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  1. Drawing your attention

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 1:00 pm, October 4th, 2008 -  18 comments
    Categories: activism, Media, youtube
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    Malcolm Evans, award-winning former Herald cartoonist, is bloody good at what he does – insightful, well-drawn, concerned with the big issues, and always on the side of the underdog. His leftwing views made for a difficult relationship with the Herald’s editors. In 2005, they ‘accidentally’ published a cartoon in which he criticised the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The resulting uproar […]

  2. The Standard Week: 26 September – 3 October

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 8:07 pm, October 3rd, 2008 -  31 comments
    Categories: standard week
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    So, there’s no articles on Key in this edition of the Standard Week. I know! Hardly believable. But there’s a reason for that. After his dodgy Tranzrail dealings came to light last week, Key has been trying to keep himself out of the media except for the most soft-news photo ops (item: ‘Key feels sorry for sick child’, item: […]

  3. Video: Why vote? Watch this

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 3:15 pm, October 3rd, 2008 -  3 comments
    Categories: election 2008, us politics, youtube
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    We’ve seen the work of Declare Yourself before. Their message is aimed at voters in the US but the call to engage and get involved resonates just as strongly for us here. This time some big names are promoting the message to get involved including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston and Ellen DeGeneres (others whose faces […]

  4. Wage gap decreasing thanks to pro-worker policies

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 12:05 pm, October 3rd, 2008 -  36 comments
    Categories: economy, election 2008, labour, national, wages, workers' rights
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      As The Standard first reported on April 1 and Radio New Zealand picked up today, Treasury figures show that the wage gap between Australia and New Zealand increased 50% under National in the 1990s and has decreased moderately under Labour since then. Now, a lot of our readers simply won’t want to believe that […]

  5. Nats’ ‘NZ sucks’ campaign vs the facts

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 1:45 am, October 1st, 2008 -  69 comments
    Categories: election 2008, national
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    08wire produces some of the most well-thought out and best argued pieces on the blogosphere, as well as great videos. Well, I know what to do when I see gold  – thief it. From 08wires’ post, here’s a table of arguments that comprise National’s ‘New Zealand sucks’ campaign and how they stack up against the facts: (sources) I […]

  6. Take on Key

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 11:20 am, September 29th, 2008 -  6 comments
    Categories: john key, slippery, youtube
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    Greeenwoman has done it again, another brilliant video on Key using a classic music video:  

  7. Friday fun

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 3:48 pm, September 26th, 2008 -  12 comments
    Categories: humour, youtube
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    A friend just sent me this Christian ska band performing “Jesus is my friend.” I think it goes without saying: Once I tried to run I tried to run and hide But Jesus came and found me And he touched me down inside He is like a Mountie He always gets his man And he’ll […]

  8. Sarah Palin on CBS News

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 1:51 pm, September 26th, 2008 -  35 comments
    Categories: International
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    Apologies for the ad on the start of this but what follows is worth seeing. (Hat-tip: Boing Boing) [lprent: removed cbs clip because it seems to be trying to install something on client machines. Replaced with a youtube video. She is an foreign policy idiot.]

  9. The hoax revealed?

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 9:16 am, September 25th, 2008 -  23 comments
    Categories: climate change, humour, youtube
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    Incredibly, leading rightwingers including John Key, Maurice Williamson, Lockwood Smith, Rodney Hide, and Roger Kerr still don’t accept the overwhelming evidence for climate change. A cynic would say that’s just because it’s in their interests to engage in this wishful thinking. But maybe that’s too harsh, maybe they’ve just been suckered in by sophisicated marketing, like this: [hattip […]

  10. Right Court: charges don’t match the facts

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 5:51 pm, September 24th, 2008 -  33 comments
    Categories: national, youtube
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    [more great work from 08wire]

  11. Diversion tactics

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 1:28 pm, September 24th, 2008 -  87 comments
    Categories: corruption, election 2008, john key, national, slippery
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    Key’s three defences on the share scandal are ‘no-one asked how many shares I had’, ‘it didn’t matter how many shares I had’, and ‘Labour is spending all their time researching me’. It’s classic distraction stuff. Let’s break it down. ‘No-one asked me how many shares I had’ – Yes, Fran Mold did on Monday […]

  12. Credit where it’s due

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 12:13 pm, September 24th, 2008 -  28 comments
    Categories: election 2008, john key, national
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    I’m usually no fan of Paul Henry as an interviewer but I’m prepared to give credit where it’s due. He certainly didn’t let John Key off the hook this morning on Breakfast. Was tempted to edit it down a bit but it’s worth watching the full thing. HENRY: “Well it’s not going well is it? […]

  13. John’s lying eyes

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 4:35 pm, September 23rd, 2008 -  18 comments
    Categories: corruption, humour, john key, youtube
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    All it takes is Youtube, some video editing software, and imagination to make great vids, as this video we have just been sent from ‘johnnyfivestrive’ shows:

  14. John Key on honesty

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 4:09 pm, September 23rd, 2008 -  28 comments
    Categories: john key, Media, youtube
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    At the height of the Peters affair when John Key was trying to make political capital out of the PM’s statement that she had known about the Glenn donation to NZ First since February, Paul Henry asked Key about his own honesty. Here’s the exchange: Henry: Do you promise you will never do that if […]

  15. One News footage

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 11:58 am, September 23rd, 2008 -  51 comments
    Categories: corruption, john key, Media, youtube
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    For those who missed it, here’s the video from last night’s One News investigation into John Key’s TranzRail dealings. The first clip details Key’s abuse of his positition as an MP for personal financial gain, and the second clip has him lying about his shareholding, then quickly correcting himself when he realises he’s been busted.

  16. Derailing the issue

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 11:30 pm, September 22nd, 2008 -  27 comments
    Categories: john key, spin
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    National has released their statement about John Key’s shady dealings in Tranzrail shares and unsurprisingly it’s another attempt at misdirection. As I’ve said in the past, this is a tried and true Crosby Textor technique designed to take the heat out of a negative story by directing attention elsewhere until the story dies down. It […]

  17. Franks and teh gays

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 5:47 pm, September 22nd, 2008 -  85 comments
    Categories: Social issues
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    National’s candidate for Wellington Central, Stephen Franks, is having a wee cry on his blog today over Agenda’s decision to air that embarrassing Youtube clip where he complains about “grumpy Christians and whining gays” and compares civil unions to marrying your dog. Apparently he’s been “cited out of context” by “the militant gay media” and […]

  18. Why the polls suck.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 6:49 pm, September 20th, 2008 -  34 comments
    Categories: polls
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    Newswire have a new poll “Is it a done deal? What the polls don’t tell us” which makes for some interesting reading. It was a limited poll done around Wellington on Monday using a true random polling technique. It also reported all of the figures including the numbers for which there was no answer. As […]

  19. Key on scrapping four weeks annual leave

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 11:15 am, September 18th, 2008 -  24 comments
    Categories: john key, same old national, workers' rights
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    Thanks to the wonders of Scoopit I’ve just come across this old TVNZ footage of John Key’s first day as National’s finance spokesman. It’s interesting to see where his economic priorities lay: The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? [It’s worth noting that this isn’t some aberration limited to John Key […]

  20. Video: health policy like you’ve never seen it

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 4:02 pm, September 16th, 2008 -  39 comments
    Categories: health, humour, youtube
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    Fair to say this is video is pretty much out there…

  21. Nothing to Hide? + more moaning

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 3:50 pm, September 15th, 2008 -  46 comments
    Categories: act, election 2008, election funding, Media
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    Prime is running a series of interviews every Sunday until the election with the leader of each party in Parliament, starting with Rodney Hide last night. It was surprisingly good. Hosted by Bill Ralston with a panel of Barry Soper, Audrey Young, and Colin Espiner, some good questions were asked and Hide himself was good […]

  22. Video: Slippery as a snake

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 2:16 pm, September 15th, 2008 -  30 comments
    Categories: election 2008, humour, youtube
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    08 wire are staying on the case – coming to a screen near you:

  23. No policy?

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 2:11 pm, September 14th, 2008 -  20 comments
    Categories: humour, national
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    A reader just sent us the screenshot below with the attached explanation: Thought I should start to read up on some of the content from parties involved – from their own websites of course.  Mainly to educate myself as a voter. National party site – loaded up, but then Firefox tells me the flash script […]

  24. Negative vs dirty

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 7:13 pm, September 13th, 2008 -  69 comments
    Categories: election 2008
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    There’s an important difference between negative campaigning and dirty tricks but it already seems the two are getting confused in the media. Negative campaigning is saying bad things about your opponent that are at least arguably true (eg Clark saying Key was like a tourist at the South Auckland markets). Dirty campaigning is knowingly telling […]

  25. Election date to be announced

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 11:57 am, September 12th, 2008 -  75 comments
    Categories: election 2008
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    So, Helen Clark is expected to announce the election date at 12.30. $20 says it’s November 8. UPDATE: The 8th it is. I’ll be collecting my $20 off each of you in due course. Full text of the speech over the break: PM’s announcement on the 2008 General Election I have called this press conference […]

  26. National on student loans

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 12:57 pm, September 11th, 2008 -  9 comments
    Categories: same old national, youtube
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  27. Video: Take aim and wave goodbye

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 10:29 am, September 11th, 2008 -  7 comments
    Categories: humour, national, youtube
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    Is this our first real Youtube election? 08wire is doing its bit with another new video:

  28. Video: Nats head in sand on environment

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 4:55 pm, September 9th, 2008 -  48 comments
    Categories: climate change, national, youtube
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    Boosting their green credentials is not proving as straightforward as National would like, as this video that’s doing the rounds shows.

  29. Video repeat: Leaking Hollow Man

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 11:42 am, September 9th, 2008 -  1 comment
    Categories: national, youtube
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    Apologies if you’ve seen this before – but I had a reader request a replay.

  30. Political Funding – Have your say (eventually).

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:45 am, September 8th, 2008 -  8 comments
    Categories: election funding
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    In 1993, the then National government reluctantly implemented the MMP system by putting in the Electoral Act 1993. This was an act that had some serious flaws, some of which were fixed in the Electoral Finance Act of 2008. One of the Electoral Act’s innovations appeared to be designed to make sure that the true […]

  31. Shambles

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 10:08 am, September 5th, 2008 -  29 comments
    Categories: election 2008, Environment, national
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    The leaks from within the National camp just keep on coming. Last night Trevor Mallard had the privilege of releasing National’s environment policy on 3 News thanks to a leak from the inside, destroying National’s planned policy launch on Saturday and exposing serious divisions within the party. From this leak we can tell there’s either […]

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