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Wellington airport to donate $200K to city’s poor

Written By: - Date published: 11:24 am, May 22nd, 2011 - 17 comments

No. Really, they’re wasting it on corporate tagging of no value to anyone whatsoever. You can make your own parody sign, like the one below here and join the 7K strong Facebook group.

Depose Gerry the First!

Written By: - Date published: 1:03 pm, September 21st, 2010 - 10 comments

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Jeremy Harris has created a facebook group calling for the End of the Reign of Gerry Brownlee.

Join quick before he bans it.

Crowdsourcing the deficit

Written By: - Date published: 2:43 pm, July 13th, 2010 - 7 comments

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Why let politicians have all the fun? Now the British public can get in on the service slashing action too – via Facebook. The government there has launched a Facebook group to support the Treasury’s “Spending Challenge” – where the public is invited to share their ideas for cutting spending. With the possible exception of …

Save Radio NZ dethrones Key

Written By: - Date published: 9:38 am, March 12th, 2010 - 14 comments

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Who would have thought that a Facebook group advocating to keep Radio NZ funded and commercial-free would overtake Prime Minister John Key’s fan group for number of members? Well, yesterday at 9.30, just over three weeks since it was founded, the Save Radio New Zealand group reached 18,973 members, passing Key’s 18,972. That gives a …

Greenpeace kicks coal in the Facebook

Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, February 26th, 2010 - 3 comments

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Nothing like a good IT stoush, particularly of the David and Goliath variety. Greenpeace has blown the whistle on Facebook’s use of coal to power its new data center in (note: renewable-rich) Oregon. The supposedly forward-looking social networking site picked this energy dinosaur (and the world’s leading cause of climate change), because it figures the …

Save Radio NZ protest today

Written By: - Date published: 3:02 pm, February 24th, 2010 - 15 comments

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The Save Radio New Zealand group on Facebook now has 13,600 members and today (the 25th) there will be an event at Parliament between 1 and 2. It won’t be your typical rowdy protest, instead the idea is to bring along your radio and something to eat and drink, and have a mass picnic on the lawn.

Coleman bites off more than he can chew

Written By: - Date published: 5:34 pm, February 18th, 2010 - 78 comments

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The backlash to National’s attack on Radio NZ is beginning, and it looks like Jonathan Coleman may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Take the Save Radio New Zealand group on Facebook. In less than 24 hours it has 1700 2800 3500 supporters, with 10 more joining every minute.

Burned

Written By: - Date published: 9:46 am, September 18th, 2008 - 33 comments

Under the headline “National MP ‘least prefered’ in own website opinion poll” the Kapiti News reports that Nathan Guy trails Darren Hughes 5% to 95% in his own Facebook poll. Comments on the poll include: I don’t trust Nathan Guy to work properly for all the people of Kapiti and Horowhenua. I’ve heard nothing from …

17-year-old disses Key on Bebo

Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, June 6th, 2008 - 28 comments

The Taranaki Daily News reports: National Party leader John Key was at Waitara High School, where he pushed his party’s plan to spend $1 billion on “super fast broadband”. This would allow pupils to access his Bebo and Facebook pages at a fraction of the speed, and download movies in seven seconds, he said. But …

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