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Feed the Kids
https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/577600536439975936
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Keep it in the ground
The front page of The Guardian today is excellent (let it load). Click through to sign the petition: Keep it in the ground Join us in urging the world's two biggest charitable funds to move their money out of fossil fuels
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All Apologies
In the recent post about Julian Assange’s continuing attempt to avoid Swedish law, the phrase “rape apologist” was used many times. Oddly, it was primarily used by those defending Assange in reference to themselves, usually as an accusation in the style of ‘are you calling…
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Defining the truth
News last week that Google is considering ranking web sites based on accuracy. This would in effect filter the sites that users see (all for "benign reasons" of course): For some time, those of us studying the problem of misinformation in US politics - and…
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How much is National’s Northland panic costing the taxpayer?
News yesterday that: John Key shortens Japan trip for Northland by-election Prime Minister John Key is to cut short his state visit to Japan to campaign in the Northland by-election. On Monday afternoon Key announced that next week he will travel to South Korea to…
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Open mike 17/03/2015
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The Killing Moon
Two incidences of bullying in the media have been the subject of discussion in the last few days. The first was the alleged assault and racist abuse of a TV producer on the BBC’s Top Gear program by presenter Jeremy Clarkson and the second was…
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And yet the cast of Dirty Politics are still at large in the media
https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/577291903458213888
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Surveillance newspeak
Key's attempt to play cute with the semantics of surveillance is part of an international strategy. Here's Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept: THE ORWELLIAN RE-BRANDING OF "MASS SURVEILLANCE" AS MERELY "BULK COLLECTION" Just as the Bush administration and the U.S. media re-labelled “torture” with the Orwellian euphemism “enhanced interrogation…
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The Northland coverup
Ooops... https://twitter.com/BeeFaerie/status/577014796475760642 If you missed it in the weekend, also catch up with Armstrong on the Nats in Northland: Questionable tactics in race for Northland votes "New" jobs which may or may not be full-time jobs; "new" road bridges which are not a priority; "new"…
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International travel perks for the people who got us into this mess?
There's a long-running debate about the value of blogs compared to the mainstream media. Which provides value? Which just jumps on the other's bandwagon? The story of proposed changes - let's be frank, increases - in current and former MPs' international travel perks may turn…
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Donate for cyclone recovery
At time of writing it is not clear how hard NZ will be hit by cyclone Pam - keep safe everybody. Vanuatu has been badly hit, with many dead, and significant damage. There is a Red Cross donations page here. Please donate if you can.
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Open mike 16/03/2015
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