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As the atmosphere warms it holds more moisture - and thus rainfall gets heavier. Here are some recent headlines, taking hurricane Sandy as a starting point. Sandy: Hurricane Sandy’s Waters Flood Blacked-Out New York City How Hurricane Sandy flooded New York back to its 17th…
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An interesting couple of interviews. Jamie-Lee Ross admits he took advice on strikebreaking from the Ports of Auckland Ltd and Darien Fenton makes it clear what National are up to, and (note to Labour's press team) shows why she should be fronting serious media more…
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My semi-regular Sunday piece 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 fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week: mastery of…
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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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As National Volunteer Week draws to a close, let us continue to celebrate the 1/3 of New Zealanders who regularly do volunteer work in our communities year-round. The theme for this year's week was "he tangata, he tangata, he tangata", and you can't get truer…
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I am reading a very interesting book on the role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy (Edited by Susan Hayter). It confirms for me the importance of getting political support to change the labour laws in New Zealand to support industry level/sector wide bargaining,…
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Many business people say that a country should be run like a business. Maybe they are right. It should be run like a SUCCESSFUL business. It is appropriate for Government to take lessons from business success, and the reverse. But when it comes down to…
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Last week's Poverty Watch previewed the debate that was featured by "The Vote" (which screened on Wednesday): "Our kids - The problem’s not poverty, it’s parenting". I wrote: I think it’s healthy to have the debate out in the open, rather than the right-wing view lurking behind sewer blogs…
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Ken Perrott at Open Parachute has been debunking some of the nonsense surrounding the debate on fluoridated water by investigating claims made against fluoridated water. His background is in scientific research, so he tends to actually read the papers cited by others. Unsurprisingly there are…
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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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For a small party Mana are not afraid to come up with big policy! Mana Party announces big housing plan The Mana Party wants to build 10,000 state houses a year. ... Its policy includes reinstating the Maori Affairs Housing Scheme which ended in 1989.…
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Over the last week, Brazil and Turkey have seen the spontaneous uprisings of masses of people against their governments' divisive and destabilising economic policies. At the forefront of the protests in Brazil is the complaint that too much has been spent on expensive stadiums for…
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I hope everyone in Wellington, and other places affected by last night's the ongoing storms, gets through it all OK. The reports of violent wind, high seas, power outages, heavy snowfalls and general chaos, certainly made for lively reading. (I got my share in the…
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A second repost (with thanks) from I/S at No Right Turn. This time on SOEs. The problem of SOEs Fifteen years ago, Nicky Hager exposed how state-owned enterprise Timberlands West Coast was spending millions of dollars of taxpayer's money to fund political operations against its owners, the…
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I/S at No Right Turn is on a roll today. Here he is on the gambling amendment: Some "reforms" Yesterday the Maori Party's Te Ururoa Flavell explained his contentment with National gutting his Gambling (Gambling Harm Reduction) Amendment Bill by saying that they would be announcing some reforms today. So what…
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From xkcd: The Pace of Modern Life
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We have an unfortunate tendency in New Zealand to reduce politics to dumb slogans. The "fart tax" was a classic example. The current case in point is "printing money". Last October the Greens put out a discussion document (contrary to some lazy headlines it was…
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Blame beneficiaries, blame the young, blame the old, blame the boomers, blame Maori, blame Pakeha, blame granny, hell, why don't we just blame the Jews! Anything except place the blame where it belongs. On successive Governments who have sold us out to the rich, and…
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Well, another lethal blow to my ego: no one in the mainstream media reads my blog. That's the only reason I can think for them breathlessly covering a "report" from Family First - who, let's all remember, were de-registered as a charity, in part because all…
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Lianne Dalziel’s confirming her run for the mayoralty of Christchurch will be great for the people of the city. They desperately need the kind of positive vision and experience that she will provide. Word on the ground is that people are lining up to support…
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So, John Key can't admit there's a crisis in manufacturing. He can't face the 40,000 job losses, the 16% decline in manufactured exports, the 7.7% fall in the number of manufacturing companies for the simple reason that its happened - is still happening - on…
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The Speaker of Parliament has issued an updated lists of Lobbyists given a swipe pass into Parliament. As Audrey Young reports, this list has doubled in the last year. This elite group of lobbyists gives a clue as to who is engaged with some elite…
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As widely anticipated, Lianne Dalziel has confirmed that she will stand for Mayor of Christchurch: Dalziel says she'd be an inclusive mayor Lianne Dalziel is promising to work with any Government on the Christchurch rebuild - if she becomes mayor. The Labour MP has confirmed…
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The proposed changes to employment law make massive changes to the right to strike. Those opposed to the Bill by Jamie Lee-Ross to allow replacement labour during strikes, need to be consistent in this view and should also be very worried about the main Employment…
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Fabian Society presents Nicky Hager on "Tax Havens and the Rule of Law" at Connolly Hall, Guildford Terrace, Wellington, at 5:30pm on Friday 21 June 2013. Nicky Hager recently participated in a multi-country investigation of a huge leak of tax haven information. He will speak…