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IS BRENDAN O'DONOVAN MAD?

IS BRENDAN O'DONOVAN MAD?

Westpac's chief economist Brendan O'Donovan is a clown. In a less gentle age he would have been held in stocks in the public square...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, December 30, 2010 3 comments
Labels: brendon o'donovan, economy, westpac
THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW

THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW

I am intending to write a post on the CTU's continued allegiance to the dismal Labour Party but that will have to wait for another day a...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2 comments
Labels: ashes to ashes, books, jerome k. jerome, television
READ IN RUSSIA

READ IN RUSSIA

Normally the most hits this humble blog receives are obviously from New Zealand based readers. Although I recall that a couple of years I ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, December 27, 2010 0 comments
Labels: media, russia today, television
WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN ELECTION MAKES

WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN ELECTION MAKES

Christchurch was yesterday hit by a series of aftershocks which did more damage to already severely damaged buildings, saw a cordon tempor...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, December 27, 2010 3 comments
Labels: earthquake, sideshow bob
MERRY XMAS, THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING

MERRY XMAS, THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING

The New Zealand economy is in a state of collapse. The economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the September quarter - and that follows just a ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, December 24, 2010 0 comments
Labels: austerity, economy, recession
ANOTHER  REASON NOT TO WATCH TVNZ OR TV3

ANOTHER REASON NOT TO WATCH TVNZ OR TV3

Normally I use the 'Media Clown' column to dump on New Zealand's dizzying array of right wing media clowns. But today I am throw...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, December 23, 2010 8 comments
Labels: .keiser, media, RT, television
KNOCKING ON HISTORY'S DOOR

KNOCKING ON HISTORY'S DOOR

In just a few days it will be 2011 and the vicious and unrelenting war being waged by capital and its governments against ordinary peop...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 0 comments
Labels: austerity, capitalism, marxism, socialism, trotsky
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DOWNLOAD THE WIKILEAKS NZ CABLES

I'm not sure how widely available this material is, but Bryce Edwards has helpfully posted a link to a 613 page PDF of all the recen...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, December 20, 2010 0 comments
Labels: wikileaks
WIKILEAKS CATCHES OUT KEY AND MCCULLY

WIKILEAKS CATCHES OUT KEY AND MCCULLY

The Wikileak cables have revealed that the Government have been running two different polices on Tibet. One policy - the real policy - ha...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, December 19, 2010 0 comments
Labels: china, john key. murray mccully, tibet, wikileaks
IT GOES ONE AT A TIME

IT GOES ONE AT A TIME

President Barack Obama visited Trish Kahle's hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina recently. Despite a promise to bring 'change...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, December 18, 2010 0 comments
Labels: barack obama, united states
MARRYATT MISSES OUT

MARRYATT MISSES OUT

Three out of four ain't bad. I predicted that Sideshow Bob and his faithful followers, Barry Corbett and Sue Wells, would be re-appoint...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, December 17, 2010 1 comments
Labels: barry corbett, CCHL, sideshow bob, sue wells, tim carter, tony marryatt
CIVIL DEFENCE CRITICISES BOB'S MEDIA ANTICS

CIVIL DEFENCE CRITICISES BOB'S MEDIA ANTICS

We now learn that Civil Defence weren't exactly thrilled with Sideshow Bob's media antics in the immediate aftermath of the Septembe...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 0 comments
Labels: civil defence, earthquake, sideshow bob
BOB IS MEDIA CLOWN OF THE YEAR!

BOB IS MEDIA CLOWN OF THE YEAR!

Last year TVNZ's Paul Henry won my inaugural Media Clown of the Year Award by the proverbial country mile, thanks to his ridiculing of ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2 comments
Labels: michael laws, paul henry, sideshow bob
IT STOPPED BEFORE IT STARTED

IT STOPPED BEFORE IT STARTED

We head into an election year faced with the prospect, in the light of the deficit blowout, of even more severe austerity measures. No priz...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 0 comments
Labels: capitalism, economics, neoliberalism
CHARLIE AND CAMILLA'S BOGUS JOURNEY!

CHARLIE AND CAMILLA'S BOGUS JOURNEY!

TVNZ's UK reporter Paul Hobbs was aghast by the massive student protest in old London town - against the tripling of tuition fees an...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, December 11, 2010 0 comments
Labels: austerity, britain, protests, students
RIGGED APPOINTMENTS AND GRAVY TRAINS

RIGGED APPOINTMENTS AND GRAVY TRAINS

Despite promising to be a more transparent and all-embracing Christchurch mayor, it hasn't taken Sideshow Bob long to revert to type. H...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, December 09, 2010 0 comments
Labels: sideshow bob, sue wells, tony marryatt
ASSANGE WANTED FOR 'HAVING SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM'

ASSANGE WANTED FOR 'HAVING SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM'

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the victim of a campaign of harassment and intimidation driven by the Obama administration. Assange has...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, December 08, 2010 0 comments
Labels: julian assange, wikileaks
A GOOD CORPORATE PRESIDENT

A GOOD CORPORATE PRESIDENT

Beware of so-called 'liberal' American president's bearing gifts. Step up Barack Obama, the 'man of the people', who pr...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, December 08, 2010 0 comments
Labels: barack obama, tax, united states
THE WAR AGAINST WIKILEAKS

THE WAR AGAINST WIKILEAKS

In January of this year the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an 'unfettered' internet and condemned all those who co...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, December 05, 2010 0 comments
Labels: julian assange, wikileaks
WHERE IS WIKILEAKS? HERE IT IS...

WHERE IS WIKILEAKS? HERE IT IS...

I've had a couple of emails from people who are getting increasingly frustrated because they cannot access Wikileaks.Not surprisingly, t...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, December 04, 2010 1 comments
Labels: wikileaks
WIKILEAKS LOSES WEB HOST

WIKILEAKS LOSES WEB HOST

It looks like Barack, Hillary and co are pulling out all the stops to disable Wikileaks. From the Huffington Post we read: New York — The w...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, December 02, 2010 0 comments
Labels: wikileaks
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