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Here's a cool interactive feature from the NYT - "I hope so too": The New York Times asked more than 200 people in 14 states (half red, half blue) to identify their greatest hopes for what Barack Obama might accomplish during his time as president.…
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Oddly the Standard hasn't received its invite to the "job summit" yet. I'm sure this is just an administrative error but just in case it's not I'd like to offer the National/Act government a few ideas for their consideration. I'll start with three of my…
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The National/Act government has announced its chair for the "job summit" and it's stock exchange boss Mark Weldon. I may be missing something but I seem to remember this mess was started by the markets so it seems a bit strange to put someone who…
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John Key in person is extremely amiable; talking to him face to face, it's hard not to like the bugger. I guess that he hasn't lost any of that magic on his holiday. How else could one explain John Armstrong's piece in the Herald today?…
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My favourite indicator for a deep recession is showing up. The applications and enrollments for colleges and graduate programs appears to be significantly up in the east, west, and south of the US and Canada. Probably something similar is happening here but we are unlikely…
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It's good to see Kiwipolitico taking a critical view of the Left from the Left - it's certainly better than any critiques we see from the Right. And, naturally, within the Left we disagree at times, which is all good and healthy. In that spirit,…
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John Key has announced his 'jobs summit' at the end of Feburary saying "I don't want this to be a talk fest, I want it to be a do-fest." "Do-fest", eh? Sounds sexy. Place your bets on which media commentator will be the first to…
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We all know the story of the sub-prime crisis that had developed into the credit crisis - a flood of credit saw mortgage lenders lending to anyone, including people who couldn't really afford the repayments. To get these potentially bad loans off their books, the…
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Only four weeks into a well-deserved holiday following two frantic weeks stripping Kiwis of their work rights, the National/ACT Government has been spurred back into action by an emerging crisis. No, not the international financial meltdown. Nup, not peak oil, nor climate change, nor the…
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Is John Campbell leaving TV to pursue his childhood dream of being a pugilist? No, it's diminutive Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez. Uncanny resemblance though. (hattip: Hugo - googling himself apparently)
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"I'm not one for ideological stances; I support what works", said John Key in a speech to the Salvation Army in early 2007. Well now the challenge is on. Steve posted earlier today calling for a "truce on the sentencing bidding war", echoing the recent sentiment…
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There have been two interesting pieces from the Guardian recently on the way UK Labour are beginning to embrace the opportunities of the internet for political campaigning. The first is here and describes Labour's spoof of an online meeting of the shadow Tory cabinet (pictured above).…
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We've seen that oil production in oil fields and countries peaks long before the oil actually runs out, and as individual countries go, so must, inevitably go the world. Once the amount of oil the world is capable of producing starts to fall, things are…
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An interesting article from the Sydney Morning Herald: THE NSW Opposition has pledged to end the "law and order auction" in a dramatic break with the tradition of promising to increase punishments and fill jails that has characterised every state election campaign since 1988. The…
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Via SwissMiss: CrashTheInauguration.com, an online Inauguration guide created by AirBedAndBreakfast.com, is connecting last minute travelers with accommodations in Washington DC. Individuals or groups can easily rent an airbed, couch, private bedroom, or entire place for as little as $45/night. Already visitors from throughout the United States,…
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Idiot/Savant seems to think so. DPF doesn't. Robert Fisk does: What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be too strong a description? For that is what we would call this atrocity if it had been committed by Hamas. So a war…
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Nikki Kaye might be right to fear Google's watchful eye but police in Massachusetts have used streetview to solve the alleged kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl by her grandmother. A Massachusetts-based officer used the phone company's GPS records to narrow his search then used Google's streetview to take…
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There is only so much oil in the world. It was all formed when, over the course of a few hundred million years, creatures living in shallow seas died and their remains accumulated and were subjected to a very particular combination of heat and pressure for hundreds…
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Yesterday, Labour leader Phil Goff challenged National to present its plan for getting the economy through the global downturn. Halfway through National/ACT's much-hyped first 100 days and, Goff pointed out, while Obama and the UK are pushing ahead with a 'Green New Deal' we've seen…
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The following quoted text is a e-mail response by Mike Treen from Global Peace and Justice Auckland to someone who was complaining about the campaign to boycott an Israeli tennis player. Hopefully Mike won't get too upset with me for giving this a wider airing.…
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The more I learn about energy, and peak oil in particular, the more concerned I get. So, in the spirit of the season, I thought I would share some of it with you. I'll get to some concrete things we need to start doing now to…
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Which MP only got his job by 39 votes? Which former State house kid and brand-new Tory MP already has ambitions to be the next John Key? Which National MP from a working-class background is going around telling people he opposes the 90 Day Fire…
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The Economist has an fascinating article "Rioters of the world unite". It is partially about the demonstrations, protests, and outright riots in Athens and other parts of Greece at the end of last year. It is also partially concerned with a rising trend in new…
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Pablo, Anita, and Jafapete have (finally) started their new KiwiPolitico blog site. I don't know Pablo* (at least under that psuedonym), but the post on Key and McCully at APEC was amusing. Anita has already annoyed David over at Kiwiblog. She tends to do with…
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Israel's latest attack on Gaza, purportedly to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, is an unjustified, immoral, and, above all, stupid action. I am not defending Hamas' rocket attacks at all - while many are targeted at Israeli military forces most are simply indiscriminate. I'm…
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I've been thinking about the concurrent crises we face - peak oil, climate change, and tightening food supply - how the limits to growth are starting to hit us and how, each reinforcing the other, they constitute the major challenges to our collective welfare in…
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Submissions for the review of the Emissions Trading Scheme have opened but will close on the 13th of February. Given the time of year that's a reasonably short submitting period, especially for legislation that has such far-reaching implications for New Zealand's economy and international reputation.…