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Geoff Simmons will speak on the importance of Pharmac at a Fabian seminar today at St John's Church at 5:30pm. Pharmac is "on the table" in negotiations with the US in the Trans-Pacific Trade agreement. It is no secret that the US pharmaceutical industry would like…
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Reposted from bsprout* at Local Bodies blog. I have already expressed my concern that this government's focus on numeracy and literacy, above all else, will have negative consequences on our children's learning. The Ministry have just revealed that around 20% of schools have refused to set targets against the Standards and therefore…
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So Breivik has given us an eyes wide open gaze into the abyss. Chilling isn't it? Much has been written in the last week about the political atrocity he committed, yet this article in the Sunday Star Times today is equally wrong. Here is why.…
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"Government to clear beggars before international sporting event". We've seen variations of this kind of headline many times over the years. China before the Olympic games. India before the Commonwealth games. South Africa before the Soccer World Cup. What terrible problems such countries must have!…
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Cooperation is the word that the tea party has forgotten. But increasingly it looks like the evolutionary feature that defines humanity. I find it rather amusing that the tea party is un-cooperating itself towards extinction. It is a pity that they damage the rest of…
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Another gem from I/S at No Right Turn: Stuff this morning had more results from their poll, reporting that National's lead is built on trust in its handling of the economy: National's yawning lead in the polls is built on an even larger gap in…
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There's a certain kind of commentator that like to accuse Labour of arrogance. My colleague Bryce Edwards (g'day Bryce) is a prime example: Labour and its cheerleaders ... are paying the electoral price for their assumptions that ‘we are right’ and that ‘voters must come…
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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 threshold and stability Over on Kiwiblog, DPF attempts to defend MMP's undemocratic threshold. To his credit, he opposes Phil Goff's nakedly self-interested desire to remove the "electorate lifeboat" clause, and supports a lower 4% threshold, as recommended by the Royal Commission on the Electoral…
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The media are reporting the chance of the US defaulting as a 'debt crisis', as if the problem is too much debt and people won't lend to them. It's not. The US is still borrowing at half the cost we borrow at. The problem is…
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Rightwing violence fetishists are exploiting the Norwegian terror attacks as a justification for looser gun laws. 'If only one of those teenagers had a handgun to take on the drugged up zealot with the automatic rifle'. Fact is, the 'guns save lives' myth was destroyed…
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Some are linking Labour's polling to National's in 2002. Well, I think it's worth remembering the other side of the 2002 polls. Labour's support plunged 13% in the last month of the campaign from 50%+ support to the point where a Nat-led government was a…
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Two pieces of news have recently linked Anders Breivik's Utoya island massacre of members of Young Labour and New Zealand. First, the news that Breivik, in his "manifesto", quoted words published at a far right conference here: Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's NZ link Norwegian…
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The government has put out a new policy statement on transport. Total funding is unchanged. But cost of the RoNS is rising before they're even built. So, it's more money into white elephant highways. Less money for road safety, local roads, road policing, and public…
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Telecom realised some time ago that home phone lines & cell phones companies will become a thing of the past before long. We will all be communicating over the internet using the likes of Skype, wireless internet etc in the very near future. So instead…
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Did anyone else see the Herald article beginning: "A priest working as a senior executive at the Auckland University of Technology has resigned after "accounting discrepancies" involving hundreds of thousands of dollars." and think "the money was just resting in my account"? No? Just me?
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Last week, Jim Anderton said that the tidal wave of youth unemployment we're experiencing will lead to more suicides. He's right. The best response from the Right: slash young people's wages and that might create a few more jobs. But Te Ururoa Flavell's suggestion to…
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Much ado in the commentariat about the latest Fairfax poll which has Labour on 28%, with Phil Goff 6% for preferred PM (Edwards at Politics Daily has his usual good summary). Yes it's another bad result for Labour, no denying that. But some of the…
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A classic from stuff: Prime Minister John Key said the Government had had very little room to move on the economy. ''The public recognises that the rest of the world isn't in great shape and so New Zealand is having to contend with that global…
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They usually show the exchange rate the other way round. This way's more relevant. If you export and get paid in US dollars, the number of NZ dollars you can buy with the same US earnings has gone down 17% in the last 4 months.…
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The Republicans are playing chicken with the world economy over the debt ceiling. They are trying to extract as much as possible in spending cuts and permanently shrink the government by appearing more willing to go over the edge than the Democrats without actually going…
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Kids are the canary in society's coal mine. They tell us about the health of a country. Child poverty was reducing under Labour. Now it is rising again under National. Child poverty is rising because National's perpetual beneficiary-bashing rhetoric has made it politically impossible to restore benefits to the liveable pre-1991…
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Just after Irish has discussed how little it takes to jump from the violent language of the NZ Right to the violent actions of Anders Breivik (and an 'expert' had said it can't happen here), we learn of a rabidly anti-socialist businessman who planned a…