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Buried in Friday's Herald's media section was a big political story. After John "Moonbeam" Key had his hour of talking about his cat while the country was being downgraded, Radio Live responded to the complaints of this blatant and illegal political favouritism by offering to…
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Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury has been banned from appearing on RNZ after strongly criticising Key's behaviour in the throat slitting incident (video). Bradbury confirms the ban in this post: Banned from Radio NZ for criticizing the Government Folks, the rumors are true, I've been banned from Radio NZ for…
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Herald political editor Audrey Young reports: Ratings agency Standard and Poor's has contradicted a claim by Prime Minister John Key that a credit downgrade would be more likely with a change of Government in New Zealand. Mr Key was questioned in Parliament last week by…
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Who said this on the double downgrade: "We have this ongoing challenge of a negative investment balance - the profits and dividends that go back to the foreign owners of New Zealand assets. We need to generate the kind of savings that will help New…
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Not much of a rugby fan myself, but we ran posts for the All Whites' big games, so it seems churlish not to for the All Blacks. As I'm sure everyone and their dog knows, the ABs play Argentina tonight, 8:30 pm at Eden Park.…
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Hat tip to Joe90 in comments, and source article here.
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As heard on Mediawatch this morning (audio link, around 26:30 in the audio) Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury has been banned from RNZ's "The Panel", and indeed from any appearance on RNZ, after strongly criticising Key's behaviour in the throat slitting incident (video). Bradbury was accused of "an…
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National's handling of the Rena oil spill is fitting into the same depressing pattern as Pike River and Christchurch - hands off, leave it to the private sector, ministers trotting out excuses rather than leading. We're even getting the mandatory Key photo-op today, doubtless accompanied…
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While avoiding the noise pollution from Eden Park over the gully last night, I found C4 playing a sequence of unfortunately named bands... After watching something called Death cabs for Cutie, they played something from Bush. Despite their unfortunate name, which admittedly is enough to…
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Just flicked on TV1 to see what's happening in the rugby. Host is a man who pushed his partner down the stairs. Kicked her as she lay. Broke her back in 4 places. Cause he's 'famous' he got off with only 300 hours CS &…
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National Party pollster, sorry, right-leaning independent commentator David Farrar has been polling in Epsom and the results are not good for the Right. Epsomites are pissed off with their seats being used as a backdoor for ACT into Parliament. They don't like the gall of…
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Since the nutters on the right at the sewer (otherwise known as the kiwiblog comments) seem to have a thing about billboards (probably because they can't handle actual politics or actual policy). So to keep them entertained and running around like headless chickens rather than…
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The stranding of the Containership Rena on Wednesday morning, occurred in clear fine weather which has persisted for 3 days now. This clear weather is due to deteriorate starting today with a change in wind direction around midday. It is expected that by the middle…
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When John Key was elected to power in 2008, he was estimated to have a personal wealth of about 40-50 million dollars. Since then, he's collected an annual salary of $400,000 - worth all the more since the tax cuts increased the net figure by…
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Last year the world's attention was focused on a huge oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the environmental disaster that unfolded. Not long after that Brazilian oil giant Petrobras started explorations for drilling in our own Raukumara Basin. Naturally concerns were raised about…
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Speaker Lookwood Smith is getting a lot of flak for his decision to punish The Herald for publishing a photo (taken in violation of Standing Orders) by banning their reporters from Parliament for ten days. It seems pretty clear that Smith has gone overboard on…
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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 median ('typical') Kiwi income has fallen 6% under National after inflation. It's worse if you're Maori - 16%. And if you're PI? 21%. That's more than a hundred dollars a week. It's a disgrace. In fact, ordinary people's incomes have shrunk faster than the…
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Here is Key making the throat-cutting gesture to Labour after a man tried to jump into the Debating Chamber. He displays a total lack of concern for the man and anyone else. Here's how the video plays out: It opens just as the man is…
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Looks like the RWC might not be quite the economic salvation that we hoped. Some have profited, but others have not, see: Restaurants starve amid Rugby World Cup joy, and Smarting retailers hope for late surge during Rugby World Cup. Overall the news is not…
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National's economic credibility was shot to pieces last week when Fitch and Standard & Poor's gave them 'not achieved' marks. Less than a quarter of the OECD has been downgraded. New Zealand is one of them. All is not sunny in this brigther future. But…
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The PM gets paid $400,000 a year. That's $45 an hour whether he's in Hawai'i, talking about his cat, or sleeping. His cleaner, Sosefina Masoe, gets $13.50 an hour. Key has rejected calls to lift the minimum wage for workers like her to $15 an…
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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died today at the age of 56.
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After months of playing coy, the latest from the the land of the Tea Party is that Sarah Palin will not be running for president. Read her letter here, it begins: October 5, 2011 Wasilla, Alaska After much prayer and serious consideration, I have decided…
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Remember when Key had a super-duper secret plan to end whaling? Turned out the 'plan' was to restore commercial whaling as long as they promised to stop some time (the draft 'phase-out' plan didn't actually have any reductions in it). Well, over-promise, under-deliver Key's made…