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Robert Reich writes about the impact of growing inequality in the United States. He has a graphic that shows the effects over the past hundred years. As the US and Europe come closer to their Niagara fall, his logic is compelling. Edmund Burke's saying that…
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Treasury has now adopted their masters' political line on income statistics. The latest Treasury MEI uses average after-tax wages to argue that an average worker is better off by 2% since October 2010. The Quarterly Employment Survey showed gross average weekly earnings rose 4.3% (including…
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The "Urewera 18" are now down to four. The police persecution has now been dropped for eleven of those charged in the Operation 8 raids four and half years ago. Crown Solicitor Simon Moore said the effect of a recent Supreme Court ruling on the…
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Once again recent headlines prompt me to ask if in 2008 we really chose a brighter future after all. NZ's brown poverty 'a timebomb' A child advocate says New Zealand is sitting on a Polynesian timebomb if it does nothing about Maori and Pacific poverty…
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NoRightTurn: The effects of NeoLiberalism The New York Times has a graphic comparing the outcomes of economic policy in the US, specifically comparing the broadly social democratic policies prevalent between [1947] and 1979, and the NeoLiberal policies since 1980. The differences are astounding. Between 1947…
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The Auditor-General has released her investigation into Pansy and Sammy Wong's use of the publicly funded parliamentary travel budget. She finds there was "no pattern of wrong doing". Looking at the report you'll see why - and you'll be left with more questions than answers... Recap: The Auditor-General was…
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A miner crawls out of a mine explosion, gets to an emergency station and finds it's empty. It was decommissioned but the workers were never told. Meanwhile nobody outside realises there's been an explosion until an electrician drives straight into the aftermath and only just…
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Labour's Charles Chauvel is campaigning hard in Ohariu, and would certainly bring a fresh approach and much more energy to representing the electorate. The polls are close, so close that John Key has had to come out to Ohariu's small party launch to support Dunne.…
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An alert reader sent in the link to Key on RadioLive today (end of the 7:30-7:45 recording) trying to explain why there are so few women on his party's list, particularly in the top rankings. It's like entering a place where words are devoid of…
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There's plenty of good posts around already on National's election list, how its dominated by white men and there's very little room for new blood. But just how bad is their list? I thought I would do a comparison of the ethnic and gender balance…
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Officials Muzzled on Peak Oil? The government has finally released its Energy Strategy. There are cosmetic changes from the Draft version but it's no surprise that the final Strategy continues to completely ignore the threat of peak oil. There were many submissions, including my own,…
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Now that it is safely over, I feel safe in wishing Christchurch a "happy" anniversary. One year since the first big quake, and a year that changed the city and many thousands of lives forever. (As luck would have it I was in the same…
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