Job cuts and the future of work
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Date published: 3:54 pm, March 29th, 2016 - 73 comments
Two headline job losses today underline the importance of Labour’s Future of Work.
Guy Standing: Rentier Capitalism and the Precariat – Christchurch 30 March
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Date published: 3:43 pm, March 29th, 2016 - 8 comments
Guy Standing will speak on this subject in Christchurch on Wednesday evening at 6pm at the Fern Room, the Atrium, 455 Hagley Avenue. More detail here from his presentation in Denmark. Please register here if you would like to attend.
Global elite plan their escape from “pleb masses”
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Date published: 11:03 am, March 29th, 2016 - 35 comments
So, Key has now come out and revealed to us how afraid the global oligarch class (and their well paid professional enablers) are. They appear to have no plans to reverse their activites to make things better for us.
Will the Republicans have the courage of their gun convictions?
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Date published: 10:20 am, March 29th, 2016 - 20 comments
Will the Republicans have the courage of their convictions and allow open carry at their approaching Convention?
A quick question (again)
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Date published: 8:45 am, March 29th, 2016 - 231 comments
“More than 2400 benefits suspended since 2013”. I have a quick question…
Key wants to turn New Zealand into a haven for the 1%
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 29th, 2016 - 95 comments
Fran O’Sullivan has spilt the beans. John Key thinks that overseas terrorism and by implication climate change are good for the New Zealand economy and that the country should not do anything about overseas corporates paying low tax rates because investment will occur. And he wants New Zealand to become a haven for people overseas fleeing from terrorism and climate change. But only if they are wealthy.
Open mike 29/03/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 29th, 2016 - 125 comments
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Lahore bombing
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Date published: 11:31 am, March 28th, 2016 - 62 comments
Condolences to all those affected by the horrific bombing in Lahore.
Audrey Young trashed in her own comments section
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Date published: 10:13 am, March 28th, 2016 - 64 comments
Young’s spin on the flag fiasco was – not well received.
Easter Monday Round Up
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Date published: 8:54 am, March 28th, 2016 - 101 comments
Three news items stand out from the long weekend. Actor Robert De Niro being inoculated against anti-vaxxers, ISIS being driven out of Palmyra and the free part of Ireland celebrating the centenary of the Easter Rising. All are milestones of sorts, markers of positive change.
Tough couple of weeks for Key
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Date published: 7:33 am, March 28th, 2016 - 81 comments
Almost enough to make me feel sorry for the man.
Open mike 28/03/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 28th, 2016 - 28 comments
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Big wins for Bernie
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Date published: 1:39 pm, March 27th, 2016 - 76 comments
To the eternal annoyance of the establishment Democrats, Bernie Sanders is still winning primaries.
Bunnings has no heart
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Date published: 12:33 pm, March 27th, 2016 - 47 comments
Bunnings management has insisted that a defibrillator bought by the workers at its Dunedin Store be given away to charity.
Hickey on the UBI
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Date published: 11:19 am, March 27th, 2016 - 200 comments
Bernard Hickey makes some excellent points on the Unconditional Basic Income / Guaranteed Minimum Income.
Open mike 27/03/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2016 - 34 comments
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Aussies may be bastards, but they believe in themselves.
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Date published: 1:41 pm, March 26th, 2016 - 31 comments
Here in Ballarat, Victoria we are having a mini-boom in manufacturing. Yes you read that right. We’re having trouble retaining good people because of the demand. Yes you read that right. This is because Ballarat has actively invested in providing core capacities like: We were lucky to get an early NBN rollout in FTTP. Some […]
Garner on Key vs Clark
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Date published: 11:44 am, March 26th, 2016 - 124 comments
Attracting a fair bit of comment this morning – Duncan Garner on Key, Clark, and the nature of their legacies.
Republican circus
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Date published: 8:34 am, March 26th, 2016 - 50 comments
And now we have accusations of a sex scandal. Stick a fork in the Republicans, they are done.
Labour’s Ten Big Ideas
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Date published: 7:32 am, March 26th, 2016 - 167 comments
National’s only idea this term has just been shot down by the public. Meanwhile Labour has been thinking about the future and the issues that confront NZ.
Open mike 26/03/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2016 - 42 comments
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It’s time to reform Fonterra
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Date published: 9:00 am, March 25th, 2016 - 49 comments
Fonterra was formed to give New Zealand an economic advantage. Instead it is looking like the country’s biggest achilles heel. Time to reform?
What the flag vote means
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Date published: 8:21 am, March 25th, 2016 - 105 comments
Here are some reckons, for what they’re worth.
Open mike 25/03/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 25th, 2016 - 137 comments
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Meet the new flag…
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Date published: 6:50 pm, March 24th, 2016 - 238 comments
… same as the old flag.
Key didn’t take the country with him.
Now let’s get back to the real issues.
Nat MP runs over TPP protester’s foot
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Date published: 4:04 pm, March 24th, 2016 - 82 comments
Nat MP Chester Borrows has injured a TPP protester with his car. Not the first time this sort of thing has happened.
Rentier capitalism
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Date published: 11:01 am, March 24th, 2016 - 46 comments
Tautoko Murray Edmonds’ comment yesterday on this Michael Hudson interview This is an absolutely brilliant discussion of what contemporary economic theory SHOULD be all about, and why it is not (the main reason being that classical economic theory of the type that Key believes in, serves the 1% at the expense of the 99%). It […]
Flag distraction result today
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Date published: 8:30 am, March 24th, 2016 - 135 comments
Bragging rights I guess to whomever best predicts the outcome.
The media treatment of Labour’s UBI discussion paper
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 24th, 2016 - 144 comments
John Key and an array of National sock puppets have misrepresented Labour’s UBI proposal as party policy and as being very expensive when it is not party policy and when a variety of different potential forms have been raised for discussion.
Open mike 24/03/2016
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 24th, 2016 - 78 comments
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