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Pike River boss Peter Whittall, the guy facing charges after 29 of his employees died working in his unsafe, 'profit-over-people' mine, has set up a mining safety consulting company. What's next? A Minister of Tourism who always holidays overseas? A Finance Minister who wants to…
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Danyl at Dimpost says it all succinctly on Crafar Farms: while China is a rising economic super-power and a close trade partner of New Zealand, it’s also a totalitarian military dictatorship. People are allowed to feel apprehensive about such a state building its own vertical…
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Fran O'Sullivan is an enemy of the people. Her article in this morning's Herald will forever brand her as a traitor to this country. She will be shunned and reviled by people who understand what a disgusting sell-out she has become. There is no coming…
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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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CTU President Helen Kelly talks about the Ports of Auckland and the effects of casualisation on workers and workplace health and safety. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9zMlvqHjG8
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Anybody who has read, or even heard of, The Spirit Level knows that science is finding links between income inequality and the health of the society we live in - and the health of its citizens among other things. In the UK the debate has…
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The tea tapes contain a pivotal exchange where John Banks and John Key talk about "restructuring" ACT - including Banks confirming his orders from Key to make Catherine Judd the new leader. We also learn that National advisors called Key in a panic during the…
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Key didn't exactly live up to his brand as the master politician and numbers man yesterday: Key in the tea tapes: "we will get to 50. 49-50, anything around there will be good enough. When you are where we are the risk is a landslide"…
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The Teapot Tapes have leaked on to the internet. From The Jackal and many other sources. 2Johns2Cups by goldenturkey Please seed it: http://tinyurl.com/goldenturkey I'd have to say after listening to it that I'd prefer that John Banks kept his brown-nosing somewhere well away from me. I'd be worried…
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Dennis Tegg has a good piece on the release of a secret Australian government report that warns peak oil is upon us: The Daily Telegraph has revealed how the Australian government has attempted to suppress its own report on peak oil. The response from the…
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David Farrar is calling for the Christchurch City Council to be sacked on the bizarre pretext that some of them have objected to the council CEO's obscene pay rise. Apparently it's a crime not to express confidence in your CEO if you're an elected representative…
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When he was running for re-election, John Key said he opposed selling the Crafar farms offshore: "I am concerned about the risk that New Zealanders become tenants in their own land". Now he has won what is very likely his last term, he doesn't give…
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I like to think I'm pretty au fait with American politics. A large chunk of my teenagehood was spent in online spaces like DemocraticUnderground and the political "debate" communities on Livejournal. But it wasn't until this post from News With Nipples popped up in my…
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Christchurch has been back in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. First we had the renewed sequence of aftershocks that hit us all from the 23rd of December last year. One consistent thread that has been running through the public narrative has been…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here In the Heraldthey’re reporting that the sun is bombarding us with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years.Six years! And what…
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Gareth at Hot Topic has been looking at the funding sources for our local climate denier organisations. He writes in "Puppets on a string: US think tank funds NZ sceptics uncovered" about the interesting (and long-suspected) revelation... The Heartland Institute, the US organisation that plays a…
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Headline - PM to Ratana: National has made a difference Maori unemployment under National: +15,300 Median Maori income under National: -$78 per week Are Maori looking forward to another three years of Key's 'difference'?
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I understand there's a bit of a following of George Lakoff in the Labour Party caucus. Now I'm not a great exponent of his but consider this "frame": "Labour is no longer the party that supports Maori." This is a very familiar meme that has…
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National is letting children go to school hungry to try to teach their parents a lesson. Every fool knows the basic requirement for learning is food in the tummy. No decent person would turn their back on a hungry child. But Mike Sabin wants 20…
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A couple of weeks ago Irish asked why the right are so worried about how much working people earn. Today POAL and their creepy lackies David Farrar and Cameron Slater have continued their knicker-sniffing. I reckon that if we're gonna go rooting around in people's…
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here A police raid at a kindergarten this morning has led to several deaths and multiple arrests. Police and Armed Offender units raided the Meriwether Community…
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There are a couple of nice pieces in the Herald today on upstanding ACT MP John Banks. Firstly how he advised Kim Dotcom on residency and gave advice on the Overseas Investment Commission to help Dotcom buy the Chrisco mansion (he failed, and got a…
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The high point of John Key's popularity came about 3 weeks before the election. Then the tea tapes meant a spectacle that was meant to be a show of his power became a media storm with him at the centre. National lost 5% in those…
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In a couple of week's time parliament will resume and the government will start its move on the POAL dispute. The way I figure it John Key and his government can do nothing at all or they can respond in a variety of ways. The…