You say on your blog that vote switch polls may actually be designed to increase undecided voters? I guess everyone has an angle. Yours is pretty obscure though, it’s not even like an ad for ice cream that blinks so fast people go into epileptic shock. Most guys who support the incumbent party just shout something like, “You guys are losing there is no hope!” then leave. Your angle is far more subtle. I like it, but it appeals to a small fragment of the available voters who are unlikely to be reading this blog. Have you taken a poll on how effective it is to suggest people become undecided, from non-poll obsessed people, taking into account the likely no response rate to questions likely to result in no response? I am totally standing by my phone waiting for your call. Speak to you around 6pm then?
SCF should never have been let in, or kept in, and Bill English knows this. This is the bigger fraud – the biggest in NZ;s history, and carried out by Bill English and his cohort John Key. The Crown, in its case against the defendants, has gone to great lengths and efforts to thwart any investigation into the reasons for SCF being let in. They have actively avoided and diverted enquiries away from this very issue. Evidence for this is provided ….
“What we now know is that these people were never questioned by the SFO about their entrance into the Crown Deed of Guarantee”
and
“”The most alarming example of the deficiency of the SFO’s investigation concerns the charge concerning the Crown Deed of Guarantee”
and
“Equally disturbing is that when interviewed, none of the defendants was asked about the entry into the Crown Deed of Guarantee – they were simply charged with the biggest fraud in New Zealand’s history without ever being given the chance to explain what had in fact happened back in 2008 and the role they had played”
and
“Neither Treasury nor the Reserve Bank were asked to provide any of their analysis into SCF. It was left to defence to find three key documents, recording the reason why SCF was admitted into the scheme”
and
“Key witnesses were not interviewed, including Treasury secretary John Whitehead, who was the gateholder to the scheme.”
and finally
“The Crown’s case had shifted from causing the $1.58b payout by getting into the scheme using inaccurate information to getting into the scheme earlier than it otherwise would. “It is now said that the inaccurate information provided by SCF merely avoided a delay of an unspecified length.” ”
..
I tells ya – this is the shit that stinks. SCF should never had been let in but Bill English wanted to ensure his type of people were looked after.
It was fraud. These defence statements provide a great big whiff of the stench and fraud of this government.
Just hanging out the clothes after checking The Standard, and while doing so thought to myself – why didn’t we ever get any investigative articles into the bailout of SCF – considering they did not meet the criteria?
… came in and found your comment – and hope the MSM reading this pick up and run with it.
I agree with your “SCF should never had been let in but Bill English wanted to ensure his type of people were looked after.” comment. It is what I’ve always felt what the reasoning behind this bailout.
Going straight to the people is the way to proceed in this election, circumvent the machine wherever possible. Sometimes a bit of leadership is all it takes–it is OK to take action–FJK
Labour are getting out and about too with the big red bus, partner is doing a day on it as a volunteer. It will be ending up at Henderson nightmarkets on Friday around 7pm for any Westies in the area to come and support.
Jeepers – a few days ago my laptop began whineing – this was after it kept cutting out when trying to watch videos – I tried the old ignore and it will fix itself trick – nah – so I had to take some time out – I didn’t want to but it has been good although a bit shocked to see that bad is banned for life now – oh well.
As has already been mentioned, anyone lamenting bad’s banning should consider that there are a (growing) number of unpublished comments by him which are openly abusive. Phrases like “two bit gutter trash” are among the mildest of the crap bad has thrown at Standard moderators over the past two days.
I resent your statement that my actions “set him off”. bad was given multiple moderator warnings and deliberately chose to post personal abuse at me and was banned for doing so.
weka has linked to the relevant comments at 5.4 below. Read it yourself.
no..i went to that link..that doesn’t have what he said..there is only him saying he shouldn’t respond to you because he cd get banned..
..his response to your retraction-demand (in link)..that he got banned for..that has been redacted..
..are we able to know what that was..?
..as an object-lesson..?..if nothing else..
.and maybe a modicum of justice being seen to be done..?
[Stephanie: No, phillip. I’m not going to repeat the abusive, misogynist crap bad posted at me just to “prove” to you that “justice was done”. You can either accept that bad crossed a line, despite being warned multiple times and despite playing the martyr when he was warned about his behaviour, or you can not, but continuing to imply that I am to blame for bad’s wilful abusiveness is a seriously stupid move on your part.]
Bad calling Lynn, in his moderator role, an impotent little prick is still visible. Does that not tell you enough?
That link also shows bad12 referring to a couple of days ago when he was warned and he commented that he was aware of the implications of the warning. You can find that pretty easily along with the rest of the context that day.
It never ceases to amaze me that people on the internet don’t get moderation 101: my blog, my rules. Instead many people seem to think that blogs/forums etc should operate according to their own mores instead of the mores of the people that run the site. This despite the fact that the internet has always operated by moderation 101. Pretty much like everywhere else, when in Rome do as the Romans do.
I think that newbies can get caught out on ts sometimes by the moderation styles, but there is no way in hell that bad didn’t know what he was doing.
Hi Stephanie. I’m sorry that you have been abused, it’s uncalled for, and never ever excusable. I hope you’re feeling ok, I wouldn’t be if I had copped such abuse.
Knowing bad, I can only imagine the unpublish-able stuff would have been………..very bad.
I would like to see him back in the future, if he can temper that antagonism. He does have a keen eye for political manipulations and I have taken on board some of his wiser observations. Some “theory” I disagreed with wholeheartedly (like the Pike River non existent “insurance job” which I thought was an insulting suggestion that disrespected the dead and their loved ones), some I ignored but I did appreciate his quirky grumpy ways most of the time.
I am quite disappointed that bad12 has been banned for whatever reason. He is a brilliant writer, funny and with good analytical skills. Too bad that in his enthusiasm for politics and his dear causes, at times his abuse/swear words was too crass and over the top.
May be he is depressed, unwell, upset about something or something else is going on in his life.
We all make mistakes. Egos can cause chaos and destroy people.
Perhaps there could be an amicable privately conducted correspondence to settle the issue, forget and forgive, have this ban revoked and make a fresh start.
That is how I feel anyway.
[Stephanie: bad was not banned “for whatever reason”. He was openly and aggressively abusive to multiple moderators of this site. He threatened to continue to troll this site under new pseudonyms if banned. He posted at least a dozen further abusive comments after being banned and clearly has no desire for an “amicable” “fresh start”.
This conversation has been entirely played out and I must ask that no further comments be posted which question the decision of moderators to ban a clearly abusive troll.]
+1 Clem. I’ve never been overly offended to my knowledge by bad12’s stuff.
Time-soakers like Pete George, fisiani and srylands, with their multitude of posts irritate me more. Maybe a limit on the number of posts/day would be an idea, though probably impractical.
[Stephanie: It would really pay to read what the moderators have said on this matter. It is irrelevant if you, personally, were never “overly offended” by his comments because you, personally, weren’t being subjected to personal abuse.
bad12 was not banned because he was “irritating”. He was banned for being abusive, as detailed in many places on this thread.]
@Bearded Git 2.47
But bad did go in for a multitude of posts quite often. Just like the others you mention, and longer than them too. I don’t see TS as regarding itself as a place for someone to have bad tempered spats with other commenters. It’s lively but bad pushed the limits. I gave up when he was rude when I suggested something that I thought he would have been interested in.
It’s a pity that he can’t control his aggressive language but I don’t think he will ever do that and ends up as disruptive as any RW troll, yet with a left slant.
I’m not lamenting just noting that in a few days a lot can change. He knew the rules and abused a moderator and unpleasantly misrepresented their views so he got what was coming to him.
Stop playing such a bloody martyr, phillip. All the links are up there for you to make whatever guesses you like. Maybe bad can’t handle being told “no” by a woman. Certainly he was holding a grudge over our previous conversations about abortion rights.
Demanding proof of the “justification” for bad’s banning, and insisting that we talk about the “trigger” for his behaviour is nothing more than making excuses for abuse.
The thing that surprised me was that bad12 appears to banned from even reading the site (until he changes his ISP anyway). However it did seem to be richly deserved. Anyway, I imagine that he will be included in the post-election amnesty, so; “banned for life”, may not be as long as it sounds.
[lprent: He was banned for attacking authors in the crudest terms.
He got banned from reading the site to make the point. That was because he started channelling Gollum in the auto-spam like this. That puts him in the dad4justice league of people who get removed from the site.
You cannot tho patrol the site 24/7 and when the bad’s choose to give you another little lesson in just how impotent you really are, the bad’s will,
But I see that he leaked through a comment this morning. I’ll have a look at the logs and firewall shortly to see how that happened. ]
I noticed yesterday that when I tried to read TS from home I was redirected to a “lad’s mag” site (only for a couple of minutes).
Would that be a little bit of “banned from reading” collateral damage? 🙂
I figured it was probably a tory hacker until I read the self-immolation thread.
Bad12 has been building up to it. What surprises me isn’t the ban, but that he knowingly did the very specific things to get himself not just a short ban but a permanent one. I think the place would be better for him having some time off, he was getting less legible and more antagonistic recently, but am sad that he has gone permanently. He often brought in on to it perspectives.
I’m sad to see bad12 go. He said a lot of useful stuff, which I think will be missed. His personal attacks on people and over the top abuse won’t be missed by me at all.
As for the election – after Nicky Hager’s book, September 20 will tell us what sort of people we are as a whole. If we vote Key back in, that will mean that we think filth like Whalespew have an important place in our formal democracy. It will mean that we don’t care how a PM maintains power, as long as he looks after the material interests of the 1% and lets us all believe we have a chance to join them.
I never thought we were like that, and I still hope most of us aren’t.
Press Release from Jane Kelsey, on how the US redrafts legislation for other countries via trade agreements – and is likely to be able to do it for NZ’s leglislation via TPPA.
Similar communications might never be released under New Zealand’s Official Information Act, because they involveinformation entrusted to the government in confidence from another government.
‘In other words New Zealanders, including MPs, might never know that the US was involved in writing our laws and demanding the right to sign them off even before Parliament gets to see them’, Professor Kelsey warned.
Key distracts, first the teapot sideshow, now the drunks shouting f.j.k. But I was thinking, isn’t it a mistake for Key to highlight drinking problems. I mean he’s pro-alcohol industry. How does coming off as a prude about alcohol, how he’s no boozy. That might get out. That he doesn’t. He owns the wine company but doesn’t drink excessively. What has this got to do with TPP? Well big alcohol is a global businesses, even our local breweries have foreign investors. So here’s the risk, that Kiwis wake up one day to the extortion of a TPP and realize that not only would they not drink excessively anymore, but when they did they would buy locally owned brew.
All works of humans have risks, neo-liberalism caused the GFC, TPP will cause huge loses when the profits start flowing out due to hidden legal extortion’s in the legislation become public. So why do they keep producing bad law, bad practice, shit in the rivers. Because they make their money on the margin. Key was a money broker after all. The neo-liberalism produce his ilk. TPP does not serve the interests of free trade, or NZ, and should it become law as stated above, I believe many politicians should be prosecuted for treason.
Lucky Key will however be living in Hawaii in his mansion, in the boss-um of beast so to speak.
Its worse. People should realize he owns a wine company, or has a wine name after him, or something. Why would you drink more excessively than your politicians? Do they want us to be to drunk to notice what they get up to. Now Muldoon was straight up, straight boozed up and nobody could probably keep up. But why would breweries want the idea getting out that politicians aren’t drinking, least consumers start cutting back too. When did you last see Key, or Whyte, slurring their word, or having a little wobble as they made their way to the podium.
Its just wrong. I’m cutting back starting right now. Until I see my politicians getting legless again, its not going to happen to me or mine. Key wants us all drunk and stupefied.
“Key said he had drawn a “natural conclusion” when young people in the effigy-burning video were chanting the same thing as students at an Internet-Mana Party event. However, he was happy to accept he had been wrong.”
yep fuck john key is hardly ever heard in the streets, but wait there’s more
“”The picture of my face that was burnt as part of the effigy looked extremely similar to the one I saw in the previous Dotcom video,” Key said.”
umm it was off your election material I think there key
No point, the proof is some screen shots from the guys facebook account that whaleoil posted and as we all know the posters on here get an attack of the vapours and have to rush to their perfumed hankies whenever whaleoils mentioned
[lprent: The odour of untreated arsecrack is a bit overwhelming otherwise. ]
and he would never lie or deliberately break a law now would he, oh wait a minute…. you agree with hispolitical views so his behaviour is just fine by you, and you rely on him for some of your information upon which to form your vote
so let’s pop off the “but but vandalizing billboards is illegal” and “if an IMP supporter or 500 says fuck john key then a burning effigy must be by the same people” high horse shall we.
If your “connection” is that he went to a party, that’s pretty much the definition of “casual link”.
Also, what does it say about Key’s casual links? Guess he now has to be held to account for the actions of everyone who votes national, writes on blogs for them, or goes to all black games.
Also also, real nice of you to leap all over the guy’s mum for no reason at all. Nasty little Govt-sanctioned brownshirt fascist creeps.
So the links between Key and WO mean Key approves of WO’s crusade against muslims I suppose.
WO links to various neo-fascist stuff on Islam. I guess this is why National mouthpieces have been going hard calling people fascist then. Chilling stuff.
Umm,,, you do realise you can dislike Islam and not be a neo-fascist don’t you? You can also link to an article that may be hosted by someone with neo-fascist views but that does not make the article neo-fascist and nor by extension does that make you one. I would draw you a Venn diagram to illustrate this but I’m not sure you would comprehend even if I did.
Sure, but if you link to stuff about Islam being an existential threat to our way of life, and talking about the terribel effects of immigration and how Islam is a cancerous thing that western values can;t deal with blah blah, an how liberal elites just don’t get it blah blah…
…then the similarity between that stuff and how fascists used to talk about Jews kinda screams out. And when you link to Marine le Pen, then shit, it isn’t your opponents who have any explaining to do.
Except anti-Jewish views are based more on race. I have no problem with secular Arabs or even religious ones who accept their faith should not interfere with the wider public sphere. I do have an issue with the mainstream view of Islam where upon there is no separation of religion from governance and the unequal treatment of non Muslims as a result of attempting to implement this view.
Good to see you have used such stellar material, but you should really give credit for this comeback to the author who introduced you to it yesterday – take a bow Felix, for providing Gosman with a better turn of phrase than the usual.
People can ask what they like or they can make up their own minds about things whether they be right or wrong but it doesn’t mean I have to answer everything especially when I think its pointless and adds nothing to the thread
John Key says drunken students shouting f.j.k is part of
a loathsome dirty tricks campaign. I thought he was pro-alcohol,
why the turn around? Does he hate booze now? Are opposition using
booze to attack Key, how can Key stop them without coming across
as attack on big alcohol. Oh, the evil b*st***s
No wonder Hooten keeps promoting David Shearer as leader. Can you imagine how awful Shearer would have been in these interviews. Labour would have had no show.
Always curious about how our culture believes in a hierarchy of human pain, and presumably, if you’re further up the hierarchy, no one else’s pain counts. It’s like trading kid’s fantasy game cards. You got beat up? Well I got run over, twice, so shut up I win the attention!
Simonne Butler has written a book about her younger years and about knowing Antoine Dixon, just before he attacked her with a sword. She says of her book, “A lot of people would come across me who had way less crap in their lives and they’re letting it drag them down and nothing drags me down, nothing ever has, and that is very helpful to people…It’s full of violence. My hands getting chopped off was just one bad day in my life. I was getting beaten up every other day. For everyone else that was this really bad thing, but for me it was just one more day in my life.”
Where on the hierarchy of pain does defacing election signs lie? What about having to share your neighbourhood with poor people? What about having the grass on the city berms grow a bit too long? What about depression?
If general impressions are true, all those things are much further down the scale. I was just wondering what Ms. Butler would have said to Robin Williams a few weeks ago, had they met – would he be dead today? Would she point out the fantastic life he had despite his pain, compared to hers, and that would inspire him to buck up, harden up, grow a thick skin or whatever it is you’re meant to do to “get over yourself” and come to believe that everyone is exactly the same, mentally and emotionally, as the next person? Or would she say, “Hey Robin, you know if all indicators are correct, life isn’t the end. There could be better comedy material in death than in life. You’ll do what’s right for you.” And maybe he would have used the reply he once said his Father liked to use for stupid ideas, and said, “Hmmm. Interesting concept.” and then gone ahead and done whatever he was always going to do, as his own reality dictated.
Butler says she was young and dumb, a bit stupid. Life requires all types, and being able to think can drag a person down. Ms. Butler doesn’t let anything drag her down and hopefully for her she’ll continue along that path. She’s created quite the conundrum for me, though. If I buy her book it might encourage her to keep writing, but writing usually involves thinking and then she’ll lose the shield of ignorance and things will start to drag her down. If I don’t buy her book, she might wonder why and start to think and get all down about it, or she won’t, and she’ll move on with life. So possibly the problem isn’t the book, or the thinking. The problem might be that most people look for validation of their personal worth from outside circumstances or achievements.
So bear in mind today, if you have no food in the house, no money, are ill, jobless, about to be evicted; maybe you’re about to release your book, or someone just done wrote over John Key’s face; at least you still have your hands and no one has beaten you up. Quit your whining and think of the children in Africa. They don’t even have pictures of John Key.
Remember that despite your problems, right now, somewhere inside, somewhere deep deep inside, (and if you’re voting Right this Spring…) somewhere way way waaaay deep down near your hidden core, somewhere no one can see or know about, you’re good enough. Whatever it is that keeps your heart beating is the ultimate validation. Rich or poor, Dark or Light, man or woman, healthy or not, whether you acknowledge it or not, it’s the same unconditional power.
An interesting article from Bill English where he states that we don’t need to worry about Chinese buying our dairy farms because they are hopeless businesses, and sooner or later they will realise this and sell up.
Isn’t DAIRY FARMING at the centre of National’s economic development plan…must be some ammo in this. National really have no fuckin idea what they are doing, nor do the 46% people voting for them.
I’m no friend of David Clark; Labour electorate MP for Dunedin North, which is why I feel it important to note when he gets something right:
Nurse-to-patient ratios in Dunedin Hospital’s emergency department are being stretched to as many as one to 10… Dr Clark, who is Labour’s associate health spokesman, said nurses were carrying more than the standard accepted workload of one nurse to three patients in an ”increasingly desperate” situation.
I have talked to nurses over the past year who are utterly frustrated with the shortsighted costcutting of SDHB management. The long hours shift work make regular life very difficult, especially when you factor in the exhaustion from excessive workload. But the most telling sign of contempt for ED nurses, and wider community health, is this measure that is still being bitterly fought (despite what this article and the Nurse’s own union claim):
Some emergency department nurses fought a change that has them laundering their uniforms, Dunedin Hospital ED specialist John Chambers says… nurses felt ”very strongly” about the possible infection risk from washing their own uniform. They had appealed to management citing scientific evidence, but the change went ahead… North Dunedin MP David Clark said the problem of antibiotic resistance made hygiene practices more central to infection control, and he could understand the nurses’ concern.
Note that this is at one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals. So that these penny pinching measures will become the norm across the entire health system as University & Polytech graduates disperse throughout the country.
Dunedin North’s other leading electorate MP candidate; Woodhouse of the Nats, has no problem with any of this so long as the numbers look good on paper. But then, he is often seen as a parliamentary representative of the private-health industry, and shares responsibility in the long project of undermining the ACC:
National MP and Dunedin North candidate Michael Woodhouse yesterday dismissed Dr Clark’s claims as nothing more than ”desperate electioneering”.
”This Government has lifted Southern’s annual funding to a record $833 million – over $120 million more than in 2008 – and there are now 116 extra nurses and 62 extra doctors employed by Southern DHB compared to 2008.
One nurse to three patients seems like a low ratio for an emergency department. I was in a transplant ward in Brisbane for a while recently, and their ratio was one to two. In Emergency I assume it would be higher. One to ten is asking for disaster. It’s good to see the Labour guy taking a stand. I can’t see the Tories being interested in much more than the cut of the nurses’ uniforms.
This is fascinating if you are interested in peak oil, climate change or economics.
A highlight for me:
“The major companies are struggling to find viable reserves, forcing them take on ever more leverage to explore in marginal basins, often gambling that much higher prices in the future will come to the rescue. Global output of conventional oil peaked in 2005 despite huge investment…..The International Energy Agency in Paris says global investment in fossil fuel supply rose from $400bn to $900bn during the boom from 2000 and 2008, doubling in real terms. It has since levelled off, reaching $950bn last year. The returns have been meagre. Not a single large oil project has come on stream at a break-even cost below $80 a barrel for almost three years.”
I don’t think that was the real Dan Carter (why would he really bother following the internet party) but if it was then having a go at him will lose you more votes then you’ll gain
puck that is pretty confused – may be dan, may not be, and apart from that crucial information the actual content is uncontroversial. Come on fella surely there are better shit storms than this out there for the right or have you lot given up .
I think it’s more a dig at the states, and jk, being so tightly inserted into uncle sam’s corporate bum, is bound to cop it by arseociation (sic), and cop a share when the the sh!t goes down.
Edit:
Send that joke to a comedian and tell them they can use it for free as long as they donate a food basket to the sallies in Hamilton.
“Nearly 400,000 people may miss the chance for a quicker vote on election day if they don’t enrol in the next week.
The Electoral Commission says there are still 380,000 eligible New Zealanders who haven’t enrolled to vote on September 20”
There’s the 800,000 that didn’t vote last time, with half of them ready to go this time out, which will do nicely if they’re inclined to vote key out.
Getting more involved and participating would be nice, but even if only half of those 400k turnout on election day, that’ll see national gone before supper time.
“and over half of them are under 30.”
I was going to say it shows even 3 mil and celebrity rock ‘n roll can’t get reach kids, that or shows some kids can’t be bought by flashing lights and cult infamy smoke and mirrors, but to be fair, green or red hasn’t got them yet either, so no need for a dig for the sake of it. :halo:
Protest John Key, don’t drink, he’s the front man for big alcohol, or he thinks drunks are at the heart of a political conspiracy, whichever, its about time politicians got drunk on TV to show their do as they say not do as they do.
I will blog on it at length later, but after a speed read the big reveals are:
1. The Prime Minister’s office hacked into Labour’s servers, obtaining information about its donors and membership, passed the information onto Cameron Slater and then lied about it.
2. The Prime Minister’s office told Slater to OIA classified SIS documents, then had the SIS declassify them and released to Slater.
You can be sure that with this kind of intelligence services access, the Tories are running black lists of names in every part of NZ society.
[lprent: I have moved this to OpenMike as being a thread rapidly becoming unrelated to the post. ]
Peter Dunne, associate Minister of Health from 2005 to 2013? Say it ain’t so. Boy, has he got some big decisions to make tonight. Deny, bluster and threaten to sue or wave bye bye to Ohariu. Gone in a puff of smoke?
lol hacked. The website was left open by a bug, which promptly got fixed.
[lprent: A statement that isn’t related to either the post, nor to the comment you responded to. Why? Are you looking for a ban for trolling off-topic? ]
The Prime Minister’s office hacked into Labour’s servers, obtaining information about its donors and membership, passed the information onto Cameron Slater and then lied about it.
[lprent: Apologies. You are correct, I thought you were referring to Slaters system being hacked rather than the NZLP.
BTW: The NZLP site wasn’t left open by a “bug”. It was obviously left open by someone deleting the Document page that protected the site and leaving the default file indexing on, which left the sites files visible. It was just stupid and something that most people using apache have managed to do at some point in time.
Unfortunately that default configuration was a flaw (the old design docs for apache made the quite clear). However it was a deliberate flaw that took more than a decade to get corrected. ]
So if you leave your back door open one day – and I go inside and read all your mail and take copies in order to embarrass you at some point – that’s totally ok is it?
Suicide and political regime in New South Wales and Australia during the 20th century
Snip: “A nation’s suicide rate increases under right-wing governments according two studies that have looked at Australia and Britain over the past century.
Alienation and isolation may run higher in societies driven by competitive market forces, suggest the teams behind the findings. Left-wing rule, focusing more on equality, might put people under less pressure.
Governments should consider their role in public health beyond spending, says social scientist Mary Shaw of the University of Bristol, UK. “We need to look not just at the immediate biomedical factors affecting health, but also how we organize society,” she says.
In New South Wales, Australia, suicides soared when federal and state governments were Conservative, a team at the University of Sydney has found. They were lowest when the Labour Party ruled both.”
Do you know anything about the hacking of Labour’s computers, Lprent?
Not particularly. I asked a couple of non-tech people inside Labour afterwards. Their description of what happened is characteristic. I have set up a lot of IIS, nginx and apache2 servers including this one (many times).
Default Settings
This section explains configuration of the Apache2 server default settings. For example, if you add a virtual host, the settings you configure for the virtual host take precedence for that virtual host. For a directive not defined within the virtual host settings, the default value is used.
The DirectoryIndex is the default page served by the server when a user requests an index of a directory by specifying a forward slash (/) at the end of the directory name.
For example, when a user requests the page http://www.example.com/this_directory/, he or she will get either the DirectoryIndex page if it exists, a server-generated directory list if it does not and the Indexes option is specified, or a Permission Denied page if neither is true. The server will try to find one of the files listed in the DirectoryIndex directive and will return the first one it finds. If it does not find any of these files and if Options Indexes is set for that directory, the server will generate and return a list, in HTML format, of the subdirectories and files in the directory. The default value, found in /etc/apache2/mods-available/dir.conf is “index.html index.cgi index.pl index.php index.xhtml index.htm”. Thus, if Apache2 finds a file in a requested directory matching any of these names, the first will be displayed.
Cheers. I’m not super computer-literate, but I see how that would work. Also painfully evident from the extracts I’ve seen that National lied egregiously about what they did with it.
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On Werewolf/Scoop, I usually do two long form political columns a week. From now on, there will be an extra column each week about music and movies. But first, some late-breaking political events:The rise in unemployment numbers for the March quarter was bigger than expected – and especially sharp ...
David Farrar writes – The Herald reports: TVNZ says it is dealing with about 50 formal complaints over its coverage of the latest 1News-Verian political poll, with some viewers – as well as the Prime Minister and a former senior Labour MP – critical of the tone of the 6pm report. ...
Muriel Newman writes – When Meridian Energy was seeking resource consents for a West Coast hydro dam proposal in 2010, local Maori “strenuously” objected, claiming their mana was inextricably linked to ‘their’ river and could be damaged. After receiving a financial payment from the company, however, the Ngai Tahu ...
Alwyn Poole writes – “An SEP,’ he said, ‘is something that we can’t see, or don’t see, or our brain doesn’t let us see, because we think that it’s somebody else’s problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it’s like a ...
Our trust in our political institutions is fast eroding, according to a Maxim Institute discussion paper, Shaky Foundations: Why our democracy needs trust. The paper – released today – raises concerns about declining trust in New Zealand’s political institutions and democratic processes, and the role that the overuse of Parliamentary urgency ...
This article was prepared for publication yesterday. More ministerial announcements have been posted on the government’s official website since it was written. We will report on these later today …. Buzz from the BeehiveThere we were, thinking the environment is in trouble, when along came Jones. Shane Jones. ...
New Zealand now has the fourth most depressed construction sector in the world behind China, Qatar and Hong Kong. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 8:46am on Thursday, May 2:The Lead: ...
Hi,I am just going to state something very obvious: American police are fucking crazy.That was a photo gracing the New York Times this morning, showing New York City police “entering Columbia University last night after receiving a request from the school.”Apparently in America, protesting the deaths of tens of thousands ...
Winston Peters’ much anticipated foreign policy speech last night was a work of two halves. Much of it was a standard “boilerplate” Foreign Ministry overview of the state of the world. There was some hardening up of rhetoric with talk of “benign” becoming “malign” and old truths giving way to ...
Graham Adams assesses the fallout of the Cass Review — The press release last Thursday from the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls didn’t make the mainstream news in New Zealand but it really should have. The startling title of Reem Alsalem’s statement — “Implementation of ‘Cass ...
This open-for-business, under-new-management cliché-pockmarked government of Christopher Luxon is not the thing of beauty he imagines it to be. It is not the powerful expression of the will of the people that he asserts it to be. It is not a soaring eagle, it is a malodorous vulture. This newest poll should make ...
The latest labour market statistics, showing a rise in unemployment. There are now 134,000 unemployed - 14,000 more than when the National government took office. Which is I guess what happens when the Reserve Bank causes a recession in an effort to Keep Wages Low. The previous government saw a ...
Three opinion polls have been released in the last two days, all showing that the new government is failing to hold their popular support. The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due ...
National's Finance Minister once met a poor person.A scornful interview with National's finance guru who knows next to nothing about economics or people.There might have been something a bit familiar if that was the headline I’d gone with today. It would of course have been in tribute to the article ...
Rob MacCulloch writes – Throughout the pandemic, the new Vice-Chancellor-of-Otago-University-on-$629,000 per annum-Can-you-believe-it-and-Former-Finance-Minister Grant Robertson repeated the mantra over and over that he saved “lives and livelihoods”.As we update how this claim is faring over the course of time, the facts are increasingly speaking differently. NZ ...
Chris Trotter writes – IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in acknowledgement of electoral victory: “We’ll govern for all New Zealanders.” On the face of it, the pledge is a strange one. Why would any political leader govern in ways that advantaged the huge ...
Bryce Edwards writes – The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill ...
TL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy at 10:06am on Wednesday, May 1:The Lead: Business confidence fell across the board in April, falling in some areas to levels last seen during the lockdowns because of a collapse in ...
Over the past 36 hours, Christopher Luxon has been dong his best to portray the centre-right’s plummeting poll numbers as a mark of virtue. Allegedly, the negative verdicts are the result of hard economic times, and of a government bravely set out on a perilous rescue mission from which not ...
Auckland Transport have started rolling out new HOP card readers around the network and over the next three months, all of them on buses, at train stations and ferry wharves will be replaced. The change itself is not that remarkable, with the new readers looking similar to what is already ...
Completed reads for April: The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling Carnival of Saints, by George Herman The Snow Spider, by Jenny Nimmo Emlyn’s Moon, by Jenny Nimmo The Chestnut Soldier, by Jenny Nimmo Death Comes As the End, by Agatha Christie Lord of the Flies, by ...
On February 14, 2023 we announced our Rebuttal Update Project. This included an ask for feedback about the added "At a glance" section in the updated basic rebuttal versions. This weekly blog post series highlights this new section of one of the updated basic rebuttal versions and serves as a ...
Have a story to share about St Paul’s, but today just picturesPopular novels written at this desk by a young man who managed to bootstrap himself out of father’s imprisonment and his own young life in a workhouse Read more ...
The list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, Roger Sowry, ...
Newsroom has a story today about National's (fortunately failed) effort to disestablish the newly-created Inspector-General of Defence. The creation of this agency was the key recommendation of the Inquiry into Operation Burnham, and a vital means of restoring credibility and social licence to an agency which had been caught lying ...
Holding On To The Present:The moment a political movement arises that attacks the whole idea of social progress, and announces its intention to wind back the hands of History’s clock, then democracy, along with its unwritten rules, is in mortal danger.IT’S A COMMONPLACE of political speeches, especially those delivered in ...
Stuck In The Middle With You:As Christopher Luxon feels the hot breath of Act’s and NZ First’s extremists on the back of his neck and, as he reckons with the damage their policies are already inflicting upon a country he’s described as “fragile”, is there not some merit in reaching out ...
The unpopular coalition government is currently rushing to repeal section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act. The clause is Oranga Tamariki's Treaty clause, and was inserted after its systematic stealing of Māori children became a public scandal and resulted in physical resistance to further abductions. The clause created clear obligations ...
Buzz from the Beehive The government’s official website – which Point of Order monitors daily – not for the first time has nothing much to say today about political happenings that are grabbing media headlines. It makes no mention of the latest 1News-Verian poll, for example. This shows National down ...
It Takes A Train To Cry:Surely, there is nothing lonelier in all this world than the long wail of a distant steam locomotive on a cold Winter’s night.AS A CHILD, I would lie awake in my grandfather’s house and listen to the traffic. The big wooden house was only a ...
Packing A Punch: The election of the present government, including in its ranks politicians dedicated to reasserting the rights of the legislature in shaping and determining the future of Māori and Pakeha in New Zealand, should have alerted the judiciary – including its anomalous appendage, the Waitangi Tribunal – that its ...
Dead Woman Walking: New Zealand’s media industry had been moving steadily towards disaster for all the years Melissa Lee had been National’s media and communications policy spokesperson, and yet, when the crisis finally broke, on her watch, she had nothing intelligent to offer. Christopher Luxon is a patient man - but he’s not ...
Chris Trotter writes – New Zealand politics is remarkably easy-going: dangerously so, one might even say. With the notable exception of John Key’s flat ruling-out of the NZ First Party in 2008, all parties capable of clearing MMP’s five-percent threshold, or winning one or more electorate seats, tend ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is ...
Luxon will no doubt put a brave face on it, but there is no escaping the pressure this latest poll will put on him and the government. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on Aotearoa-NZ’s political ...
This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler In the wake of any unusual weather event, someone inevitably asks, “Did climate change cause this?” In the most literal sense, that answer is almost always no. Climate change is never the sole cause of hurricanes, heat waves, droughts, or ...
Something odd happened yesterday, and I’d love to know if there’s more to it. If there was something which preempted what happened, or if it was simply a throwaway line in response to a journalist.Yesterday David Seymour was asked at a press conference what the process would be if the ...
Hi,From time to time, I want to bring Webworm into the real world. We did it last year with the Jurassic Park event in New Zealand — which was a lot of fun!And so on Saturday May 11th, in Los Angeles, I am hosting a lil’ Webworm pop-up! I’ve been ...
Education Minister Erica Standford yesterday unveiled a fundamental reform of the way our school pupils are taught. She would not exactly say so, but she is all but dismantling the so-called “inquiry” “feel good” method of teaching, which has ruled in our classrooms since a major review of the New ...
Exactly where are we seriously going with this government and its policies? That is, apart from following what may as well be a Truss-Lite approach on the purported economic “plan“, and Victorian-era regression when it comes to social policy.Oh it’ll work this time of course, we’re basically assured, “the ...
Hey Uncle Dave, When the Poms joined the EEC, I wasn't one of those defeatists who said, Well, that’s it for the dairy job. And I was right, eh? The Chinese can’t get enough of our milk powder and eventually, the Poms came to their senses and backed up the ute ...
Polling shows that Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has the lowest approval rating of any mayor in the country. Siting at -12 per cent, the proportion of constituents who disapprove of her performance outweighs those who give her the thumbs up. This negative rating is higher than for any other mayor ...
Buzz from the Beehive Pharmac has been given a financial transfusion and a new chair to oversee its spending in the pharmaceutical business. Associate Health Minister David Seymour described the funding for Pharmac as “its largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff”. ...
Bryce Edwards writes – Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its ...
TL;DR: Here’s my top 10 ‘pick ‘n’ mix of links to news, analysis and opinion articles as of 10:10am on Monday, April 29:Scoop: The children's ward at Rotorua Hospital will be missing a third of its beds as winter hits because Te Whatu Ora halted an upgrade partway through to ...
span class=”dropcap”>As hideous as David Seymour can be, it is worth keeping in mind occasionally that there are even worse political figures (and regimes) out there. Iran for instance, is about to execute the country’s leading hip hop musician Toomaj Salehi, for writing and performing raps that “corrupt” the nation’s ...
Yesterday marked 10 years since the first electric train carried passengers in Auckland so it’s a good time to look back at it and the impact it has had. A brief history The first proposals for rail electrification in Auckland came in the 1920’s alongside the plans for earlier ...
Right now, in Aotearoa-NZ, our ‘animal spirits’ are darkening towards a winter of discontent, thanks at least partly to a chorus of negative comments and actions from the Government Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: These are the six things that stood out to me in news and commentary on ...
You make people evil to punish the paststuck inside a sequel with a rotating castThe following photos haven’t been generated with AI, or modified in any way. They are flesh and blood, human beings. On the left is Galatea Young, a young mum, and her daughter Fiadh who has Angelman ...
April has been a quiet month at A Phuulish Fellow. I have had an exceptionally good reading month, and a decently productive writing month – for original fiction, anyway – but not much has caught my eye that suggested a blog article. It has been vaguely frustrating, to be honest. ...
A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 21, 2024 thru Sat, April 27, 2024. Story of the week Anthropogenic climate change may be the ultimate shaggy dog story— but with a twist, because here ...
Hi,I spent about a year on Webworm reporting on an abusive megachurch called Arise, and it made me want to stab my eyes out with a fork.I don’t regret that reporting in 2022 and 2023 — I am proud of it — but it made me angry.Over three main stories ...
The new Victoria University Vice-Chancellor decided to have a forum at the university about free speech and academic freedom as it is obviously a topical issue, and the Government is looking at legislating some carrots or sticks for universities to uphold their obligations under the Education and Training Act. They ...
Do you remember when Melania Trump got caught out using a speech that sounded awfully like one Michelle Obama had given? Uncannily so.Well it turns out that Abraham Lincoln is to Winston Peters as Michelle was to Melania. With the ANZAC speech Uncle Winston gave at Gallipoli having much in ...
She was born 25 years ago today in North Shore hospital. Her eyes were closed tightly shut, her mouth was silently moving. The whole theatre was all quiet intensity as they marked her a 2 on the APGAR test. A one-minute eternity later, she was an 8. The universe was ...
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. This fact brief was written by Sue Bin Park in collaboration with members from our Skeptical Science team. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Is Antarctica gaining land ice? ...
Images of US students (and others) protesting and setting up tent cities on US university campuses have been broadcast world wide and clearly demonstrate the growing rifts in US society caused by US policy toward Israel and Israel’s prosecution of … Continue reading → ...
Barrie Saunders writes – Dear Paul As the new Minister of Media and Communications, you will be inundated with heaps of free advice and special pleading, all in the national interest of course. For what it’s worth here is my assessment: Traditional broadcasting free to air content through ...
Many criticisms are being made of the Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill, including by this writer. But as with everything in politics, every story has two sides, and both deserve attention. It’s important to understand what the Government is trying to achieve and its arguments for such a bold reform. ...
Peter Dunne writes – The great nineteenth British Prime Minister, William Gladstone, once observed that “the first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher.” When a later British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, sacked a third of his Cabinet in July 1962, in what became ...
Ele Ludemann writes – New Zealanders had the OECD’s second highest tax increase last year: New Zealanders faced the second-biggest tax raises in the developed world last year, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. The intergovernmental agency said the average change in personal income tax ...
We all know something’s not right with our elections. The spread of misinformation, people being targeted with soundbites and emotional triggers that ignore the facts, even the truth, and influence their votes.The use of technology to produce deep fakes. How can you tell if something is real or not? Can ...
The Government is again adding to New Zealand’s growing unemployment, this time cutting jobs at the agencies responsible for urban development and growing much needed housing stock. ...
With Minister Karen Chhour indicating in the House today that she either doesn’t know or care about the frontline cuts she’s making to Oranga Tamariki, we risk seeing more and more of our children falling through the cracks. ...
The Labour Party is saddened to learn of the death of Sir Robert Martin, a globally renowned disability advocate who led the way for disability rights both in New Zealand and internationally. ...
Labour is calling for the Government to urgently rethink its coalition commitment to restart live animal exports, Labour animal welfare spokesperson Rachel Boyack said. ...
Today’s Financial Stability Report has once again highlighted that poverty and deep inequality are political choices - and this Government is choosing to make them worse. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to do more for our households in most need as unemployment rises and the cost of living crisis endures. ...
Unemployment is on the rise and it’s only going to get worse under this Government, Labour finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. Stats NZ figures show the unemployment rate grew to 4.3 percent in the March quarter from 4 percent in the December quarter. “This is the second rise in unemployment ...
The New Zealand Labour Party welcomes the entering into force of the European Union and New Zealand free trade agreement. This agreement opens the door for a huge increase in trade opportunities with a market of 450 million people who are high value discerning consumers of New Zealand goods and ...
The National-led Government continues its fiscal jiggery pokery with its Pharmac announcement today, Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall says. “The government has increased Pharmac funding but conceded it will only make minimal increases in access to medicine”, said Ayesha Verrall “This is far from the bold promises made to fund ...
This afternoon’s interim Waitangi Tribunal report must be taken seriously as it affects our most vulnerable children, Labour children’s spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime. ...
Te Pāti Māori are demanding the New Zealand Government support an international independent investigation into mass graves that have been uncovered at two hospitals on the Gaza strip, following weeks of assault by Israeli troops. Among the 392 bodies that have been recovered, are children and elderly civilians. Many of ...
Our two-tiered system for veterans’ support is out of step with our closest partners, and all parties in Parliament should work together to fix it, Labour veterans’ affairs spokesperson Greg O’Connor said. ...
Stripping two Ministers of their portfolios just six months into the job shows Christopher Luxon’s management style is lacking, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said. ...
Tonight’s court decision to overturn the summons of the Children’s Minister has enabled the Crown to continue making decisions about Māori without evidence, says Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Children, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “The judicial system has this evening told the nation that this government can do whatever they want when ...
It appears Nicola Willis is about to pull the rug out from under the feet of local communities still dealing with the aftermath of last year’s severe weather, and local councils relying on funding to build back from these disasters. ...
The Government is making short-sighted changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that will take away environmental protection in favour of short-term profits, Labour’s environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said today. ...
Labour welcomes the release of the report into the North Island weather events and looks forward to working with the Government to ensure that New Zealand is as prepared as it can be for the next natural disaster. ...
The Labour Party has called for the New Zealand Government to recognise Palestine, as a material step towards progressing the two-State solution needed to achieve a lasting peace in the region. ...
Some of our country’s most important work, stopping the sexual exploitation of children and violent extremism could go along with staff on the frontline at ports and airports. ...
The Government’s Fast Track Approvals Bill will give projects such as new coal mines a ‘get out of jail free’ card to wreak havoc on the environment, Labour Leader Chris Hipkins said today. ...
The government's decision to reintroduce Three Strikes is a destructive and ineffective piece of law-making that will only exacerbate an inherently biased and racist criminal justice system, said Te Pāti Māori Justice Spokesperson, Tākuta Ferris, today. During the time Three Strikes was in place in Aotearoa, Māori and Pasifika received ...
Cuts to frontline hospital staff are not only a broken election promise, it shows the reckless tax cuts have well and truly hit the frontline of the health system, says Labour Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall. ...
The Green Party has joined the call for public submissions on the fast-track legislation to be extended after the Ombudsman forced the Government to release the list of organisations invited to apply just hours before submissions close. ...
New Zealand’s good work at reducing climate emissions for three years in a row will be undone by the National government’s lack of ambition and scrapping programmes that were making a difference, Labour Party climate spokesperson Megan Woods said today. ...
More essential jobs could be on the chopping block, this time Ministry of Education staff on the school lunches team are set to find out whether they're in line to lose their jobs. ...
Te Pāti Māori is disgusted at the confirmation that hundreds are set to lose their jobs at Oranga Tamariki, and the disestablishment of the Treaty Response Unit. “This act of absolute carelessness and out of touch decision making is committing tamariki to state abuse.” Said Te Pāti Māori Oranga Tamariki ...
The Government is trying to bring in a law that will allow Ministers to cut corners and kill off native species, Labour environment spokesperson Rachel Brooking said. ...
Cancelling urgently needed new Cook Strait ferries and hiking the cost of public transport for many Kiwis so that National can announce the prospect of another tunnel for Wellington is not making good choices, Labour Transport Spokesperson Tangi Utikere said. ...
A laundry list of additional costs for Tāmaki Makarau Auckland shows the Minister for the city is not delivering for the people who live there, says Labour Auckland Issues spokesperson Shanan Halbert. ...
Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi, and Mema Paremata mō Tāmaki-Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, will travel to the Gold Coast to strengthen ties with Māori in Australia next week (15-21 April). The visit, in the lead-up to the 9th Australian National Kapa haka Festival, will be an opportunity for both ...
Thank you, John McKinnon and the New Zealand China Council for the invitation to speak to you today. Thank you too, all members of the China Council. Your effort has played an essential role in helping to build, shape, and grow a balanced and resilient relationship between our two ...
The Government is modernising insurance law to better protect Kiwis and provide security in the event of a disaster, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced today. “These reforms are long overdue. New Zealand’s insurance law is complicated and dated, some of which is more than 100 years old. ...
The coalition Government is refreshing its approach to supporting pay equity claims as time-limited funding for the Pay Equity Taskforce comes to an end, Public Service Minister Nicola Willis says. “Three years ago, the then-government introduced changes to the Equal Pay Act to support pay equity bargaining. The changes were ...
Structured literacy will change the way New Zealand children learn to read - improving achievement and setting students up for success, Education Minister Erica Stanford says. “Being able to read and write is a fundamental life skill that too many young people are missing out on. Recent data shows that ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay says Canada’s refusal to comply in full with a CPTPP trade dispute ruling in our favour over dairy trade is cynical and New Zealand has no intention of backing down. Mr McClay said he has asked for urgent legal advice in respect of our ‘next move’ ...
The rights of our children and young people will be enhanced by changes the coalition Government will make to strengthen oversight of the Oranga Tamariki system, including restoring a single Children’s Commissioner. “The Government is committed to delivering better public services that care for our most at-risk young people and ...
The Government is making it easier for minor changes to be made to a building consent so building a home is easier and more affordable, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “The coalition Government is focused on making it easier and cheaper to build homes so we can ...
New Zealand lost a true legend when internationally renowned disability advocate Sir Robert Martin (KNZM) passed away at his home in Whanganui last night, Disabilities Issues Minister Louise Upston says. “Our Government’s thoughts are with his wife Lynda, family and community, those he has worked with, the disability community in ...
Good evening – Before discussing the challenges and opportunities facing New Zealand’s foreign policy, we’d like to first acknowledge the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. You have contributed to debates about New Zealand foreign policy over a long period of time, and we thank you for hosting us. ...
From today, passengers travelling internationally from Auckland Airport will be able to keep laptops and liquids in their carry-on bags for security screening thanks to new technology, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Creating a more efficient and seamless travel experience is important for holidaymakers and businesses, enabling faster movement through ...
People with an interest in the health of Northland’s marine ecosystems are invited to a public meeting to discuss how to deal with kina barrens, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones will lead the discussion, which will take place on Friday, 10 May, at Awanui Hotel in ...
Kiwi exporters are $100 million better off today with the NZ EU FTA entering into force says Trade Minister Todd McClay. “This is all part of our plan to grow the economy. New Zealand's prosperity depends on international trade, making up 60 per cent of the country’s total economic activity. ...
There are heartening signs that the extractive sector is once again becoming an attractive prospect for investors and a source of economic prosperity for New Zealand, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The beginnings of a resurgence in extractive industries are apparent in media reports of the sector in the past ...
The return of the historic Ō-Rākau battle site to the descendants of those who fought there moved one step closer today with the first reading of Te Pire mō Ō-Rākau, Te Pae o Maumahara / The Ō-Rākau Remembrance Bill. The Bill will entrust the 9.7-hectare battle site, five kilometres west ...
Energy Minister Simeon Brown has announced 25 new high-speed EV charging hubs along key routes between major urban centres and outlined the Government’s plan to supercharge New Zealand’s EV infrastructure. The hubs will each have several chargers and be capable of charging at least four – and up to 10 ...
The coalition Government will not proceed with the previous Government’s plans to regulate residential property managers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop says. “I have written to the Chairperson of the Social Services and Community Committee to inform him that the Government does not intend to support the Residential Property Managers Bill ...
The Government has announced an independent review into the disability support system funded by the Ministry of Disabled People – Whaikaha. Disability Issues Minister Louise Upston says the review will look at what can be done to strengthen the long-term sustainability of Disability Support Services to provide disabled people and ...
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has attended the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva and outlined the Government’s plan to restore law and order. “Speaking to the United Nations Human Rights Council provided us with an opportunity to present New Zealand’s human rights progress, priorities, and challenges, while responding to issues and ...
The Government and Rotorua Lakes Council are committed to working closely together to end the use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua. Associate Minister of Housing (Social Housing) Tama Potaka says the Government remains committed to ending the long-term use of contracted emergency housing motels in Rotorua by the ...
Trade Minister Todd McClay heads overseas today for high-level trade talks in the Gulf region, and a key OECD meeting in Paris. Mr McClay will travel to Riyadh to meet with counterparts from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). “New Zealand’s goods and services exports to the Gulf region ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford has outlined six education priorities to deliver a world-leading education system that sets Kiwi kids up for future success. “I’m putting ambition, achievement and outcomes at the heart of our education system. I want every child to be inspired and engaged in their learning so they ...
The new NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) App is a secure ‘one stop shop’ to provide the services drivers need, Transport Minister Simeon Brown and Digitising Government Minister Judith Collins say. “The NZTA App will enable an easier way for Kiwis to pay for Vehicle Registration and Road User Charges (RUC). ...
Whānau with tamariki growing up in emergency housing motels will be prioritised for social housing starting this week, says Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. “Giving these whānau a better opportunity to build healthy stable lives for themselves and future generations is an essential part of the Government’s goal of reducing ...
Racing Minister Winston Peters has paid tribute to an icon of the industry with the recent passing of Dave O’Sullivan (OBE). “Our sympathies are with the O’Sullivan family with the sad news of Dave O’Sullivan’s recent passing,” Mr Peters says. “His contribution to racing, initially as a jockey and then ...
Assalaamu alaikum, greetings to you all. Eid Mubarak, everyone! I want to extend my warmest wishes to you and everyone celebrating this joyous occasion. It is a pleasure to be here. I have enjoyed Eid celebrations at Parliament before, but this is my first time joining you as the Minister ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced Pharmac’s largest ever budget of $6.294 billion over four years, fixing a $1.774 billion fiscal cliff. “Access to medicines is a crucial part of many Kiwis’ lives. We’ve committed to a budget allocation of $1.774 billion over four years so Kiwis are ...
Hon Paula Bennett has been appointed as member and chair of the Pharmac board, Associate Health Minister David Seymour announced today. "Pharmac is a critical part of New Zealand's health system and plays a significant role in ensuring that Kiwis have the best possible access to medicines,” says Mr Seymour. ...
Hundreds of New Zealand families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will benefit from a new Government focus on prevention and treatment, says Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. “We know FASD is a leading cause of preventable intellectual and neurodevelopmental disability in New Zealand,” Dr Reti says. “Every day, ...
Regional Development Minister Shane Jones today attended the official opening of Kaikohe’s new $14.7 million sports complex. “The completion of the Kaikohe Multi Sports Complex is a fantastic achievement for the Far North,” Mr Jones says. “This facility not only fulfils a long-held dream for local athletes, but also creates ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ engagements in Türkiye this week underlined the importance of diplomacy to meet growing global challenges. “Returning to the Gallipoli Peninsula to represent New Zealand at Anzac commemorations was a sombre reminder of the critical importance of diplomacy for de-escalating conflicts and easing tensions,” Mr Peters ...
Ambassador Millar, Burgemeester, Vandepitte, Excellencies, military representatives, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen – good morning and welcome to this sacred Anzac Day dawn service. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Government and people of New Zealand at Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood – a deeply ...
Distinguished guests - It is an honour to return once again to this site which, as the resting place for so many of our war-dead, has become a sacred place for generations of New Zealanders. Our presence here and at the other special spaces of Gallipoli is made ...
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A few people may be interested in this Vote Switching analysis.
http://www.colmarbrunton.co.nz/index.php/polls-and-surveys/political-polls/vote-switching-analysis-2014
Interesting where the undecideds are coming from.
You say on your blog that vote switch polls may actually be designed to increase undecided voters? I guess everyone has an angle. Yours is pretty obscure though, it’s not even like an ad for ice cream that blinks so fast people go into epileptic shock. Most guys who support the incumbent party just shout something like, “You guys are losing there is no hope!” then leave. Your angle is far more subtle. I like it, but it appeals to a small fragment of the available voters who are unlikely to be reading this blog. Have you taken a poll on how effective it is to suggest people become undecided, from non-poll obsessed people, taking into account the likely no response rate to questions likely to result in no response? I am totally standing by my phone waiting for your call. Speak to you around 6pm then?
Maybe you see my angle as ‘pretty obscure’ because I’m a Labour/Green supporter.
Aside from that, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
The defence for the South Canterbury Finance case has prised the lid a little on the reasons for Bill English allowing SCG into the Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme… http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/10376937/Defence-slates-inept-SFO-inquiry-into-SCF
SCF should never have been let in, or kept in, and Bill English knows this. This is the bigger fraud – the biggest in NZ;s history, and carried out by Bill English and his cohort John Key. The Crown, in its case against the defendants, has gone to great lengths and efforts to thwart any investigation into the reasons for SCF being let in. They have actively avoided and diverted enquiries away from this very issue. Evidence for this is provided ….
“What we now know is that these people were never questioned by the SFO about their entrance into the Crown Deed of Guarantee”
and
“”The most alarming example of the deficiency of the SFO’s investigation concerns the charge concerning the Crown Deed of Guarantee”
and
“Equally disturbing is that when interviewed, none of the defendants was asked about the entry into the Crown Deed of Guarantee – they were simply charged with the biggest fraud in New Zealand’s history without ever being given the chance to explain what had in fact happened back in 2008 and the role they had played”
and
“Neither Treasury nor the Reserve Bank were asked to provide any of their analysis into SCF. It was left to defence to find three key documents, recording the reason why SCF was admitted into the scheme”
and
“Key witnesses were not interviewed, including Treasury secretary John Whitehead, who was the gateholder to the scheme.”
and finally
“The Crown’s case had shifted from causing the $1.58b payout by getting into the scheme using inaccurate information to getting into the scheme earlier than it otherwise would. “It is now said that the inaccurate information provided by SCF merely avoided a delay of an unspecified length.” ”
..
I tells ya – this is the shit that stinks. SCF should never had been let in but Bill English wanted to ensure his type of people were looked after.
It was fraud. These defence statements provide a great big whiff of the stench and fraud of this government.
When will it ever be investigated?
Just hanging out the clothes after checking The Standard, and while doing so thought to myself – why didn’t we ever get any investigative articles into the bailout of SCF – considering they did not meet the criteria?
… came in and found your comment – and hope the MSM reading this pick up and run with it.
I agree with your “SCF should never had been let in but Bill English wanted to ensure his type of people were looked after.” comment. It is what I’ve always felt what the reasoning behind this bailout.
I remember Bill English looking petrified when delivering the news to camera that day. And you’re right, just looking after his kind of people.
what was particularly puke-inducing was every financial-adviser in town..despite there being wide knowledge of how shaky/shonky s.c.f.was..
..them all advising their clients to pile into sth canterbury..
..’cos it didn’t matter about the rumours/impending-failure..
..’cos their investment was govt-guaranteed..
..it was money in the bank..
..so those snickering elites did just that..they took the taxpayers of nz outside for a good fucking..
..the other takeaway from that clusterfuck..
..is one to throw in the face of racist-ratbags..
..namely..that more money was paid out to those greedy/stealing investors..
..than had been paid out in all treaty settlements to date..
..that’s a fact that’s best not to forget..
..it does so put things into some perspective..i find..
+1 phillip
…Bad
…when he was good he was bad12
…when he was bad he was very bad indeed
…whatev you *#!%&! get those flyers out and lets win this election
…that would be very good
saw internet mana party last night in dunedin, great speakers, good crowd of people, smiles & laughter. am very encouraged.
Going straight to the people is the way to proceed in this election, circumvent the machine wherever possible. Sometimes a bit of leadership is all it takes–it is OK to take action–FJK
Labour are getting out and about too with the big red bus, partner is doing a day on it as a volunteer. It will be ending up at Henderson nightmarkets on Friday around 7pm for any Westies in the area to come and support.
Jeepers – a few days ago my laptop began whineing – this was after it kept cutting out when trying to watch videos – I tried the old ignore and it will fix itself trick – nah – so I had to take some time out – I didn’t want to but it has been good although a bit shocked to see that bad is banned for life now – oh well.
I am loving this election 🙂
Good that you are back. The machines try to rule us.
“.. a bit shocked to see that bad is banned for life now…”
..+ 1..
As has already been mentioned, anyone lamenting bad’s banning should consider that there are a (growing) number of unpublished comments by him which are openly abusive. Phrases like “two bit gutter trash” are among the mildest of the crap bad has thrown at Standard moderators over the past two days.
can we know what the original ban from you..which set him off..was for..?
I resent your statement that my actions “set him off”. bad was given multiple moderator warnings and deliberately chose to post personal abuse at me and was banned for doing so.
weka has linked to the relevant comments at 5.4 below. Read it yourself.
no..i went to that link..that doesn’t have what he said..there is only him saying he shouldn’t respond to you because he cd get banned..
..his response to your retraction-demand (in link)..that he got banned for..that has been redacted..
..are we able to know what that was..?
..as an object-lesson..?..if nothing else..
.and maybe a modicum of justice being seen to be done..?
[Stephanie: No, phillip. I’m not going to repeat the abusive, misogynist crap bad posted at me just to “prove” to you that “justice was done”. You can either accept that bad crossed a line, despite being warned multiple times and despite playing the martyr when he was warned about his behaviour, or you can not, but continuing to imply that I am to blame for bad’s wilful abusiveness is a seriously stupid move on your part.]
Bad calling Lynn, in his moderator role, an impotent little prick is still visible. Does that not tell you enough?
That link also shows bad12 referring to a couple of days ago when he was warned and he commented that he was aware of the implications of the warning. You can find that pretty easily along with the rest of the context that day.
It never ceases to amaze me that people on the internet don’t get moderation 101: my blog, my rules. Instead many people seem to think that blogs/forums etc should operate according to their own mores instead of the mores of the people that run the site. This despite the fact that the internet has always operated by moderation 101. Pretty much like everywhere else, when in Rome do as the Romans do.
I think that newbies can get caught out on ts sometimes by the moderation styles, but there is no way in hell that bad didn’t know what he was doing.
Hi Stephanie. I’m sorry that you have been abused, it’s uncalled for, and never ever excusable. I hope you’re feeling ok, I wouldn’t be if I had copped such abuse.
Knowing bad, I can only imagine the unpublish-able stuff would have been………..very bad.
I would like to see him back in the future, if he can temper that antagonism. He does have a keen eye for political manipulations and I have taken on board some of his wiser observations. Some “theory” I disagreed with wholeheartedly (like the Pike River non existent “insurance job” which I thought was an insulting suggestion that disrespected the dead and their loved ones), some I ignored but I did appreciate his quirky grumpy ways most of the time.
Kia Kaha
I am quite disappointed that bad12 has been banned for whatever reason. He is a brilliant writer, funny and with good analytical skills. Too bad that in his enthusiasm for politics and his dear causes, at times his abuse/swear words was too crass and over the top.
May be he is depressed, unwell, upset about something or something else is going on in his life.
We all make mistakes. Egos can cause chaos and destroy people.
Perhaps there could be an amicable privately conducted correspondence to settle the issue, forget and forgive, have this ban revoked and make a fresh start.
That is how I feel anyway.
[Stephanie: bad was not banned “for whatever reason”. He was openly and aggressively abusive to multiple moderators of this site. He threatened to continue to troll this site under new pseudonyms if banned. He posted at least a dozen further abusive comments after being banned and clearly has no desire for an “amicable” “fresh start”.
This conversation has been entirely played out and I must ask that no further comments be posted which question the decision of moderators to ban a clearly abusive troll.]
+1 Clem. I’ve never been overly offended to my knowledge by bad12’s stuff.
Time-soakers like Pete George, fisiani and srylands, with their multitude of posts irritate me more. Maybe a limit on the number of posts/day would be an idea, though probably impractical.
[Stephanie: It would really pay to read what the moderators have said on this matter. It is irrelevant if you, personally, were never “overly offended” by his comments because you, personally, weren’t being subjected to personal abuse.
bad12 was not banned because he was “irritating”. He was banned for being abusive, as detailed in many places on this thread.]
@Bearded Git 2.47
But bad did go in for a multitude of posts quite often. Just like the others you mention, and longer than them too. I don’t see TS as regarding itself as a place for someone to have bad tempered spats with other commenters. It’s lively but bad pushed the limits. I gave up when he was rude when I suggested something that I thought he would have been interested in.
It’s a pity that he can’t control his aggressive language but I don’t think he will ever do that and ends up as disruptive as any RW troll, yet with a left slant.
I’m not lamenting just noting that in a few days a lot can change. He knew the rules and abused a moderator and unpleasantly misrepresented their views so he got what was coming to him.
As you can see from phillip’s comments above, there are people who refuse to accept that bad did anything that bad …
I’m sorry you received that abuse. Kia kaha.
could you plse stop putting words into my mouth..
..i said/inferred no such thing..
..i fully accept that he nutted off..and said all that shit..
..what puzzles me..and no doubt others..is that he is/was so practised at walking that fine line..
..so the puzzlement is about what was the trigger..
(it didn’t happn in a vaccuum..)
..not everything that came afterwards..
..that is all i was asking..
..but as asking draws threats of being banned..
.. the power-imbalance in this conversation is such i must withdraw..
..so forget i even asked…eh..?
Stop playing such a bloody martyr, phillip. All the links are up there for you to make whatever guesses you like. Maybe bad can’t handle being told “no” by a woman. Certainly he was holding a grudge over our previous conversations about abortion rights.
Demanding proof of the “justification” for bad’s banning, and insisting that we talk about the “trigger” for his behaviour is nothing more than making excuses for abuse.
He did and wrote stuff for which many that support the Right have suffered bans.
Not just the Right-wing but also those on the Left. Lprent uses Equal Opportunity Excessive Moderation 😈
I was t7rying to convey that
MM
The thing that surprised me was that bad12 appears to banned from even reading the site (until he changes his ISP anyway). However it did seem to be richly deserved. Anyway, I imagine that he will be included in the post-election amnesty, so; “banned for life”, may not be as long as it sounds.
[lprent: He was banned for attacking authors in the crudest terms.
He got banned from reading the site to make the point. That was because he started channelling Gollum in the auto-spam like this. That puts him in the dad4justice league of people who get removed from the site.
But I see that he leaked through a comment this morning. I’ll have a look at the logs and firewall shortly to see how that happened. ]
Lynn,
I noticed yesterday that when I tried to read TS from home I was redirected to a “lad’s mag” site (only for a couple of minutes).
Would that be a little bit of “banned from reading” collateral damage? 🙂
I figured it was probably a tory hacker until I read the self-immolation thread.
Bad12 has been building up to it. What surprises me isn’t the ban, but that he knowingly did the very specific things to get himself not just a short ban but a permanent one. I think the place would be better for him having some time off, he was getting less legible and more antagonistic recently, but am sad that he has gone permanently. He often brought in on to it perspectives.
Here’s the context if anyone wants to see it.
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-12082014/#comment-864456
yeah, I suspect he has other issues going on at the moment.
If so, I hope they get worked out ok.
My thoughts too, on both counts.
I’m sad to see bad12 go. He said a lot of useful stuff, which I think will be missed. His personal attacks on people and over the top abuse won’t be missed by me at all.
As for the election – after Nicky Hager’s book, September 20 will tell us what sort of people we are as a whole. If we vote Key back in, that will mean that we think filth like Whalespew have an important place in our formal democracy. It will mean that we don’t care how a PM maintains power, as long as he looks after the material interests of the 1% and lets us all believe we have a chance to join them.
I never thought we were like that, and I still hope most of us aren’t.
Press Release from Jane Kelsey, on how the US redrafts legislation for other countries via trade agreements – and is likely to be able to do it for NZ’s leglislation via TPPA.
TPPA’s dirty little secret:
Wayne says it’s okee dokke… the TPP, Jane just researches the TPP…
Key distracts, first the teapot sideshow, now the drunks shouting f.j.k. But I was thinking, isn’t it a mistake for Key to highlight drinking problems. I mean he’s pro-alcohol industry. How does coming off as a prude about alcohol, how he’s no boozy. That might get out. That he doesn’t. He owns the wine company but doesn’t drink excessively. What has this got to do with TPP? Well big alcohol is a global businesses, even our local breweries have foreign investors. So here’s the risk, that Kiwis wake up one day to the extortion of a TPP and realize that not only would they not drink excessively anymore, but when they did they would buy locally owned brew.
All works of humans have risks, neo-liberalism caused the GFC, TPP will cause huge loses when the profits start flowing out due to hidden legal extortion’s in the legislation become public. So why do they keep producing bad law, bad practice, shit in the rivers. Because they make their money on the margin. Key was a money broker after all. The neo-liberalism produce his ilk. TPP does not serve the interests of free trade, or NZ, and should it become law as stated above, I believe many politicians should be prosecuted for treason.
Lucky Key will however be living in Hawaii in his mansion, in the boss-um of beast so to speak.
you mean like when he pretended to vote to raise the drinking age…. but hadnt voted to increase.
sharp as a tack our john key. a bright mind… until he became a MP and he suddenly deteriorated.
Its worse. People should realize he owns a wine company, or has a wine name after him, or something. Why would you drink more excessively than your politicians? Do they want us to be to drunk to notice what they get up to. Now Muldoon was straight up, straight boozed up and nobody could probably keep up. But why would breweries want the idea getting out that politicians aren’t drinking, least consumers start cutting back too. When did you last see Key, or Whyte, slurring their word, or having a little wobble as they made their way to the podium.
Its just wrong. I’m cutting back starting right now. Until I see my politicians getting legless again, its not going to happen to me or mine. Key wants us all drunk and stupefied.
key is such a slimeball
“Key said he had drawn a “natural conclusion” when young people in the effigy-burning video were chanting the same thing as students at an Internet-Mana Party event. However, he was happy to accept he had been wrong.”
yep fuck john key is hardly ever heard in the streets, but wait there’s more
“”The picture of my face that was burnt as part of the effigy looked extremely similar to the one I saw in the previous Dotcom video,” Key said.”
umm it was off your election material I think there key
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10373743/Dotcom-effigy-video-links-logical-Key
Running scared, they will say and do anything to retain power – lying is the least of our worries.
The guy trying (and failing) to defend his actions helpfully put up pictures of his tickets to the party party so theres a decent link between them
But then no one ever suggested IMP supporters were intelligent
chuck the link up old chap there’s a good fellow
No point, the proof is some screen shots from the guys facebook account that whaleoil posted and as we all know the posters on here get an attack of the vapours and have to rush to their perfumed hankies whenever whaleoils mentioned
[lprent: The odour of untreated arsecrack is a bit overwhelming otherwise. ]
and he would never lie or deliberately break a law now would he, oh wait a minute…. you agree with hispolitical views so his behaviour is just fine by you, and you rely on him for some of your information upon which to form your vote
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4127070/Whale-Oil-blogger-Cameron-Slater-guilty
so let’s pop off the “but but vandalizing billboards is illegal” and “if an IMP supporter or 500 says fuck john key then a burning effigy must be by the same people” high horse shall we.
Contempt of court, tracey? You don’t say.. That is certainly one of the more serious crimes in the land…. isn’t it.
And did you say he is decrying youthful amendments of election billboards with spraypaint?
Is he trying to equate the two? Surely not. For his own credibility of course……
I only know what slater is saying by those who come panting over here posting it as their latest piece of fact or gold
So he got charged, found guilty, convicted, paid his debt to society and now is vigilant about people breaking name suppression
This is a bad thing how exactly?
what is this thing you hu-mons call “hypocrisy”?
so you agree kdc criminal convictions are behind him now and irrelevant to current behaviour?
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2014/08/explaining-really-losing-ethan-bryant/
Also
http://www.oninstagram.com/profile/esbmediaethan
So planned as well
That just proves he had nothing to do with the IMP so fail there you big puck.
No but it proves theres more then a casual link
No it doesn’t prove that at all – lol – or is it because he went to a party? Seriously, that is weak.
If your “connection” is that he went to a party, that’s pretty much the definition of “casual link”.
Also, what does it say about Key’s casual links? Guess he now has to be held to account for the actions of everyone who votes national, writes on blogs for them, or goes to all black games.
Also also, real nice of you to leap all over the guy’s mum for no reason at all. Nasty little Govt-sanctioned brownshirt fascist creeps.
Well imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
http://www.burningman.com/
So the links between Key and WO mean Key approves of WO’s crusade against muslims I suppose.
WO links to various neo-fascist stuff on Islam. I guess this is why National mouthpieces have been going hard calling people fascist then. Chilling stuff.
He may do but fortunately thats not the line being pushed in the msm
You like fascists then huh. Rightio.
Nope but I do like John Key as leader of the country
Umm,,, you do realise you can dislike Islam and not be a neo-fascist don’t you? You can also link to an article that may be hosted by someone with neo-fascist views but that does not make the article neo-fascist and nor by extension does that make you one. I would draw you a Venn diagram to illustrate this but I’m not sure you would comprehend even if I did.
Go ahead and draw it up. Slater, Lusk, and Ede go in the middle section.
Sure, but if you link to stuff about Islam being an existential threat to our way of life, and talking about the terribel effects of immigration and how Islam is a cancerous thing that western values can;t deal with blah blah, an how liberal elites just don’t get it blah blah…
…then the similarity between that stuff and how fascists used to talk about Jews kinda screams out. And when you link to Marine le Pen, then shit, it isn’t your opponents who have any explaining to do.
Except anti-Jewish views are based more on race. I have no problem with secular Arabs or even religious ones who accept their faith should not interfere with the wider public sphere. I do have an issue with the mainstream view of Islam where upon there is no separation of religion from governance and the unequal treatment of non Muslims as a result of attempting to implement this view.
Cool story bro.
Most religions take that view Gossipman the Elusive Brethren especially!
” I would draw you a Venn diagram to illustrate this but I’m not sure you would comprehend even if I did.”
… I’m guessing Felix’s comment to you yesterday re Venn diagrams hit a sensitive nerve.
Good to see you have used such stellar material, but you should really give credit for this comeback to the author who introduced you to it yesterday – take a bow Felix, for providing Gosman with a better turn of phrase than the usual.
People can ask what they like or they can make up their own minds about things whether they be right or wrong but it doesn’t mean I have to answer everything especially when I think its pointless and adds nothing to the thread
Odd. You don’t normally offer anything to the thread so I struggle to see why you’d start being concerned about it now?
that’s the thing about tories – they steal the language of the left and use it to continue their oppression 🙂
John Key says drunken students shouting f.j.k is part of
a loathsome dirty tricks campaign. I thought he was pro-alcohol,
why the turn around? Does he hate booze now? Are opposition using
booze to attack Key, how can Key stop them without coming across
as attack on big alcohol. Oh, the evil b*st***s
Wow. Just watched a replay of David Cunliffe this morning on TV3. He is so good.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Govts-education-plans-privatisation-by-stealth—Cunliffe/tabid/1607/articleID/356624/Default.aspx
No wonder Hooten keeps promoting David Shearer as leader. Can you imagine how awful Shearer would have been in these interviews. Labour would have had no show.
that is a good interview..
..and i have shared that thought re shearer over recent days..
..labour/the progressive cause missed a bullet there..
..he will be fine as a minister..but as party leader..?.
no..no…no….no..
Yep it was a very good interview, and not the only one.
It’d be nice if Labour could capitalise on his talents by putting his face on the billboards.
Nice! Like!
Good stuff!
Agreed karen-this is why NZ Herald, DomPost, Hooton, Gower etc ad infinitum tried to destroy Cunliffe before the campaign.
They failed, and even Chris Trotter has come round to the fact that Cunliffe might now win this. See his latest at:
http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.co.nz/2014/08/we-have-lift-off-some-thoughts-on.html
Karen
Thanks for the link. He’s good! Very good.
James Allan’s Democracy in Decline is now available in Auckland Libraries (Well, it will be as soon as I finish reading it 😀 )
To tide you over here’s a video of his NZ tour.
Always curious about how our culture believes in a hierarchy of human pain, and presumably, if you’re further up the hierarchy, no one else’s pain counts. It’s like trading kid’s fantasy game cards. You got beat up? Well I got run over, twice, so shut up I win the attention!
Simonne Butler has written a book about her younger years and about knowing Antoine Dixon, just before he attacked her with a sword. She says of her book, “A lot of people would come across me who had way less crap in their lives and they’re letting it drag them down and nothing drags me down, nothing ever has, and that is very helpful to people…It’s full of violence. My hands getting chopped off was just one bad day in my life. I was getting beaten up every other day. For everyone else that was this really bad thing, but for me it was just one more day in my life.”
Where on the hierarchy of pain does defacing election signs lie? What about having to share your neighbourhood with poor people? What about having the grass on the city berms grow a bit too long? What about depression?
If general impressions are true, all those things are much further down the scale. I was just wondering what Ms. Butler would have said to Robin Williams a few weeks ago, had they met – would he be dead today? Would she point out the fantastic life he had despite his pain, compared to hers, and that would inspire him to buck up, harden up, grow a thick skin or whatever it is you’re meant to do to “get over yourself” and come to believe that everyone is exactly the same, mentally and emotionally, as the next person? Or would she say, “Hey Robin, you know if all indicators are correct, life isn’t the end. There could be better comedy material in death than in life. You’ll do what’s right for you.” And maybe he would have used the reply he once said his Father liked to use for stupid ideas, and said, “Hmmm. Interesting concept.” and then gone ahead and done whatever he was always going to do, as his own reality dictated.
Butler says she was young and dumb, a bit stupid. Life requires all types, and being able to think can drag a person down. Ms. Butler doesn’t let anything drag her down and hopefully for her she’ll continue along that path. She’s created quite the conundrum for me, though. If I buy her book it might encourage her to keep writing, but writing usually involves thinking and then she’ll lose the shield of ignorance and things will start to drag her down. If I don’t buy her book, she might wonder why and start to think and get all down about it, or she won’t, and she’ll move on with life. So possibly the problem isn’t the book, or the thinking. The problem might be that most people look for validation of their personal worth from outside circumstances or achievements.
So bear in mind today, if you have no food in the house, no money, are ill, jobless, about to be evicted; maybe you’re about to release your book, or someone just done wrote over John Key’s face; at least you still have your hands and no one has beaten you up. Quit your whining and think of the children in Africa. They don’t even have pictures of John Key.
Remember that despite your problems, right now, somewhere inside, somewhere deep deep inside, (and if you’re voting Right this Spring…) somewhere way way waaaay deep down near your hidden core, somewhere no one can see or know about, you’re good enough. Whatever it is that keeps your heart beating is the ultimate validation. Rich or poor, Dark or Light, man or woman, healthy or not, whether you acknowledge it or not, it’s the same unconditional power.
An interesting article from Bill English where he states that we don’t need to worry about Chinese buying our dairy farms because they are hopeless businesses, and sooner or later they will realise this and sell up.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/10372225/Pengxin-may-not-survive-Bill-English.
Amazingly it goes completely against what Fonterra is saying about the future of the Dairy industry.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/10373405/Marginal-return-on-milk-solids-argument-flawed
Isn’t DAIRY FARMING at the centre of National’s economic development plan…must be some ammo in this. National really have no fuckin idea what they are doing, nor do the 46% people voting for them.
I’m no friend of David Clark; Labour electorate MP for Dunedin North, which is why I feel it important to note when he gets something right:
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/312430/too-few-nurses-mp
I have talked to nurses over the past year who are utterly frustrated with the shortsighted costcutting of SDHB management. The long hours shift work make regular life very difficult, especially when you factor in the exhaustion from excessive workload. But the most telling sign of contempt for ED nurses, and wider community health, is this measure that is still being bitterly fought (despite what this article and the Nurse’s own union claim):
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/309610/some-nurses-unwilling-wash-uniforms
Note that this is at one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals. So that these penny pinching measures will become the norm across the entire health system as University & Polytech graduates disperse throughout the country.
Dunedin North’s other leading electorate MP candidate; Woodhouse of the Nats, has no problem with any of this so long as the numbers look good on paper. But then, he is often seen as a parliamentary representative of the private-health industry, and shares responsibility in the long project of undermining the ACC:
One nurse to three patients seems like a low ratio for an emergency department. I was in a transplant ward in Brisbane for a while recently, and their ratio was one to two. In Emergency I assume it would be higher. One to ten is asking for disaster. It’s good to see the Labour guy taking a stand. I can’t see the Tories being interested in much more than the cut of the nurses’ uniforms.
This is fascinating if you are interested in peak oil, climate change or economics.
A highlight for me:
“The major companies are struggling to find viable reserves, forcing them take on ever more leverage to explore in marginal basins, often gambling that much higher prices in the future will come to the rescue. Global output of conventional oil peaked in 2005 despite huge investment…..The International Energy Agency in Paris says global investment in fossil fuel supply rose from $400bn to $900bn during the boom from 2000 and 2008, doubling in real terms. It has since levelled off, reaching $950bn last year. The returns have been meagre. Not a single large oil project has come on stream at a break-even cost below $80 a barrel for almost three years.”
It’s all here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/11024845/Oil-and-gas-company-debt-soars-to-danger-levels-to-cover-shortfall-in-cash.html
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2014/08/internet-party-vote-winning-strategy-harassing-blacks/
puck that is pretty confused – may be dan, may not be, and apart from that crucial information the actual content is uncontroversial. Come on fella surely there are better shit storms than this out there for the right or have you lot given up .
Vote positive
http://i1.wp.com/www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Mallard-Nazi.png
What’s your problem with the tweet? Seems fairly uncontroversial to me.
I’m sure you think its uncontroversial an MP linking John Key to Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini
Yep, if the comparison is appropriate.
You don’t get to go around boasting that you’ve hated unions since you were 15 and expect no-one will ever link you to others with the same views.
I think it’s more a dig at the states, and jk, being so tightly inserted into uncle sam’s corporate bum, is bound to cop it by arseociation (sic), and cop a share when the the sh!t goes down.
Edit:
Send that joke to a comedian and tell them they can use it for free as long as they donate a food basket to the sallies in Hamilton.
it isn’t funny allen sorry bub
Everyone’s a critic an all, but worry not, like the subject matter of the joke, it’s just a wise crack from a smarter arse 😉 🙂
PR get’s paid per click through for WO, so any old thing works, doesn’t matter if its relevant or making sense.
Ah of course.
Everytime you click on whaleoil I get more shares in NZs power companies
Why would anyone here want to click on waloil? We wouldn’t want to waste one grey matter cell.
Thousands still not enrolled to vote a week before deadline
http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/thousands-still-not-enrolled-vote-week-before-deadline-6055519
“Nearly 400,000 people may miss the chance for a quicker vote on election day if they don’t enrol in the next week.
The Electoral Commission says there are still 380,000 eligible New Zealanders who haven’t enrolled to vote on September 20”
There’s the 800,000 that didn’t vote last time, with half of them ready to go this time out, which will do nicely if they’re inclined to vote key out.
Getting more involved and participating would be nice, but even if only half of those 400k turnout on election day, that’ll see national gone before supper time.
“and over half of them are under 30.”
I was going to say it shows even 3 mil and celebrity rock ‘n roll can’t get reach kids, that or shows some kids can’t be bought by flashing lights and cult infamy smoke and mirrors, but to be fair, green or red hasn’t got them yet either, so no need for a dig for the sake of it. :halo:
at least IMP are trying – all you do is moan and spin like a trade me washing machine
When in Rome, Obelix.
Protest John Key, don’t drink, he’s the front man for big alcohol, or he thinks drunks are at the heart of a political conspiracy, whichever, its about time politicians got drunk on TV to show their do as they say not do as they do.
From the Dim-Post:
You can be sure that with this kind of intelligence services access, the Tories are running black lists of names in every part of NZ society.
[lprent: I have moved this to OpenMike as being a thread rapidly becoming unrelated to the post. ]
The book also claims they planned to attack Peter Dunne through his (alleged) secret donors from the tobacco industry.
Peter Dunne, associate Minister of Health from 2005 to 2013? Say it ain’t so. Boy, has he got some big decisions to make tonight. Deny, bluster and threaten to sue or wave bye bye to Ohariu. Gone in a puff of smoke?
lol hacked. The website was left open by a bug, which promptly got fixed.
[lprent: A statement that isn’t related to either the post, nor to the comment you responded to. Why? Are you looking for a ban for trolling off-topic? ]
Might be time to see spec savers lprent.
[lprent: Apologies. You are correct, I thought you were referring to Slaters system being hacked rather than the NZLP.
BTW: The NZLP site wasn’t left open by a “bug”. It was obviously left open by someone deleting the Document page that protected the site and leaving the default file indexing on, which left the sites files visible. It was just stupid and something that most people using apache have managed to do at some point in time.
Unfortunately that default configuration was a flaw (the old design docs for apache made the quite clear). However it was a deliberate flaw that took more than a decade to get corrected. ]
I guess them saying the website was left open (and not hacked) was the lie.
Here is what I am referring to, which is what I suspect the book is referring to.
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2011/06/labour-leaks-how-i-did-it/
and
Hence my reference to lol hacked.
So if you leave your back door open one day – and I go inside and read all your mail and take copies in order to embarrass you at some point – that’s totally ok is it?
You really want us to take Slater’s word for something at this point, lol?
“Hence my reference to lol hacked.”
So could Joe and Joelene Blogs have accessed the data? (I assume not). Or did it need specialist knowledge? Where’s the line between hacking and not?
arrrg, comments disappearing all over the place.
Thanks lprent.
Just seen this (troll warning I guess!)
http://www.nature.com/news/2002/020920/full/news020916-17.html
Suicide and political regime in New South Wales and Australia during the 20th century
Snip: “A nation’s suicide rate increases under right-wing governments according two studies that have looked at Australia and Britain over the past century.
Alienation and isolation may run higher in societies driven by competitive market forces, suggest the teams behind the findings. Left-wing rule, focusing more on equality, might put people under less pressure.
Governments should consider their role in public health beyond spending, says social scientist Mary Shaw of the University of Bristol, UK. “We need to look not just at the immediate biomedical factors affecting health, but also how we organize society,” she says.
In New South Wales, Australia, suicides soared when federal and state governments were Conservative, a team at the University of Sydney has found. They were lowest when the Labour Party ruled both.”
In reply to http://thestandard.org.nz/cameron-slater-dirties-john-key-or-vice-versa/#comment-865694
Not particularly. I asked a couple of non-tech people inside Labour afterwards. Their description of what happened is characteristic. I have set up a lot of IIS, nginx and apache2 servers including this one (many times).
This is from the ubuntu 10.04 guide about apache2. My bold
Cheers. I’m not super computer-literate, but I see how that would work. Also painfully evident from the extracts I’ve seen that National lied egregiously about what they did with it.
Back Benches tonight.
Wednesday 10:45PM
Wallace and Damian ignite debate over Labour’s $280M plan to provide free GP visits for some. Plus, are burning effigies and racial slurs just a glimpse at the future of campaigning? PGR
Funny, no-one on your blog seems to be talking about the latest Stuff Poll.
National
55.1%
Change +0.3 pts
Labour
22.5%
Change -2.4 pts
Greens
11.3%
Change -1.1 pts
NZ First
3.4%
Change +0.8 pts