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Poneke: If only scientists were more like god…
Poneke wrote a post about ‘climategate’. There was little about the science and more about personally attacking the authors of parts of the evidence supporting climate change. This ignores the whole basis of science, the scientific method.
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Unemployment: real action, not vague promises needed
The Herald reports: “[Key] also raised the 15 per cent Maori unemployment rate, saying improving education outcomes for Maori children would help address […]
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Tax Working Groupthink
The Tax Working Group’s summary presentation at their December seminar came from a senior partner from one of the Big 4 accountancy firms, […]
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Unemployment? Blame someone else – Key
A panicked, chaotic series of excuses poured forth from John Key’s mouth yesterday as he attempted to shift the blame for the shocking […]
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DPMC: The “Key” to increasing the PM’s power
Last October I posted on National’s plan to fold the State Services Commission into the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Yesterday, Labour’s […]
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Nats’ polling
Fran O’Sullivan wrote about how she was called by David Farrar’s Curia, National’s polling company, recently. What she was asked is revealing. She […]
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Turei pushing me back to RAM
Check out this exchange between Trevor Mallard and Metiria Turei on his Facebook page (great how the new media allows these spur of […]
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33% nonsense
David Farrar has one of his dodgy maths posts, where he argues that getting rid of the 33% rate is necessary because typical New […]
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A little knowledge
David Farrar on Kiwiblog says When Labour reduced the top tax rate from 66c to 33c in the 1980s, the amount of tax […]
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Too far, Fran
Despite almost never agreeing with Fran O’Sullivan, I have respect for her. She comes from the ACT-right and her pieces reflect that but […]
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Covering for ‘Vacation John’
Both David Farrar and Cameron Slater have posts up attacking a comment by roger nome in one of our comment threads, and it […]
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Slater’s attention-seeking attack on sex abuse victim
So, Slater wants to be a martyr. Fits well with his personal myth of the hard done by battler fighting this PC world. […]
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Nats: anti-whalers’ lives forfeit on the altar of trade
On Wednesday, Japanese whalers tried to murder five New Zealanders. There is no other way to put it. They ran down a ship […]
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The house that slavery built
There’s no denying that the Burj Khalifa is impressive. Not all that much short of a kilometre high, it’s easily the highest building […]
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Granny is surprised, no-one else is.
John Banks is steadily dropping away from a possibility of gaining the Auckland super-city mayoralty. A Herald online poll has John Banks falling […]
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Phil O’Reilly – dumb enough to fail
Phil O’Reilly of Business NZ has an opinion piece in the NZ Herald today decrying businesses that trade on the ‘clean and green’ […]
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A fair pay-rise not unreasonable
An interesting piece on the SST yesterday: English has warned public servants such as teachers and nurses not to expect pay increases that […]
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Fun stuff
I must say I love the Christmas season. You spend a lot of time catching up with all sorts of interesting people, having […]
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Good Xmas news for Auckland
The UMR poll for the Auckland super-city mayoral race is interesting reading. The headline difference (PDF) of 11% towards Len Brown over John […]
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Fomenting happy mischief. Indeed!
David has a new innovation at the sewer. The old comment voting system has been enhanced to, amongst other things, hide comments when […]
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Digging for nuggets
As we predicted, the main recommendations of the Brash report have been rejected out of hand by John Key. They are, as intended, […]
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Monetary policy needs to change
I’m really happy that Phil Goff has taken monetary policy up as an issue. The current system – a puritanical neoliberal model set […]
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I don’t give a shit about Hone. But the lynch mob is interesting.
Whatever argument there is between the hierarchy of the Maori Party and Hone really doesn’t concern me. While I’m sure Kelvin Davis is […]
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Chilling
The Search and Surveillance Bill is making its way though the bowels of the government law making process. This is a terrible law, […]
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English condemned
Bill English stands condemned. Only in part by the Auditor General. Her report is ambiguous: The result was that the Crown was renting […]
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Examples of rest break exploitation
Over at Kiwiblog, David Farrar is doing his usual apologetics for National by trying to spin its removal of guaranteed rest and meal […]
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The urgency of love
One thing about love is that what you abhor or hate in others you tolerate, even admire, in the object of your affection. […]
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Chris Carter you dick
I’m not sure if my fellow writers would put it like this. But I’m sure they agree with my sentiment when I say- […]
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Clueless on ACE
Night classes Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The ACE […]
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The PSA-SFWU non-merger
Farrar’s published what he calls an ‘internal union email’ about the PSA and the SFWU’s decision not to amalgamate. Considering it was sent […]
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Nanny Coleman on immigrant advice
Jonathan Coleman insists that there is nothing wrong with the Immigrant Advisers Act that restricts anyone giving any advice on immigration matters to […]
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Bill vs Greens
I love that, after studiously ignoring Bill English’s housing rort, Farrar’s now got unending questions for the Greens. Pretty desperate stuff too – ‘sure, […]
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Show some decorum, David
It was inevitable that Farrar would do this, although I really hoped he wouldn’t. His post criticising Chris Carter for being in Samoa is […]
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What can you buy with 5x$10,000?
National has released its proposals for election law. Labour has criticised the $10,000 level above which donations must be disclosed as too high. […]
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The Cindy effect
National in opposition irresponsibly fanned the flames of all kinds of unrest, from the divisive Iwi / Kiwi campaign, to the nanny state […]
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Power’s electoral finance reform proposals out
Justice Minister Simon Power has released the Government’s proposals for reform of electoral finance law. Remember, Labour’s reforms of electoral finance law were […]
