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As widely discussed, we the people of the planet have passed a dangerous and depressing milestone: Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a…
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Over at Kiwiblog David Farrar's having a big cry about the Greens indicating they'd legislate against the dodgy contract this government has struck with Sky city. To David, the property rights conveyed by contract law are paramount above all other rights. Including the rights of…
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Jeff Price and Rachel Warren of the Tyndall Institute have just published a rather upbeat piece of research. The good news is that 60 per cent of the projected climatic range loss for biodiversity due to climate change may, in fact not be lost and…
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After a brutal smear-campaign from Key, Gilmore is gone. Nothing he did made him unfit to be an MP ,* but lying to Key meant Key had to get him out of the caucus or look weak. And the only safe way to do that…
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Who was missing from the Mighty River sale announcement last week? Who was missing from the SkyCity dirty deal announcement this morning? Being seen at the front of positive government stories is a big part of the PM's job, unless concerns over protecting Brand Key…
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Danyl at Dim-Post hit the nail on the head with this classic image and post last week: Two comparisons Back in 2007 the Labour Party introduced the Electoral Finance Act, the main effect of which prevented organisations that weren’t registered political parties from spending more…
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John Banks has announced that he will stand in Epsom again at the next election. That is, of course, always assuming that he doesn't get chucked out of Parliament first: I haven't committed any offence': ACT leader Banks faces a charge of filing a false…
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SkyCity will get more pokies and cashless gambling in return for building the convention centre that it always wanted to build. (...excuse me, I'm just trying not to puke watching Len Brown on Breakfast as he shrugs off the problem gambling increase from this deal...)…
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So John Key's (and Stephen Joyce's) National party made sure Gilmore was out of the way before they announced their dubious Sky City for (more) pokies deal. The pokies system in NZ is rife with dubious goings on. An article this morning on Stuff, reports…
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Aaron Gilmore has given into pressure from his National "mates" and resigned. The dirt National continued to fling at him - in a desperate bid to remove the stain from their beloved leader - eventually became too much embarrassment. The media pressure and gossip that they…
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There is an award for forestry workers in Australia. It has a whole range of terms and conditions including hours of work and time off, penal rates for overtime including weekend work, travel allowances and training provisions. The accident rate is half the rate of…
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My semi-regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere (no linkwhoring). This week: Dhaka t-shirts,…
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Rob Stock at the Sunday Star Times reports that National plans to dump state housing on NGOs and flog land to developers. From what I can gather from Nick Smith's typically abstruse comments the plan seems to be to hand housing stock stock over to…
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In an article in today's Sunday Star Times, Martin van Beyen, Francesca Lee and Adam Dudding, produce evidence that there is an organised business of assessment cheating, through providing students with assignments for their tertiary education courses. Their headlines put the focus on the nationality/ethnicity of the…
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This morning news revealed an inadvertently humorous story about particularly stupid bigot - Karen Ruskin of the Pilgrim Planet Lodge in Whangarei. After causing a lesbian couple to seek alternative accommodation she made this statement to a reporter.... "This is our home, we are not a big motel,"…
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In the current series of posts we're looking at the Office of the Children's Commissioner (OCCC) 2012 report "Child Poverty in New Zealand evidence for action". Continuing from last week... Chapter 5 Our Recommendations The previous chapter highlighted the priority recommendations, this chapter sets out…
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So, Key wants Gilmore gone. Gilmore lied to Key about the whether he threatened the waiter with the wrath of the PM's office. Bringing Key's office itself was bad enough but Key accepted Gilmore's lie. When that lie was exposed, Key knew his authority as…
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Last year Labour shook up the political landscape with KiwiBuild - a serious plan for addressing the crisis of unaffordable housing in NZ. At the time the Nats and their spinsters were scornful (of course), saying among other things that we couldn't build 10,000 new…
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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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Key on Gilmore on front page of today's DomPost: Mr Key said. "In the end, to make a contribution, you have to have integrity, and to have integrity there has to be a directness and fullness in your answers." That's why Key has no integrity…
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The working age population grows by around 30,000 a year. A bit over two-thirds of them work or want a job. So, to keep unemployment from rising, the economy needs at least 20,000 additional jobs per year. So, the drop in unemployment must mean we…
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The Nats' spin is that 'mums and dads' were scared off investing in Mighty River Power by the Green-Labour NZ Power plan to reduce power prices but sophisticated buyers bought in. Look at the evidence: 80,000 of the 113,000 retail investors are new to the…
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An editorial in yesterday's NZ Herald gave the hard-line conservative and quite stupid view of what a charity should be (and has been). According the anonymous author, charities should and must deal with problems of society without attempting to fix the problem through advocating changes that would fix…
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National admitted today that the sale of Mighty River cost around $100m, and that the paltry 2.5% of New Zealanders who bought an average of $8,000 each are not typical Kiwis. The figures themselves are shocking but the politics is really revealing. English didn't try…
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The latest Household Labour Force Employment statistics are out, and on the surface, look good for John and Bill. James Weir and Hamish Rutherford, breathlessly report on Stuff today that: The job market stormed ahead in the March quarter, with unemployment tumbling to 6.2 per cent in…
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