COP21 making history
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Date published: 12:52 am, December 13th, 2015 - 131 comments
Big news from COP21 in Paris, with a final draft of the agreement just released. It is sounding surprisingly good, 1.5 degree target, “fair, durable, balanced and legally-binding”.
The mantra of ‘Poor Choices’
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Date published: 1:45 pm, December 12th, 2015 - 195 comments
It is that time of year when poor people realise just how poor they really are – the season for giving, the season to be jolly. Well that may be so for some of us, but some people will be working on Christmas day instead of spending time with loved ones. These will probably be […]
Education mess
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Date published: 10:37 am, December 12th, 2015 - 14 comments
Details of a mess in tertiary education published yesterday. On top of the mess in charter schools. National aren’t very good at this.
Flag observations
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Date published: 8:29 am, December 12th, 2015 - 95 comments
The current result (black and blue fern) is preliminary and may still change when the final vote is announced on Tuesday. Other observations from Twitter last night…
Sua William Sio: COP21 and the Pacific Islands
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Date published: 8:00 am, December 12th, 2015 - 25 comments
Labour MP and associate spokesperson for Foreign Affairs (Pacific Climate Change) Sua William Sio describes the repercussions of a COP21 conference that does not agree to limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees.
Open mike 12/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 12th, 2015 - 64 comments
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Daily Review 11/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 11th, 2015 - 21 comments
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Flagpole Sitta
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Date published: 5:56 pm, December 11th, 2015 - 138 comments
John Key’s $26 million dollar flag flop bores it’s way to the halfway line tonight. The first referendum closes at 7 PM, first results at around 8.30. $26 million … that’s a lot of cancer drugs, child care centres and elder care we won’t be getting because the PM wants a signature legacy his dreary leadership doesn’t actually deserve.
Xero doesn’t like being on the receiving end
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Date published: 1:28 pm, December 11th, 2015 - 16 comments
Xero used to fund hate for hire blog Whaleoil via advertising, because “we like to support the sunlight of good challenging discussions”. But when they became the targets of attack they didn’t like being on the receiving end.
CORTEX Trojan horse?
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Date published: 10:35 am, December 11th, 2015 - 16 comments
The government plans to roll out a new “cyber security action plan”. Given their record of secrecy, lies, and misuse of surveillance, I think we the people would be naive to believe this will be anything less than another escalation of the surveillance of New Zealanders.
New Zealand wins fossil of the day award – again
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Date published: 8:52 am, December 11th, 2015 - 43 comments
For a small country New Zealand is certainly punching above its weight. It has been awarded a second fossil of the day award by the Climate Action Network.
Open mike 11/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 11th, 2015 - 132 comments
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Daily Review 10/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 10th, 2015 - 34 comments
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“Jihadi brides” and Peter Dunne
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Date published: 12:08 pm, December 10th, 2015 - 19 comments
Like a stopped watch, Peter Dunne sometimes gets it right.
Le Pen, Trump, dark times
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Date published: 8:52 am, December 10th, 2015 - 73 comments
As the world meets in Paris, in desperate need of sanity and unity, the tides of political madness seem to be rising everywhere.
By the Twelfth Day of Christmas National Gave To Us
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Date published: 7:36 am, December 10th, 2015 - 22 comments
Sing along as we count our gifts . . .
Open mike 10/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 10th, 2015 - 119 comments
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Daily Review 09/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 9th, 2015 - 32 comments
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Sayonara Serco
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Date published: 12:16 pm, December 9th, 2015 - 80 comments
Serco’s contract to run the Mt Eden Corrections Facility will not be renewed when it expires next year.
Political interference in the OIA
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Date published: 8:15 am, December 9th, 2015 - 14 comments
Yesterday saw the release of the Obmudsman’s review of the operation of the OIA. I think it makes clear an unacceptable level of political interference in the process – albeit not at the level that was rampant in Dirty Politics.
John Key’s hedge fund mate behind Teach First (NZ)
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Date published: 7:36 am, December 9th, 2015 - 195 comments
Julian Robertston, a US billionaire who made his money with hedge fund Tiger Management, Merryl Lynch’s largest customer when John Key was working there, is the man behind privatisation trojan horse Teach First (NZ).
Open mike 09/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 9th, 2015 - 108 comments
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Judge scammed by a legal idiot and his pet pest
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Date published: 8:29 pm, December 8th, 2015 - 36 comments
Thank the deity of your choice for that. Judge Harrison has found and courageously, in a timely manner, corrected his mistake of granting an interim court order under s18 of the incredibly badly written Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015. The problem for a judge being requested to give any injunctive order is that they only hear one side of the argument – that of the plaintiff. And in this case the plaintiff and his associates seemed to have deliberately lied to the judge.
Daily Review 08/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 8th, 2015 - 28 comments
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Donald Trump does not like muslims
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Date published: 11:54 am, December 8th, 2015 - 64 comments
Donald J Trump may have reached peak craziness or peak political opportunism with his call to ban all Muslims from entering America.
Paula Bennett, Climate Change Minister?
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Date published: 8:27 am, December 8th, 2015 - 68 comments
Despite having no scientific background, no relevant experience and no related portfolios Paula Bennett is the new Minister in charge of Climate Change Issues.
Hey Tracy Watkins – Judith Collins was not “cleared” of dirty politics
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Date published: 7:02 am, December 8th, 2015 - 33 comments
No, Judith Collins was never investigated, let alone “cleared”, of the serious issues raised by Dirty Politics. After a token year off Key is happy to have her back because he has precisely as many principles as she does.
Hard Numbers to Remember.
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Date published: 7:00 am, December 8th, 2015 - 32 comments
This post is essentially a distillation of two presentations given by Kevin Anderson at the Earth 101 gathering in Iceland earlier this year. You can view them here and here I highly recommend that you do as they are packed with high quality, no nonsense information. For those who don’t know, Kevin Anderson was the director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK’s leading academic climate change research organization and is a professor of energy and climate change in the School of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester.
Open mike 08/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 8th, 2015 - 115 comments
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Daily Review 07/12/2015
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Date published: 6:00 pm, December 7th, 2015 - 45 comments
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