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Debt explained
The same scenario of tax cuts, national debt, and public spending cuts is being played out in New Zealand, Britain and the USA. Here's the right wing argument in a nutshell...
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Open mike 27/04/2011
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It’s all on Calvert
Perhaps the most interesting comment in the whole ACT leadership saga thus far has come from ACT president Chris Simmons who has said: Rodney Hide has enough support in the caucus to stay, but says the board would not stand in the way of a…
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Nowhere to Hide
John Armstrong: The political graffiti are now writ large on the wall for Rodney Hide's leadership of Act after the apparent Easter rising within the party. Hide has to go. Tracy Watkins: ACT is now so discredited that even some on the Right Wing are…
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Fabians lecture
"Reconstructing Christchurch" with Peter Harris and Hon Lianne Dalziel. Venue: St John's Church Hall, 176 Willis St, Wellington When: April 27th, 5:30 PM
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Interesting election May 2
Canada will go to the polls on May 2. That election has just got a whole lot more interesting. The latest poll has the New Democrat Party at 28% and rising, while the Conservatives, Liberal and Greens are falling. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has…
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Caption Contest
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On the glorious dead
It seems to me that as the years roll on and there are fewer and fewer veterans of the World Wars left, our involvement in those wars is becoming glorified into the basis of a national myth: 'our heroes' noble sacrifice for us', which is…
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Buzzy Key
John Key would have us believe that his jaunts on military planes and helicopters aren’t among the ‘nice to haves’ that Bill English says we’ll all have to learn to live without, but are essential to his ability to carry out his duties as Prime…
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Eaarth
At the start of the year I reviewed "Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope", by Tim Flannery. While it was an interesting book, full of information and ideas, warmly and well written, in the end it left me unsatisfied. I felt that as an…
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Open mike 26/04/2011
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In theory it should be seamless…
Shifting the site to a GeoDNS with fallback capabilities this evening*. This involves changing the domain name server addresses again. Now like last time this is meant to be a seamless shift. However that may or may not be the case. Last time there were…
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A challenge to Gerry Brownlee
A few weeks ago Lianne Dalziel announced she wouldn't stand for the list stating: I came to the conclusion that if I wasn't re-elected by the people of Christchurch East I wouldn't want to be a member of Parliament. I wouldn't want to be anything…
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The Mana Party & the Money Party
Hone Harawira is set to launch his Mana Party next weekend, possibly triggering a by-election in Te Tai Tokerau at the same time. As when Tariana Turia left Labour and set up the Maori Party, resigning and triggering a by-election establishes legitimacy for the new…
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Anzacs and Afghans
Today is the day that we remember our old soldiers. You don't need me to add to the mountains of respectful words that get written about Anzac day every year. I too am grateful to those who fought and died, in whatever war, to defend…
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Open mike 25/04/2011
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Bloody shambles
They called it the "flying coffin". The Vickers Vildebeest, top speed 95 miles and hour. They joked that its only defence was that when the Japanese pilots saw it they would die laughing. In Singapore in 1941 it was restricted to night flying as it…
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The Marketers
"The happiness-consumption myth is interestingly analysed in relation to neurological mechanisms. The myth is co-created by the marketers and us." Brian Walker, Hot Topic. These couple of lines are very important to my mind. I got involved in marketing through my business and was a…
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Nats try to warn off Brash
Tweedledum and Tweedledee were a bit slow off the mark responding to the news that Don Brash is looking to take over ACT. Took the Nats a while to get their lines together but have decided, on balance, they want ACT dead. And that will…
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Corporate media
How much of the "news" that we consume and the "research" that it is based on is bought, paid for, and subservient to, corporate masters? Historically tobacco and drug companies are well known cases where corporations have poured huge amounts of money and energy into…
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Open mike 24/04/2011
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Herald promotes Anzac scam?
"Fallen soldier records free to access over Easter" is the headline in a Herald story today promoting a special free access to a website. I went to look at it because three of my four uncles were shot down in combat during World War 2.…
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Corporatism & Neo-Liberalism
One of the corollaries or supporting ideologies behind Neo-Liberalism is the cult of Management. The idea that individual shareholders, managers or directors are the main contributors to the success of a corporation, and thence the economy. And deserve the greatest share of the rewards. The…
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Brash to roll Hide?
Don Brash has thrown his hat in the ring for leadership of the ACT party according to the dominon post and, with an ACT council meeting next Saturday, I'd say the challenge is a serious one. It's understandable that ACT would want rid of Hide…
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What is important to voters?
What is important to voters? Good policy that gets results? Competent, well managed execution of government? A leader who is perceived as friendly and accessible? Some vague overall general impression? I'm moved to ask because of a bizarre comment in one of DPF's posts at…
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Open mike 23/04/2011
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Cleaning up after the royals
Buckingham Palace cleaners aren't even paid the London living wage while the British taxpayer will have to pay for the royal wedding cleanup. That's one reason why I'm a republican. The Globe and Mail reports: The cost of cleaning the streets of Westminster the day…
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SAS: torturers’ henchmen?
The Herald has summarised a report in the new Metro on the New Zealand SAS's role in arresting Afghanis and handing them over for torture. Delivering prisoners for torture is as culpable an act as torture itself. It is a war crime. Everyone who wants…
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Emergency housing
Here's a photo of the emergency housing that families in Japan were moving in to about a month after their quake: Here's a computer generated graphic of housing that families in Christchurch might get to move in to at some point in the future (currently…
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Sleezy old granny
The Herald asks: "Is Kate Middleton the best looking UK royal ever?". I say: what about Mary of Orange? Phwoooar! Get a load of that! Seriously, who gives a fuck that some dickhead who might some day be the nominal boss of our figurehead vice-regent…