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Caption contest
What can one (anyone) say about this image? Well, I guess we will find out.
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#voteWTF – Wednesday 19 June, 8:30pm, TV3
On this coming Wednesday's episode of The Vote - our monthly break from the awfulness that I hear is 3rd Degree - a very angry-making important moot is to be discussed: Our kids - The problem’s not poverty, it’s parenting. Do you agree? I first…
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Greens attack stupid spending, rattle Key
Julie-Anne Genter of the Greens has been doing some stellar work on public transport, including this exposure last night of the utter fiasco that is "Drive Social": The website is called Drive Social. It's described as a "unique online experience that lets people see who…
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Houston and the cost of sprawl
The Right's favourite sprawl example at the moment. Sections for $50,000. Wow! But they haven't asked why new sections in Houston are so cheap. They've just assumed its because Houston doesn't have tight zoning rules. In fact, they do - but their rules encourage sprawl.…
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Protest at sea
Labour government 1973: National government 2013:
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1938 5
A Sunday feature - each week a random section scanned from a copy of The Standard, September 15th, 1938. Find out more here. Click on the image for a bigger version.
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Open mike 16/06/2013
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Stupidest “debate” ever
And the award goes to TVNZ's Breakfast:
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Child poverty: Are we that heartless?
New Zealand’s issue of child poverty has lingered around for the past thirty-odd years, and although the rate is lower than it was in the 1980′s, it is by no means at an encouraging level. 1 in 4 kiwi kids live below the threshold, that’s…
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Water under pressure
Water is increasingly becoming a precious resource, under threat from pollution, over use, population growth, ill-judged prioritisation of the drive for commercial profits, and lax environmental pressures. The Guardian environment correspondent, Fiona Harvey warns that the Global majority faces water shortages 'within two generations'. The…
capitalism climate change Conservation democracy under attack greens john key labour local government Mining sustainability water
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Poverty Watch 35
Last week's edition of Poverty Watch was the culmination of a long series on the OCC report on Child Poverty which examined the government's formal response (take home message - it was a joke). Just a quick post this week, as I am in transit.…
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Inconvenient indeed
Your favourite smug, self-aggrandising Tory and mine, David Farrar, wrote a post yesterday about something called the "Performance of Manufacturing Index", which is a wee survey that the BNZ does. Apparently, it shows manufacturing on the grow. 'How inconvenient' for people worried about the crisis…
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Open mike 15/06/2013
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A fighting liberal
Lieutenant General David Morrison schools the misogynists and shows how you can be tough and liberal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaqpoeVgr8U Best quote: "You may find another employer where your attitude and behaviour is acceptable but I doubt it. The same goes for those that think toughness is built…
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Weekend social 14/06/2013
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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Workers’ rights under attack
John Key's government is continuing its attack on workers' rights with National MP Jami-Lee Ross' Employment Relations (Continuity of Labour) Amendment Bill. It was drawn form the ballot yesterday and is, of course, supported by John Key. It would repeal section 97 of the Employment Relations…
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Deep hypocrisy vs government for sale
I think the Labour MPs who went to the SkyCity box for the rugby were stupid to do so. They have various excuses, including using the opportunity to express opposition: Mr Faafoi said he often met with businesses and organisations he did not support and…
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Revolting young
Bernard Hickey asked such an interesting question on Twitter that it's worth a post and discussion here:
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Open mike 14/06/2013
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DPF oops
Bad day for National's favourite blogger yesterday: So, Farrar condescends that - "It is well known you can not distribute pre-filled in or pretend ballot papers. We’ve had this law for decades." - then promptly demonstrates his ignorance of that law by accusing Labour of…
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Networks of influence: Key, Peter Thiel & the GCSB
So, there is now further exposure of the networks of influence that connect John Key and his government with crony capitalists and spy networks. It's not enough that Key intervened in the appointment of the GCSB that resulted in the recruitment of his long time…
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Classy right wing politics
Here's a classic case of classy right wing politics from Australia: Julia Gillard's 'small breasts' served up on Liberal party dinner menu Fundraiser for Liberal candidate Mal Brough in Queensland featured 'deeply sexist' dishes based on prime minister A photo of the menu from a…
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Spies and lies – can anyone trust Key?
The angles and implications of the GCSB / PRISM / Palantir story are multiplying at a frightening rate, and only a mug would trust anything coming out from the government about it. How's this for starers: Report on GCSB changed from 'sensitive' to 'sanitised' The…
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Open mike 13/06/2013
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From a sinking ship
While Peter Dunne is on leave for a week, things are not going well... UnitedFuture has applied to be re-registered as a political party claiming it now has more than enough members. However, it has hit a stumbling block after not providing the information in…
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Toles on economic recovery
American cartoonist Tom Toles on economic recovery:
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National standards nonsense
If there was a national standard in scientific method than the right wing spinsters talking up yesterday's national standards results would all fail it. As reported yesterday: Concerning trends in National Standards data Education Minister Hekia Parata says the latest National Standards data reveals some…
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Why can’t the Right face the manufacturing crisis?
The NBR (motto: 'our circulation's falling at 12% per year') and the Right blogs are all aflutter after supposedly proving that Russel Norman is wrong and there haven't been 40,000 manufacturing jobs lost since 2008. NBR's Rob Hosking claims the number is only 10,000-20,000. Because,…
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Open mike 12/06/2013
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Nothing moderate about National’s employment changes
The National government’s changes to employment law will build on what we already have – the most unequal society we have had since the first Labour government turned things around in the 1930s. These laws will drive wages down and increase insecurity and poverty in…