Mike Hosking brags about not crashing fast cars. Then crashes fast car. Evidence that God exists.
Thank goodness Mike is ok and thank goodness it happened to Mike.
New Zealand Politics
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Waiting For The Market’s Music To Stop
Everything now points to another such detonation being imminent. Pumped-up by the steady expansion of global liquidity the world’s stockmarkets have climbed to giddy and unprecedented heights. Over the last few weeks, however, the value of the stocks and shares traded on the world’s exchanges has fluctuated wildly. Such volatility, warns Pettifor, almost always precedes a catastrophic market crash.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Our ‘third world medical infrastructure in a first world country’
Is the National Party writing the news these days?
Everywhere I look I see nasty right wing hit job after nasty right wing hit job aimed at the small missteps made by our new Government get inflated into enormous mountains while real issues that impact the people who voted for us are minimised.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – What Thomas Piketty and Matthew Hooton (don’t) tell us about the Labour Coalition
Thomas Piketty has discovered that all post-war elections in France, UK and US have been won by one of two political parties with a small margin of victory in all cases. He has worked out that both two main rivals represent the 1% leaving the 99% unrepresented. He predicts that these twin capitalist parties will be replaced by two parties that essentially represent Wall St and Main St. He calls them “multiple elite parties”.
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Marama Davidson as new co-leader of Greens: NZ finally has its own flaxroots Corbyn & Sanders
Conventional wisdom is that the Greens need to pick up votes from National. The constant hunting for the mythical blue-green voter has haunted Green strategists because the compromises required to get National Party soccer mums to vote Green beyond the aesthetic of identifying as a Green supporter is simply too large to work.
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MUST READ: Russian Spy Drama Symptom of and Distraction From Bigger Geopolitical Play
I prefer to live in a country that makes its international relations decisions based on firm, independent evidence rather than speculation. Let’s not forget the rush to war based on allegations of Weapons of Mass Destruction. It doesn’t have to be ‘you’re either with us or you’re against us’, it can be a case of wait and see – at least until Wednesday when the UN Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons releases its report into the incident.
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The shallow narcissism of John Key
Key claiming his failed vanity project failing was his greatest regret reminds us all what a shallow narcissist he really was.
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Wait, what? You’re going to subpoena Clare Curran’s voicemail but you won’t subpoena a bloody war criminal? WTF???
The people of NZ deserve better media than this.
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Wait, what? National lied about the Earthquake rebuild as well?
Everywhere we look, the National Party underfunded and hollowed out every budget they could to create a false budget surplus to afford tax cuts.
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GUEST BLOG: Catherine Delahunty – Amendment to my AM Show blog – it’s even weirder than I thought
I stand by my blog content and if I was Amanda I would be a bit worried, how many other people might have thought she was Judith Collins? Does Judith endorse the random use of her comment?