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Reposted from I/S at No Right Turn NRT: Our financial laws mean nothing Some NZ foreign exchange broker went bust last week, leaving assorted suckers out of pocket. Ordinarily I wouldn't care: the market is a scam, and you play at your own risk. But it…
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The Listener has published a profile of Andrew Little, unfortunately behind a paywall. A few select quotes: On his tough-man image: Does he have to tell errant MPs to pull their bloody heads in? “I haven’t so far,” he says with a laugh. ... “What I…
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In 2013 National released proposals for reform of the Resource Management Act. I blogged about the changes here. The announcement by Minister Amy Adams is here but for some freaking reason the document appears to have disappeared from MFE's website although there is this Web Archive…
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Yesterday it was announced that Auckland is the ninth least affordable city in the world in relation to wages versus house prices. An Aucklander requires 8.3 times their wage to buy a home. Len Brown criticised the report noting: Auckland Council had worked closely with…
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Winnie Biyanyima of Oxfam is one of six co-chairs at the Davos World Economic Forum. She says her role there is to challenge the powerful elites and she goes armed with a new report that shows that on current trends by next year the world's…
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An interesting milestone is about to be passed: Half global wealth held by the 1% Oxfam warns of widening inequality gap, days ahead of Davos economic summit in Switzerland Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality…
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So I've been at an open source (programming) conference last week. Lots of learning, it's been great. But my best lecture was a key-note speech from Columbian University Law Prof Eben Moglen. He was looking at the future of the internet, and whether society's nervous system is working…
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A challenging piece on Scoop yesterday by Ramzy Baroud: War Begets War: It’s Not about Islam; It Never Was It is still not about Islam, even if the media and militants attacking western targets say so. Actually, it never was. But it was important for many to conflate…
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Yesterday on Stuff: Little's game-plan is merely to define the problem and offer the bare bones of a solution. In his favour, few voters delve into the bureaucratic detail in policy packages and if he can ride out the media probing, they may put their…
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Climate change is a disaster. It's a slow motion train wreck that threatens the future of humanity on the planet, and an indictment of the short-sighted failures of our political systems (and our thinking in general). As widely reported, 2014 was the hottest year on…
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The team at Scoop are running a series called "The State of the NZ News Media - A Public Conversation". The first piece, by Scoop Editor Alistair Thompson, is called "Reinventing News As A Public Right - A Public Conversation". The second, by Alison McCulloch,…
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James Griffin in the Herald has written an article on things that John Key should set out to achieve in 2015. The article is obviously satire and a not too subtle put down of what is business as usual for the PM. Griffin proposes that Key smiles…
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The Authors of The Standard are now in holiday mode. Posting will be less regular and dependant on individual author enthusiasm. Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up…
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This the time of year when papers are thin and economic prognostications abound as the pop-star economists from banks and brokers look to raise their public profile. In 2013 the same Cameron Bagrie gave us the "rock-star" economy, this year apparently in Wellington we can…
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Much of this post is crowd sourced from this recent discussion on open mike. The discussion concerned why TV3 should seek comment from Cameron Brewer about Labour's advertisement for a Press Secretary. The position is vacant following the resignation of the very talented and dedicated…
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Raif Badawi is a Saudi Arabian writer / activist / blogger. In 2008 he "established Liberal Saudi Network, a now-closed online forum that sought to encourage debate on religious and political matters". You can find out more about his writing here: "a man who risked…
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https://twitter.com/GenerationZer0/status/555925240098729984
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A complete understanding of great events will often have to wait until well after the shouting and the tumult die away and a longer perspective permits a more objective assessment of what really happened. Even then, though, greater elucidation proceeds at a glacial pace. Today,…
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It makes for great reading and throws the net wider than last time... just Check it out here
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(Originally published at Boots Theory.) An OIA request for information about the Prime Minister deleting his text messages is back (hat-tip to @eey0re) and Wayne Eagleson has found another wafer-thin excuse for the wholesale deletion of his master’s cellphone records: With the large volume of…
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Poverty was one of the major issues in the run up to the 2011 election. There were some major pieces of work on the issue, such as the Inside Child Poverty documentary: Shock look at NZ's child poverty More than 100 New Zealand children who…
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It appears that like New Zealand the United Kingdom is also negotiating with the United States for improved trade access under the benign sounding Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. But they are facing the same issues that New Zealand is facing, including the suggested provision of…
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Emerson in yesterday's Herald:
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How many governments are using the Paris / Charlie Hebdo attack as an excuse to increase surveillance or otherwise remove civil protections? In the UK the Tories certainly are. But PM Cameron's proposals are idiotic - this piece in The Guardian is particularly blunt: Cameron…
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Reposted from No Right Turn We all got a bit of a shock yesterday when the government announced that GCSB Director Ian Fletcher was stepping down for "family reasons". Becuse we all know that "family reasons" is code for "we don't want to tell you what…