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You heard it here first. This is a post. Written by me. Am I being slightly narcissistic? Well if I am, TV3 was far worse when they aired their story tonight about the media attention Prince William's visit was receiving - ahead of the disaster unfolding…
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Deborah Coddington, former ACT MP and author of the filthy racist article "Asian Angst: Is it time to send some back?" that killed North & South's reputation, waffles on about 'snitches' in her Herald on Sunday article. Coddington says snitching - informing the public or the authorities…
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MSNBC's Rachel Maddow covers the outragous comments by rightwing Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson on the Haitian earthquake. Great to see this bigot confronted. Need more Maddows in journalism. [First time I've embedded from MSNBC. It's awesome. They let you clip their video just for the…
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Phil Goff has picked up on the point I made yesterday: while unemployment is falling in Australia due to the $42 billion stimulus package implemented by the Rudd Government, in New Zealand unemployment is still rising while this do nothing government sits on its arse,…
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When you get a cold snap in the local weather, it means that somewhere else got somewhat warmer. Weather is a case of local shifts in energy balances. Climate changes on the other hand are an overall shifting due to underlying changes in energy inflows…
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After all of the kerfuffle about Key's long holidays I figure there's not much for me to say about it but it's worth remembering what his plans for the fourth week of annual leave were just before it came into effect: It's not the man's…
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There is a story in today's Herald noting that current C&R Hobson councillor Aaron Bhatnagar is not going to stand for the new super-council. He is taking on the running of Banks' faltering mayoral campaign and has been offered a job in the new mayoral…
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Despite almost never agreeing with Fran O'Sullivan, I have respect for her. She comes from the ACT-right and her pieces reflect that but she argues honestly and intelligently, the latter in particular being in short supply in this country's political discourse. So, I'm a bit…
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Both David Farrar and Cameron Slater have posts up attacking a comment by roger nome in one of our comment threads, and it shows they are worried about Key's image as a do nothing 'Minister for Overseas Holidays'. On the surface level, it's kind of…
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So, Tariana Turia has (eventually) come out against Paula Bennett's pointless policy of making people on the unemployment benefit reapply after a year. Of course, Turia is for work-for-the-dole, which is just as stupid. Looks like there will be a show-down, a fight between the two dumbest…
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Today I thought I'd link to some of the amazing scenery Gerry Brownlee wants to bulldoze for his road through the middle of Fiordland National Park. This is a picture of the Hollyford Valley from Hollyford track's gallery [hat-tip norightturn]. These guys look like they…
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Last year, Tony Ryall announced health reforms (ironically, an additional layer of beaurcracy) that he claimed would save $700 million over five years, about 1% of the health budget. Now, Labour has revealed, that estimate is at the high end of a range and the low-end…
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Well, I didn't think it could done but it has been. National has been promising to close the gap with Australia, and damned if it hasn't happened already. The Nats' target was 2025, it didn't even take a year. In fact, we're now above Australia…
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The enormity of the disaster that has hit Haiti is becoming more apparent by the hour. It is thought that tens of thousands, if not 100,000, are dead and many more are injured, trapped, or homeless. It is estimated that 60% of buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, have been destroyed.…
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What a start to the new year. Gerry Brownlee has admitted he's pushing for a road to be built through our most pristine National Park, Fiordland. The Southland Times reports: A long-mooted proposal for a road through pristine forest between Haast and the Hollyford Valley is…
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Govt drafts deal to end whaling in Antarctica - Herald Key plan to end Southern Ocean whaling - Stuff That sounds like a real break-through, I thought. What could this deal/plan be? I watched the full press conference here: "New Zealand has been working very…
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Less than a week before the opening of the new $80 million Supreme Court building in Wellington, Prime Minister John Key is reserving judgment on the design. Asked what he thought of the building, which has a bronze facade designed to look like pohutukawa and…
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Back in July of 2009 I wrote a post about John Key's promises of a plan to stop job losses. At the time I pointed out his trail of empty and unfulfilled promises and predicted that the big plan to stop job losses would be…
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You might recall that a bit over a year ago a salesman in a nice suit with a nice smile came and sold us a brighter future. We haven't seen all that much of that salesman since then but we can remember what he promised…
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At first, I thought I must have been dreaming yesterday morning. There was John Banks loudly attacking central government politicians from Wellington. How dare they impose expensive and unjustified costs on Aucklanders? Why were they so insistent on rushing through their own ideas rather than taking…
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UPDATE 14/01 - my Summary of Facts My only charge is still obstructs police - seemingly because I refused to comply with an unlawful request. Note the fact that they haven't charged me with disorderly behaviour must mean they realise my use of a megaphone…
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Powershop is a subsidiary of Meridian Energy, an SOE. It is the most highly rated power retailer by its customers, with 92% satisfaction. On the Powershop website, there's a blog. On this blog, the CEO of Powershop, Ari Sargent, wrote a post on the Government's proposed…
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The other day on the telly, Cameron Slater said why he had breached suppression orders intended to protect the identity of sex attack victims in two cases involving an alleged celebrity assailant, but not a third. 'It involves a kid' stated he. How noble. How…
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Workers to get same holidays as PM Monday, 11/01/2010, 11:30pm Press release: New Zealand Government The Government will raise the minimum annual leave entitlement for all workers from four weeks a year to seven, Prime Minister John Key said today. "This will bring the holiday…
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This is just too funny. One of Ian Wisharts sources in AirCon which he quoted from 'verbatim' turns out to have been a kiddies resource from 1999 - which he still mis-interpreted. Gareth at Hot-topic has been tearing apart some of Wisharts recent posturing, and…