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  1. Sharples and the Maori Party revolt

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 3:40 pm, November 25th, 2009 -  9 comments
    Categories: climate change, maori party, national
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    Via Newsroom [offline], Pita Sharples has confirmed reports of an internal revolt within the Maori Party over its support for National’s ETS. The Maori Party will honour its deal to back National’s emissions trading scheme despite many in the party being opposed to much of the ETS bill, co-leader Pita Sharples has said in a […]

  2. Shane Jones on National’s ETS

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 5:20 pm, November 24th, 2009 -  12 comments
    Categories: climate change, labour
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  3. Kevin Hague blasts Nats on ACC

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:38 pm, November 23rd, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: ACC, greens
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    Good video from the Greens’ Kevin Hague. Gotta love the dirty mo:

  4. Bikoi video

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:00 pm, November 19th, 2009 -  Comments Off on Bikoi video
    Categories: ACC, activism
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    Hat tip: Labour.

  5. What matters

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 9:01 am, November 19th, 2009 -  27 comments
    Categories: child discipline
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    Did you see Brain Rudman’s article in the Herald yesterday? The quote says it all: It just reminds you what an absurd debate this is. Still at least we’re not arguing over whether ‘working dogs’ should be microchipped any more.

  6. Bikoi

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 2:16 pm, November 17th, 2009 -  44 comments
    Categories: ACC, activism, national/act government
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    Just got away from the bikoi at Parliament. What a sight. At least 6,000 people they reckon. The lawn and half the forecourt covered. Tui flying overhead joining in the fun. The bikers know are they being treated unfairly and National is using their levy money to pay for false propaganda for levy increases. They […]

  7. Total shambles

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 10:45 am, November 17th, 2009 -  61 comments
    Categories: Environment, national, scoundrels
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    The government’s handling of the ETS is a total shambles at every level. Even their fans at The Herald are pointing out the elephants in the room: Another sorry chapter in emissions farce It is rare that all-party select committees of Parliament cannot agree on some improvements to a Government bill even if some parties […]

  8. Iwi tuaroa is Maori for spine

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 8:41 am, November 15th, 2009 -  15 comments
    Categories: leadership, maori party
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    Throughout the mana enhancing relationship between the National and Maori parties, we haven’t yet seen a lot of give and take. Well, I guess that’s only half true – we’ve seen a lot of taking for granted by National and a lot of giving concessions by the Maori Party, but none of the other way […]

  9. The resistance

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:41 am, November 12th, 2009 -  5 comments
    Categories: ACC, national/act government, spin
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    A very well-produced youtube vid on National’s distortions over ACC The clever thing National has done is set up ACC as the agent of its own demise. With Business Roundtable member John Judge in charge ACC has become a propaganda wing for National’s anti-ACC rubbish. Judge and Nick Smith have created a false air of […]

  10. Socialism is Democracy

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 4:30 pm, November 11th, 2009 -  61 comments
    Categories: socialism
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    This hilarious stoush between Moore and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is worth a look too. Hat tip: The kids at the Workers Party.

  11. Eek! ANGRY BLACKMAN

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 3:45 pm, November 11th, 2009 -  112 comments
    Categories: colonialism, racism
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    OK, so Hone says If I should be suspended for my language, he [Phil Goff] and his mates should be lined up against the wall and shot. Just as saying something about [blue] mofos does not mean therefore all [blues] are mofos, the comment about Goff is not an incitement nor is it meant other than […]

  12. Key’s hand-washing powers Phil

    Written By:  Tammy Gordon -  Date published: 11:00 am, November 11th, 2009 -  30 comments
    Categories: john key, phil goff
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    I don’t know if the two are related but this is my theory du jour. John Key keeps washing his hands of both his own ministers and MPs and his coalition partners’ MPs. It seems like no misbehaviour, from rorts to racism can make a dent in Mr Easy Going. Meanwhile, Phil Goff is having […]

  13. Foreshore and Seabed – where to from here?

    Written By:  rocky -  Date published: 7:47 pm, November 10th, 2009 -  92 comments
    Categories: foreshore and seabed, treaty settlements
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    There has been much furore today over Hone Harawira’s latest comment that: If I should be suspended for my language, he [Phil Goff] and his mates should be lined up against the wall and shot. I thought the comment was appropriate in the circumstances, as a response to Phil Goff calling for him to be […]

  14. Jackie Blue: Committed to [insert region here]

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 9:50 am, November 10th, 2009 -  28 comments
    Categories: national, spin
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    An alert reader who, for reasons one can only wonder about, was on Jackie Blue’s website spotted this: Tuesday, November 3. 2009 Launch of National Standards Reading, writing and maths are the basic building blocks all children need to learn to get the best start in life. Currently one in five students leave school without […]

  15. Laws needs an education

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 3:32 pm, November 9th, 2009 -  43 comments
    Categories: education, feminism, scoundrels
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    I told myself I’d never do a post on pathetic publicity groupie Michael Laws, so here I am failing to live up to yet another resolution. Sigh. But really, this can’t pass without comment: Boys are failing, and feminism is at fault One of the great triumphs of feminism is education. It is a profession […]

  16. We are New Zealand

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 2:00 pm, November 7th, 2009 -  10 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Hattip: tumeke

  17. The Good Oil: Blast the Right

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 11:28 am, November 7th, 2009 -  2 comments
    Categories: activism, interweb, political education
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    God knows you’ll never hear this sort of stuff from the transnational corporate duopolies that are our erstwhile msm, so many thanks to one of our readers who kindly put me on to this excellent US grassroots site by Jerold Block. It’s a repository of podcasts that basically just contain countless well put counter-arguments to […]

  18. Unbridled power

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 8:38 am, November 7th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: law and "order", national/act government
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    The government and the Police are spinning all the new security measures as a national security matter and a crack-down ONLY on the leaders of organised crime, watching how the worst villains spend their ill-gotten gains and preventing them from corrupting police and politicians (snort) etc. Police minister Judith Crusher Collins: “Gang bosses have grown […]

  19. Climate Change: Looney Tunes from Lord Monckton

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 1:15 pm, November 6th, 2009 -  121 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    Rob Salmond In attempting to cover for DPF’s embarrassing disaster of a post on climate change, in his comments section some prominent right wingers (most notably John Ansell) pointed to a recent presentation by Lord Monckton. The presentation got a lot of publicity this month, including thinly veiled advertising from Fox News’ Glenn Beck, for arguing […]

  20. Government MPs’ travel woes

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 12:45 pm, November 6th, 2009 -  65 comments
    Categories: corruption, national/act government
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    Not content with living in a fantasy world, Rodney Hide had to spend taxpayer money to visit Disney World as well. OK, actually it was Universal Studios but it looks increasingly like Hide’s $50,000 trip kindly paid for by you and me was actually nothing more than a world tour with his girlfriend. Sure, they […]

  21. Why National really hates proportional electoral systems

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 2:22 pm, November 5th, 2009 -  25 comments
    Categories: electoral systems, First Past the Post, labour, MMP, national
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    These data, taken from the Elections NZ site, show election results since National’s inception up until the last First Past the Post (FPP) election in 1993. I think they show fairly clearly why National is so keen to dump our proportional electoral system in favour of FPP or its drag cousin Supplementary Member (SM), which […]

  22. Bomber’s War on News

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 2:03 pm, November 4th, 2009 -  9 comments
    Categories: news, tv
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    If you didn’t take my last hint to keep watching this, here’s your chance to catch up. I think it’s genuinely good. It’s like TV, only true.

  23. Where’s Paula?

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 12:39 pm, November 3rd, 2009 -  23 comments
    Categories: Media, national/act government, spin
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    The Herald’s creepy lovefest with the National Party continues today with Simon Collins’ profile of Paula Bennett, who is apparently “one of us”* Unlike Danyl over at the Dim Post who seems to have finally realised that *gasp* the Herald might be a little pro-National, I’ve not really been troubled by this “first year of […]

  24. Kiwis should be free-riders – NZIER

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:42 am, November 3rd, 2009 -  15 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment
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    A nice attempt at wedge politics from rightwing economic think-tank NZIER today. They say we should be concentrating on water quality, air quality, and saving native species, rather than climate change – a transparent attempt to divide conservationists from environmentalists. The entire substance of this ‘report‘ is a table on page 17 that doesn’t actually […]

  25. David Farrar’s echo chamber fail

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 5:40 pm, November 2nd, 2009 -  45 comments
    Categories: climate change, dpf
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    There’s some massive FAIL going on over at Kiwiblog. Farrar’s got this new green-bashing post up where he breathlessly mocks Al Gore for saying sea levels could rise by 67 metres because of climate change. “67 metres in ten years!” wails Farrar. “I think politicians like Al Gore actually damage the very cause they purport […]

  26. Brash’s mea culpa

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 12:00 pm, November 2nd, 2009 -  17 comments
    Categories: foreshore and seabed, national, racism
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    Strange mea culpa from Don Brash on the foreshore and seabed in today’s Dom. He doesn’t go as far as to apologise for National’s cynical and deliberate attempt to ignite racial conflict in the leadup to the 2005 election, but he does admit that National “got it wrong” on the foreshore and seabed. Wonder what […]

  27. Good Old Fashioned Solidarity

    Written By:  RedLogix -  Date published: 3:41 pm, November 1st, 2009 -  27 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    Matt McCarten writes a fine opinion piece in today’s Herald. He hits four main points: 1. The neo-liberal dismantling of NZ’s egalitarian society ideal in the 80’s and 90’s. 2. The new subservience of the State to corporate interests. 3. Dramatic increases in productivity over the last 30 years that have been almost entirely captured […]

  28. Ecosexploitation 350

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 11:05 am, November 1st, 2009 -  22 comments
    Categories: activism, Environment, Social issues
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    One of the many problems facing people who want to grow popular awareness of matters ecological is that for the large part, it’s bloody depressing if you start to get the reality of it. So I imagine director Cameron Russell sold the pitch for this vid with an argument something like “we need to catch […]

  29. Sue Bradford’s valedictory

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:00 pm, October 29th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: greens
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    Some highlights from Sue Bradford’s valedictory speech. We’ll link to the full version once the Greens get it up. Update: Frogblog has a clip of the whole speech here.

  30. Anyone remember this guy?

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 2:28 pm, October 29th, 2009 -  6 comments
    Categories: history, leadership
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    With all the noise around Obama you don’t hear much about this guy now. He was politically naive but knowingly and willingly acted as a front for much more machiavellian minds. He came to politics with lots of money and was promoted very quickly, but he wasn’t too good at inspiring confidence by way of […]

  31. Bill’s latest rort

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 9:30 am, October 29th, 2009 -  77 comments
    Categories: bill english, corruption, Media
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    I hadn’t seen the Bill English ad until now. I guess I had kind of assumed it couldn’t be that bad – surely it would be a promo for the show with a few stock clips of English because he’ll be appearing. Nope: It’s just an ad for English. In fact, I’ve got no idea what […]

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