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So Trevor Mallard thinks it's smart to stick the boot in to Russell Norman for linking to an article about using the printing of money as a tool of monetary policy. Well it says a lot more about the state of the Labour Party than…
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In the last 12 hours I've had robo-spam email from 4 different friends, all with xtra email accounts. Is anyone else seeing this? Could be a major compromise of xtra email. If you have an xtra account, check your "out" folder. If there are messages…
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In 2009 John Key personally declared a "War on P": My message to the gangs is clear. This Government is coming after your business and we will use every tool we have to destroy it. We will be ruthless in our pursuit of you and the evil drug…
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Is it just me or does the argument for a four year term of Parliament look a lot like the argument that's presented for deregulation? I was thinking about this watching Mainzeal go under as its leaky building legacy caught up with it. It's the…
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(I see Karol touched on this topic in an earlier post, but I think it's worth further examination.) As widely reported, Big Film is having a bit of a hissy fit right now. Here's the 3 News account: Warner, Wingnut warn against releasing Hobbit docs…
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Frank Macskasy at Frankly Speaking writes... To intervene, or not to intervene, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in this government’s mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous recessionary fortune, Or to take arms against a global sea of economic troubles, And…
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The 7 Greenpeace activists, who occupied a Shell oil drilling ship last year, performed a service to global communities in drawing attention to the impact of the fossil fuel industry on Climate Change were sentenced this week. So the punishment dished out by the court is a…
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Last week we started on, the Children’s Social Health Monitor 2012 Update Report, see the the full report (pdf) here. Today we'll carry on to the next part of the report, Economic Indicators, and summarise two of the sections: Income Inequality There has been much debate…
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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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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Let me put the debate to rest once and for all. Here are four compelling reasons. Elections slow down decision-making and they tend to have…
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So the Nats have lost 30,000 jobs in the last year. But it's not their fault right? It's the global economy, man. Oh, the OECD added 3 million jobs last year? hmm... The government doesn't control jobs - except when they want credit for false…
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Last February eight Greenpeace activists occupied the mast of the ship "Noble Discoverer" for 77 hours to protest oil exploration in the Arctic. Looking back I see that I wrote about it at the time: The courage of their convictions While most of us talk…
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Key and Shearer want 4 year terms of parliament. Why? Efficiency, they reckon. 3 years is 'too short to govern'. Well, they wouldn't be the first politicians to argue that less democracy would be more 'efficient'. First, addressing the claims that there's no time to…
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The Nats were elected on a promise of a high wage economy. When it became clear that they were achieving the opposite, they tried to spin a disaster into a "competitive advantage". Remember this from Bill English? It's time to take on the Aussies, says…
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When was the last time you heard John Key promise 170,000 new jobs? Just before the election in 2011, I reckon. Well, this last year 30,000 jobs were lost. Put that in context, it's the 3rd largest annual job loss in history. The largest was…
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No Right Turn with the latest on National's ongoing annexation of Canterbury. Pillaging the Rakaia National's dictatorship in Canterbury has delivered for its cronies again, amending the Rakaia River Water Conservation Order to allow Lake Coleridge to be drained for irrigation. While the government is spinning…
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Mr Fixit Steven Joyce has been handed the Novopay fiasco, and the first pay round under his watch is the worst yet: Novopay round labelled a shocker The Ministry of Education fielded hundreds of calls from school staff either not paid or underpaid by Novopay…
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Another day, another company that couldn't make it in National's stagnant economy. But this company, Mainzeal, is a particularly significant case, our third largest construction company: Why Mainzeal fell into receivership Construction projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars are in limbo after one of…
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It was a fascinating debate in Britain, but in the end the result was clear. From The Guardian's Politics Live blog: MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage Britain is on course to adopt gay marriage after the House of Commons voted to give…
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Bravo Paula Bennet, Bravo John Key, Bravo National, your constant beneficiary bashing (announcing a new "get tough" policy every time you need to distract attention from some random crisis or other) has borne its predictable fruit: Beneficiaries 'attacked on all sides' Beneficiaries have overtaken Asians…
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Yesterday Annette King started talking with Standard commenters on a couple of threads. As I understand it this is part of a move to engage with the Standard. While I can't speak for other authors I welcome this as a good sign there's a real…
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Bryce Edwards has a useful roundup of the goings on at Waitangi: The Harawira family is holding the whole country to ransom. That's what the Herald has reported the Police as saying at Waitangi today - see: Yvonne Tahana and Claire Trevett's Key at centre of Waitangi…
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I wonder how the polls would look if the sampling included Kiwis who have fled the country? One of the biggest failures of the Key government is the continuing massive exodus to Australia. This was an issue that Key made a core focus of the…
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At the moment the Left and Right political blocs are poised more or less evenly in the polls. So how do we grow the Left vote to win in 2014? A lot of commenters here think the answer is for Labour to move to the…
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