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Looking back at the 1980s from the second decade of the 21st century, NZ's bold nuclear free stance seems like a bit of an illusion, or at best, a temporary bright spot. Two news items this week have NZ looking like a client state of…
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Rob Salmond at Polity points to the right wing publicists who pose as independents, set up publicity shells for nutters, and who seem to make outright lying their hallmark. Perhaps it is time that journalists start describing them as they are rather than quoting them…
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John Key is attacking David Cunliffe for using a trust to obscure some donations - whilst repeating the word 'tricky' about Cunliffe as many times in one sound-bite as humanly possible. It's an astonishingly brazen stone to throw given National's glass house. Do no reporters…
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I commented a few weeks back that I’d become bemused by Mark Ames commentaries on Snowdon and the NSA leaks. The reason I became bemused was because Ames used to write stuff I considered informative and worth reading. Now, it seems, he’s on a mad…
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The Taxpayer's Union is one of the first astroturfing organisations we have seen in Aotearoa. Nominally independent it has as its members the Government's chief blogger, and is based in the law firm of Franks & Ogilvie whose partners include former ACT and National candidate…
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UK Labour's special conference yesterday changed the Party's rules for leadership selection, and the basis for affiliate involvement. One-person-one-vote is the general rule, and block voting for leadership and selection by affiliates including unions is replaced by individual and intentional involvement. The vote for change…
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All is not well in the current state of NZ broadcasting. Trisha Dunleavey of Victoria university has a very good article on Open Democracy (24 February 2014), on the past and possible future of NZ public broadcasting. The article is promoted thus: In the sorry…
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This discussion has had a few really good goes on open mike. Labour's policy is to gradually change the age of retirement to 67 with an allowance made for those aged 65 who can no longer work. There are passionate views in support of this…
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In the United States, the street beggars have great patter. Despite what South Park would have us believe, when you walk down the main street of a major city, you don’t get hordes of people shiftlessly shaking cups at you, asking for “change?” There are…
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It has taken me a couple of days to absorb the implications of this story. On Thursday this week Stuff reported that "Treasury and Statistics New Zealand today admitted a major error in its calculations of household disposable income, which overestimated incomes among poorer households.…
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