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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. I’m really worried that an entire day might pass without your knowing what I’m thinking about a particular issue. Did you see me on TV?…
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The Government is not going to let the issue drag on any further and wants to have the Keep Our Assets referendum dealt with this year. It has just been announced that the referendum will be done and dusted this year. According to the Herald:…
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So Paula Bennet is being all proud as punch about her welfare reforms. See, it appears she’s been innovative and has delivered savings of some $3 Billion based on some formulaic future cost of welfare calculation. For argument’s sake, let’s allow that those future costs…
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On The Nation this weekend, Kris Faafoi laid out the bare bones of Labour's policy on public broadcasting. He signaled the strengthening of public broadcasting across a range of platforms, recognising the crucial role of digital technologies in the 21st century. He also praised the…
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Yesterday on my twitter feed I read Matthew Hooton's sort of apology to David Cunliffe. Then when I checked later it had been chucked behind NBR's paywall. I guess Matthew may want to make sure that he has a legal fighting fund, just in case.…
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The Herald and John Key are whining that National will have a 'moral mandate' to govern after the next election if it is the highest polling party, even if it can't form a majority and the Left can. Of course, there's no such rule in…
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If you weren't paying attention you could easily miss the fact that Meridian shares are opening today. that's because there's been a lot less mainstream hoopla about it than there was with the sale of MRP. Despite the face there's been a whole host of…
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Which Labour MP has Matt McCarten today described as "Another Cunliffe loyalist rewarded." and scored 5/10? Now, which Labour MP got the government on the ropes with a member's bill to the point that Bill English had to threaten a rarely used and politically damaging…
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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: google vs…
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The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report makes, well, pretty damn depressing reading. Over a century after the basic mechanism of global warming by greenhouse gases was understood, and quarter of a century since the world's nations signed the framework convention on climate…
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From the IPCC AR5 preliminary summary for policy makers (PDF). Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate system, accounting for more than 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010 (high confidence). It is virtually certain that the upper ocean (0−700 m) warmed…
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Good on Kennedy Graham for posting a good critique of Key's UN speech, while the MSM largely report the speech in uncritical and glowing terms. Graham gives it a B-; damns Key with some faint praise, then goes on to criticise the pro-US bias, the…
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Just a short post and a song for Friday afternoon. Duncan Garner has tweeted the results of a UMR poll. Just been told that UMR poll has Nats 39, Lab 36, Green 14, NZF 5.1%. Not sure if it's out yet. Internal presentation yday. And…
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So , Matthew Hooton has somewhat backed down from his liar liar accusations against David Cunliffe. However, he and/or his cheer team, without acknowledging Hooton''s backed down, and without apology, are adopting the fall-back position of "CV embellishment",or "padding". This in the face of the…
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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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The other day, I wrote a piece on Poto Williams' selection to be Labour's candidate in the Christchurch East by-election. I promptly had to ban a commenter who assumed her selection was due to a quota - ie. a woman Cook Islander can't possibly win…
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Imagine that your job was to clean 130 toilets every day. Imagine the grinding unpleasantness of it. Imagine the horrors some disgusting person would regularly leave for you to deal with. Imagine you do that for just above the minimum wage, barely enough to support…
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The right must be very afraid of David Cunliffe. Because they are coming up with the most extraordinarily crazy conspiracy theories to try and discredit him. It is becoming a bit like the Birther movement in the US. Over in the land of the free…
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This morning on Radio New Zealand Kathryn Ryan read out a short apology for comments recently made about David Cunliffe by Matthew Hooton. The statement records that David Cunliffe had produced BCG time records showing he spent 235 hours working on the Dairy merger in…
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John Key and his handlers have tried so hard to distance himself from the underhand dirty tricks employed by National Party people to undermine opposition parties. They were used relentlessly to undermine Helen Clark, but, once in power and having achieved dominance in the popularity…
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There were two very good speeches in the General Debate in the House today from opposition leaders. Both of them showed just how dodgy Nick Smith's record is, and why he should be, yet again, stood down as a Minister. Russel Norman began his speech…
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As Irish predicted, the Nats continued their desperate smear campaign today with the revelation that David Cunliffe doesn't actually have a qualification he never actually claimed to have. Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up. The irony is that this latest desperate spin came at…
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Cunliffe’s Labour is center left, moderate one working for the many struggling Kiwis doing it tough in as opposed to Key’s cronyist, corporate-backed, radically “neoliberal”, government that disdains democracy and changes laws to suit the wealthy international elites. The NAct supporting right are looking a…
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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. Gee I’m a bit peckish. I never had time for breakfast this morning, and it’s been meeting after meeting since I got up, and I’ve got Question…
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One opinion poll does not a Government make but this morning's Herald digipoll which had Labour on 38% and National on 44% is promising. The Cunliffe leadership era has started. He has not put a foot wrong yet apart from tripping over a couple of…