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Observations: August 2009

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Tuesday, August 11, 2009. I have to say that young Keisha Castle-Hughes is a fine wee actress. She's one of three kiwi actresses brought on TV lately by Greenpeace to convince New Zealanders. That we need to sign up to cut GhG. Emissions by 40% by 2020. Right at the end Keisha gives us a bit of pure Magnum to get our attention. Emissions have grown 12% since 1990 for one simple reason. We added 800,000 more people to the population. Tha...Guard...

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Observations: October 2009

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Thursday, October 1, 2009. Online auctions, feedback and monopoly. One of the fascinating things about the online world is the way it creates monopolies. Almost anyone in the world with access to the internet can create an online auction site. All you need is a web hosting account with Fantastico and its easy to create an auction site. Of course you will be very lonely on. Because everyone else is there! It began with taking telephone numbers o...

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Observations: April 2009

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Put the phone back on the hook for Ahmadinejad. The most annoying thing about dangerous and evil men is that there is always a sliver of truth in what they say. And it is that sliver which festers under the skins of the susceptible and erupts into the deadly diseases of hate and intolerance. By Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Or the threat that Ahmadinejad's. Unfortunately for Israel's defenders there is rather a...

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Observations: December 2009

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Monday, December 7, 2009. Catching up with Australia. New Zealanders have a little brother relationship with the continent sized nation next door. We feel smaller and less confident. We hate it when they beat us at sports and we we hate it that they have warmer weather and a bigger economy. But what we really hate is that Australia is so much richer in terms of GNP/Capita than we are. No fair" we cry. How can we catch up? Now it certainly is tr...

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Observations: October 2008

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Tuesday, October 7, 2008. Bullshit And The End of Economics (as we know it). The slow tottering collapse of the global credit dominoes is so completely similar to the slow motion destruction of wealth that occurred between 1929 and 1932 that it leaves one awestruck at the scale and complexity of the problem now confronting our world. Its a technique that requires his very Hungarian capacity for paranoia, self analysis and honesty. As he say...

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Observations: December 2011

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Tuesday, December 20, 2011. Up the river without a paddle. Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au. I am the river, the river is me. National's one seat victory at New Zealand's latest general election. Was portrayed by the opposition Labour Party as being all about asset sales. Knowing that the policy was far from popular. While the generally underpaid (and consequently left-leaning) media have focused on the rise of David Shearer. Because the role of r...

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Observations: September 2008

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Wednesday, September 10, 2008. It's the highest court in the land. And yet the withering light of day brought to bear by businessman Owen Glenn in front of the privileges committee yesterday has revealed a pit of slimy things desperately slithering for the protective obscurantism of the very privileges parliament rests on. The problem is who are ya gonna sue? And which court would hear the case? Well its about time that it bloody well did!

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Observations: Dear Mr Grocer get a fair deal for embodied carbon in Paris or don't agree to anything.

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Dear Mr Grocer get a fair deal for embodied carbon in Paris or don't agree to anything. New Zealand's climate change Minister Tim Grocer is currently collecting input. From New Zealanders on what he should take to the Paris climate change talks in December. In Copenhagen the Zimbabwean contingent. And Europe's holier than thou impression in the climate change stakes is pretty questionable too. It's much vaunted carb...

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Observations: February 2009

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Observations of New Zealand public life, events and musings. Tuesday, February 24, 2009. The long expected resignation of the Greens female co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons brings to an end an extraordinary chapter in New Zealand's political history. For Jeanette and the late Rod Donald were two of the most effective political leaders this country has ever seen. It was in this environment that Rod Donald, acting as a Values Sleeper, began a campaign to introduce proportional representation and it is to the ...