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At the recent Republican Convention a clearly befuddled Clint Eastwood spent 12 minutes haranguing an empty chair that was supposed to represent Barack Obama. Here's Jon Stewart's take... Actually, I still can't get embedding from The Daily Show working, so I have to send you…
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I reckon that if Labour and the Greens combined get more votes than National next election, they'll be able to find enough support parties to govern. Vice versa too. During the last term, National averaged an 11% lead over Lab+Green. This term 3%. Since June,…
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I think Mike's hit it on the head. National's asset sales policy is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Key's punted for touch, pushed the hard calls out by six months (at a cost of another $10 million to us, thank you very much).…
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There's been a flurry of articles recently about the extreme or bullying lengths some health professionals are apparently going to in order to make parents breastfeed rather than formula feed. I am absolutely sure that some people are dickheads about this - every "health" cause…
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I can't really call it a "happy" anniversary, but two years ago today, in the small hours of the morning, Christchurch was hammered by the first and biggest (though not the most destructive) of the quakes. I happened to be in the city, where I…
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Key has gone for a gamble again; but not the gamble some of the pundits were expecting. On the asset sales, he's chosen flight over fight, giving up on floating Mighty River Power this year and pushed the timetable back to the next window of…
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The government is pushing on with their Environmental Relations Act Amendment Bill, reducing workers' rights to rest breaks. According to employers they need the flexibility, but as unions point out "negotiate" with the boss means the boss gets to decide. This isn't an equal relationship.…
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Breaking news - here's the 3 News version: Govt delays asset sales The Government has officially delayed its asset sales programme until next year. ... It was due to sell Mighty River Power by November this year - but it has officially pulled the plug.…
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A couple of weeks back I wrote a post offering Shearer, Robertson or Pagani an opportunity to justify their (more or less) blanket attack on beneficiaries. At the time, I didn't realise Pagani had been banned from 'the standard' for (from memory) being an idiot…
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From the EPMU: Spring Creek miners and their families will lead a community ‘March for Work’ in Greymouth on Tuesday calling on Solid Energy and the Government to secure the future of the town and ensure the mine stays open. Solid Energy suspended operations at…
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Some time next year, as it starts to dawn on the Nats that their potential 2014 coalition parties look like a parade of zombies, they and their pundits will start talking up the possibility of a coalition with Colin Craig's conservatives. When they do, I…
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The Keep Our Assets Coalition has now collected 250,000 signatures for the petition for a referendum on asset sales in just four months. You need to help with the big final push - the Spring Collection - to get the last 60,000 signatures and the…
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Last week, TVNZ covered a MYOB poll that showed 50% of small business owners disagreed with asset sales and 21% supported it. That's 2.5 to 1 of ones of National's core votes opposed to its flagship policy. They oppose asset sales for a simple reason:…
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I hope you won't think less of me when I say I'm enjoying Key's angst over baby formula companies using him in their ads in China. Key says it wasn't an endorsement when he went to the factory, signed a tin of formula, and smiled…
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