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If anyone really believed that Phil Goff, a politician who has enthusiastically embraced neoliberalism throughout his parliamentary career,...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Saturday, January 30, 2010 1 comments
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SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 3

SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 3

Mayor Sideshow Bob normally never turns down a chance to get himself on television but he did today. Television One News wanted to asked h...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, January 29, 2010 0 comments
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HOWARD ZINN IS DEAD

HOWARD ZINN IS DEAD

I was sad to learn that Howard Zinn passed away today, aged 87. Zinn is the author of for A People's History of the United Stat...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, January 28, 2010 0 comments
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THE JOKE IS ON US

THE JOKE IS ON US

Between 1982 and the mid-1990s real wages fell in New Zealand some 25 percent and have never recovered. Wages today remain a massive 25 p...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: ctu, kate wilkinson, minimum wage, trevor mallard
WHY SO SILENT?

WHY SO SILENT?

Imagine if President George Bush, under cloak of providing 'humanitarian aid', sent some 20,000 military troops to Haiti in order t...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: barck obama, blogs, haiti
HOPELESS IN HAITI

HOPELESS IN HAITI

TV3's Mike McRoberts spent a week in Haiti and, like the rest of the New Zealand mainstream media, has resolutely ignored the fact tha...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, January 24, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: haiti, media, mike mcroberts, TV3
DOLE FIGURES RISE AGAIN

DOLE FIGURES RISE AGAIN

The Government have been peddling 'the recession is over' message for some time now and it must be disappointing for John Key and ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, January 22, 2010 0 comments
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SOMEONE TELL MIKE MCROBERTS - THERE'S A  MILITARY CLAMPDOWN HAPPENING IN HAITI

SOMEONE TELL MIKE MCROBERTS - THERE'S A MILITARY CLAMPDOWN HAPPENING IN HAITI

Although the New Zealand mainstream media continues to pretend otherwise, the American militarisation of Haiti is well under way. And it ha...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, January 21, 2010 1 comments
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Labels: haiti, maori television, media, mike mcroberts, TV3
WHY IS MIKE MCROBERTS IN HAITI?

WHY IS MIKE MCROBERTS IN HAITI?

TV3 like sending newsreader Mike McRoberts off to far-flung 'trouble spots' and this week the 'I've Been Everywhere Man&#...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 2 comments
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Labels: haiti, mike mcroberts, TV3
MEDIA DISHONESTY OVER HAITI

MEDIA DISHONESTY OVER HAITI

The New Zealand media's coverage of the Haiti disaster has been uniformly terrible and has failed to tell the full story about Haiti&...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, January 17, 2010 2 comments
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NEOLIBERALISM'S ROLE IN HAITI'S PLIGHT

NEOLIBERALISM'S ROLE IN HAITI'S PLIGHT

Peter Hallward looks at the not-so-natural factors that have contributed to the disaster in Haiti. Any large city in the world would ha...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, January 15, 2010 0 comments
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REJOINING THE WASHINGTON CLUB

REJOINING THE WASHINGTON CLUB

The New Zealand mainstream media has been almost celebratory that this country is hitching its wagon firmly to the foreign policy imperati...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, January 14, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: chris trotter, foreign policy, hillary clinton, muuray mcully
LET'S TALK ABOUT ME!

LET'S TALK ABOUT ME!

Cameron Slater of the Whale Oil blog says that he is breaking court suppression orders because there is a 'celebrity culture' at ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 0 comments
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GLENN INWOOD POSES AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL

GLENN INWOOD POSES AS GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL

Every time the mainstream media wants a opinion on behalf of the Japanese whaling industry they go to Glen Inwood - who, in 2000, was pres...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, January 10, 2010 0 comments
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PEOPLE POWER

PEOPLE POWER

In the end, no matter what the politicians and their allies believe, its people power that will win the world. Two high profile protest ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Sunday, January 10, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: ady gil, israel, murray mccully, whaling
THE ART OF PEN SPINNING

THE ART OF PEN SPINNING

Watching the Television One News the other night I couldn't help but notice how much newsreader Miriama Kamo enjoys playing with her ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, January 07, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: pen spinning, TV3, TVNZ
SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 2

SIDESHOW BOB AND 'THE HOUSE OF HORRORS' 2

You may recall Sideshow Bob grandstanding about the so-called 'House of Horrors' - the Christchurch house where the bodies of two ...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Thursday, January 07, 2010 1 comments
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WASTING TIME WITH GOOGLE

WASTING TIME WITH GOOGLE

Entirely in the spirit of holiday frivolity here's a few things you can do with Google if you feel like wasting some time. Enter one...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Tuesday, January 05, 2010 1 comments
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MORE RUBBISH FROM ENGLISH

MORE RUBBISH FROM ENGLISH

The Minister of Finance is presently on his summer holidays but his office have released his thoughts on the state on the New Zealand econo...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Monday, January 04, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: american economy, bill english, labour, neoliberalism
BLOOD MONEY

BLOOD MONEY

We're often reminded by our politicians of how important China supposedly is to New Zealand's economic health. It doesn't matt...

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Posted by Steven Cowan on Friday, January 01, 2010 0 comments
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Labels: china, free trade
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