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May the best team win
I'm aware that I run the risk of being called a bad loser with this post but I'm going to do it anyway :) It's always struck me as a bit odd that in many games, soccer, rugby, tennis and so on, the outcome of…
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Congratulations France
Well that was painful to watch but good on France for really lifting their game. They defended strongly and took advantage when it counted. Let's just hope that it makes winning here at home in 2011 that much sweeter.
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Colourful advertising
The Sony Bravia ads are among my all-time favourites. First we had the bouncy balls, then the paint explosions, now it's clay bunnies.
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Herald Editorial on National
A scathing attack on the National Party policy development and release process from the Herald Editor: An Opposition seeking to style itself a Government in waiting needs to do better than run ideas up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes them... The suspicion suggests…
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Ralston on National
A good read from Bill Ralston in the Herald today. He observes what seems to have been a turn in media and public opinion against Key and National, noting: But, frankly, National has only itself to blame. I wonder if Bill English is not out…
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Ethical coffee good for business
The Guardian reports that "Growing consumer demand for ethically sourced coffee has fuelled a huge year-on-year rise in sales". Global sales of coffee, chocolate and bananas certified by the conservation organisation Rainforest Alliance - which supports the world's poorest farmers in Latin America and Africa…
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Obama stops wearing flag pin
The big political news in the US in the last couple of days seems to have been Barack Obama's decision to stop wearing a flag pin on his lapel. The pins have become more or less standard political attire since 9/11. Barack apparently believes the…
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“100% Pure NZ” kicks off in Paris
The Prime Minister yesterday officially opened Tourism New Zealand's giant walk-in rugby ball, situated in front of the Eiffel tower in the Champs de Mars. The interior of the 25 metre long, 12 metre high ball is built to showcase New Zealand - with video…
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Conservative humour
Paul Krugman of the New York Times reports that "On Wednesday, President Bush vetoed legislation that would have expanded S-chip, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, providing health insurance to an estimated 3.8 million children who would otherwise lack coverage." He goes on to cite…
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O’Sullivan defends Key’s comments
Fran O'Sullivan of the Herald, has lept to John Key's defence. She points to a couple of times back in 2003 when Clark and Goff reffer to "post-conflict" and "post-war" Iraq. Apparently their comments of four and a half years ago are meant to undermine…
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Classic hits DJs buying Key’s spin
John Key seems intent on rewriting history. This must be about the 8th time he's tried this tactic in the last couple of days. It's an indictment on these radio hosts that they're prepared to let him get away with it. The question Key was…
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Many a true word is spoken in jest
The NBR this week - hardly a publication known for its politically balanced coverage - includes digs at both National Party blogger David Farrar and also John Key's disasterous series of policy gaffes (though both by way of humour). Of course NBR readers are spared…
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Working Class Hero
(Via Concerned of Linwood)
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Comment here. Get famous.
The NY Times reports: DASHIV is in town and the celebration has not ceased. Strange women are opening their apartments to him. Three parties have been given in his honor. His beer mug has been constantly refilled. All hail DaShiv. Who in the world is…
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A mother’s response to John Key
Yesterday, Morning Report invited comment on Key's "The war is over" from Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia. Her son, Sergeant Sherwood Baker, was killed in Baghdad three years ago. RNZ reports that "to say the war is over is not her experience". CELESTE ZAPPALA (MOTHER OF…
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Abandon ship
The HMS National Party appears to be adrift and taking on water. No surprise to hear that another leak has sprung up. Strangely though, this one's from the Northern Club. A source there tells me that National will soon be launching a billboard campaign. Watch…
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Burma protests
With the Burmese junta continuing its crackdown on democracy protesters, Amnesty International has organised a Global Day of Action for Burma this Saturday (that's tomorrow), including protests in Christchurch, Wellington, Dunedin and Palmerston North. Details are: Christchurch: 12:00 - 15:00, Saturday 6 October, Victoria Square…
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Political suicide on bFM
What is it with National Party leaders and their apparent desire to commit political suicide on bFM? First Don Brash's sensational harakiri moment when, after a week of teeth pulling torment as he wiggled and squirmed away from the truth, he finally admitted that he…
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So trickledown does work!
Apparently when the senior members of the National Party are having a tough time, they take it out on their workers. How else to explain today's meltdown by National Party blogger and HQ staff member, David Farrar? DPF isn't his usual chirpy self at all…
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John “Parselmouth” Key
John Key's new line is that he was answering a different question to the one everyone heard him asked on RNZ yesterday. Three times in this latest bFM interview Key claims that he was answering a question on the invasion. This is his new line…
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A black heart at the Real Estate Institute
I thought I'd dive in with a little post on another subject.just to give John Key a small respite from single-handedly ending the war in Iraq. It seems that the Real Estate Institute, that great business body charged by its members with protecting the interests…
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You can fool some of the people…
...all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, said Abraham Lincoln. John Key appears to be learning that lesson the hard way, much as Brash did with the…
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John Key’s global humiliation
Too late - John's humiliation is now global. Here's the UK Guardian's blog. "New Zealand's opposition leader, John Key, the head of the centre right National Party, has an interesting take on the Iraq war, one perhaps not seen since George Bush stood on the…
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What’s with TV?
The major papers, radio and political blogs picked up John Key's War is Over story but neither of the main TV channels ran with it last night. Why is that? A photo in the Herald this morning shows Key surrounded by a swarm of press…
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John Key to address UN General Assembly
But seriously. Can you imagine it? Clark and Key are chalk and cheese & and hardly anywhere more so than on their grasp of foreign policy. While Clark has spent the last week or so furthering our country's interests abroad, Key's had his foot firmly…
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RNZ this morning
People have been asking for details from this morning's eye-opening RNZ interview with John Key. First, here's the staggering quote from Key: powered by ODEO The interview kicked off with comment from Phil Goff on National's recently released foreign policy document: HON PHIL GOFF: Oh…
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Don’t mention the war
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Paul Henry finally gets some balls
The media is clearly tiring of John Key's vacuousness. You know the tide is turning when even Paul Henry turns on the Nats. I've embedded a two minute clip to show the tone of the interview. Here's the link to the full piece.
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Keith Locke on “The war in Iraq is over”
"Until Mr Key put me wise, I had assumed the US and its coalition allies were bogged down fighting an intractable insurgency in Iraq that had seen a surge in US troop numbers earlier this year. "The deaths of 805 US troops and at least…