Archive for October, 2007
You can fool some of the people…
Written By: - Date published: 1:02 pm, October 4th, 2007 - 2 comments
…all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time, said Abraham Lincoln. John Key appears to be learning that lesson the hard way, much as Brash did with the Brethren. The PM once referred to Key as “insubstantial”. A […]
John Key’s global humiliation
Written By: - Date published: 12:51 pm, October 4th, 2007 - 1 comment
Too late – John’s humiliation is now global. Here’s the UK Guardian’s blog. “New Zealand’s opposition leader, John Key, the head of the centre right National Party, has an interesting take on the Iraq war, one perhaps not seen since George Bush stood on the USS Abraham Lincoln with a Mission Accomplished banner behind him. […]
What’s with TV?
Written By: - Date published: 10:49 am, October 4th, 2007 - Comments Off on What’s with TV?
The major papers, radio and political blogs picked up John Key’s War is Over story but neither of the main TV channels ran with it last night. Why is that? A photo in the Herald this morning shows Key surrounded by a swarm of press gallery reporters and TV cameras and yet neither TVNZ nor […]
John Key to address UN General Assembly
Written By: - Date published: 10:21 am, October 4th, 2007 - Comments Off on John Key to address UN General Assembly
But seriously. Can you imagine it? Clark and Key are chalk and cheese & and hardly anywhere more so than on their grasp of foreign policy. While Clark has spent the last week or so furthering our country’s interests abroad, Key’s had his foot firmly in his mouth. I only hope that the international media […]
RNZ this morning
Written By: - Date published: 4:05 pm, October 3rd, 2007 - 7 comments
People have been asking for details from this morning’s eye-opening RNZ interview with John Key. First, here’s the staggering quote from Key: powered by ODEO The interview kicked off with comment from Phil Goff on National’s recently released foreign policy document: HON PHIL GOFF: Oh I think that ah that imitation is the highest form […]
Paul Henry finally gets some balls
Written By: - Date published: 3:31 pm, October 3rd, 2007 - 3 comments
The media is clearly tiring of John Key’s vacuousness. You know the tide is turning when even Paul Henry turns on the Nats. I’ve embedded a two minute clip to show the tone of the interview. Here’s the link to the full piece.
Keith Locke on “The war in Iraq is over”
Written By: - Date published: 2:31 pm, October 3rd, 2007 - Comments Off on Keith Locke on “The war in Iraq is over”
“Until Mr Key put me wise, I had assumed the US and its coalition allies were bogged down fighting an intractable insurgency in Iraq that had seen a surge in US troop numbers earlier this year. “The deaths of 805 US troops and at least 13,600 Iraqi civilians this year alone were obviously due to […]
Wishing won’t make it so, John
Written By: - Date published: 2:26 pm, October 3rd, 2007 - 2 comments
My surprise has given way to anger. How dare John Key belittle the ongoing death and suffering in Iraq by dismissively claiming the war is over? Evidently he’s of much the same mind he was to begin with: Iraq is “too far away” to have an opinion on (Media ‘standup’, 2007).
Staggering
Written By: - Date published: 10:49 am, October 3rd, 2007 - 6 comments
John Key said on National Radio this morning “The war in Iraq is over”. Apparently that’s why no mention of it’s made in their lightweight foreign policy document. I’ll post on this later but in the meantime the audio of Phil Goff and Key is here.
Port strike
Written By: - Date published: 10:33 am, October 3rd, 2007 - 2 comments
In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the Ports of Auckland have been ground to a halt by strike action from 250 members of the Maritime Union. These guys are on as little as $13 an hour and have had their pay negotiations stalled by the company for nearly a year, so you can hardly blame them […]
She just gets worse.
Written By: - Date published: 1:46 pm, October 2nd, 2007 - Comments Off on She just gets worse.
If you thought Herald columnist and shill for big business Fran O’Sullivan couldn’t get any worse, think again. Here she is on Sunday, discussing a Business Council for Sustainable Development report on the health system: There is no evidence that trade-offs, such as people working into their 70s and thus reducing their own health drag […]
Espiner scathing of National
Written By: - Date published: 12:08 pm, October 2nd, 2007 - 2 comments
And still the criticism of National pours forth. I’m tempted to post this whole piece by Colin Espiner entitled “There is a tide…”, there are some great lines in it. Essentially he points out that while the government’s riding high after successfully rolling out one of the most complex and significant pieces of policy of […]
Conservative c0ck-up
Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, October 2nd, 2007 - Comments Off on Conservative c0ck-up
The Register reports that (link maybe NSFW) “a Tory blog has been penetrated by an act of classic web waggery after it leeched bandwidth via a picture used to illustrate a posting about party fees”. Rather than host their own image on their site the young Tories linked to a picture sourced at a personal […]
A message for DPF
Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, October 2nd, 2007 - Comments Off on A message for DPF
I just rediscovered Toothpaste for Dinner. Having narrowly recovered from a somewhat grueling experience reading this post over at Kiwiblog I thought I might just pass DPF a little friendly pictorial advice.
Undercover photo of Key at National HQ
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, October 2nd, 2007 - Comments Off on Undercover photo of Key at National HQ
Kiwiblogblog has a great undercover photo (you can tell ’cause it’s grainy) of John Key at National Party HQ. I won’t ruin the surprise by posting it here. Go check it out!
Run your own McDonald’s
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 am, October 2nd, 2007 - Comments Off on Run your own McDonald’s
If you’ve got work to do, don’t read this post. Play This Thing has a review of The McDonald’s video game. It’s flash-based so runs right in your web-browser. Your job is to run a sucessful McDonald’s. The game’s splashscreen notes: Making money in a corporation like McDonald’s is not simple at all! Behind every […]
National looking after its own
Written By: - Date published: 9:43 am, October 2nd, 2007 - 2 comments
Yesterday NZ First’s Brian Donnelly said schools were “not a commodity to be exploited for profit by National’s privatising mates” and rightly asserted “The key question National has failed to answer is who will get rich from its plans…” Well a day later we know. Colin Espiner reports in the Press that one of the […]
Nats start to pay off debt to Exclusive Brethren
Written By: - Date published: 8:51 am, October 2nd, 2007 - 2 comments
No wonder National’s education policy (what we know of it so far, anyway) includes more money for private schools. I know a staff member in an EB school (whose identity I have promised to protect) who said he had heard from high levels within the EB that National promised them that if it formed the […]
Ryall reveals his hollowness on Agenda
Written By: - Date published: 3:54 pm, October 1st, 2007 - 13 comments
all_your_base has already posted on Tony Ryall’s weasel words on yesterday’s Agenda programme, but what struck me about the interview was Ryall’s utter hollowness on policy. Here he is farming out elective surgery to the private sector: GUYON: Okay let’s talk about elective surgery because the Ministry of Health says at the moment the private […]
Pick your own price for Radiohead album
Written By: - Date published: 2:49 pm, October 1st, 2007 - Comments Off on Pick your own price for Radiohead album
If you read yesterday’s post about music and copyright this might be of interest. If not, umm, well sorry. Radiohead are about to release their new album: In Rainbows. They’re pre-releasing it via their website where you can choose to purchase it as a special boxed set with vinyl and other goodies or as a […]
Weasel-words from Tony Ryall
Written By: - Date published: 12:48 pm, October 1st, 2007 - Comments Off on Weasel-words from Tony Ryall
This almost defies belief. Just as I was thinking that Ryall couldn’t screw up the release of their health policy any further… He shows up on Agenda and by refusing to answer Espiner’s direct question only adds to the impression that National’s not being straight with the public on its plans to cut health spending. […]
The Herald lashes National
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, October 1st, 2007 - 1 comment
If you’re National you know you’re in trouble when even the Herald editorial comes out swinging. The National Party was doing very well until it started to announce policy… During the month it produced three policies: work for the dole, partial privatisation of state companies and its position on health. The last was a particular […]
Burma rally pics
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, October 1st, 2007 - Comments Off on Burma rally pics
Some pics from Saturday’s rally for Burmese democracy: More at Auckland’s Burning and Indymedia.
Graphically speaking
Written By: - Date published: 9:51 am, October 1st, 2007 - Comments Off on Graphically speaking
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Back to the future (again)
Written By: - Date published: 9:51 am, October 1st, 2007 - 4 comments
So John Key wants to sell our schools. The National caucus must be a strange place to be right now. Feeling kind of good to be ahead in the polls but knowing that every time you release any real policy you’re going to take a hit. What this latest admission shows is that National hasn’t […]
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