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  1. Note to DPF: stop playing victim and take some responsibility for your blog

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 12:15 pm, August 31st, 2009 -  61 comments
    Categories: dpf
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    It seems I’ve hit a sore spot with David Farrar over the business of death threats to Sue Bradford. He’s now claiming I’ve dived for the gutter. At the risk of starting a flame war I’d like to point out that if I was aiming for the gutter I’d turn up in the comments section […]

  2. Sharemarket/Hitler lolz

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 9:39 pm, August 30th, 2009 -  6 comments
    Categories: humour, youtube
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  3. Guardian readers’ standup: the winner

    Written By:  Dancr -  Date published: 8:31 am, August 29th, 2009 -  Comments Off on Guardian readers’ standup: the winner
    Categories: video
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    Last month, the Guardian launched their first YouTube standup competition. They’ve put up their findings here: In the end (and it was close, going to a final count with fellow judges Sarah Millican, Guardian arts editor Melissa Denes and head of audio Matt Wells), our winner was Louisa Theobald, with a routine about her work as […]

  4. 10-20% Pure New Zealand

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:00 pm, August 28th, 2009 -  21 comments
    Categories: climate change, national/act government
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  5. NDU catches govt lying

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 7:31 pm, August 26th, 2009 -  15 comments
    Categories: Unions
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    This morning the National Distribution Union put out a statement saying the Minister of Labour, Kate Wilkinson, had refused to attend an executive meeting on the absurd grounds that Telecom lines engineers belonging to a different union, the EPMU, had recently been on strike. In Question Time today Sue Bradford asked whether the Minister’s refusal […]

  6. The smiling snake bites

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 2:36 pm, August 25th, 2009 -  18 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, maori party, national/act government
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    The Herald editorial is pretty scathing of Key’s Government for rejecting Maori seats on the super-council but I have to take issue with this par: The Cabinet’s decision to reject Maori seats on the Super City Auckland Council is a retrograde step that undoes much that has been accomplished over the past nine months. What […]

  7. Pwned

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 11:20 am, August 20th, 2009 -  68 comments
    Categories: International
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    This just in from a reader… Constituent: [On Obama’s healthcare policy] “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Barney Frank: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?… You stand there with a picture of the president defaced to look like Hitler and compare the effort to increase healthcare to the Nazis … […]

  8. Bridging the Big Ditch

    Written By:  RedLogix -  Date published: 10:04 am, August 20th, 2009 -  22 comments
    Categories: australian politics, uncategorized
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    Mr Key is off in Australia this week promoting further measures to bind the two countries into a single economic market, and slash red tape on trade, investment and business, and to shape the two economies into a force that can team up to position themselves for the world after the global economic crisis.. Well […]

  9. Will National cave to threats from Hide?

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 10:31 pm, August 19th, 2009 -  85 comments
    Categories: national/act government, supercity
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    An email leaked to 3News suggests that Rodney Hide is holding the government to ransom over denying guaranteed Supercity representation for Maori. The email – reportedly from a senior National Party MP and sent to the whole caucus – reads, in part: Clearly we are at a crossroads. The ACT party has threatened to end […]

  10. Phil Goff speaking on the SAS deployment

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 8:02 pm, August 19th, 2009 -  9 comments
    Categories: afghanistan, Parliament, phil goff
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  11. Breeding for a business

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 9:00 am, August 18th, 2009 -  29 comments
    Categories: benefits
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    In 2002, John Key (then a free-speaking backbencher) told the Sunday-Star Times: “We’ve seen enormous growth in the number of people on the DPB, and where people have been, for want of a better term, breeding for a business” Of course, it wasn’t true that DPB numbers were growing – they’re down 16% over the last […]

  12. On their coat-tails

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:48 am, August 17th, 2009 -  40 comments
    Categories: employment
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    Jon Stewart talks to Austan Goolsbee, Chief Economist for President Obama’s Economic Recovery Board: “when you’re looking in the face of the next great depression, that’s not the time to tighten the belt” Now, I’m not as optimisitc as Goolsbee about the long-term outlook but thank goodness the governments of the major countries didn’t go […]

  13. Not yours to sell

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:46 pm, August 16th, 2009 -  28 comments
    Categories: act, auckland supercity, democracy under attack
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    This video from Phil Twyford, Labour’s spokesperson on the campaign to make sure that Rodney Hide is prevented from buggering Auckland by selling critical assets to his mates in the business community so they can raise prices, diminish maintenance, stop capacity building, and make more profits for themselves. Given the history of natural monopoly privatizations […]

  14. Save the climate, raise our albedo

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:06 am, August 10th, 2009 -  18 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change
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    Dark material gets warmer in sunlight than light-coloured or white material. Heat energy enters our atmosphere after light strikes the surface of the Earth, is partially converted into heat, which then radiates into the air. White stuff reflects the sun’s energy straight back into space without converting as much of it into heat. Because of this, […]

  15. Of witch hunts and solo mums

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 11:42 am, August 8th, 2009 -  62 comments
    Categories: welfare
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    Frank Macskasy The recent witch-hunt against solo-mums would have done the old Salem village-elders proud. The fires, though, could have been stoked just a bit harder and higher. But as a first attempt at demonising a minority in our community, it wasn’t a bad effort for Minister of Social Services, Paula Bennett. When Bennett ordered […]

  16. Stick to Acting

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 3:47 pm, August 7th, 2009 -  20 comments
    Categories: humour, john key, video, youtube
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    John explains how what he said was taken out of context, and he outlines his views on climate change.

  17. English lives where Lockwood says

    Written By:  John A -  Date published: 1:31 pm, August 6th, 2009 -  7 comments
    Categories: national
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    Allowances for MPs accommodation are made according to the Speaker’s determinations. An MP’s “primary place of residence” is where the Speaker says it is. Page 18 of the determination gives the definition: primary place of residence,— (a) in relation to a member, means the place of residence that the Speaker determines, by written notice to […]

  18. John Key ‘may’ be able to understand it?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:00 am, August 6th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: climate change, humour, john key, national/act government, video, youtube
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    John Key has recently acted like a jerk to a young mother worried about what climate change is going to mean for her future and that of her child. Essentially he said that she should stick to what she knew. Bearing in mind the complete lack of understanding that both John Key and his NACT […]

  19. 3News on National Ministers double-dipping

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 7:07 pm, August 4th, 2009 -  54 comments
    Categories: same old national
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    3News covers the story of National Ministers double-dipping at the taxpayers’ expense. UPDATE: ‘BLiP’ has bestowed a new title on Bill English: “Sir Double Dipton”. Gold.

  20. Anarcho-syndicalist peasants

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:46 pm, August 4th, 2009 -  4 comments
    Categories: humour, youtube
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    An old favourite.

  21. Citizen journalism

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 5:05 pm, August 3rd, 2009 -  5 comments
    Categories: activism, International, Media
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    Evidently just as fed up as I am with main-stream-media “news” – which increasingly seems to consist of shallow, sensationalist stories broken up by the song and dance of weather reports* – a group of rape crisis campainers decided to conduct an impromtu press conference with London Mayor, Boris Johnston. They reckon he’d reneged on […]

  22. I don’t think so

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 12:52 pm, August 2nd, 2009 -  8 comments
    Categories: assets, privatisation
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    National and Act getting ready to sell our assets. Don McGlashan, joining Phil Twyfords ‘Not Yours To Sell’ campaign, says ‘I don’t think so’. Incidentally, Phil’s campaign is hosted on issues.co.nz, a new website for groups of all political websites to run campaigns on. SAFE, the SPCA, and the Pork Industry Board all have campaigns […]

  23. Get ready for more over-promise, under-deliver

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 4:39 pm, August 1st, 2009 -  15 comments
    Categories: economy, john key, national/act government, spin, unemployment
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    Tomorrow John Key will be announcing policies on youth unemployment. Looks like rehashing of the already announced Youth Guarantee and probably something more. Whatever Key comes up with it will be tinkering around the edges. The Nats aren’t willing to spend any money and they don’t have any big ideas. If the cycleway, the tax-cuts, […]

  24. Linton Kwesi Johnson: FITE DEM BACK

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 12:15 pm, August 1st, 2009 -  6 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, democratic participation, music
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  25. Video: Rhys Darby Global Warning Poem

    Written By:  Dancr -  Date published: 8:00 am, August 1st, 2009 -  4 comments
    Categories: video
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    Couldn’t resist some weekend humour

  26. Straight answers? Short supply.

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 1:45 pm, July 29th, 2009 -  12 comments
    Categories: national
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    Here’s Bennett’s answer to Chauvel’s question in the House yesterday: Charles Chauvel: Was the Minister advised that the individuals concerned had given implied consent to the release of their personal information; if so, on the basis of what precedent; if not, why did the Minister not take advice on that point? Hon PAULA BENNETT: I […]

  27. Nick Smith lying with numbers.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:55 am, July 29th, 2009 -  12 comments
    Categories: climate change, john key, national/act government, scoundrels
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    Nick Smith is the front-man for this government on climate change, and it appears that he knows absolutely nothing about the numbers. The ones he has been using are not related to his claims. It is puzzling because he was an engineer who are usually accurate users of numbers. It is more likely he is […]

  28. Truly ambitious for America

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 7:22 am, July 28th, 2009 -  15 comments
    Categories: us politics
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    America faces a hell of a lot of problems at the moment, but if there’s one man with the ability to inspire and lead them through, it’s Obama. “when I see the young men on the corners [of the ghettos] I say there but for the grace of God go I. They are no less […]

  29. Our traditional allies

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 6:53 pm, July 27th, 2009 -  67 comments
    Categories: afghanistan
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    It seems the US want us to commit our elite SAS troops to Afghanistan. I’m not a big fan of the Taliban but I’m not a supporter of occupations either. Morally I think we can supply engineers and the like for reconstruction (assuming that’s what they do). But the SAS has only one purpose and […]

  30. Govt opts for weak climate change target

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 6:21 am, July 27th, 2009 -  44 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    As expected, the Key Government has decided not to listen to the scientists on climate change. Rather than the 40% reduction in emissions by 2020 that the scientists are saying the the minimum developed nations need to achieve to start greenhouse gas levels heading back to safe levels, they’ll be setting a weaker target instead, […]

  31. Wobbling boobs distract Darby from Global Warning

    Written By:  Demeter -  Date published: 3:49 pm, July 24th, 2009 -  21 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    Just saw this…pretty good. Didn’t realise Darby was another Signer Oner. Nice to see a bit of humour injected into something as grim as a toiling planet.

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