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TVNZ have announced the resignation of Paul Henry. John Key's going to have a LOT of angry rednecks on his case over this one. First Andy Haden, now Paul Henry. And then of course there are all the civilized people already on Key's back about his…
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Today is 10 October 2010, a significant date for two serious reasons (neither of which I heard of in advance to do a post on dammit). And for one silly one! 10/10/10 - 101010 - in binary it's 42, the answer to life, the universe,…
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A few brickbats for people who have been shown to have really screwed up this week. Obviously the biggest screwup this week is Paul Henry whose ratings driven bigotry came to a abrupt halt after he went far too far. This site has had an…
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Paul 'real New Zealander/dickshit' Henry, Maurice 'no shi'ite' Williamson, John 'I wish South Aucklanders hadn't vote' Banks, Melissa 'South Aucklanders are all crims' Lee, Paul 'cheekie darkie' Holmes, and Michael 'brown slug/fat Indian' Lhaws have joined forces to create a new political party for 'real…
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Michael Lhaws, no longer mayor of Whanganui and only fourth highest ranked councilor, is going to find life harder now he has lost his biggest pulpit. The man's been a insecure little attention-seeker his whole life and, a lot like Paul Henry, he gets that…
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Digested Read Digested – What we can do to embrace equality – through society and government. It won't take a revolution to achieve greater equality... but it will take a transformation, with a sustained sense of direction and a strong view as to how to…
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As the dust settles on the local elections we have new mayors in Hamilton and Dunedin and Bob Parker successfully using his no-campaign campaign and the earthquake to retain his mayoralty in Christchurch. Wellington was an unexpected cliffhanger that has the media scrambling with why…
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It's official, Len Brown is the first ever super city mayor. My congratulations to him and to his team who have worked so hard to get this result. It's a great victory for the people. The Right thought they had stitched up Auckland very nicely…
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There are various good online sources for following the local body election results: The Herald is running a live updates page. Stuff has an interactive map that links through to various sources. There's the Elections 2010 website, on which of course the main event will…
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National Party pollster David Farrar has obviously seen some pretty bad numbers on the Mana by-election, he's already in excuse-making mode. Apparently, Hekia Parata is a top candidate but it's the voters' fault - they'll be all confused about having just voted in the local…
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Is Phil Goff an Evil SuperGenius? Pertly vigilant National Party blogger David Farrar alerts us to our peril! Consider Exhibit A, DPF writes: Labour on Papatoetoe electoral fraud The Labour Party will take action if any of its members were found to have been involved…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8fs3ylxqKo Here's a compilation from TV7's Russell Brown from April this year, highlighting the value for money taxpayers get from paying Breakfast Bigot Paul Henry $300,000+ per year: ridiculing the appearance of guests whose opinions he disagrees with, ridiculing deaf people, women, and the disproportionate…
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This government seems to have confused the means and the ends. Growth and money have become the ends, when they only ever should have been the means. It is a legitimate question: what do growth and money give us? Obviously we need some level of…
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The Auckland local government elections have been marked by unfortunate incidents. Alleged false voter registrations by a candidate linked to the Labour Party. Alleged illegal offers of money to voters involving five National Party members. And the dumping of voting papers bound for South Auckland.…
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The audience tell us over and over again that one of the things they love about Paul Henry is that he’s prepared to say the things we quietly think but are scared to say out loud. TVNZ, 4 Oct 2010
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This government doesn't seem to have the human touch. It fails to see the personal, just the numbers. I was struck by this (more than usual) when reading two completely disconnected articles: The first was about Kate Wilkinson, our very caring Immigration Minister, sending 3…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2brCMurd2U&feature=player_embedded hat-tip: mellow yellow
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Christchurch is such a disaster that it required the suspension of democracy across the country for 18 months. But everything's OK enough for Key to take a week in Hawaii. And the Social Development Minister is still able to go off on a 'study' holiday…
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Anne Tolley has done it again. Hot on the heels of massive cuts to Early Childhood Education she has formed a taskforce to 'take a look at the provision of ECE services'. This is hot on the heels of a similar taskforce to have a…
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Aaron Gilmore became an MP in 2008 by a hair's breadth. Something like 40 more votes to Labour and his list seat would have gone to them. His Parliamentary career has been as undistinguished as the manner in which he got in. Now, it appears…
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I wasn't going to post on Paul Henry, the topic has been well covered here (and besides, not having a TV, I've never seen the guy in action). But he has now hit the status of a full fledged diplomatic incident, and that needs noting.…
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India's External Affairs Minister SM Krishna has summoned the New Zealand High Commissioner in New Delhi to please explain Paul Henry's ultra-racist outburt against Minister Sheila Dikshit, on New Zealand's state broadcaster TVNZ. The Minister may also like to ask why Prime Minister John Key…
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Once upon a time there was a little man called John Key. He told everyone that if they trusted him he would lead them to a brighter future. Some of the people said he was lying to get power. More people said that they liked…
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Everyone's favourite autocrat is at it again. Trevor's onto the story early, but it now seems that 2 of our most celebrated Olympic heroes are to be McCully fodder and gone-burger from coaching the sport in which they were champions. Ian Ferguson and Paul McDonald…
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The median weekly income in New Zealand fell in the year to June from $538 to $529. That's a fall even before inflation (and you have to take inflation into account or the figures are meaningless). After inflation, this is the third successive year in…
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A tailings dam in Hungary has burst. Toxic sludge over 16 square miles has killed four. If the sludge, laden with heavy metals and radioactive elements, makes it into waterways including the Danube the disaster will magnify. If Brownlee had his way, our countryside would…
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Bernard Hickey continues his politico-economic rebirth. Yesterday, he wrote on how New Zealand can protect itself from dangerous international capital flows that undermine our economy and our ability to choose our own path. We shouldn't leave the guidance of our economy to the invisible hand…