Ah, heard this on weekend radio on radio NZ this afternoon. Perfect satire for the last election in the US. Beware the zombie apocalypse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TiXUF9xbTo Filmmaker Joss Whedon explains why voting for Mitt Romney was such a good idea. Time for the kiwi comedians to…
In 2008 John Key and National campaigned on the basis they would generally be just like Labour but also give a tax cut. One of their policies was to slightly soften the already modest greenhouse gas emission targets that Labour had committed to. For Labour…
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While I was looking for background on the GCSB yesterday, I happened on this AFB article "New York Times backs Snowden in US online spying row" Washington — The influential New York Times hailed fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden as a "whistleblower" on Thursday and…
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This year the biggest burst of political knowledge for me last year has been the role that the GCSB has in NZ (and security services elsewhere) and how pathetic the political and legal oversight of their role currently is. In NZ it is a self-supporting…
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Celebrity golf! Which one will get voted off the island first!? Meanwhile the world burns, the poor struggle, workers are exploited and increasingly insecure, and the wealth gap continues to be a blight on our country. It seems to brighter future is in…
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Political observers of the NZ political scene frequently state that the Labour party is a "broad church". Indeed it is almost a catch phrase of Mike Williams, a former president of the NZLP. Generally this is taken as referring to the members and supporters of…
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... and I'm worried we're not going to do it. It's not just about winning an election. It's not just about getting Labour, or Labour/Greens, or Labour/Greens/Mana etc over the line. It's about getting the people of New Zealand to turn out and vote for…
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