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  1. Keith Locke on tasers

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:45 am, July 20th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: greens, law and "order"
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    Green MP Keith Locke investigates the claims of safety for tasers, and finds that other countries are concerned that the devices are not as safe as we have been told.

  2. Farewell, Walter

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 11:48 pm, July 19th, 2009 -  6 comments
    Categories: Media
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    Friday saw the death of Walter Cronkite, greatest of the great generation of TV news-people. He is perhaps remembered most for the broadcast in which he condemned continued US involvement in the Vietnam War (can’t embed that vid but here’s his report on the assassination of JFK). Cronkite and contemporaries like Dan Rather set the standard. They […]

  3. Simon says

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 10:28 am, July 17th, 2009 -  61 comments
    Categories: law and "order"
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    Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias has kicked off a debate on whether our justice policy is working [PDF  link]. Her view is that the frequent failure of punitive sanctions demands a rethink. Her analysis is supported by over 40 years experience in the criminal justice system and in the TV3 clip (below), her views seem […]

  4. Cool Cat

    Written By:  the sprout -  Date published: 8:25 pm, July 16th, 2009 -  16 comments
    Categories: humour
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    Courtsey of Chairman Meow. Obey the Kitteh!

  5. Video piracy, it turns out, isn’t new

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 11:48 am, July 16th, 2009 -  2 comments
    Categories: copyright
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    60 Minutes on “Video piracy” – 1979 – part 1 of 2 60 Minutes on “Video piracy” – 1979 – part 2 of 2 (Via Gizmodo)

  6. Secret moves to censor the net

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 10:27 am, July 16th, 2009 -  34 comments
    Categories: interweb
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    Does it seem odd to you that on March 20th 2009 the Minister for IT & Comms, Mr Steven Joyce, said the following: “We have been following the internet filtering debate in Australia but have no plans to introduce something similar here. … The technology for internet filtering causes delays for all internet users. And unfortunately those who are […]

  7. YL video: Join the opposition

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 5:30 pm, July 14th, 2009 -  18 comments
    Categories: activism, youtube
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    Not to be outshone by their leader’s latest efforts, looks like Young Labour have been busy with a little video project of their own. Nice. (Hat-tip: Red Alert)

  8. Credit where credit’s due

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 2:57 pm, July 13th, 2009 -  16 comments
    Categories: labour, national
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    You may have noticed that we’ve taken to offering Labour a little unsolicited comms advice of late. Irish recently told them to get some decent key lines. I asked them (as have many others) to start talking about their vision, and when they do, to keep it simple. Phil Goff’s latest video (below) looks like a step […]

  9. Not Yours To Sell

    Written By:  rocky -  Date published: 8:11 pm, July 11th, 2009 -  26 comments
    Categories: privatisation, supercity
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    Labour MP Phil Twyford is launching a campaign around his bill to protect Auckland’s community assets. www.notyourstosell.co.nz Phil Twyford’s private members bill, the Local Government (Protection of Auckland Assets) Amendment Bill, was pulled from the ballot last week. It will force a referendum before any of Auckland’s public assets are sold off. Criticism from the […]

  10. The Daily Refrain on swine flu

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 7:45 am, July 11th, 2009 -  1 comment
    Categories: humour, swine flu, youtube
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    Sometimes writing is hard. Especially when one is hungover for the third morning in a row. Thank God for Youtube.  This one goes out to all our readers who are, or will be, addled by swine flu. Honestly, if you aren’t watching The Daily Refrain, you’re wasting your life.

  11. F*ck you, the NZ collaboration

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:45 pm, July 10th, 2009 -  31 comments
    Categories: gay rights, music
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    Kick arse: Hat tip: Russell Brown

  12. Beginning of the end

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:00 pm, July 10th, 2009 -  3 comments
    Categories: interweb, Media
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    American news report from 1981 about the coming age of “newspapers by computer”. Classic.

  13. Greenpeace to Obama: Show some leadership

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:55 am, July 10th, 2009 -  Comments Off on Greenpeace to Obama: Show some leadership
    Categories: climate change, International
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    From Greenpeace USA: Greenpeace climbers hung a banner on Mount Rushmore challenging President Obama to show real leadership on global warming. The banner read “America honors leaders not politicians: Stop Global Warming.” The demonstration comes as President Obama meets other G8 leaders in L’Aquila, Italy to discuss the global warming crisis in the lead-up to […]

  14. Who will mourn the MSM’s passing?

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 5:25 am, July 9th, 2009 -  22 comments
    Categories: Media, scoundrels
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    Can you believe that TV One had an hour long special on Michael Jackson’s funeral and then ten minutes in the news? Excuse my language but what the fuck is wrong with our media? A mate emailed me after he saw the TVNZ presser (yes, they put one out) announcing the one-hour special saying, ‘I […]

  15. 40 by 2020

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 4:05 pm, July 6th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: climate change
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    Great new video from 350.org.nz calling on the Government to back a 40% reduction in emissions by 2020. Current National Party policy is 50 by 2050. Public meetings on the Government’s emissions target start today. Check out frogblog for more information about how you can have your say.

  16. Pay equity video

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:30 pm, July 3rd, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: sexism, workers' rights
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    A short video from the NZEI from Tuesday’s pay equity rally at Parliament. There are also a bunch of photos on flickr from the CTU, EPMU and TEU.

  17. Go the Yanks!

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 2:00 pm, July 3rd, 2009 -  26 comments
    Categories: International, us politics
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    So we’ve got a government of incompetents, ideologues, and sloths. At least things are going better in America. The Democrats now have a super-majority in the Senate: The Republicans are imploding. Their ineffectual anger is getting so ugly they’re turning off anyone sane:

  18. Lost in translation

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 11:00 am, July 2nd, 2009 -  8 comments
    Categories: activism, labour
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    Dear Labour I’ll be the first to admit that sometimes my attention span isn’t the greatest. Between Twitter and Facebook and texting it’s frankly a wonder I have time for much of anything else. I’m mostly in a hurry and I think that’s probably part of the reason I often don’t know what you’re trying […]

  19. Cowardice, bigotry and saying whatever it takes

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 10:00 am, July 2nd, 2009 -  77 comments
    Categories: labour, maori party, national, racism
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    I’ll be glad to see the back of the Foreshore & Seabed Act. For many on the Left, including myself, its been a monument to Labour’s failure of nerve in the face of a campaign by National to exploit the underlying racism of Pakeha New Zealand for electoral gain. Yes, there was a certain electoral […]

  20. They put a bus lane through my heart

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 1:57 pm, July 1st, 2009 -  8 comments
    Categories: humour
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    This goes out to all the dispossessed emos of Manners Mall, the forgotten victims of Wellington City Council’s new bus lane: [Hat tip: the wellingtonista.]

  21. Two birds with one stone

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 10:50 am, June 30th, 2009 -  11 comments
    Categories: education, Environment, john key
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    In 2007, in election mode, John Key was talking up National’s commitment to the environment and the Enviroschools programme: Without a trace of irony, the video ends with ‘join the conversation’. It’s clear now that you can converse all you want with Key. He won’t listen. They’ve cancelled Enviroschools. Undermining education and the environment with […]

  22. Bugger the polls

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 10:13 am, June 29th, 2009 -  34 comments
    Categories: labour, mt albert, national, polls
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    With every new cock-up or dereliction of duty from this Key government, righties point to the Roy Morgan polls and say ‘seems the voters don’t care’. It’s true that National is still polling around 50% in the Roy Morgan and parties’ internal polls. Yet the old hands in the Left aren’t too worried. Short of […]

  23. Libertarian laughs

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 11:19 am, June 27th, 2009 -  17 comments
    Categories: humour
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    [Hat tip: onegoodmove]

  24. Asleep at the wheel

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 1:14 am, June 24th, 2009 -  25 comments
    Categories: economy, employment, workers' rights
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    Yesterday, Goff asked Key for some evidence that his government is doing something to save jobs. Key squirmed and squirmed. Goff: What have the three main ideas that emerged from the Job Summit, and that he promised would save or create thousands of jobs, delivered in actual job numbers? Key: I would say that the […]

  25. “I got the sucker”

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:24 pm, June 20th, 2009 -  18 comments
    Categories: youtube
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    Obama kills a fly with his bare hands. Awesome.

  26. The Daily Refrain takes on Larry Baldock

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 8:31 pm, June 18th, 2009 -  15 comments
    Categories: child abuse, humour, youtube
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    So. There’s this dude who writes a song a day (weekdays only) and puts it on Youtube. Calls it The Daily Refrain. He’s been going three weeks now. Mostly pretty funny and well written. Great little project. Seems like he’s a Kiwi. He’s put up one about the child-beating referendum which is brilliant. Hilarious. But […]

  27. 350.org

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 3:30 pm, June 18th, 2009 -  1 comment
    Categories: activism, climate change
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    This is the latest YouTube clip from 350.org, the international movement planning a worldwide day of protest on October 24 to demand our political leaders negotiate a fair and effective global climate treaty. There are a few events listed in New Zealand but it doesn’t look like anything major has been planned at this stage. […]

  28. Key’s female trouble

    Written By:  Zetetic -  Date published: 10:03 pm, June 16th, 2009 -  51 comments
    Categories: john key, national/act government, same old national
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    Key is obviously lying about having an unavoidable commitment in Taupo keeping him from Melissa Lee’s election night do. He would tell us what it was if it were true. He would have told journos at the start that he wouldn’t be there if there really had been some long-standing commitment. Truth is he abandoned […]

  29. F*ck tha police…

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 9:31 am, June 16th, 2009 -  18 comments
    Categories: law and "order", same old national
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    …that seems to be National’s plan as it moves to cut 10% of the police vehicle fleet (why are so many of National’s cuts 10%?). Given the politicking National and its front-groups did on law and order last year you’d think that the last thing they’d do would be make it even harder for them […]

  30. Bullsh*t

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 9:16 am, June 16th, 2009 -  45 comments
    Categories: john key
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    During his time in parliament Richard Worth has cost the taxpayer well over a million dollars yet John Key won’t even be straight with the public as to why he’s gone. First Key wouldn’t tell us because he claimed he didn’t want to contaminate a police investigation, now he won’t tell us because, having resigned […]

  31. Questionable

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 2:28 pm, June 13th, 2009 -  20 comments
    Categories: corruption, john key, richard worth
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    I was shocked, shocked, when I pulled up Kiwiblog just now and there wasn’t a long post of quotes by political commentators on how St John had slain the evil Worth interspersed with ‘indeed’. Instead, there was a long post of quotes from the Herald on juries interspersed with ‘indeed’. I quickly discovered why. Worth’s resignation has not […]

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