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Daily Review 25/08/2015
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NRT: Climate change: Absolute madness
I/S at No Right Turn writes: Climate change: Absolute madness The government has recently set itself a patheticly unambitious target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 11% on 1990 levels by 2030. Meanwhile, they'rehanding out tens of millions of dollars a year to big polluters…
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The cost of Joyce’s vanity
Another entry in the ongoing story of Steven Joyce's ego-ministry: Steven Joyce justifies cost of $600K government website - The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's new website went live yesterday, and the first media release revealed it cost $599,872 to create it. Just two…
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TPP – dooming our grandchildren to poverty
Hat Tip to Coffee Connoisseur for bringing this article to our attention in Open Mike today. Service hub technology is automating call center and receptionist roles right now and this will increase in pace as more and more switch to connecting with services using…
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Those abused in state care deserve apology
For all that I like to point out the multiple failings of "private providers", it is sadly the case that the state doesn't always get social services right either - and historically it has sometimes got it spectacularly wrong. This is a particularly shameful chapter:…
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The world’s stock markets: I see Red
We live in interesting times. Who would have thought even a few months ago that the price of oil would decline to US $40 a barrel? But it has despite being over $100 a barrel 12 months ago. And reports of an increase amount of oil…
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Open mike 25/08/2015
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“Wall St braces for a brutal open after China rout”
Every bubble must pop some time. And since GFC 1 the powers that be have been blowing up massive asset price bubbles all over the world. Now it looks like a reversion to mean in the global markets might be on the cards and be…
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Daily Review 24/08/2015
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Serco has yet more explaining to do
More bad news for fans of private prisons: Kelvin Davis: 'The whole Serco experiment has failed' A Serco prison guard is under investigation following claims he was involved in a jailhouse fight with a Mt Eden Prison inmate. The Government was forced to take control…
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Hard left Corbyn receives public backing from 41 leading economists
Jeremy Corbyn has just announced that under a Labour Government, state assets privatised by the Tories might be renationalised, with minimal compensation. I can see a certain Tory Labour "centrist" clique frowning at the 'extremist' audacity Corbyn is engaging in. Clearly the man has no…
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National scared of farmers?
National is being humiliated over its "health" and "safety" bill. Is worm farming dangerous or not? Judith Collins thinks it might be: "I've been assured it's not because of worms turning dangerously; it's actually because of heavy moving equipment and things". John Key goes through…
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Open mike 24/08/2015
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