by doing OIAs (Official Information Act requests). Now I’ve come to expect that NACT ministers will do (in John Keys words) “stupid” things in office. But what I found significant was that John Key appears to have discovered the use of a new word “disappointment”. This is a major advance for the NACT political vocabulary.
Open mike 23/02/2010
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Open mike 22/02/2010
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Open mike 21/02/2010
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Removing old site
There will be some maintenance going on this evening starting about 7pm and hopefully not lasting long.
The new site seems to be stable, so I’ll be removing the old site at www2. That will allow the new site to start using widgets and to move from the temporary ads to the final advertisement systems.
Open mike 20/02/2010
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Keynes and Hayek rap
In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century go […]
Open mike 19/02/2010
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Open mike 18/02/2010
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Key too busy doing nothing
Tongue in cheek, George notes: When asked in Parliament why he hadn’t paid closer attention to his share portfolio, Key replied: “small technical issue, I’ve been busy running the countryâ€. That statement must come close to misleading Parliament.
Open mike 17/02/2010
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Open mike 16/02/2010
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