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Truly sensible sentencing
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, January 12th, 2009 - 16 comments
“I’m not one for ideological stances; I support what works”, said John Key in a speech to the Salvation Army in early 2007. Well now the challenge is on. Steve posted earlier today calling for a “truce on the sentencing bidding war”, echoing the recent sentiment of Kim Workman, director of the Rethinking Crime and Punishment project. […]
Internet campaigning
Written By: - Date published: 2:39 pm, January 12th, 2009 - 2 comments
There have been two interesting pieces from the Guardian recently on the way UK Labour are beginning to embrace the opportunities of the internet for political campaigning. The first is here and describes Labour’s spoof of an online meeting of the shadow Tory cabinet (pictured above). The second is here and details UK Labour’s new ‘broad […]
crashtheinauguration.com
Written By: - Date published: 10:42 am, January 10th, 2009 - 3 comments
Via SwissMiss: CrashTheInauguration.com, an online Inauguration guide created by AirBedAndBreakfast.com, is connecting last minute travelers with accommodations in Washington DC. Individuals or groups can easily rent an airbed, couch, private bedroom, or entire place for as little as $45/night. Already visitors from throughout the United States, and even European countries, are booking Inauguration accommodations directly online […]
War crime?
Written By: - Date published: 5:26 pm, January 9th, 2009 - 35 comments
Idiot/Savant seems to think so. DPF doesn’t. Robert Fisk does: What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be too strong a description? For that is what we would call this atrocity if it had been committed by Hamas. So a war crime, I’m afraid, it was.
Streetview sleuthing
Written By: - Date published: 4:42 pm, January 9th, 2009 - 2 comments
Nikki Kaye might be right to fear Google’s watchful eye but police in Massachusetts have used streetview to solve the alleged kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl by her grandmother. A Massachusetts-based officer used the phone company’s GPS records to narrow his search then used Google’s streetview to take a guess at the likely hideout – a hotel, hundreds […]
Labour’s maiden speeches
Written By: - Date published: 10:35 am, December 23rd, 2008 - 8 comments
Rather than decorating their tree, some committed Labour Party staffer seems still to be hard at work posting maiden speeches to YouTube. The Greens have theirs up too [link].
Obama in 1980
Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, December 19th, 2008 - 11 comments
From Time: In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named Lisa Jack, who asked him if he would be willing to pose for some black and white photographs that she could use in her portfolio. She put the photos away until after […]
Estonians to vote by mobile phone
Written By: - Date published: 2:05 pm, December 15th, 2008 - 23 comments
Last Thursday, while our new government was making it easier for businesses to fire employees, politicans in Estonia were making it easier for people to vote. In Estonia’s 2011 parliamentary election people will be able to vote via mobile phone. The system apparently “requires that voters obtain free, authorized chips for their phones” which are used […]
From clean and green to grey and grubby
Written By: - Date published: 1:52 pm, December 15th, 2008 - 39 comments
Tourism New Zealand has recently launched its dedicated YouTube channel – Have Your Say – where tourists can post video messages about their experiences while visiting here via a mobile studio. Here’s what our new PM, Minister of Tourism, and veteran YouTube user John Key had to say. But while John’s out there on YouTube doing the hard […]
National’s abuse of Parliamentary process
Written By: - Date published: 2:24 pm, December 11th, 2008 - 7 comments
Audrey Young writes on her blog that National would do well to heed the opinion of the Human Rights Commission who have today spoken out against National’s decision to rush through a number of pieces of important legislation under urgency – denying them proper scrutiny. She points out that this is the very same Commission National […]
Courting the ethnic vote
Written By: - Date published: 5:58 pm, December 9th, 2008 - 31 comments
I’ve just watched the first part of the Address in Reply debate which included maiden speeches by two new National Party MPs – Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga and Melissa Lee. They were impressive. This in itself should provide some cause for concern for Labour but more ominous should be the signal that while this year’s election […]
Kia kaha
Written By: - Date published: 1:55 pm, December 9th, 2008 - 34 comments
The Greens have joined in opposing National’s “Fire at Will” Bill which they say puts “jobs and democracy at stake”. They’re calling on the Maori Party to stand strong in its previous opposition to the bill. Only two years ago Hone Harawira said when voting against it: [O]ur journey with this bill has not been an […]
Dear John
Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, December 9th, 2008 - 3 comments
In case, like me, you tend to mainly read the news online, here’s what was stuck to the Dominion Post this morning:
Occupy, resist, produce
Written By: - Date published: 1:32 pm, December 8th, 2008 - 34 comments
Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis describe in the New Statesman how: [a]lmost entirely under the media radar, workers in Argentina have been responding to rampant unemployment and capital flight by taking over businesses that have gone bankrupt and reopening them under democratic worker management. Full article here.
Farrar back on the PS payroll?
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, December 6th, 2008 - 135 comments
A mate just pointed out that the metadata of David Farrar’s election analysis document suggests it was authored on a Parliamentary Service computer. With the document open in Microsoft Word go to the ‘File’ menu then down to ‘Properties’. You’ll see something like the image below: Of course you’ll notice that the document title looks […]
The moral high ground
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, December 5th, 2008 - 15 comments
Murray McCully has just used his recently acquired ministerial discretion to allow Fiji’s under-20 soccer team to enter New Zealand in transit on its way to a tournament in Tahiti. This is broadly at odds with the Labour government’s sanctions following the coup in 2006 (though they did grant the Fiji sevens team permission to […]
Merriam Webster word of the year: Bailout
Written By: - Date published: 3:39 pm, December 3rd, 2008 - 8 comments
It often provides an interesting take on what’s on people’s minds. The top ten was filled out by: Vet Socialism Maverick Bipartisan Trepidation Precipice Rogue Mysogeny Turmoil Here’s the link.
It’s 3am again
Written By: - Date published: 11:49 am, December 3rd, 2008 - 10 comments
Armstrong’s a little more charitable in relation to National’s dithering on the evacuation of Kiwis from Bangkok than I would have been. Yes, Key got there in the end but we had to endure yet more of the painful “there are a range of options that we’re considering” BS he’s so prone to. I’m sure […]
Obama launches weekly YouTube address
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 pm, November 17th, 2008 - 13 comments
Post traumatic Obama disorder
Written By: - Date published: 5:48 pm, November 14th, 2008 - 11 comments
While there have been reports here of distraught voters calling the police and helplines for assistance in dealing with the trauma of a National/Act government, spare a thought for the millions of Obama supporters around the world who, now victorious, find themselves with no purpose in life… (Via: Swiss Miss)
Unbelievably awesome
Written By: - Date published: 11:03 am, November 13th, 2008 - 11 comments
Via Laughing Squid: This morning in NYC international pranksters The Yes Men recruited volunteers through the website Because We Want It to distribute thousands of copies of a fake version of the New York Times dated July 4, 2009 with the headline ‘Iraq War Ends’. Gawaker describes how the prank came together and here’s the reaction from the New York Times. There is also […]
The Nats on Iraq
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 am, November 5th, 2008 - 34 comments
The Nats have had two responses to English’s “pull the trigger” comments revealed last night: first the taping itself was branded a “dirty trick” and now we have Key claiming on Sunrise this morning that the comments may have been taken out of context. Well here’s a view of his own, straight from Hansard, with […]
English “worried” about Obama
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 pm, November 4th, 2008 - 97 comments
More from 3News tonight on the secret recordings taken at the Naitonal Party conference in August. This time it’s Bill English expressing concern over Barack Obama’s “moralistic” stance to international relations: I’m a bit worried about this whole Obama and Europe thing, just because there’s a limited effectiveness in being moralistic about international relations… and the […]
Synchronised presidential debating
Written By: - Date published: 7:36 pm, October 29th, 2008 - 2 comments
(Via: boingboing.net)
Lockwood vs Lockwood
Written By: - Date published: 2:42 pm, October 23rd, 2008 - 5 comments
A different ‘story of two National party guys’ from 08wire:
Google “In Quotes”
Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, October 23rd, 2008 - 1 comment
This is clever from Google labs – In Quotes. It allows you to compare people’s quotes on a variety of issues, having pulled them from online news. The default “speakers” are McCain and Obama but you can change them. I tried with Clark and Key but there isn’t really enough data by the looks of […]
Debtmonster
Written By: - Date published: 11:06 am, October 23rd, 2008 - 30 comments
UPDATE: The Pink Batts original is youtubed here.
CTU YouTube vid
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 pm, October 22nd, 2008 - 25 comments
Yep, that’s a pusy Roger Douglas zombie eye staring at you. Ew.
Live: Helen Clark launches Labour campaign
Written By: - Date published: 2:06 pm, October 12th, 2008 - 9 comments
Hooten shows his true colours
Written By: - Date published: 1:56 pm, October 12th, 2008 - 36 comments
The Herald reports that producers had to interrupt the filming of today’s Eye to Eye because Mathew Hooten called Winston Peters a “f***ing c***”. Apparently Hooton confirmed he used the phrase but was unrepentant. I think we all knew Hooten was a childish bully, it’s just kind of a shame he had to confirm it […]
In case you missed it
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, October 10th, 2008 - 14 comments
Here’s the footage from 3News last night on the fresh National Party cocktail revelations. Bill English’s comments again serve to reinforce the message of The Hollow Men: this is a group of people who are about winning at all costs, principles be damned.
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