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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Title is incorrect, should be Daily Review, not Open Mike.
Dang … fixed
😀
just in case they forget to put the link up again 😉
http://www.3news.co.nz/Video/3NewsLiveStream
link to what?
Last night, on the TV3 news page, the link to the live stream did not go up until around 6:10pm, which was well after the lead story had finished.
It might have been a simple glitch but I have never seen it fail to appear at 6pm and I regularly stream the 6pm broadcast.
huh, interesting.
yeah, little bit
wot no daily review?
Teach me to try and multitask …
Ha! We are experiencing technical difficulties. Normal service will be resumed shortly. In the meantime, there’s this:
Is the standard being infected by Green? 😛
Didn’t know where it came from, weka, just turned up on my fb feed. Good work, Greens!
I was referring to glitches and the colour of the NZonScreen feeds (although they might have been that colour for a while and I hadn’t noticed) 😉
I might be overselling it but give the creator a tv show immediately 🙂
Satire is all about subtlety and that has it in spades.
Fuck I wish key was here in the country to front up to the cameras about this ponytailperveshit. I hope it retains its freshness until he’s home – I want to see the fake “I’m not bovered” look, the glint of panic in his eyes, the drip of sweat running into his eyes as he scratches his nose and coughs everytime he lies.
did you see TV3News ? They had some footage from Bali last year .. creepiest yet. And they even report he is being called a fetishist and Winston expands. Not on line yet .. and actually, I’m quite happy Key is away and being held responsible on an international stage .. it leaves a vacuum where evidence is just flooding in. I think it’s working .. and he will be back soon enough. (And need to defend his visit to Saudi Arabia on top of everything else.)
good points – chuck the link up if possible, I don’t watch the news
not here yet marty .. i just checked .. will do as soon as I can !
and just imagine marty .. key could be coming home to three different complaints of sexual harassment ! It shouldn’t, but this really appeals to me !
Hair it is: http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/brand-key-tarnished-by-ponytail-gate-2015042318?ref=video
God they just get weirder and creepier. There’s no doubt that stroking/touching/pulling/caressing hair is a demonstration of sexual attraction.
And these are VERY young girls.
Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!
Watch his face as he lets go after stroking the 7yr olds hair.
he just oozes self satisfaction and pleasure.
Oh yuk
The link above is going to a ‘page not found’. Taken down already ?
I got a 404 error on that one. Have they pulled it? I thought Julie Christie loved reality shows and they don’t come better than this.
working for me now .. try again right now .. maybe too much traffic ?
still not going
marty, murray .. try this link to the general video page and find the video in the top row … brand key ..
http://www.3news.co.nz/Video
it is working for me and obviously some others
“Brand-Key-Tarnished-By-Ponytail-Gate
News from:
All
Last Week
Last Month
Last Year
Video
Photo
Your search returns no result :-(“
so weird marty. have you emptied your cache ? maybe try another browser ? then try the first link again …
also, it begins with an ad for their Anzac Day special and if you have an ad blocker running it could defeat it … I always have to disable my adblock for TV3 video playback..
and here’s another link to same thing:
http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/brand-key-tarnished-by-ponytail-gate-2015042318?ref=video#axzz3Y7D9IJ4Y
Working for me.
I’ve just watched it, so yeah try another browser.
thanks everyone – using chrome – ie won’t do it – I’ll try tomorrow, maybe adblocker is the issue – anyway creepkey won’t surprise me
It will be worth it — it seems TV3 not only is not cutting him any slack, but they are progressing the issues, imho. It seems a watershed clip for me. Hope you can get it.
Try Firefox !!
modern life – i’ve downloaded firefox – same message
Firefox failed with the new link or the old one which may be faulty ?
Last effort before I accept defeat for you!
FWIW I’ve tried it on firefox, chrome, even opened up IE.
Netbook’s a bit old, so it might get kicked to 404 by the tv3 server if it decides I’m too slow 🙂
I’m up to date browsers on windows and linux. I don’t get any of these pages. I also can’t find it on their site.
I suspect that it has been taken down and some people are reading their caches.
Thanks. This is not getting any better.
I managed to get into the video by opening The Standard in Chrome at about 11pm but I couldn’t get in on Firefox where I always open The Standard. Both systems have adblock plus.
I mean I saw the video and it doesn’t improve things for FJK.
thx doing that Felix .. that’s a very serious item,isn’t it ?
Wow, last I checked your count was at five. The 3 news video shows two new ones. The first one is a sustained pervy fondling, and the second is a quick opportunistic grab with weirdo perv face.
The 3 news item made hair fetishism quite a feature I thought…
I don’t think it should count since it’s not an uninvited pervy grab, (and the grabee is not an innocent young girl), but here’s John Key cutting off Roger Sutton’s (who got sacked for what was it again?) ponytail and shaving his head. “This is really quite fun.” http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/9836454/Roger-Sutton-dubbed-the-Bald-Eagle
OMFG !! Key is getting his jolly roger!
And the awful weirdness of the Sutton hair curls rolling away in the wind will be Key’s political epitaph footage … truly Hair today, Gone tomorrow.
” Key had nicknamed Sutton “Shrek” after the merino sheep for his luscious long locks”
Not tantalising this time?
And that is very creepy too. It really seems that he is a tricophiliac. Who would have thunk it, lol
wow, that’s really bad, and agreed it’s getting creepier.
Irrespective of his motivations, as PM he should have a much better awareness of how inappropriate this is (and his minders should be telling him too).
That’s really the point isn’t it weka? He’s the PM, he’s not an idiot, he shouldn’t need it explained to him that touching a grown woman’s hair without permission is not an option under circumstances. Ever. Period. Yet here we are.
I was struck by the number of “How is this guy a Prime Minister” comments under the Guardian article. The UK is a country going through scandalous revelations of pedophile MPs being hushed up at high levels. And their minds are being blown by this.
I was struck by the same thin g Mike .. and just how comments there were in total. A lot even by UK standards.
I think one of the things that is happening in NZ at the moment (maybe the last year?) is that more people are realising how accepting we’ve become of behaviours that should be unacceptable. Lots of things have become normalised and now more people are starting to say, nope, that’s actually not ok.
My American friends have sent me posts from papers over there – they are all agog – can’t believe it, all calling him a creep and the Canadian friends are saying – “well, at least our weirdo Mayor was only Mayor for Toronto, not a Prime Minister of a whole country!!”
Very, very creepy
How many pictures are now out with John Key touching people’s hair? It’s unbelievable!
we had five definitely confirmed until TV3News tonight .. it must be nearly to 10 by now. TV3 had very interesting footage …
What is John Key’s favourite day?
7 July.
Still some way to go yet.
Ponytail day.
For those who love ponytails.
https://www.facebook.com/events/570366193014601/
https://www.facebook.com/events/127447824001949/
And yet he sticks to the “it’s harmless fun ” line Bullshit it’s worse than creepy. Key’s got a bit of a fetish and yes it’s creepy. But what’s more creepy is all these movies/pics most are young impressionable girls.
Well, what do you know!
DonKey likes pony
Worth looking at.
http://truebluenz.com/2015/04/23/politik-website-reports-key-joyce-gave-17-25-million-to-oracle-boat-builders/
If you would rather not visit Redbaiter’s blog, here are the relevant bits
“The Warkworth boat building company which is owned by Larry Ellison’s Americas Cup team Oracle Racing, is refusing to comment on claims that it could receive up to $17.25 million from the New Zealand Government’s Callaghan fund.”
http://politik.co.nz/en/content/politics/220/GOVERNMENT-TO-GIVE-ORACLE%27S-BOAT-BUILDER-$17-MILLION.htm
http://business.scoop.co.nz/2015/04/15/14-companies-to-grow-rd-with-growth-grant/
http://www.msi.govt.nz/update-me/who-got-funded/show/647
Apparently its another NZ Herald- we -the-sure-arent-journalists, as almost none of its true.
Remember the $100,000 labour donation that was a small amount to rowing club, and a cement company cruise on the Yangtze?
THis seems to be the root of the changing faces in editors row, a new boss has said enough allready of the crap
Serious question- are you responding to the correct post?
I ask because it certainly looks like the MBIE page shows a 17.5 million dollar Grow Grant to Core builders Composites Ltd and the grant was actually announced last year http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-growth-grants-boost-rd-nz-0
So what makes it not true?
There’s something a bit funny about the way they report the figures. The grants are for 3 years, with a cap of $5 million a year. The maximum is therefore $15 million, less than the $17.5 million reported. I suspect the government has given them 20% of $17.5 million, or $3.5 million over 3 years. They tend to inflate these things when they report them, so it looks as if funding is higher.
I think research funding should go to the public sector, but I’d be sort of happy with this if there was some return to society. I’m not sure there will be here. It may be just another subsidy for the yacht race losers.
We are meant to trust Government figures right?
The Government figures clearly state a Grow Grant of 17.5m.
If the page from the official MSI website which showed the grant awarded to CBC had not suddenly been made unavailable since last night you could check it for yourself.
But it has been taken down so you can’t see it
Oh that’s right, screenshot ! because these days, you need them.
http://i.imgur.com/UE02E4y.png
forgot to add, you need a better calculator 🙂
2014
2015
2016
2017
that totals four years correct?
17.5/4 = 4.375 m per year
My calculator is fine, thanks. Your total is actually 3.5 years, which probably includes six moths for either startup or reporting. The legislation setting up the grants says they are for 3 years, not my calculator. The government website states a total contract value of $17.5 million, not a total grant of $17.5 million. They are not always the same thing and are usually inflated because some idiot manager would rather put $17.5 million on his CV than $3.5 million.
An OIA request would solve the problem, but I would put money on the grant staying inside the rules. I do have some experience with research grants. Which doesn’t mean a private company should have got the money anyway.
Thanks for the clarification Murray, and excuse my impugning your calculator. As a great fan of Marvin and the Syrius Cybernetics Corporation I have stoic respect for the feelings of silicon based identities 🙂
still, kind of interesting the page got removed overnight eh?
Yep. There’ll be a story there somewhere.
interesting how the /647 page now has a completely different grant recipient listed.
not so interesting is that dukeofurl finally answered my simple question and has shown his true colours.
“I cant be bothered, but it was made clear in Heralds ‘later versions’ of the story.
Look it up yourself.”
http://thestandard.org.nz/a-double-standard-for-saudi-arabia/#comment-1006919
Surprise. Surprise
Hosking blames the waitress for being selfish.
If anything shows he is a paid puppet of big corporate interests, this is it.
http://tvnz.co.nz/seven-sharp/mike-s-view-waitress-selfishness-in-outing-key-makes-cafe-owners-big-losers-video-6299059
This is what Hosking is defending
http://www.3news.co.nz/nznews/brand-key-tarnished-by-ponytail-gate-2015042318?ref=video#axzz3Y7D9IJ4Y
What more can you except from NZ’s version of Bill O’Reilly?
That was freakn disgusting from Hosking. Scary that people will probably still swallow that whole. Saying the real victims are the owners lol – “these good, decent, hard-working people”. Um, were they harrassed at work? Were they also involved with hanging out the victim to dry? possibly.
“She had a problem at work, the owners were the ones to consult” What would telling them do? The issue was a high profile NZer who was harrassing her, so telling the country about his indiscretions was an important thing to do.
There are just so many things wrong with his tirade…
To add to that, I don’t see how the owners have had any substantially adverse publicity from it. Will it be bad for their business? I doubt it, in fact it’s more likely to be good for it. The only people harmed so far seem to be the waitress herself and John Key, and in the latter case, it’s hard to say exactly how much.
Mike should ask his wife Kate; she used to be a waitress when she was still studying at Auckland Uni.
Faaarrk ! Well, they do say a week’s a long time in politics, don’t they ?
Who among us here would’ve predicted a week ago that Brits, Germans, Aussies and Americans would all be watching that old CL clip of Key fondling the young girl’s ponytail and (most of them) concluding he’s (variously) – and I quote – a “perv”, a “creep” a “tosser”, an “utter tosser”, a “village idiot”, an “embarrassment”, a “dinosaur thug”, a “hood rat”, a “disgrace”, an “utter DORK”, a “weird, perma-tanned leery man”, “dodgy”, “deviant”, “very suspect”, “disgusting”, “smarmy”, “backward”, “psychopathic tendencies”, “weirdo”, “weird and creepy”, “the man’s a bloody weirdo”, “strange man”, “really disturbing”, “incredibly creepy”, “some kind of sex pervert”, “strange little man”, “creepy and fetishy”, “what a wanker”, “what an absolute ass !”, “sad little people like him”, “needs psychological counselling”……..not to mention “it’s nice to know America doesn’t have a monopoly on Right-Wing idiots” or “And I thought our beloved Rob Ford (former Toronto Mayor) was a whack job !!!” or “Bush is not as creepy as this dude” or “think David Cameron then subtract a few IQ points” or “he’s a prime Minister ? Sounds like a Congressman from Texas”, (along with a number of outright allusions to “Saville” and “paedophile alarm bells need to start ringing”).
That is quite a list!
Overhead at lunch today when I was with my workmates:
What does the ‘P’ in PM stands for?
ie a selection of the huge number of comments on international news websites (with an emphasis on those emanating from non-Kiwis).
I’ve been hearing those bells ringing since last year’s events. They’ve only gotten louder.
Swordfish .. yours is my gold star comment of a very long day! and Kiwiri .. now the anti jokes begin. Teflon is like that – one day shiny and non-stick, and suddenly in only one day the pan is useless !!!!
Key…a turkey in Turkey
Abbott and Key…auditioning for Dumb and Dumber 3
McCready taking Key to court and filing with the HRC means this isn’t going to go away in a hurry. Time for more examples of the hair touching to come out too. MSM seem unlikely to cut Key slack on this one.
Hosking just did.
Blamed the waitress for being selfish.
Would you believe it ?
Who, this fucking guy? http://www.listener.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Hosking1.jpg?1ecd2e
Who cares.
He is really showing he is a paid puppet of the corporates
Weirdly, yesterday he was saying how wrong Key was to behave like this.
Guess someone had a word in his ear.
comments on the TVOne FB page are ripping shit out of hosking by a significant majority, as far as I can tell
Good
He would have been hung, drawn and quartered a couple of centuries ago when the peasants revolted.
I don’t really count Hosking as part of the MSM. He’s part entertainment (for those that can stomach it) and part PR for NACT.
and Winston is calling for a police investigation …
There were police present at all the events when FJK has been filmed fondling the hair of young girls. They were also present at the cafe. They did nothing, as far as we know. I expect nothing from them.
+ 1
Whatwhatwhat?
The NZ Police stand by while sexual deviants get their jollies at the expense of very young girls?
Well I never.
All of the PM’s Diplomatic Protection Squad bodyguards are sworn officers.
Ya. Hence my comment.
I failed at reading the sarcasm, I apologise.
That’s ok, I often fail at writing it.
I wonder how Peter Dunne is feeling now. Is he nervous about how Key looks at his luxuriant, “tantalising” hair?
Dunne made some dumbarsed comment about someone pulling his hair on a Morning Report. He really is a solipsistic person.
Nothing about power imbalance, gender, employment etc.
Sigh… to be expected.
Transcript (unchecked) of Marilyn Waring on Morning Report this morning. As always, love her directness (she names the PM as a sexual harrasser), her sense of history, and today the dig about National underfunding the HRC.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201751578/political-scientist-and-former-mp-comment-on-ponytailgate
Marilyn Waring is the only Tory I have any respect for. Maybe she’s not really a Tory any more.
Not entirely sure what Tory means in this instance (it seems a British political word to me that doesn’t translate easily here). From what I can tell, Waring chose National over Labour when entering politics because Labour’s policy on homosexuality was appalling at the time (1970s) and National’s wasn’t. She doesn’t strike me as being politically right in general even early on, but left/right has changed hugely from that time.
Great Marilyn Waring interview from March, where she explains her journey into politics. It’s worth a listen.
She, in my opinion, is one of NZ’s greats.
She has changed how the world views women, their contribution to society, and their economic contribution in the household – which has burgeoning economic activity that was largely ignored until she pointed it out.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/20169982/marilyn-waring-40-years-of-feminism
Possibly ‘The’, if not, ‘one of The’ most well known contemporary NZ contributors to economic theory internationally…..in fact can’t think of others…..(but excuse my ignorance).
It was also that National MPs had the right to vote against the party, and Labour MPs did not (she said this in the recent Saturday morning interview with Kim).
EDIT: The link to which has been posted by Sans Cle.
Thanks, weka. For clarification the other person was Clare Robinson, media something at Massey University – a Nats can do no wrong advocate. Thankfully, she got very few words in – totally outshone by Marilyn Waring.
Used to be on a Sunday TV panel spouting Tory propaganda.
Had the misfortune to work at Massey some time back and knew Robinson. An underwhelming intellect, very self-centred and no social intelligence at all. Just the type for the Nats.
Plus, that charade’s a ticked box on the PBRF review for her – that’s “Performance Based Research Funding” Being interviewed on RNZ gets entered as a “research output” and goes into the calculations for department funding and your academic status.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see someone like Paul Henry get an honorary doctorate from Massey.
KH introduced her as a ‘political marketing specialist’ from Massey. Which is certainly what she came across as in the interview 😉
Green Party male co-leader candidate speeches from the Auckland hui are up on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/user/nzgreenparty/videos
Plus a review from New Zealand First’s Enfant Terrible who attended the hui.
http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/04/23/one-flew-over-the-russels-nest-initial-reflections-from-the-green-partys-male-co-leadership-forum/
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/67825607/tpp-deal-a-step-closer-as-us-senate-votes-to-grant-barak-obama-fasttrack-power
Damn it, the senate has approved the TPP fast-track.
Unfortunate. In fact disastrous. Thought that was going to be the death knell of the TPPA.
Of course they did. That was inevitable as the US corporations, who own the US Administration outright, wanted it.
Democracy and listening to the people doesn’t happen.
HA! Mega corporate money can be so persuasive.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see other women (with ponytails) come forward.
Shocked, but not surprised.
The Member for Ohariu makes a crucial contribution to the debate surrounding this scandal: “Someone grabbed my hair last year because they thought it was a wig, I think that showed them up as a yobbish sort of person.”
MSN…http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/what-theyre-saying-about-john-key/ar-AAbwiTf?ocid=HPCDHP
Fucking Unbelievable !
Hugh Grant played the British PM in Love Actually:
[at a Cabinet meeting]
Prime Minister: Who do you have to screw around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?
[Natalie walks in with a tea trolley and smiles demurely at the Prime Minister]
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314331/quotes
Yep, reality is stranger than fiction.
At the end of the second turbulent day of Ponytail gate, I still don’t know whether:
a) Amanda Baldwin has legal help
b) Somewhere safe to be
c) Any sort of crowd funding for the inevitable legal costs
Anyone more knowledgeable about all or any of this?
What I do know:
John Key is looking ever more sleazy. Can’t he please just start his gardening leave in Hawai’i immediately after the ANZAC events?