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Feb 9, 2012, 12:31 am
As a Herald reader notes:-
Never before in the history of mankind has such a monumentally galactic ego done so little for a country in such a long period of time.
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Feb 8, 2012, 11:59 pm
This man is a functioning sociopath of the highest order; how and why this malevolent force got back into the House is a shameful stain on the people of NZ.
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Feb 5, 2012, 1:15 am
The Overseas Investment Office publishes some useful statistics. The following table reflects these.
Sales of freehold land – by calendar year
Hectare
Hectare
2011
Net Land
68,054
Gross
130,646
2010
Net Land
17,040
Gross
111,014
2009
Net Land
22,345
Gross
265,266
2008
Net Land
13,842
Gross
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Feb 3, 2012, 8:21 pm
Given comments made about some in NZ being not unlike the KKK with their attitudes, Adam thought it might be timely to feature the immortal Billie Holiday’s classic blues Strange Fruit
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Feb 3, 2012, 4:34 pm
The other day Adam pointed out the hypocrisy and racism inherent in welcoming James Cameron, but being anti-Chinese.
Adam wrote:-
NZ is a disgrace on this issue, the intolerance and racial hatred is obnoxious and disgusting. The message to the world on this, is white OK, yellow not wanted. Now we ... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 4:25 pm
The other day Adam blogged about a rather unpleasant cartoon, re the Crafar Farms farrago, penned by Tom Scott. Interestingly this cartoon is not on line though subsequent ones are.
Unfazed Adam has located a copy of the Dominion Post in hard copy so he can now show you what Fairafx have not put up... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 1:23 am
The Crafar farms issue gets more abhorent by the day.
Talkback hosts continue to incite wingnuts and nutjobs. Media generally takes a biased, anti-Chinese line, but ignores hypocritical Maori attitudes and fails, in the main, to actaully look at the issue on a rational basis. Cartoonists, especiall... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 9:33 pm
Today’s Tom Scott cartoon in the Dominion Post is an unpleasant take on the Crafar farms. unfortunately does not appear to be on line as yet.
it shows a frog commenting that the effluent is now sweet and sour and wondering who the new owners are.
Given the undertakings from Shanghai Pengxin and ... Comment - Like
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Jan 28, 2012, 8:55 pm
A typical example of the ‘educated’ debate on the issue of the Crafar farms, seen in the comments on Sean Plunket’s extremely poor column yesterday.
scotty #6 09:07 am Jan 29 2012
jonkey has been based off shore for 17 years,once the damage is complete he will fly back to his mansion... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 7:49 pm
Oh dear, barely has Caspar donned the leadership mantle of Labour than his inexperience is revealed. David “saviour of 50 milion in his own lunchtime’ Shearer is quoted at Stuff as stating the approval of the Shanghai Pengxin bid for the Crafar farms is:-
“This latest decision will be a massi... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 6:44 pm
In a post at The Stranded, Redlogix has a diatribe about Fran O’Sullivan’s excellent Herald article this morning.
The post soon degenerates into a tirade against the government, with a good dose of Key Derangement Syndrome, finishing with this ‘gem’
Anyone now doubt what Key is and more im... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 12:42 am
The above characteristics, which are it seems the key elements in the thinking of many New Zealanders, are fully displayed in the comments made in the NZ Herald’s Your Views on the Crafar Farms decision.
Many seem to hate all foreigners, the majority are out of touch with any form of economic rea... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2011, 1:06 am
Drawing upon the immortal Gibert & Sullivan operetta, The Mikado, where the ‘patter song’ was about those who would not be missed if dispensed with, via the executioners block. Adam has some thoughts in a NZ context:-
Winston Peters
Trevor Mallard
The entire crew at The Standard
Da... Comment - Like
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Dec 26, 2011, 6:35 pm
Which blogging legend, in his mirror’s view, wrote this drivel:-
” we revel in a year of media banality and political apathy as the country slowly faces the collapse of the entire neo liberal Washington consensus hegemonic structure with all the awareness of a brain dead coma patient.”
T... Comment - Like
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Dec 23, 2011, 7:50 pm
Thanks to all my readers and commenters.
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Dec 18, 2011, 1:06 am
Whilst not converted to their viewpoint, Adam has a liking for their looking at foreign affairs as a Global Affairs issue as Kennedy Graham writes thoughtfully Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2011, 6:42 pm
Trevor Mallard has been blogging about how the number of Ministers appointed by John Key is ridiculous, to some extent Adam agrees, but let us look at the Ministry as of November 2005, just after H1 was returned for the third time:-
1 Rt Hon Helen Clark
Prime Minister
Minister for Arts, Culture a... Comment - Like
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Dec 17, 2011, 5:37 pm
The previous post showed the Helengnomes en masse, in caucus, but here we have a rare picture of one, unmasked, in it’s native habitat, warts and all:-
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Dec 16, 2011, 8:52 pm
Adam really enjoyed the sobriquet coined by Cactus Kate and thinks it highly appropriate.
The prevalence of these people in Shearer’s regime is disturbing
High are the Helengnomes caucusing, as caught by a fearless snapper:- Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2011, 8:40 pm
Who is Jacinda? what is she,
That all the left commends her?
Toothy, stubborn, and foolish is she;
The Helen such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.
Then to Jacinda let us sing,
That Jacinda is ascending;
She excels each Cunlif... Comment - Like
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Dec 16, 2011, 7:57 pm
An interesting article from the Daily Telegraph on how a group of British parents determined to improve their childrens education have established a school to be run, on a profit basis, by a Swedish company.
Note a Swedish company from that bastion of progressive socialism,
IES chain, meanwhile, h... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2011, 1:12 am
The immortal Queen with Another One Bites The Dust and with 6 for 40 totally appropriate Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2011, 12:31 am
Goff has been watching the Mallard too much because its that type of attack-dog behaviour most people are sick of. Goff is simply not Prime Ministerial material. He was embarassing to watch. Although Key may have been frustrated by Goffs rants, he was able to for the most part act like an adult ra... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 6:48 pm
Last night Phil Goff was reported as saying in the TVNZ leader’s debate:-
Mr Goff said there was never a time when a politician should lie
This is the Phil Goff who as noted by John Armstrong, commented on in a recent post by Adam,
spouts fiction.
The Phil Goff who claims National inherited su... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 9:54 pm
Based on a NZ Herald report it appears Maori Party ambitions extend to vetoing foreign investment and effectively saying who entrepreneurs and investors can sell to and at what price.
This is outrageous. Sharples is being racist with this idea.
Perhaps Mr Key might show some balls and stamp on thi... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2011, 7:43 pm
Under National’s watch, we have gone from a surplus three years ago to an $18 billion deficit this year. We must pay back our debt and live within our means.
Phil Goff in his policy on savings.
Yet whilst factually correct it omits to point out, amongst other matters:-
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Oct 29, 2011, 11:52 pm
With his reference to sweat, blood and tears
“It’s certainly not to denigrate the airline – we sweated blood and tears over Air New Zealand, bought it back for New Zealand, got it back on its feet and we don’t want to see this National Government hock it off.”
in the spat over the Labour... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 5:26 pm
It can’t be that hard to put on a display of balls when there’s no danger of having them cut off.
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Oct 29, 2011, 12:53 am
As MacDoctor pointed out, re Adam’s prior post, there is no rationality to Phil Goff and Labour’s argument about partial asset sales.
I confess I was highly amused by the cheek of Labour using Air New Zealand. As you point out, Labour was partly responsible for their near-demise. In addition,... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 9:06 pm
Whaleoil alerted Adam to the spat between Rob Fyfe of Air NZ and Goofy over a Labour advert using the Air NZ koru symbol. The Whaleoil post and a follow up post and a NZ Herald piece detail the issue.
What really annoyed Adam about this though was this comment reported in NZ Herald:-
Mr Goff said ... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 8:42 pm
No doubt tofmake up for Brian Rudman pouring scorn on Len Brown yesterday, the NZ Herald runs another Bernard Orsman article on the world’s greatest mayor. Hagiography at it’ s best.
Vomit inducing tripe of the worst kind. Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 7:12 pm
Fran O’Sullivan denounces Goff’s testicular fortitude as a mirage, pointing out that the so called ‘balls’ is in fact a wimping out .
Indeed Rod Emmerson sums it up rather pointedly:-
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Oct 28, 2011, 5:33 pm
This blog feature has been missing for a while, but it is returning.
As a start this quote is apposite given Adam’s previous post and Phil Goff’s re-writing of history.
Adam pointed out in his preceding post how Audrey Young had, in 2008, exposed Cullen’s profligate spend up. Given Goff’s ... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 4:02 pm
Of course this is a deliberate misquote of an old saying, but then it seemed very apt given recent remarks (mis-speaks to use a Clintonism) by Phil Goff, as noted by John Armstrong, :-
After Tuesday’s fiscal update, Phil Goff claimed that had it not been for Labour’s previous “careful managem... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2011, 1:32 am
Brain Rudman, NZ Herald columnist, with whom Adam is rarely, if ever, in agreement has a very negative article about Auckland Mayor Len Brown (link not working )
Rudman is not happy about Brown’s commitment to heritage issues:-
a month ago, he was enthusing about the need to take better care of ... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2011, 9:51 pm
The media get ever more sloppy. An article on the death of Sir Frank Holmes at Stuff, repeatedly refers to Mr Holmes. Sloppy and it is disrespectful.
Do newspapers not have properly trained staff anymore? Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 8:38 pm
1. All the armchair salvage experts
2. The self righteous Greens with their sanctimonious pronouncements
3. Labour and their back to the future policies
4. Paul Holmes, who on Q&A last Sunday seemed to be channeling the screeching Mary Wilson from Radio Pravda when questioning Steven Joyce
5. Na... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 6:47 pm
Thank heavens the RWC is ending.
Our mediocre media can stop hyperventilating over rugby and writing nonsense stories. Yet another example being on the front page of the DomPost today
Four million of us are holding our breath.
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Oct 2, 2011, 12:43 am
As NZ mourns the premature demise of a favourite son from the RWC, the PM John Key promises that his government will do everything possible to keep this tragedy at the forefront of New Zealanders minds for as long as it takes to bury the political impact of the debt downgrade. If this means that we ... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 7:27 pm
Sometimes Adam is asked why he is so negative about NZ media. Well folks here is another example of why, from NZ Herald web-site:-
Gregor Paul: A nation heartbroken at Carter’s injury
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Oct 1, 2011, 6:40 pm
Red Alert has an informative notice as to why a comment might not be appearing on the blog. This is reproduced below:-
There are generally three reasons that you comment doesn’t appear:
It’s the first time you’ve commented – first time comments are held in a queue until they’re approved ... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 2:41 am
Mike Williams writing at Pundit takes a droll look at Don Brash and the goings on at ACT.
The concept of the vengeful Don exacting utu through his ACT takeover had Adam smiling
On the other hand perhaps it is the case of one fantasist, Williams looking at another one, Brash. Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 10:29 pm
1 The IRB and their high handed attitude, The fine for the wrong mouth guard for the Samoan, whilst letting England off ball manipulation was the last straw.
2 What passes for programming at TVNZ
3 Wall to Wall Masterchef on TVNZ
4 Media bias
5 Valerie Morse and her protestations of innocence
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Sep 30, 2011, 9:11 pm
Earlier this week Adam posted an item entitled ‘Interesting Takes on Democracy’. It is clear that the attitudes espoused by Darien Fenton are held by at least one other Labour MP, Louisa Wall. The revisit of the issue was prompted by today’s scathing NZ Herald editorial which condemned Ms Fent... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 2:00 am
Hell there are many. Failure to win Lotto, etc but in this category without a doubt the EPIC FAIL that is Clare Curran, wins.
Clare offered a lot of promise with her professed desire for transparency and opensess in politics generally.
Yet recently she has been the leader of the thought stiflers o... Comment - Like
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