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From the Herald: The Government has confirmed plans to sell down its stake in Air New Zealand, with 20 per cent of the shares on sale from tomorrow. The state owns 73 per cent of the national carrier, and plans to reduce that were tipped…
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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: science vs…
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Andrea Vance reports: "Foreign minister Murray McCully returned from the Tamil-led north of Sri Lanka last night and indicated he believes New Zealand should not support an independent investigation into war crimes. Shortly after his return to Colombo, McCully signed a dairy co-operation agreement with…
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A reminder of the actions in various locations around NZ today for the Day of Action against rape culture. A reminder of the background to the Day of Action - parts of my earlier post: Press release: Stop Rape Now: National day of action against rape…
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I blogged earlier on this subject and expressed the hope that the Pike River families would receive adequate compensation. And David Cunliffe elegantly skewered John Key on the issue in Parliament this week. But regrettably John Key has ruled compensation by the Government out unless…
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A reminder of the actions in various locations around NZ for the Day of Action against rape culture. At least one piece of action is planned for this evening in Nelson. Most demonstrations will take place tomorrow. A reminder of the background to the Day…
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National's, weird, favourite line at the moment is to say 'we're going to ignore the asset sales referendum and the opposition are hypocrites because they ignored the smacking referendum'. Russel Norman finally had had enough yesterday, and asked Jonathan Coleman just who had been PM…
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Looks like some of my friends are getting serious about making sure that having dickheads around like the duo of JT and Willie, prevaricators like John Key and the incredibly slack police response get a better idea about what is at stake... This press statement on…
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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. Peter Dunne last week said that some of the Green Party’s MPs were as extreme as Afghanistan’s Taleban. But is he right? Let’s put the Greens…
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Wikileaks have released the TPP advanced draft chapter on intellectual property. It includes all the government positions on the main issues, including all those where the New Zealand negotiators are opposed to the US. The Herald received an advance copy and reported on it today.…
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National has signalled early that it is looking towards the Conservative Party as a potential coalition partner. There appear to be a few rather huge policy dead frogs that it must swallow if it is going to cement relations. But already it appears to be…
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3news has shaken out hidden science denialists in National. This follows the disgraceful booing of Russel Norman by National MPs who did not want to hear him 'inappropriately' quote a Filipino official attributing the typhoon to climate change at a time apparently meant for empty…
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Word is out that National is going to slam through the sale of its Air NZ shares early next week ahead of the referendum. No mention of 'mum and dad' investors this time. No ad campaign imploring you get 'get your share'. Nope. It'll be…
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From our friends at Closing the Gap (a lobby group against income inequality - join if you haven't!): - Max Rashbrooke talking about his book Inequality: a New Zealand Crisis and more on Monday 18 November, 5.30pm @ Auckland Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn - The…
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I finally found the words, in a comment at The Standard, to explain something I've been feeling for years about the Waitakere Man thesis: I keep thinking about how to express this exact idea: that the whole Waitakere Man myth says way more about Chris…
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John Key spoke some appalling misrepresentations of facts in the House today, rewriting history in a way that seems to suit "Crazy" Colin Craig's possible coalition bottom lines. In Question Time Key said this in response to questions about the up-coming referendum on Asset Sales:…
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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. Radio New Zealand management have confirmed that they are in talks with controversial broadcasters John Tamihere and Willie Jackson about a new afternoon radio show.…
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Never wonder again why National is opposed to any kind of wealth tax, including capital gains tax, and would rather tax hard work instead. Never wonder again why there's hundreds of millions of dollars for uneconomic irrigation projects but crumbs to feed hungry kids. Just…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhf7UR2yjBs&feature=player_embedded David Cunliffe nailed John Key with a series of questions in Parliament today and I have never seen Key look so uncomfortable. The questions neatly boxed Key into an indefensible position. Key agreed that Pike River mine would have been illegal in Australia but…
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Today in the House, leaders of political parties spoke to John Key's motion on the Typhoon in the Philippines. Russel Norman read out a statement that was spoken by Philippines climate negotiator Naderev "Yeb" Saño told the delegation at the 19th United Nations Framework Convention…
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In a wordy op-ed piece in today's Herald, Judith Collins once again sidesteps the questions posed to her in Parliament last week on pre-trial and trial processes for sexual abuse cases by Jan Logie and Andrew Little. The Minister for No is now dead keen…
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And from the statement of the bleedingly obvious file the Herald recently reported on a Massey University study that found that those with a spinal cord injury who are covered by ACC are more likely to get back to work while those who don't receive assistance start a…
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The byline "just saying what everyone's thinking" has echoes of Crosby Textor's famous "are you thinking what we're thinking" dog whistle campaign for the UK Conservatives in 2005. Maybe the conservatives are getting CT advice.
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The seeming purpose of having competition is to prevent monopoly pricing and excessive profits but, as Steve Keen shows, all businesses use the same pricing model with about the same level of profits. If they did use the pricing model that economists say that they…