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Talk like Sarah Palin
Turns out that the AI required to simulate Sarah Palin is pretty simple. Give the Palin-o-matic a try!
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Another housing policy screwup?
This policy proposal from Paula Bennett has had a fair bit of attention: Govt may give state tenants cash to move to regions The government is looking at cash incentives to get Auckland's state housing tenants to move to the regions. The offer would include…
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Tertiary fee drop – excellent proposal from Labour
Education is a public good. We all benefit, socially and economically, from a well educated populace. A couple of days I wrote about a disastrous fall in student numbers that is undermining tertiary education in NZ. It isn't the same data set, but this a…
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Sustainability Council: TPPA lets investors sue over climate change policies
You know how Paris and COP21 was meant to mark a new beginning, that climate change denial was dead and that man made anthropogenic change was now accepted to be real and that to address this most important of issues urgent action needed to be taken?…
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Open mike 22/01/2016
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TPPA don’t sign speaker tour details
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Stay Classy: TV3’s Newshrub.
I had a dream in which media magnate Mark Weldon spoke to me. "TRP, me old son, the people don't like the news". "Which people?", I asked, naively. "The shareholders, of course", he replied with a look of contempt. "Now get a press release out…
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2015 hottest year. By. Far.
So as expected 2015 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record, by far. Just to state the obvious: “Record shattering” NASA announcement indicates NZ faces extreme weather events Climate change disaster is biggest threat to global economy in 2016, say experts There are…
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Another attempt to minimise the significance of poverty
Hot on the heals of the (re)publication of Jamie White's nonsense (there is no poverty in NZ), yesterday we had right-wing "think-tank" (i.e. lobbyist group) The New Zealand Initiaitve burst into print with a more sophisticated attempt to minimise the significance of poverty: Truth on…
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Open mike 21/01/2016
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Sanders vs Trump
In July last year I wrote a post pondering a hypothetical Sanders vs Trump American presidential election. It seemed pretty far fetched. Today, Sanders leads Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa. The lead is growing: CNN/WMUR Poll: Sanders trouncing Clinton in New Hampshire Bernie Sanders'…
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Rightwing populism is the new normal – Gary Younge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYIdgmQ7RyA
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Johno Smith explains why he tried to save the Titirangi Kauri
Johno Smith has appeared today in the Waitakere District Court charged with trespass after his climbing of the Paturoa Road Kauri in an effort to save it. He has pleaded guilty to the charge. He has released a press release that sets out his reasons why…
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Herald Bingo
(from the brilliance of Katie Ruscoe)
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Open mike 20/01/2016
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Building a mass movement
Republished by request, and permission from Stephanie Rodgers at Boots Theory [Content note: mentions of transphobia, sexual violence and violence against people of colour] This was a line of thought which fell out of yesterday’s post, but that was getting quite long enough. The article…
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Kingi Taurua says Government not welcome to Waitangi if TPPA signed
The government's insistence on ramming through the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is adversely affecting its relationship with Maori. From Te Karere: Ngāpuhi kaumātua and spokesperson for Te Tii Marae [Kingi Tairua] says the Government will not be welcome at Waitangi if a proposal to sign…
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62 vs 3.6 Billion
This statistic was doing the rounds everywhere yesterday: Richest 62 own equal wealth to poorest half of world The inequality gulf has widened to 62 of the wealthiest people owning all the wealth of the poorest 3.6 billion people combined. Astonishing. The latest inequality report…
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Open mike 19/01/2016
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Skill shortages and reaping what you sow
Depressing reading on falling enrollments in tertiary education in this piece in the Dom Post yesterday: Skill shortages tipped as student numbers plummet ... Data released to the Sunday Star-Times shows the number of people studying at tertiary level students has fallen 20 per cent…
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John Campbell returns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScIV7zEHldg 5 pm Monday night at 101.4 fm or online at Radio New Zealand's website.
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Robertson / Labour on the future of work
A good summary in The Herald yesterday: Expect radical changes to economic policy, says Robertson Grant Robertson says New Zealanders can expect a radical shift in the Labour Party's economic policy ahead of the 2017 election as his party looks to prepare workers for huge…
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Open mike 18/01/2016
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Not all research is created equal
There's a lot of nonsense written about research, most of it by those with an ideological objection to some set of facts, or a financial interest in denying them. Slater's Whaleoil blog - which carries paid-for attacks on science (and lashes out blindly at "troughers")…
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Robin Grieve does not understand the IPCC report
The Herald has had some difficulties recently with the quality of some contributions provided by former ACT candidates. Hot on the heels of Jamie Whyte's unfortunate regurgitated missive on poverty came this opinion from climate change denier and number three on ACT's last list Robin Grieve. He…
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Open mike 17/01/2016
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What to do about poverty (and a suggestion to the media)
An excellent piece on poverty by Lizzie Marvelly in The Herald this morning: The only debate is what to do about child poverty Kiwi children are suffering right now. Believe it. ... In a country where an unacceptable number of children live below the much-debated…
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The unexpected oil crisis
In a scenario put out late last year by the International Energy Agency, the price of oil might not again reach up to the US$50 to $60 range until the 2020s. Maybe won’t get back to US$85 until 2040. Right now it’s selling at $33 per…
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Open mike 16/01/2016
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NZ first in the world!
NZ. First in the world for domestic violence. And now for housing unaffordability...
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