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Spending time with DC neo-cons must be going to Farrar's head. I thought better of him than supporting the Honduran military's overthrow of President Manuel Zelaya. Farrar offers a legalistic justification for the military/rightwing coup (yes, it is actually the right behind the coup with the support of the…
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The last few Question Times, the Tories have been whipping out old Goff quotes. Patsies are set to bring them out. Key goes off on wild side-tracks as an excuse to use them. Labour asks serious questions like 'what are you doing about jobs' and get…
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John Key has a carefully constructed image as a "nice guy", with a self professed "sunny nature" no less. There is ample reason to believe that the image is far from the reality. In his previous work Key appeared proud of his ability to fire,…
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The government has changed the rules so that DHBs can make standing contracts for private hospitals to perform public elective surgeries. If DHBs start to contract large numbers of electives to these private providers, they will have to hire more medical staff and they'll have…
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In 2007, in election mode, John Key was talking up National's commitment to the environment and the Enviroschools programme: Without a trace of irony, the video ends with 'join the conversation'. It's clear now that you can converse all you want with Key. He won't…
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It's pissing down with rain here in Wellington but the pay equity protest is going ahead. Grab your workmates and head down to Parliament at lunch to tell the government to reverse their cuts and start taking pay equity seriously. What: Pay equity protest Where:…
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In the face of widespread criticism that his government is asleep at the wheel, John Key has boldly relaunched some tired old spin. See, we're meant to believe the reason why our government, alone amongst the developed countries, has done bugger-all to save and create…
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Ok. The new server is up and running after a few painful days with the system being suspended, and then after moving it to a backup and having a partition run out of space (yesterdays problem). The ostensible reason that Bluehost were suspending my account…
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With every new cock-up or dereliction of duty from this Key government, righties point to the Roy Morgan polls and say 'seems the voters don't care'. It's true that National is still polling around 50% in the Roy Morgan and parties' internal polls. Yet the…