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  1. School support staff fight National’s pay freeze

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:32 pm, October 5th, 2009 -  3 comments
    Categories: education, workers' rights
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    From the NZEI. Great to see the low paid mobilise so effectively.

  2. Sabbath lolz

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:50 am, October 4th, 2009 -  2 comments
    Categories: humour
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  3. LKJ: If I was a Top-notch Poet

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 11:25 am, October 2nd, 2009 -  Comments Off on LKJ: If I was a Top-notch Poet
    Categories: activism
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    For my old mate Mercurius. I hope things are looking up.

  4. A fighting Left

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 10:58 am, October 2nd, 2009 -  32 comments
    Categories: us politics
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    This live performance on CNN by Congressman Alan Grayson gives me some hope for the American Left. Unlike nearly every other Democrat I have ever seen Grayson doesn’t back down and when the Republicans try to attack him for lowering the standard of debate (ironic considering their “death panel” smears) he just slaps them right […]

  5. When you wake up to the fact your paper is Tory

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 2:43 pm, September 30th, 2009 -  29 comments
    Categories: election funding, Media
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    Hilarious reading through the Herald’s Your Views on election funding. Seems the Herald’s meek acceptance of the Government’s electoral funding plans has alerted a few of their readers to the fact they were duped by the paper’s blatant political advocacy for National last year. Here’s what Jay of Swanson had to say: I am gobsmacked […]

  6. Johnnie’s Boys

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:39 am, September 30th, 2009 -  6 comments
    Categories: bill english, corruption, humour
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    subversifpoet sent us this song about our corrupt government:

  7. Crocodile tears from Crafars

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 3:20 pm, September 29th, 2009 -  36 comments
    Categories: capitalism, farming
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    I saw one of the Crafar brothers on the TV last night. Crying fake tears over calves that a whistle-blower had revealed were being left to starve on one of their farms. The Crafars are prime examples of what’s wrong with the capitalist class and, because capitalism is essentially a system that rewards sociopathy and […]

  8. ‘If it happened in Zimbabwe, we would call it corruption’

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:30 pm, September 27th, 2009 -  19 comments
    Categories: bill english, corruption
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    Trev on the money laundering bill. Has a go at a certain Bill who has been laundering a lot of our money. Very good:

  9. Productivity Czar’s latest initiative

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 5:23 pm, September 27th, 2009 -  9 comments
    Categories: humour
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    Leaked emails from the National Government’s Productivity Task Force have confirmed rumours circulating in senior journalist circles that the Tooth Fairy is to be sacked. The emails include statistical data and market research supplied by the Business Round Table which indicate that the Tooth Fairy costs New Zealand tax payers more than a quarter of […]

  10. Clown-in-chief

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:22 pm, September 27th, 2009 -  2 comments
    Categories: humour, john key
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    A hilarious send up of Key that pretty much everyone would have missed because it aired on Nightline on Friday.

  11. David Clendon

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 3:00 pm, September 25th, 2009 -  14 comments
    Categories: greens
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    Following Sue Bradford’s resignation, next into Parliament on the Greens’ list is David Clendon, an Auckland business advisor and lecturer in resource management of Pakeha and Ngapuhi me Te Roroa descent. As the Greens’ candidate in Helensville last year, Clendon won more candidate votes (6%) than the Greens won party votes (4.9%) . Not a […]

  12. Key’s Top Ten

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 12:15 pm, September 25th, 2009 -  57 comments
    Categories: brand key
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    Obviously, the most important thing ever is how John Key did on Letterman. It’s quite cute actually, Key’s clearly a bit nervous standing out on the big stage. It really does remind you that we’re a little country. But Letterman’s very nice, although he does forget why Key’s there for a moment. He knows we’re […]

  13. Sir Howard Morrison dies

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 11:05 am, September 24th, 2009 -  28 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
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    This was always a favourite of mine.

  14. Yes, we’re screwed

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 1:00 pm, September 23rd, 2009 -  10 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change
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    On Monday, New Yorkers discovered their free rightwing rag, the New York Post, had suddenly come over all green. The front-page was typical NYP: a headline screaming “we’re screwed”. The difference was that, in a reversal of the norm, the paper was fake but the facts were real. The Yes-Men had produced a 32-page newspaper on […]

  15. Billy and the Baroness

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:16 am, September 23rd, 2009 -  10 comments
    Categories: bill english, corruption, uk politics
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    In an extraordinary coincidence, the Attorney-General in the UK is about to lose her job for pretty much the same rort as Bill English has been pulling here: [Baroness Scotland] receives a £38,280-a-year “night subsistence allowance” widely understood to be for ministers whose primary home is outside London even though she owns a large house […]

  16. Can’t wait

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 9:53 am, September 23rd, 2009 -  3 comments
    Categories: youtube
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    More at: theyesmenfixtheworld.com

  17. The story Bill English doesn’t want you to see

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 9:01 am, September 22nd, 2009 -  43 comments
    Categories: bill english, corruption, interweb, Media
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    On Wednesday last week, Labour released new information on Bill English’s housing allowance rort. Naturally, the media raised the issues with English. TVOne and TV3 ran stories that night. They weren’t particularly harsh stories. They didn’t really editorialise. They didn’t even say English should give the money back or resign. Later that night, in a fury […]

  18. Talking union

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:45 am, September 21st, 2009 -  Comments Off on Talking union
    Categories: music, Unions, youtube
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    Eddie’s piece on the importance of joining your union if you want to avoid a pay cut reminded me of another Peter Seeger classic:

  19. CCD Myth: The planets are warming

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:45 am, September 20th, 2009 -  8 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    We haven’t seen much of this myth in NZ. However it shows some good examples of selective reading of news articles and papers by CCD’s in support of the “Martians drive hummers” line. Thanks to Andrei for reminding me why videos like this have to be made. You have to read the whole article or […]

  20. CCD Myth: 1998 and all that

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:53 am, September 19th, 2009 -  24 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    If you are in love with the concept that 1998 was the warmest year on record (wrong by the way), don’t watch this. This runs through exactly why you don’t know what you’re talking about. Check out this

  21. Peak metals

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 6:47 am, September 19th, 2009 -  48 comments
    Categories: economy, Environment
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    We’re probably all now aware of the idea of peak oil. The earth is finite, and we can’t suck an infinite amount of oil out of it. But oil isn’t the only resource which is reaching its peak. Various important metals are running out even faster: Indium, gallium and hafnium are some of the least-known […]

  22. After Edge of Darkness

    Written By:  Dancr -  Date published: 10:47 pm, September 17th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: culture, Deep stuff
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    I just read that the Troy Kennedy Martin, the screenwriter responsible for Edge of Darkness died earlier this week. I wanted to mark his passing because I think Edge of Darkness is one of the best things I have ever viewed on television. I was pretty young at the time but I remember being riveted […]

  23. Contempt for democracy

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 5:30 am, September 17th, 2009 -  46 comments
    Categories: national/act government, Parliament
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    Gerry Brownlee in Question Time yesterday. He’s asked a question, just sits there and refuses to answer. Doesn’t even open his mouth, just sits there with a smug look on his face. Lockwood, out of his depth like always, just ignores the rules to cover Brownlee’s arse. Only ten months in and this Government is abusing or […]

  24. No deal

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:16 am, September 15th, 2009 -  22 comments
    Categories: climate change, labour, national
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    Hot Topic has obtained a copy of a draft memorandum of understanding for a meeting on the ETS that was meant to take place today. It shows that Labour was prepared to do more to help compensate polluters for the costs they would have faced while still paying a price for polluting, thereby still incentivising reductions […]

  25. Just put it away

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 2:24 pm, September 13th, 2009 -  32 comments
    Categories: economy, health, labour, Social issues
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    I know this free condoms idea is just a remit, not Labour Party policy, but it’s exactly the kind of thing that the right has used to drive a wedge between Labour and it’s working-class base. It is a liberal idea that conservatives on the left and right will be repelled by and it creates […]

  26. Which side are you on?

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:38 am, September 12th, 2009 -  7 comments
    Categories: music, workers' rights, youtube
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    Following on from the workers’ rights/class war theme of the last few days, here’s an old classic:

  27. A rort is a rort is a rort

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:00 am, September 8th, 2009 -  48 comments
    Categories: bill english, corruption, housing, national/act government, parliamentary spending, same old national
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    And by any other name it smells as bad. John Key has annouced a reform of the rules for ministerial accommodation allowance. A fixed, automatic allowance will now be paid to all out of Wellington ministers of $37,500 a year for their Wellington accomodation (or $30,000 if they own the house), slightly less than the highest spending ministers […]

  28. Rod Oram: Burn after reading

    Written By:  Dancr -  Date published: 7:36 pm, September 7th, 2009 -  22 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    As usual Rod Oram presents an insightful argument: New Zealand’s climate change credibility is hanging by a thread. If the government indulges in bad politics on the Emissions Trading Scheme, the thread would snap. We would suffer instant, serious and long-term damage to our economy, environment and reputation. …Would National be so reckless? Logically it […]

  29. Political debate done right

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 12:37 pm, September 7th, 2009 -  3 comments
    Categories: health, us politics, video, youtube
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    The last video I posted had Democratic Congressman Barney Frank taking the fight to a woman in the audience of a townhall meeting who had just compared the proposed health care reforms to Nazism. He finished by saying: “trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to have a conversation with a […]

  30. Sohole.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 2:24 pm, September 6th, 2009 -  8 comments
    Categories: community democracy, humour
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    In Ponsonby there is a bloody great big hole which is all that remains of the unlamented DYC  Vinegar factory. It has been affording the locals some amusement between bouts in hearings. The site was to be a $250 million mall. The hole was dug last year. However it stopped abruptly when the development group […]

  31. Capitalism, it’s not a love-in

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 5:10 am, September 2nd, 2009 -  38 comments
    Categories: capitalism, class war, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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    I find the Right’s assumption that the bosses are acting in some greater interest fascinating. There’s this unwillingness to believe that the bosses would be acting in their own interests and that what’s in their interests are often not in the interests of the rest of us. Look at the comments yesterday on the Telecom […]

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