Daily Review 18/08/2015
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Sheepgate inquiry
The Auditor-General will hold an inquiry to be held into Saudi sheep deal
TPP and the Pharmac reality
Key glibly says that the government will meet increased costs for medicine under the TPPP, but the reality for Pharmac is that its budget is already squeezed. If the TPP goes ahead Key’s promise will quickly be “forgotten”.
John Oliver on New Zealand’s new flag
John Oliver offers some advice on our quest for a new flag.
MSD household incomes report
While we devote acres of pixels to flag distractions and “celebrity” nonsense, the health of the nation goes largely unremarked. Was there any MSM coverage of the latest Ministry of Social Development report – Household Incomes in New Zealand: trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2014?
Hosking, Henry and Media Bias
Yesterday a debate that has occurred on the Standard about how main stream media has a right wing bias became mainstream when Winston Peters accused Mike Hosking of being a National Party Stooge. An online poll provided overwhelming support for his statement. And recently Steven Joyce attacked Rod Oram because his analytical thoughtful analysis critical of the Government displayed evidence of left wing bias.
Open mike 18/08/2015
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Daily Review 17/08/2015
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WMBAD: Defamation and infotainment
From last week, the White Man Behind a Desk on Colin Craig’s various legal adventures – and more!
Parsing John Key on TPPA
John Key made some outlandish claims about TPPA opponents this morning on the Paul Henry show. And in response, as usual, he was not pulled up on his claims by his interviewer.
Earth overshoot day
August 13th was Earth Overshoot Day. We have already consumed what the Earth can sustainably produce in a year, for the rest of this year we are consuming “ecological capital”. This can’t go on. But it is a problem that our current political and economic systems cannot solve.
Labour is the party of economic competence
The old myth that National are good managers of the economy should now be well dead and buried. For a recent case study see Robertson vs Joyce on dairy prices…
Open mike 17/08/2015
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Surprise – ordinary UK voters like Jeremy Corbyn too
According to a new poll, Corbyn appears very electable indeed, despite more squeeling from Tony Blair and the right wing establishment of UK Labour.
Caption contest
Keep it seemly …
Who is to blame for Solid Energy’s failure
… and why is Solid Energy removing links to its Annual reports from its website?
Open mike 16/08/2015
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TPPA Protest review
An open post to cover the TPPA protests today. In Auckland it was big and noisy with an estimated 10,000 plus people attending. Congratulations […]
Groser: an arrogant git with a tin ear
I’m amazed about how ignorant Tim Groser is in his costly pursuit of the TTP. But his completely weird and idiotic remarks on how the ICT industry runs really do reach a new level of mindless – even for a fool from MFAT. The TTP will bring us no advantages, and are likely to cause major disruptions to the innovation that is driving the ICT export sector.
Unite wins back pay for KFC worker
After winning guaranteed hours for Restaurant Brands workers, UNITE has held KFC in Kaikohe to their contract.
TPPA Dairy Trade provision on the ropes?
The Herald is reporting this morning that the TPPA may not actually improve access for New Zealand’s Dairy exports to overseas markets.
Open mike 15/08/2015
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Daily Review 14/08/2015
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Williams sues Craig and Bomber takes on Police
Two breaking news stories as Jordan Williams gets in first and sues Colin Craig and Martyn Bradbury is spoken to by police about a blog post advocating civil disobedience.
Weekend social 14/08/2015
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TPPA Rally – Downtown Auckland, 1 pm TODAY
A reminder that the Auckland TPPA march is on tomorrow at 1 pm starting from Aotea Square. The US consulate is that worried that it has issued a warning to US citizens!
Look at the future of families
In South Korea the colliding intersection between economics, tradition and demographics is probably at its most extreme. However the same kinds of effects are being seen all over the developed world, and increasingly in parts of the underdeveloped world – and here.
Radicals, Reformists or Revolutionaries? Ideologies of the Left.
James Gluck is doing an academic study of the ideologies that exist on the left. He is asking for those interested to participate in a anonymous online survey.
National Ltd™ Enabling Corporate Murderers
But wait there’s more . . . National Ltd™’s attitude to worker safety has, it seems, been successfully installed into the very government agency responsible for holding employers to account for worker deaths.
Open mike 14/08/2015
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Daily Review 13/08/2015
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Climate change – New Zealand not even a fast follower
Recent analysis of different Governments’ greenhouse gas reduction pledges for the Paris Conference suggests that New Zealand’s is behind that of Windmill hating Tony Abbott’s Australia.
TPPA Protests this week – Its our future
A large anti TPPA protest is scheduled for Saturday in Auckland and throughout the country during this week.
David Seymour is a Puppet
Bruce Robertson and Key have played Seymour like a Puppet. It’s like this was all ready to go. Just needed the right person […]
Open mike 13/08/2015
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Corbyn and the Overton Window
A recent YouGov poll in the Times predicts Jeremy Corbyn will win the UK Labour leadership on first preferences alone. If he does win, Corbyn will shift the “Overton Window” of acceptable ideas leftward in the face of formidable opposition.