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Open mike 17/05/2013
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So. Very. Funny.
Just in case you haven't seen this work of genius by Danyl:
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Budget roundup
It's Budget day. The privatisation of Meridian Energy will be announced. There will be a focus on poverty and housing - but will it be anything more than token? One News has a roundup of what we can expect. According to Labour it's a "budget…
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Caption competition
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A banquet for the elite, crumbs for the poor
"When National is not selling something like Mighty River Power, it is busy selling out to the likes of SkyCity" - John Armstrong. He could have added 'or defending the elite's rentier profits'. To fudge the fact that National works for the elite, there''ll be…
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‘That’s what the fuss is all about’
Yesterday, in the General Debate in a brilliant speech, Hone Harawira challenged the Maori Party for its support of the Education Amendment Bill currently before the House, that will enable the establishment of charter schools. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0-IuEFx7sE In a Press Release a couple of days ago,…
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Labour on MMP “consultation”
Judith Collins is trying to deflect criticism for the Nats cynical sidelining of the MMP review by claiming that there was no consensus and that she isn't anyone's "nanny". But according to Labour there was no consultation: Govt’s ‘consultation’ on MMP non-existent The claim by…
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Strong support for NZ Power
The Right unleashed the most brutal campaign in living memory against an opposition policy when the Greens and Labour announced the NZ Power plan to bring down power prices. They (rightly) saw it as a challenge to the whole rentier class that has been bleeding…
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Open mike 16/05/2013
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Something about foxes and henhouses…
So anyway, John Armstong's just won this press award and the Herald's had a bit of a boast. Which is all good and fine and I'm sure we're all very happy for him. Turns out the judge is "ex newspaper editor" Richard Long. The funny…
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City Rail Link in the Budget?
A reader sent us a comment from another blog by someone who was polled a couple of weeks back. The questions are very interesting, especially once you realise that it's clearly being done for National and the Right in Auckland (one of the questions gives…
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The budget’s flawed premise
The Nats have made surplus by 2014-15 their one and only economic goal, because it is one that they can meet. They just keep the slashing social spending, and introducing stealth taxes until they make it. Claim success with no accounting of the damage caused…
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GCSB is watching you? Won’t ‘confirm or deny’
When the Kitteridge Report revealed that 88 New Zealanders had previously been spied on illegally by the GCSB, it was suggested concerned people ask the GCSB if they were one of the 88. Now people who followed that suggestion have received replies, with a won't "confirm or deny" line,…
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Stopping Key’s dirty deal with SkyCity
National's trying to do something unprecendented - they want to give a private company a 35 year indemnity against costs arising from law changes. No-one else gets this. You don't get money from the government when they make a law that costs you. Nor does…
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Budget: corporate “charity” not the solution to Feeding the Kids
"Leaks" of the content of Thursday's budget, indicate that the government has responded to pressure for tackling child poverty and affordable housing. As in Eddie's post this morning, 'Stealth privatistion of housing in the budget', it looks like the government is also planning to out-source…
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Stealth privatisation of state housing in budget
There's more than one way to fleece the public of our assets. While attention is rightly on the big sell-offs of the energy companies, there's also privatisation in the form of public organisations selling or giving away parts of their operations (eg Orcon), and opening…
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Open mike 15/05/2013
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Judith Collins, MMP, “consensus” & democracy
Today Green MP Holly Walker dragged out of Judith Collins that the NAct government will not be implementing the recommendations of the Electoral Commission on MMP. Then Collins goes on to defend her position with reference to the lack of "consensus", clearly associating this with…
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This is what corporate dictatorship looks like
Since Joyce's and Key's announcement yesterday of the dirty SkyCity deal, there have been some well informed responses, indicating just how un-ethical and anti-democratic the deal is. There have also been responses from people with law backgrounds that support the Green's position that a future…
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The meaning of utu
Aaron Gilmore has promised 'utu', or reciprocation, against a select band of National insiders including Cameron Slater and Andrew Riches. But what does Slater have to do with Riches? The link is National's dirty campaigner, Simon Lusk, who regularly works with Slater. The word is…
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CO2 400 ppm and climbing
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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Open mike 14/05/2013
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Prwoperty rwights!
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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And in Good News
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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Claudette Hauiti
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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Key’s no-shows – protecting Brand Key
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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Dim-Post on two comparisons
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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Banks to stand again
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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What’s done can be undone
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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Sky City, pokies and corruption
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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