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At this Fabian Society event on Monday 9 July in St John's Church Hall, cnr Dixon and Willis Streets, Wellington, Dr Geoff Bertram will discuss how deregulation and corporatisation of the state-owned electricity companies has been good for Treasury but bad for domestic consumers. Part-privatisation…
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With news that there are now more Kiwis living in Australia than either Christchurch or Wellington, here's "John Key's" latest press release on the topic: Latest exodus to Australia worrying National Party Leader John Key says immigration figures showing an acceleration in the number of…
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I'm going to try and put up a piece each Sunday of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It's also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn't…
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In our current system, we give men like Bob Diamond the immense power to create money. Need it be so? The Positive Money movement wishes to change that, and give that power back to Government. Henry Ford said: “It is well enough that people of…
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Rumour has it that one of the Sunday papers is going to run a homophobic piece on a gay political figure. There's no suggestion of impropriety, just: 'hey this openly homosexual person's gay, in case you didn't know'. One paper a week. Limited space for…
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Gerry Brownlee is in court as some property owners challenge his decision to open up some blocks of land for new sections post-earthquake and not others. One of those property owners is Independent Seafoods. They would also have been one of a hundred to have…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=karQQb-B8Uk
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It's hard to be optimistic about the future of the economy. While Tim Grosser is out there negotiating away our sovereignty, John Key is making plans to try to hawk our low wage workforce to Australians. Fran O'Sullivan is enthusiastic: The frank admiration for New…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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From Frogblog - Greens call for inquiry into inquiries Published: July 5, 2012 by frog The Greens have been criticised by Prime Minister John Key, who said, ‘The Greens call for an inquiry on virtually anything.’ The remark prompted immediate calls from the Green Party…
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You might have heard of this new TV series called The Block, where they get 4 couples to compete to do up dilapidated houses. It's the most expensive non-fiction programme ever made in New Zealand. It's vacuous, contentless garbage. But what gets my goat is…
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Remember back in February 2010 when John Key announced that he had a super-secret plan to end whaling? I'm sure there's some real clever strategy behind why nothing has come of it so far and Key never mentions it. But I think, now that he's…
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Private prisons still failing When the government introduced private prisons, they promised us that it would lead to better performance. But six months on, Serco's Mt Eden Corrections Facility is still failing to meet basic performance targets: Private prison operator Serco has failed to meet…
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You know how the Government is so skint, and absolutely much get back into surplus by 2014/15, that it has cut education at every level, cut conservation, cut home insulation, cut Kiwisaver, cut Working for Families .. etc etc. They even created a new super-ministry…
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The Police have concluded their investigation into John Banks' declaration that he did not know that Kim Dotcom and Sky City had made significant donations to his 2010 mayoral campaign, so recorded them as anonymous. If he can be shown beyond reasonable doubt to have…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Russel Norman, Green Party This is the worst news imaginable. The Green Party are absolutely opposed to the reckless smashing up of…
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The angle of this DomPost article ("Police pay may be next on political hit list") is very interesting. Instead of just running with David Farrar's latest lines ("Unionist Scum Police paid too much!"), they are seeing through a ploy National have been using with great…
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What exactly do we mean by "progress"? I'm moved to ask the question because of the following recent article: Price of progress hurts Kiwis The rampant cost of living means two-income families are increasingly worse off than single-income families were a generation ago – and…
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There's a new member in the 'sphere, a cheeky little blog called Twisted Hive that appears to be a member of what you might call the Labour Ulterior, that great mass of Labour people who are unhappy with and feel excluded by the way things…
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The median household has $1700 in the bank - you couldn't really term that savings, it's operating cash. The Nats want us to fork out at least a grand a time to participate in each share float. That just doesn't add up. Labour and the…
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We've all seen the headlines: Fail a drugs test and lose your benefit, job seekers warned. Here's a summary: The Government is preparing legislation to strip beneficiaries of their welfare payments if they miss out on jobs because they won't take a drug test, or…
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http://porcupinefarm.blogspot.co.nz/
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Yesterday National pollster David Farrar excitedly quoted from a George Monbiot article saying peak oil isn't happening. Two problems: 1) Farrar omitted to quote the bits of the article, including the title, saying that the flipside of no peak oil would be runaway climate change.…
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Back in February John Key said: "But there are plenty of jobs out there for people if they look really hard." 312 people looked really hard for this job: One bar job advertised, 312 applicants A Whangarei bar owner got more than he expected when…
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$20 million. That's how much Paul Reynolds pocketed during his disastrous 5 years as CEO of Telecom. You could have employed dozens of teachers and nurses over that period for that money. Instead, it all went to one man as the company he headed went…
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