Archive for January, 2010
Coddington: exposing secret agendas = bad, attacking sex victims = meh
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, January 17th, 2010 - 29 comments
Deborah Coddington, former ACT MP and author of the filthy racist article “Asian Angst: Is it time to send some back?” that killed North & South’s reputation, waffles on about ‘snitches’ in her Herald on Sunday article. Coddington says snitching – informing the public or the authorities when someone is doing something bad or illegal in secret […]
Bigot gets a bashing
Written By: - Date published: 10:39 am, January 17th, 2010 - 70 comments
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow covers the outragous comments by rightwing Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson on the Haitian earthquake. Great to see this bigot confronted. Need more Maddows in journalism. [First time I’ve embedded from MSNBC. It’s awesome. They let you clip their video just for the parts you want. Fantastic innovation.]
Open mike 17/01/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 17th, 2010 - 21 comments
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…
Farrar tries to cover for do nothing govt, and fails
Written By: - Date published: 5:38 pm, January 16th, 2010 - 70 comments
Phil Goff has picked up on the point I made yesterday: while unemployment is falling in Australia due to the $42 billion stimulus package implemented by the Rudd Government, in New Zealand unemployment is still rising while this do nothing government sits on its arse, and unemployment here is now higher than in Aussie for […]
A note to the idiots. Weather is not climate.
Written By: - Date published: 4:32 pm, January 16th, 2010 - 56 comments
When you get a cold snap in the local weather, it means that somewhere else got somewhat warmer. Weather is a case of local shifts in energy balances. Climate changes on the other hand are an overall shifting due to underlying changes in energy inflows and retention. You can really only see them looking at […]
Key on holiday
Written By: - Date published: 1:59 pm, January 16th, 2010 - 8 comments
After all of the kerfuffle about Key’s long holidays I figure there’s not much for me to say about it but it’s worth remembering what his plans for the fourth week of annual leave were just before it came into effect: It’s not the man’s unusually long time off the job that irks me so […]
Bhatnagar to knock out Hide?
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 pm, January 16th, 2010 - 22 comments
There is a story in today’s Herald noting that current C&R Hobson councillor Aaron Bhatnagar is not going to stand for the new super-council. He is taking on the running of Banks’ faltering mayoral campaign and has been offered a job in the new mayoral office should they turn around Len Brown’s momentum. But the […]
Too far, Fran
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, January 16th, 2010 - 42 comments
Despite almost never agreeing with Fran O’Sullivan, I have respect for her. She comes from the ACT-right and her pieces reflect that but she argues honestly and intelligently, the latter in particular being in short supply in this country’s political discourse. So, I’m a bit saddened by her piece this morning: If Wellington was devastated […]
Open mike 16/01/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 16th, 2010 - 32 comments
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…
Covering for ‘Vacation John’
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, January 15th, 2010 - 69 comments
Both David Farrar and Cameron Slater have posts up attacking a comment by roger nome in one of our comment threads, and it shows they are worried about Key’s image as a do nothing ‘Minister for Overseas Holidays’. On the surface level, it’s kind of cute that Farrar and Slater are obviously reading through our […]
Dumb and dumber on the dole
Written By: - Date published: 1:49 pm, January 15th, 2010 - 13 comments
So, Tariana Turia has (eventually) come out against Paula Bennett’s pointless policy of making people on the unemployment benefit reapply after a year. Of course, Turia is for work-for-the-dole, which is just as stupid. Looks like there will be a show-down, a fight between the two dumbest welfare policies. I predict that Turia will meekly back down, […]
Bulldozing Paradise
Written By: - Date published: 11:25 am, January 15th, 2010 - 30 comments
Today I thought I’d link to some of the amazing scenery Gerry Brownlee wants to bulldoze for his road through the middle of Fiordland National Park. This is a picture of the Hollyford Valley from Hollyford track’s gallery [hat-tip norightturn]. These guys look like they run a pretty cool guided touring business up the Hollyford […]
Over-promise, under-deliver on health
Written By: - Date published: 10:35 am, January 15th, 2010 - 7 comments
Last year, Tony Ryall announced health reforms (ironically, an additional layer of beaurcracy) that he claimed would save $700 million over five years, about 1% of the health budget. Now, Labour has revealed, that estimate is at the high end of a range and the low-end is just $350 million. Worse, this isn’t even an official government figure, […]
NZ closes the gap with Aussie
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, January 15th, 2010 - 21 comments
Well, I didn’t think it could done but it has been. National has been promising to close the gap with Australia, and damned if it hasn’t happened already. The Nats’ target was 2025, it didn’t even take a year. In fact, we’re now above Australia and accelerating away while they fall. Unfortunately, it’s the wrong […]
Helping Haiti
Written By: - Date published: 6:31 am, January 15th, 2010 - 9 comments
The enormity of the disaster that has hit Haiti is becoming more apparent by the hour. It is thought that tens of thousands, if not 100,000, are dead and many more are injured, trapped, or homeless. It is estimated that 60% of buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, have been destroyed. All infrastructure is heavily damaged. The government, already weak, has […]
Open mike 15/01/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:03 am, January 15th, 2010 - 11 comments
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…
Brownlee: Bulldoze road through Fiordland
Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, January 14th, 2010 - 90 comments
What a start to the new year. Gerry Brownlee has admitted he’s pushing for a road to be built through our most pristine National Park, Fiordland. The Southland Times reports: A long-mooted proposal for a road through pristine forest between Haast and the Hollyford Valley is again being considered by the Government. Economic Development Minister Gerry […]
The ‘whaling plan’
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 am, January 14th, 2010 - 47 comments
Govt drafts deal to end whaling in Antarctica – Herald Key plan to end Southern Ocean whaling – Stuff That sounds like a real break-through, I thought. What could this deal/plan be? I watched the full press conference here: “New Zealand has been working very hard to try and find [please, people, the phrase is […]
I don’t know, what do you think?
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, January 14th, 2010 - 28 comments
Less than a week before the opening of the new $80 million Supreme Court building in Wellington, Prime Minister John Key is reserving judgment on the design. Asked what he thought of the building, which has a bronze facade designed to look like pohutukawa and rata trees wrapped around the top, he was less than […]
A humbug
Written By: - Date published: 4:50 pm, January 13th, 2010 - 27 comments
Back in July of 2009 I wrote a post about John Key’s promises of a plan to stop job losses. At the time I pointed out his trail of empty and unfulfilled promises and predicted that the big plan to stop job losses would be one of them. Unfortunately I was right. There was no […]
Bye bye independent foreign policy
Written By: - Date published: 2:37 pm, January 13th, 2010 - 24 comments
Crime rises, Nats’ get tough policies have no effect
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, January 13th, 2010 - 62 comments
You might recall that a bit over a year ago a salesman in a nice suit with a nice smile came and sold us a brighter future. We haven’t seen all that much of that salesman since then but we can remember what he promised to deliver in that ‘brighter future’. We even have the […]
Even Banks against Key’s ‘Party Central’ fiasco
Written By: - Date published: 6:57 am, January 13th, 2010 - 6 comments
At first, I thought I must have been dreaming yesterday morning. There was John Banks loudly attacking central government politicians from Wellington. How dare they impose expensive and unjustified costs on Aucklanders? Why were they so insistent on rushing through their own ideas rather than taking the time to come to an enduring solution that Aucklanders […]
Summary of Facts – as requested
Written By: - Date published: 10:16 pm, January 12th, 2010 - 96 comments
UPDATE 14/01 – my Summary of Facts My only charge is still obstructs police – seemingly because I refused to comply with an unlawful request. Note the fact that they haven’t charged me with disorderly behaviour must mean they realise my use of a megaphone was not unlawful. I have no doubt at all that […]
Bully Brownlee forces SOE CEO to withdraw critical blog
Written By: - Date published: 11:26 am, January 12th, 2010 - 55 comments
Powershop is a subsidiary of Meridian Energy, an SOE. It is the most highly rated power retailer by its customers, with 92% satisfaction. On the Powershop website, there’s a blog. On this blog, the CEO of Powershop, Ari Sargent, wrote a post on the Government’s proposed electricity sector reforms. It’s insightful, adroit, politically neutral, and scathing […]
Scumbag Slater attacks child sex victim just to get some attention
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, January 12th, 2010 - 104 comments
The other day on the telly, Cameron Slater said why he had breached suppression orders intended to protect the identity of sex attack victims in two cases involving an alleged celebrity assailant, but not a third. ‘It involves a kid’ stated he. How noble. How fine. He’s making a point. He won’t hurt a child to […]
Govt: All workers to get same holidays as PM
Written By: - Date published: 6:03 am, January 12th, 2010 - 85 comments
Workers to get same holidays as PM Monday, 11/01/2010, 11:30pm Press release: New Zealand Government The Government will raise the minimum annual leave entitlement for all workers from four weeks a year to seven, Prime Minister John Key said today. “This will bring the holiday entitlements of all Kiwis into line with the vacations I […]
Open mike 12/01/2010 to 14/01/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 12th, 2010 - 21 comments
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…
Wishart. Research kiddie.
Written By: - Date published: 5:22 pm, January 11th, 2010 - 62 comments
This is just too funny. One of Ian Wisharts sources in AirCon which he quoted from ‘verbatim’ turns out to have been a kiddies resource from 1999 – which he still mis-interpreted. Gareth at Hot-topic has been tearing apart some of Wisharts recent posturing, and posted this comment Wishart, responding to some prodding, says this […]
Key adopts Bush foreign policy
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, January 11th, 2010 - 37 comments
“We’ve got no intention of cutting and running from Afghanistan,” the Prime Minister said from his holiday home in Hawaii.* If you’re a keen watcher of political rhetoric, you might recognise that phrase – Bush used to accuse Democrats of wanting to ‘cut and run’ from Iraq. It’s not just rhetoric, John Key’s foreign policy […]
Slater’s attention-seeking attack on sex abuse victim
Written By: - Date published: 10:03 am, January 11th, 2010 - 73 comments
So, Slater wants to be a martyr. Fits well with his personal myth of the hard done by battler fighting this PC world. Yes, it must be hard being the son of a former National Party President. Living the welfare queen lifestyle ripping off an insurance company. Daddy always around to bail you out. But […]
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Korber, Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The list of organisations abandoning the option of fully remote work for employees has grown recently, with the likes of Amazon, IBM, JPMorgan and Meta ...4 days ago - Sunglasses reflect more than the light: a brief history of shades, from Ancient Rome to Hollywood
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Maynard, Associate Professor, School of Communication and the Arts, The University of Queensland State Library Victoria Sunglasses, or dark glasses, have always guarded against strong sunlight, but is there more to “shades” than we think? The pupils of our ...4 days ago
- Inside the fast rise and faster collapse of the acclaimed K Road restaurant Cotto
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- Stanford braces herself for a year of cuts – and reform
“Next year is going to be a tough year for me, because I’m going to have to make some very, very difficult decisions,” Education Minister Erica Stanford says.That means cuts. Or at least replacements.“This is the problem in education: we never stop doing things.”This leads to a disjointed system, where ...4 days ago - Protecting our democracy by reforming Parliament
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- The Mars search for meaning
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- An insomniac’s guide to getting to sleep when it’s hot and muggy
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- ‘I need to make you suffer’: My near decade of violent harassment by a man I barely know
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- Daily crossword, Monday 6 January
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 6 January
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- The Wāhine Māori leading NZ’s largest education union
Ripeka Lessels (Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Te Arawa, and Ngāti Tūwharetoa)Ripeka Lessels had been an educator for 20 years before she decided to become involved in NZEI Te Riu Roa’s Māori governance body, Te Reo Areare. It’s here she believed she could do the most good for tamariki Māori.As someone who had ...5 days ago
- Four myths of career breaks
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Summer reissue: Increasing numbers of Māori are affiliating with tribal groups of under 1,000 members. What does it mean for Māoridom? The Spinoff needs to double the number of paying members we have to continue telling these kinds of stories. Please read our open letter and sign up to be ...5 days ago
- Daily crossword, Sunday 5 January
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- Newsroom daily quiz, Sunday 5 January
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- Fiji police charge man with rape and sexual assault of Virgin Australia crew member
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- From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developmen...
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- My emotion is my strength – Karen Chhour
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- The Secret Diary of .. New Year’s Resolutions
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- ‘Grossly misleading to me and to the country’: the Lange-Douglas letters, unearthed
Summer reissue: The meltdown in the relationship between the key players in the fourth Labour government can be charted in an extraordinary exchange of correspondence. The Spinoff needs to double the number of paying members we have to continue telling these kinds of stories. Please read our open letter and ...6 days ago
- How many goddamn words should I be saying to my baby?
Summer reissue: I read yet another study about toddlers, screen time and language development, and it sent me off the deep end. The Spinoff needs to double the number of paying members we have to continue telling these kinds of stories. Please read our open letter and sign up to ...6 days ago
- What it takes to be an Olympian, and why you don’t have it
Summer reissue: This year Tori Peeters competed at the Paris Olympics in the javelin. Ten years ago, Madeleine Chapman thought she might be in the same position. She talks to Peeters about what it takes to go all the way – and mulls her own life decisions in the process. ...6 days ago
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