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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Syria: who’s backing who?
http://kiaoragaza.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/syria-whos-backing-who/
Syria rebels sponsor Bahrain abuses and kills unarmed protestors
Pays CNN to cover up.
It seems National’s response to falling decisively behind in the polls is to launch an all out attack on David Shearer, presumably in the hope of somehow destabilizing Labour. The attack was signalled by an unusually active Mathew Hooten desperately trying to re-frame debate this way on every blog he thought might be read by a journalist and is being vigorously pushed by the right’s liars, repeaters and shills (Slater, Farrar and O’Sullivan) today. It is truly desperate stuff, but cunning in a shit house rat, Steven Joyce kind of way. Ot won’t work, but i would suggest we all start using the frantic mud slinging at Shearer as a reliable indicator of just how ugly the internal polling results are getting for forgetful John and his shambolic government.
In the last week, it looks like Shearer has started to lead the news agenda, rather than just respond to it: bringing up the issue of key talking at the GCSB staff cafe; announcing a joint parliamentary inquiry into manufacturing. National have been put in the position of having to respond to these stories.
On policy, I think Shearer is till too far to the right for me. But on leadership, I think Shearer is starting to show some.
Hi Karol –
What the above statement really indicates is that the media are seeking to shift control the debate – Shearer is not leading anything, and is no leader, never was, never will be which is why he was selected in the first place.
The aim of the media, as you will be aware is to control the context of the narrative, to shift and subvert, missdirect and deceive, thats what it exists for.
While it is too soon to say the writing is on the wall for NACT next election, the media are hedging their bets by attempting to make Shearer look like potentential (he is also their man), thats all the game is about…We know this because of the way the same media talks unfavourably, for the most part about DC. That said I do not see DC as any saviour of this country, he knows how the system is designed, and what its designed for, its the way a manufactured theatre must function, to mimic democracy
From what I can make out, the present system is designed to keep democracy at bay. If we had democracy we certainly wouldn’t have capitalism or the “free-markets” which only benefit the owners.
Remember
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Thats right JM.
Which is why when people from any spectrum say “but its legal” – I wonder how little they understand that its coming to them some day too…
Legal doesn’t always equal right and that is the truth that people who always cry but it’s legal don’t seem to grok.
Sorry Karol Shearer is not leading he is being led by the nose. And until the ‘leaders’ are dug out and gone, then Labour will just be a bunch of wanna be’s, and worst of all HAS BEENS!
Could you clarify what you mean, please? Afaik, he’s not right wing at all, except in slurs from others.
Fran O’Sullivan, tempted with the baubles of back room banterings, does seem to have drifted to the opposing shore from that which she first patrolled
please help me to understand why this comment was put into moderation?
[Sorry – no idea – if it happens frequently then you share an IP range with a known spammer or troll – let us know if that is the case. r0b]
down in wellington at work ( on wakefield st) and have posted from here numerous times over the last few years. This last week I am having a ridiculously impossible time posting from computers or phone, at work at home or on public machines.
past 24 hours I have been checking on downforeveryoneorjustme.com and usually get a yes it is down for everyone
On Phone: Most times site doesn’t load, or tells me the comment was not published, then i go to page and it was published, or does the super frustrating jump away from the text entry box when trying to add text etc which has been going on for ages now. Basically entering from the phone is impossible without a lot of patience.
I do nothing to my phone. I use ‘approved supplier aps’ i use it more a s acamera and memo book than i do a phone. It gets turned on. It gets turned off. Any issues with anything relating to software are not coming from me. Every other site i visit is fine, same as for the pc access. They load fine, run fine, text entry is fine. Every other site is fine. Something very screwy going on and i strongly suspect thestandard site is getting messed with.
Anyways, this is not a complaint just trying to understand what is going on
For the apologists and spinners the drive of the last few days has been to slide over the nub of matters, Key’s palpable dishonesty, into a story about the story.
However, as numerous commenters have said, the smell of shit is all over Key. Peoples’ nostrils are already, irreversibly, on alert.
Too late Johnny Boy. You’re in this business up to your neck and in a more or less way everyone knows it including your dissembling soldiers. That’s why we have the story about the story, the shrill attacks on Shearer, and pleas/directions towards indulgence.
Clay feet…….no clothes………fibbing little boy……..rabbit in the headlights.
It’s hilarious.
The increasingly idiotic Fran O’S is advocating for Key to get the GCSB to investigate David Shearer, she obviously wrote the manual for Putin and before that Ol’Joe Stalin himself. She certainly looks and sounds old enough to have been in the shadows in the 40’s!
What these ‘journalists’ like franet, JA and their blog buddies don’t seem to realise because their heads are so far up NACTs butt that this shows just how biased and in the pocket of the hollowmen they are.
Readers of this site and other informed sources already know that but in terms of swaying any swingers it’s probably going to do the opposite and undermine what little credibility, if any, they had.
This is interesting though. It seems Mold’s partner wasn’t at the GCSB at the time of Key’s cafe talk to staff:
Just as I thought, Karol, a large number present – is one of them, at least, prepared to testify to what they heard? (Or have I missed something?)
That’s the million dollar question – will any more of these people who were there come forward?
And this sounds on the mark.
http://www.kiwipolitico.com/
Seems increasingly probable there was GCSB surveillance of Dotcom, maybe right from the time he arrived in NZ. The NZ agencies would not have been ‘confused’ or ‘mistaken’ over Dotcom’s residency, they just treated it as irrelevant to their US instructions.
Key had had numerous GCSB briefings from the time he took office, and would surely have known about this before February 2012. A few words then to praise the troops would have been appropriate, given the Dotcom raid circus just weeks before.
If this jolly gathering happened as surmised, and was taped, it would be interesting to watch and maybe highly damaging to the PM. But it is only a small part of the big picture, which it seems stretched back a long time before.
As the minister in charge of GCSB, the real question is whether the admitted crime of illegal surveillance can be laid at the feet of John Key himself. But who watches the watchers?
Which post at Kiwipolitico are you talking about?
Sorry..,,
http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/10/more-questions-about-the-dotcom-spying-case/#comment-248793
Gets right to the bone.
The only explanation I’ve seen that makes sense..so far….
Sam lives to fight another day!
http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/sam-ends-30-day-hunger-strike/1580887/
Governments all over the world are making Sam Kuha, and thousands like him, bear the brunt of this crisis. Saddening really.
I hope this isnt the last we hear from him…sound opportunistic, but he should have a crack at running for office.
Be interesting to see if the MSM do some serious follow ups in what Bennett says and does after the meeting, shades of the key visit to the aspirational family in goffs electorate, opportunistic and hollow like their backers.
Mmmm…Bennett (who let’s face it really avoided committing to a meeting with Sam as much as she could without conclusively proving she was a heartless bitch) is likely to meet with him just for show. Need to keep up the pressure on her or it will be shuffled to the back of the media pile quickly.
Sam for office sounds excellent. You can change the world from a wheelchair : )
Sam could take this in a number of directions. I’d like him to contact the Office of Disabilities (run by MSD) and see if he could work to influence MSD by using his experience to help other people on Sickness and IB’s. If Bennett suggests it to him, even better.
Below is the original article before it was edited a couple of days ago. Had to save as text, otherwise the html wanted to link itself to the update version.
Does that make Danya Levy more senior? as her name does not appear on the article below, but does on the 834am update
Rescuing vulnerable kids: Bennett’s master plan
KATE CHAPMAN
Last updated 05:00 11/10/2012
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The Government is encouraging people to dob
in suspected child abusers under a raft of changes aimed at reining in our
horrific child abuse rate.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett will today launch the White Paper for
Vulnerable Children – the culmination of four years’ work and consultation with
thousands of community groups and concerned parents.
The cornerstone of the Government’s plan is raising awareness of the signs of
child abuse and neglect, and urging people to report it.
Recent high-profile cases have shown vulnerable children were often known to
multiple agencies but a failure to put the pieces together saw them horribly
reabused and even killed.
Mrs Bennett said the plight of vulnerable children had been her driving force
and the policy changes unveiled today simply had to work. “I feel like this is
what I came into Parliament for.”
The White Paper and accompanying Children’s Action Plan were the best that could
have been produced in the current environment, she said.
A Child Protect telephone line is planned for concerned neighbours, family,
friends and professionals to ring when they suspect a child is being badly
treated.
Comments made to the phone line, and information gathered by government and
community organisations, would be entered into a Vulnerable Kids Information
System to track those deemed at risk.
The system would also hold information on high-risk adults who had abused or
neglected children, regardless of whether they were convicted.
Such information sharing was crucial, Mrs Bennett said.
The system would be password-protected, users would be monitored, and
professionals would have restricted access to different levels of information.
Only children considered vulnerable – at risk of, or already experiencing,
maltreatment – would be entered into the system. While accounts could be made
inactive, it was unlikely they would ever be deleted. An expert panel would be
established to nut out details of the system. “The security and the checks to be
put on this information system is vital to its integrity. More than anything
we’re going to work to get that right.”
There would be children wrongly identified as being vulnerable, Mrs Bennett
said.
“If they’re not becoming a child of concern then, as such, they will effectively
drop out of the system.”
The Child Protect line would have a role in ensuring information in the system
was correct and updated. The contact service did not have to be run by the
Social Development Ministry; it could be contracted out to a non-government
organisation.
Ad Feedback The Government also wants those working with children to take
greater responsibility in reporting suspected neglect or abuse. Teachers and
medical professionals would be among those given training to recognise the
signs, and legislation would be introduced “requiring all agencies working with
children to have policies and reporting systems in place to recognise and report
child abuse and neglect”, the White Paper says.
Mrs Bennett said that was not mandatory reporting. “We’re going to really set
some clear rules around it . . . making sure that they follow through and they
do report; we’re also not making it mandatory so they use their professional
judgment better.”
There were concerns that mandatory reporting would mean at-risk children dropped
out of the system and services would be over-run with notifications.
Under the Children’s Action Plan, there would also be controls on who could have
contact with children. People who posed a continuing and serious threat to their
children could have their parental rights removed by a judge.
Mrs Bennett said it was an extreme step and not one that would be taken lightly.
New civil child abuse prevention orders would give judges the power to place
restrictions on people who posed a high risk to a child or future children.
Critics may claim Mrs Bennett has ignored the real threat for a number of Kiwi
children – poverty.
“I was always blatantly targeting these most vulnerable, abused and neglected
children in this country and that’s what this piece of work was always about,”
Mrs Bennett said.
‘WE CAN DO MUCH BETTER FOR FAILED KIDS’
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett puts her mouth where her heart is:
that too many Kiwi kids are failed, but that we can do much better.
“The day I got offered the job of Minister of Social Development the first thing
I said to the prime minister on the phone, at 9pm on a Sunday, was ‘does it
include Child, Youth and Family?’
The former solo mum has a clear idea of what she wants and how to get it. She’ll
listen, but once a plan is set in motion there’s no stopping the determined
Waitakere MP.
New Zealand’s child abuse record is an embarrassment to everyone; none more so
than the woman charged with overseeing child welfare.
Ms Bennett said that was her driving force since entering Parliament.
“It is my key driver, without a doubt.
“I feel like [the White Paper] is one of the biggest and certainly most
significant changes that will be in my time as minister.”
Early in her first term as minister, Ms Bennett was in the United Kingdom when
she decided we needed a White Paper on vulnerable children.
First came the Green Paper – a discussion document launched amongst much
fanfare.
Almost 10,000 submissions later, the Government has released its reaction to the
suggestions: The White Paper and Children’s Action Plan, which Ms Bennett says
will make a difference in the life of the most vulnerable kids in our society.
“I’m unapologetic in my saying we can do a better job for them and that’s where
my focus is.”
– © Fairfax NZ News
Wonder if those “failed kids” she talks about are the same ones who are in the so-called “long tail of failure at school?”
muzza
Thanks for giving us the info.
Look at the opening paragraph of the updated article
DANYA LEVY AND KATE CHAPMAN
Last updated 08:34 11/10/2012
Look at the deliberate framing to pit so called child adovate groups (no mention of who), against the “opposition parties”, this is faux support for the NACT government, being created out of total thin air by the MSM!
The opening of the new article below – So between 5am and the 834am update, the “child advocate groups” gave their support did they – This sort of garbage neds to be called out, and in the original article, only a couple of hours earlier, no mention of suport at all, only mention of critics lower down the article…So the article was updated, sanitized and deliberate lies inserted by the looks of it.
KATE CHAPMAN
Last updated 05:00 11/10/2012
Well spotted muzza, Bennet is obviously looking for cheap/no cost things to promote.
Hang on …. weren’t the police just recently saying those numbers are because of increased reporting because of advertising, community participation?
4 years investigation, culminating in “Tell people to report it” ??
The womans a leech M8!
Thanks for the awhi muzza
There is no depression in new zealand
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/health/news/article.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10839802
blam blam blam
Yup what there is , is deliberate misuse of “drugs” used to placate the sheep from wondering why they are feeling so fcked up in the first place…
There you go, have some fluoride, eat some nice lithium, prozac, fluoxetene, have a shed load of mental stress created by all these nice fake systems we are trapping you into, then when you feel bad, go see the nice Dr who will ensure that you stay docile, and if you really feel something is wrong we will send you to the quack who will certify you.
wishy washy!!!!
Welfare Justice Dunedin says humiliation of beneficiaries widespread and challenges Work and Income to drop their appeal and use those resources to follow Human Rights Tribunal’s ruling: http://community.scoop.co.nz/2012/10/beneficiary-battles-on/
Quote: ‘We challenge the Ministry to stop using bully tactics and taxpayer money to drag Mr Holmes through the High Court, and to take on board the tribunal’s recommendations. This isn’t an isolated incident. WJD has been inundated with appalling stories of breaches of privacy, humiliation, loss of dignity and a widespread disconnect from professional conduct among WINZ staff.’
Standard Bullying
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10840262
Thanks, was wondering what was happening with that. Anyone know much about the Welfare Justice group? Apparently they’re operating nationally.
I can’t believe I just heard that fool of a Housing Minister, Heatley whining on Radio NZ that Hone should quit bitching about the GI evictions and just be grateful his people up north are going to get hand-me-down houses.
National needs donations to pay for media training for their Ministers. It’s a Ministerial car crash.
Poor sam wasn’t given a lousy $40 for food,which he travelled miles for in a wheelchair,
but $600.000 of tax payers money can be given for the ‘elite’ to have a weekend of golf
in Queenstown,the Micheal Hill tournament.
My love and support go out to sam and hope that he is ok now and qudos to Hone
for supporting him.
Couldn’t agree more.
Lordy knows how they can play golf with those heavy blinkers on.
We are a society of haves and have nots and it is taking too long for most to realise we are no longer an equal and egalitarian society.
The economist, on why printing money is the new normal:
http://www.economist.com/node/21564210
From the article. “Currency trading is, by its nature, a zero-sum game. For some to fall, others must rise.” Russell Norman?
http://www.interest.co.nz/news/56861/double-shot-interview-bernard-hickey-talks-green-party-co-leader-russel-norman-about-inte
Surely it’s been the new normal for quite a while 🙂
lanth this is only a comparison between the major trading blocks .
They are all reducing the value of their currency at the same time which is not having an effect on their economic performance!
If these trading blocks had not all reduced their currency value at the same time their would be a different story!
Like New Zealand not doing any thing the Aussies have done it for us to a degree.
I dont condone violence but bennett was just on the nation,i actually felt she needed a
slap.
The ignoramace can’t even admit that ‘poverty’ is the problem.
Having hundreds of thousands of NZ go cold and hungry in this land of hydropower and milk is a direct attack on their daily wellbeing and therefore violence on a massive scale.
Well, that would explain John Roughan’s column that tries to tell us that poverty doesn’t exist in NZ.
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/GCSB-SPY.jpg
This illustrates the difference between the left and right when it comes to using humour in a political setting. Basically the right try to be amusing while making a point whereas the left are about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
I would have said that the right, or at least whaleoil are just juvenile. What is subtle about that jpg?
Oh well kiddie humour – I guess there must be a market for it, otherwise the wiggles would never have had a career.
Its subtle in comparison to the attempts at humour here.
Just in, a picture from last night’s Al Gore event. The audience was asked to vote on the priciples of NZ leadership after Al’s big speech.
http://www.jokeoverflow.com/picture-jokes/news-politics/an-inconvenient-truth
Yet you still feel the need to come here and try to “sock it to those dirty lefties”, and poorly at that.
Are you related to Gosman?…
Its a pleasent way to pass the time. Its interesting though the amount of times I’ve said something on here and got flack for it then a post is written later which is very similar to what I’ve written.
Examples please Chris.
Any time I’ve written about the problems within Labour especially why they lost the last couple of elections theres been a post in similar content. Not saying I influence the posts (more likely that myself and the person writing it have similar ideas) but it seems its not what you say so much as who says it.
So no examples, then.
“but it seems its not what you say so much as who says it.”
Yep. The Standard (breaking the inconsistently applied policy of referring to The Standard as a singular entity) enjoys frothing and pointing fingers at those who break from the party line. The group think is weird and unwieldy.
“So no examples, then.”
I think you mean to say ‘So, no examples then?’ Grammar matters.
The grammar was fine.
He wasn’t asking if there were examples to give, he was saying that there were no examples given, then.
Fair cop but nonetheless the syntax is odd.
A comma is a pause so if you say it out loud:
“So (pause) no examples then”
“So no examples (pause) then”
The latter is unwieldy, but admittedly grammatically correct.
Well, if we’re thinking of contexts, the functionary filling in the report and wanting to close the folder says “so, no examples then.”
Darth Vader goes “So no examples, then”.
Emphasises the lack of examples, rather than the conclusion implied by “so”.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp
Look at that face. That face knows all there is to know about the comma.
From your link, Felix, I thought Rule 3 was pretty apt.
lolz yes I liked that too.
“lolz yes I liked that too.”
That reads as”Law’s yes!” like it is being spoken by some Midwestern US farmer.
As in:
“Law’s yes! I liked that too! M-O-O-N, that spells ‘liked that'”
Grammar
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/156541_444714838927927_945638756_n.jpg
the net is deceptive
Yeah, Grammar matters, as do Kings, and Scots College, and Collegiate……..they all matter to the aspirational wannabee John Keez and other snob-dicks.
The real people are lashing back. That excites and warms me.
To hell with the clay feet of greedy bullshitters .
Oh, might that be Rodney Hyde and wee Stephen Joyce on the left of the picture?
chris73
Humour with excess for the left? Just reminding everyone of the cleverness of Spitting Image in their British satirical forays on Youtube. Bit of fun for everyone – those not being lampooned felt left out.
It certainly does illustrate the difference between left and right approaches to humour. It’s juvenile rubbish, with no subtlety involved at all.
Yeah, the left would never do anything juvenile like that…oh wait
http://bit.ly/PsW6NY
But I am sure this is totally different and you’ll find excuses as to why this is cutting edge and in know way comparable to the other pic from Whale.
errrr I mean ‘In no way…’
shit
So who did that one? They didn’t get the head right.
I was from Bomber.
I mean “it”. Dafuck is going on with my spelling?
Muphry’s law.
If you’re looking for juvenile rubbish with no subtlety involved how about this ?
http://thestandard.org.nz/caption-contest-40/
Oh I’d agree it was juvenile humour. But no subtlety? Remember when you first looked at it – you had to look at it at least twice to figure out if it was real or not
“Remember when you first looked at it – you had to look at it at least twice to figure out if it was real or not”
Really? Seemed pretty fucking obvious and not subtle in the slightest..
Yes, it is amusing. The totally stupid and dimwitted “hero” against a mastermind.
A lot of thought is taken before the sledgehammer is used efficiently by the left,with the
right it is thrown around and aimed at those who just need a hug and some love.
To chris73
John Campbell on media3,he is a great nz’er for what is right and what is wrong in nz,
he is a champion.
Why is this site soooo slow, it’s like stepping back to the days of dial up?
Great looking site but the usability is crap.
The Standard would have to be one of the slowest sites on the web, I don’t get it,the site is 99% text it should load in an instant.
BM
I have been finding that the site is extremely slow often. I haven’t noticed this before. It seems to take ages to get comments up often. Also I click on a recent comment from the right hand box and get sent to some other page or it takes ages to find though I have noticed that there is a difficulty with that when there are over say 100 comments.
I thought it was from my setup. It has been suggested that I use Firefox instead of Opera so I could possibly help from my side, but I haven’t had such problems in the past. I don’t know whether the constant upgrades I get with Opera may introduce some new routine.
It’s the page breaking mechanism they use, all the old links break.
(LPRent is aware of it, but the fix is bigger than a one liner unfortunately)
Sites going OK for me, but if LPrent or someone can tell me how to stop the new post notifications from being emailed to me it would be really awesome. My smartphone dings non-stop..
I’d expect you need to unsubscribe, and just surf to the rss, I don’t use a mobile so not sure bud.
BM for once I agree with you this site is always having problems maybe its popularity!
The comment on Radionz this morning about the huge annual payments to heads of government agencies in money terms (rather than in percentage terms) sparked a memory of the right wing business interests talking about achieving lower wages for all by using tendering or an auction system to set the rates.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political
Now when top salaries are getting into the money gouging level for these executives working supposedly to deliver government efficiency and service to the people (often not achieved) in a non-profit situation, I think that tendering would be an excellent idea as part of the survey of candidates available to human resources. At present setting salaries seems very inflationary and similar to the model that used to be followed prior to 1984 by workers and their unions which the government has stamped out. I think we should be aiming for ability and track record rather than rabbiting on about getting ‘the best’. Let’s get away from high-flown language that builds images and go practical through tendering with the usual careful proviso which I think is – (lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted).
And economically it is counter-productive to combine departments and then multiply the salary of the top executive on that basis, instead of looking at economies of scale with a chance to get more productivity from the top banana. This is a slippery slope that the salary-setting body has started on and it’s time that our responsible? economic entities levelled this yellow brick road presently paved with gold bars.
You can always tell where the power lies in a society by the pay rates, but more easily by the buildings…
When the church has power they build great cathedrals.
When the military has power they build great garrisons and fortresses.
When business has power they build great glass towers.
When governments have power they build great offices etc. Currently the power in society rests with government. That is why pre-earthquake Christchurch’s most expensive building was the IRD building.
Similarly, the new Chch City Council building.
Similarly, the Court of Appeal building in Wellington.
I have no problems with governments having power – just so long as they’re democratic.
Yep – and not just operating units of corporate business interests, like those you see in the US.
I think a simple cap of $250k for a public servant, including the PM, would be fine. If the CEOs didn’t want to work for that they can wander off to the private sector. There is, after all, plenty of more people below them with the capability of doing the job just as well, if not better, than them.
What about tendering for the top pay? Has this been done anywhere in the world? Are we doing our usual and playing just part of a game that others have already left behind in our devotion to our free market version?
why is the standard so slow?
ask the GCSB
larfffs.
as for public service salaries.
this national party government does not believe in government but it believes in patronage, pelf, peculation and paying off its supporters.
figure it out for yourself.
captain hook
Got another p word – persiflage – light frivolous approach. Suits Jokey Hen I think.
captain hook
Like your alliteration. And pelf – didn’t know that – good word I see it comes right down from 14th century Old French pelfre meaning booty. The desire for which connects us down the centuries ay!
Think
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/406325_434378686601415_1471360958_n.jpg
Roughan’s willful ignorance
There are none so blind as those who choose not to see…
Great article Jackal.
National promote the “wringing of hands” and “it’s too hard” when the science has been proven for hundreds of years.
Education is the only real answer.
PO
I would say expand that to – Applied education is the only real answer. That is an essential
addition.
Civics education too.
+1 Well said PlanetOrphan… We also need to re-educate the government about its function.
So true, quantified results, not excuses, failure to reach the “Standard” results in dismissal! 🙂
They should sit an exam before entering office, give democracy a chance M8!
Quantative easing, for politicians 🙂
To the jackyll
Good stuff you should run for parliament jackal.
Thanks tinfoilhat, although I’m not sure saying I’ve got the makings of a politician is strictly a complement.
Understanding and Forecasting the Credit Cycle—Why the Mainstream Paradigm in Economics and Finance Collapsed
Unfortunately Draco, the usual method of dealing with major issues will play out.
The conservatives will deny and ignore and do nothing about it. It will take the liberals to make the necessary changes, which will then be embraced by the conservatives.
‘Tis the way the moon passes ……
Remember
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/60760_456607024378581_1434002361_n.jpg
DtB …
That’s a very good article and written by someone with all the credentials. Well worth the read.
Gawd I wish that Shane Jones would learn to STFU. Abusing the Greens over their perfectly appropriate suggestion that we should allow satirists to make fun of commercial ads is ridiculous.
If this sort of satire is not allowed the next thing the commercial interests will do is try and ban any sort of adverse comments about them, even when they do things like use slave labour or plunder depleted fish stocks or kill Maui’s dolphin.
Perhaps Shearer should be thinking about Jones when he does his next reshuffle.
How can Jones demoted when he has no portfolio areas in the first place? I don’t like rewarding poor performance, but perhaps he should be given something to keep him occupied. Sport or racing, for example.
How about “Spokesperson For Fucking The Fuck Off”?
Chief in charge of getting the fuck out and fucking off with his fucking fuck cunt in charge of sweet fuck all.
tsk tsk. language
anyhoo, this is for the right-wing Godless fasci
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic_Judaism
hey, thats what sharing is all about!
A mistake by Helen long overdue for correction, he did well in the 2011 polls but up against Sharples a more credible candidate would have taken that Maori seat. They just needed a plausible alternative to PIta and didn’t get one from Labour, less of the duck more of the deserving is required.
Jones = verbose potato.
Less puke inducing than that parliamentary bennie bludger Tau Henare (aka Ray Henry of “the union”) but a verbose potato nevertheless.
ha ha that spoof is absolutely brilliant and absolutely spot on.
Shane Jones – fuck off and grow up you useless chook. If you can’t handle the heat then get out of the kitchen. Fancy trying to stop people doing this sort of thing …. You belong in the USA Shane Jones – see ya later.
Sealord, Meridian, all the oil companies, they all spout bullshit. Is Shane Jones seriously defending the image and perception they try to convey? What a fucking muppet.
FFS, quoting Jones:
If the brand can’t stand up to a little satire highlighting the truth behind the brand then it doesn’t deserve to continue. In fact, it probably should have been shut down by government.
exactly Draco, but rather than shut them down someone would certainly be able to take a case against Sealord under the Fair Trading Act – misleading and deceptive conduct in trade. The FTA is one of the easiest pieces of legislation to take court action under. Come on greenie activists, give it a go………
Keeping up with the Jones’s
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The beef barons in USA actually got nasty when Ophra made some remark about why she wouldn’t eat hamburgers because of the beef not being healthy. Forgotten what happened.
It was over mad cow disease.
They sued her, and she won!
Hate Speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
By the look of it, that stats tab was what was causing the recent periodic slowdowns on the site.
It looks like it was locking up on the comment count query when a comment was being stored and queries were stacking up waiting for it. It effectively stalled the page display for many. I set up a graph to look for the numbers of threads active on the database at any one time – was getting these strange spikes.
I’ll have to recode that to do it on a periodic basis or to keep a running total. In the meantime it can go off. Enough playing about. Time to head back to work.
RT: “the return of the Caliphate around the Pyramids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit_(Islam)
it’s an ill wind that blows no good…