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Which Labour MP has Matt McCarten today described as "Another Cunliffe loyalist rewarded." and scored 5/10? Now, which Labour MP got the government on the ropes with a member's bill to the point that Bill English had to threaten a rarely used and politically damaging…
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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: google vs…
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The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report makes, well, pretty damn depressing reading. Over a century after the basic mechanism of global warming by greenhouse gases was understood, and quarter of a century since the world's nations signed the framework convention on climate…
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From the IPCC AR5 preliminary summary for policy makers (PDF). Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010 (high confidence). It is virtually certain that the upper ocean (0−700 m) warmed…
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Good on Kennedy Graham for posting a good critique of Key's UN speech, while the MSM largely report the speech in uncritical and glowing terms. Graham gives it a B-; damns Key with some faint praise, then goes on to criticise the pro-US bias, the…
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Just a short post and a song for Friday afternoon. Duncan Garner has tweeted the results of a UMR poll. Just been told that UMR poll has Nats 39, Lab 36, Green 14, NZF 5.1%. Not sure if it's out yet. Internal presentation yday. And…
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So , Matthew Hooton has somewhat backed down from his liar liar accusations against David Cunliffe. However, he and/or his cheer team, without acknowledging Hooton''s backed down, and without apology, are adopting the fall-back position of "CV embellishment",or "padding". This in the face of the…
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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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The other day, I wrote a piece on Poto Williams' selection to be Labour's candidate in the Christchurch East by-election. I promptly had to ban a commenter who assumed her selection was due to a quota - ie. a woman Cook Islander can't possibly win…
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Imagine that your job was to clean 130 toilets every day. Imagine the grinding unpleasantness of it. Imagine the horrors some disgusting person would regularly leave for you to deal with. Imagine you do that for just above the minimum wage, barely enough to support…
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The right must be very afraid of David Cunliffe. Because they are coming up with the most extraordinarily crazy conspiracy theories to try and discredit him. It is becoming a bit like the Birther movement in the US. Over in the land of the free…
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This morning on Radio New Zealand Kathryn Ryan read out a short apology for comments recently made about David Cunliffe by Matthew Hooton. The statement records that David Cunliffe had produced BCG time records showing he spent 235 hours working on the Dairy merger in…
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John Key and his handlers have tried so hard to distance himself from the underhand dirty tricks employed by National Party people to undermine opposition parties. They were used relentlessly to undermine Helen Clark, but, once in power and having achieved dominance in the popularity…
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There were two very good speeches in the General Debate in the House today from opposition leaders. Both of them showed just how dodgy Nick Smith's record is, and why he should be, yet again, stood down as a Minister. Russel Norman began his speech…
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As Irish predicted, the Nats continued their desperate smear campaign today with the revelation that David Cunliffe doesn't actually have a qualification he never actually claimed to have. Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up. The irony is that this latest desperate spin came at…
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Cunliffe’s Labour is center left, moderate one working for the many struggling Kiwis doing it tough in as opposed to Key’s cronyist, corporate-backed, radically “neoliberal”, government that disdains democracy and changes laws to suit the wealthy international elites. The NAct supporting right are looking a…
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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. Gee I’m a bit peckish. I never had time for breakfast this morning, and it’s been meeting after meeting since I got up, and I’ve got Question…
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One opinion poll does not a Government make but this morning's Herald digipoll which had Labour on 38% and National on 44% is promising. The Cunliffe leadership era has started. He has not put a foot wrong yet apart from tripping over a couple of…
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Sure it's just one poll but that's nearly seven percent. And it's (nearly) all come off National. This goes quite some way to explaining why National are breaking out the desperate dirty tricks...
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It's not been surprising to see National's dirty tricks machine groan back to life over the last week - in the last week of the leadership campaign a good source close to the Nat's research unit told me that they'd picked David Cunliffe as the…
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Just for the record, if you or any other idiot accuse me of homophobia, genocide, necrophilia, child kidnapping or just not being nice enough please use this photo; not the ones you used recently which make me look disturbingly like my mother - whom I…
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That CV's almost looking complete and we've been loving the baubles and celebrity of a weekend with the Windsors. Milk it baby. John Key has come away not only learning that you address a baby as "Sir", but more committed to keeping the monarchy and…
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One of the oddities of looking at our export statistics in NZ is that one of the largest export sectors simply doesn't show up. It is one that virtually didn't exist 20 years ago when I started working in it. The amount of hi-tech exports…
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The cleverness of David Cunliffe's reshuffle extends beyond how he has united Labour by keeping worthy MPs who opposed him in senior positions while demoting no-hopers like Curran. He's also left space for the Greens to move into both in opposition and in government. That…
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