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Open mike 13/10/2015
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Dodgy reviews
Apparently Slater has written a "book" called Dodgy Unions. It's on Amazon. The book has a 5 star review - tough and fair minded - this is bad news for Labour etc. Click on the "1 customer review" link on the web page as imaged…
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Daily Review 12/10/2015
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Medicinal cannabis
Seriously - what are we waiting for? Helen Kelly says Government needs to get real about medicinal cannabis The Government needs to get real about better access to medicinal cannabis for Kiwis, says terminally ill Council of Trade Unions (CTU) president Helen Kelly. "I've tried…
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If journalists reported the real news
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The Ankara massacre
Terrible news from Turkey where a terrorist bomb has killed over a hundred peaceful protestors and injured hundreds of others. Responsibility has not been determined as yet. Some think that ISIS is to blame but there is also mounting criticism of the Turkish authorities for failing…
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Oram on the TPP
Rod Oram's Sunday Star-Times column, as made available on Facebook, is a level-headed evaluation of the TPP: Scant evidence so far TPP is a trade agreement for the 21st century This column is not a ‘no’ to TPP. It is a request to our government…
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Open mike 12/10/2015
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The news is broken – pledge for Scoop
Scoop has a Pledge Me page: Establishing The Scoop Foundation for Public Interest Journalism Building a Sustainable Independent News Organisation for the People of New Zealand The news is broken. As traditional advertising revenues dry up, New Zealand’s major news publishers are dumbing down or distorting…
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Anat Shenker-Osorio on the creation of left metaphors
There was an interesting interview this morning on Q&A. Communications expert Anat Shenker-Osorio was interviewed about left communication with the electorate. She spoke about public debate concerning politics and the best way parties of the left and trade unions should communicate with the public. Video of the interview is here. On…
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Unions good for society and economy
Great post on the UK based NEF Blog: Don’t be fooled, dismantling the rights of workers is not good for you, or for the economy. It's so good, with so many links, I'm going to quote most of it: 1. Wages keep the motor of the…
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Open mike 11/10/2015
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Climate and Trade
In thinking of the TPP, I’m reminded of a scene from the film ‘My Name is Joe’ where a hapless kid sits in the corner of a snooker hall, crying at the lose/lose situation he’s been put in. While the local heavies socialise at the…
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TPP aims to kill filesharing
Today Wikileaks has released what is believed to be the final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the TPP. It is out to kill file sharing: Internet Providers Would Be Forced to Block Filesharing Sites Under TPP Digital rights advocates’ worst fears were…
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Film review: The Martian
Space in the 1970s, in the words of Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise, was 'the final frontier'. Star Trek's cocky command showed the beast of developmental modernism raging for an imagined elsewhere after our earth had been largely tamed for unimpeded development.…
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What happened to Mike Sabin’s bill?
In March of this year National recycled a private member's bill that Mike Sabin originally championed. The bill if enacted would have permitted a Judge to draw an adverse inference from a defendant facing child sex abuse charges exercising the right to silence. The bill…
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Auckland march of solidarity for refugees
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Open mike 10/10/2015
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Daily Review 09/10/2015
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Auckland Council debates the TPPA
The Regional Strategy and Policy Committee of Auckland Council debated the TPPA yesterday. The debate was somewhat long and fractious with a great deal of discussion about such strange things as whether or not the minor changing of the words of the resolution was appropriate. Conservative…
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Nats endorse Goff for mayor?
The NBR reckons the Nats are tacitly endorsing Phil Goff for mayor of Auckland. Text (from the image below) reads: Ms Simpson is the chair woman of the right-leaning Orakei board and is active in the community. It is believed she and Mr Goff would…
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Obama says “sorry” but…
Obama called Médecins Sans Frontières and said sorry for killing Twelve Doctors Without Borders staff and seven patients, including three children... And for injuring; Another 37 others : 19 staff members, including five in critical condition, and 18 patients and caretakers. He explained that he is authorising US…
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More charter school hypocrisy
Remember back in the day when National announced increases in class sizes, and argued that it wouldn't damage educational outcomes? Bollocks of course. When it turned out that Key sent his kids to private schools because of the smaller classes that was pretty much the…
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Open mike 09/10/2015
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Daily Review 08/10/2015
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Even Catherine Isaac thinks Parata has no idea
According to a release from the Labour Party today, even that doyen of Charter Schools, Catherine Isaac, thinks Parata's decision to not allow a comparison between Charter Schools and State Schools is baffling. So baffling she wrote to Parata urging her to include it. And…
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Caption Contest
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Go well Helen Kelly
Helen Kelly was made the first life member of the new E tū union yesterday. Helen is standing down from her role as President of the CTU due to health reasons (lung cancer), but will remain active supporting union causes. Thank you Helen. If the…
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Clinton opposes TPP
https://twitter.com/AP/status/651848075162611712 https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/651882008239542272
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Let’s send Renée Rose Annan to Paris to counter Tim Groser
The Paris Climate Change Conference is an important gathering of human beings in the face of the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced. Some think it is too late and civilisation is stuffed, others think that without immediate corrective action civilisation is doomed, a…
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