tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92599802011-12-15T15:33:09.665+13:00Thoughts on a disfunctional world.Kakarikinoreply@blogger.comBlogger4051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1140352148596839822006-02-20T01:24:00.000+13:002006-02-20T01:29:08.646+13:00

Yip folks, the discussion around whether to move to Word Press or not has been won by the Word Press team. A warm round of applause for them please. Yip, this site has now moved to www.bloggreen.wordpress.com, please update your links and bookmarks accordingly. I hope you like the new site, it's more blue than green but that's not a change in my politics, I assure you! The best bit is that I

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You Are Lightning Beautiful yet dangerous People will stop and watch you when you appear Even though you're capable of random violence You are best known for: your power Your dominant state: performingWhat Type of Weather Are You? Hat tip Span

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Nah, not at all. /sarcasm

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I'm thinking about moving from Blogger to Word Press. Any thoughts? Alternative suggestions?

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And the possums ironically ;) For those of you who don't already know I've been working for the Wilderness Society for the last few weeks, and slightly to my surprise, I'm loving it. In a way it's exactly the same as my last job, except without the bad bits! I get to spend my day standing on the street talking to people in the community about environmental issues that affect them. And that's

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Wow I just had one of the most amazing few days of my life on a trip to Canberra to visit the Tent Embassy. I was asked at the end of my time there what the highlight for me was. And I decided to share that further. The highlight was being given the opportunity to sit at the feet of elders and just listen. There are some truly amazing people involved in the campaign for Sovereignty in

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Sorry anyone who got sick of looking at boring old posts. Although the conversation around the top 10 list got interesting briefly. So the reason I've been absent from here is because I'm so bloody busy. Finally got some work working for the Wilderness Society which I'm absolutely loving. I get to spend all day outdoors talking to people about environmental and all sorts of other political

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Hat tip Span.

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I see Mr PC Eradication man questioning the Golden Bay volunteer fire brigade signing a written agreement with local iwi to respect tikanga. "I'm uneasy about the whole idea of a written protocol," he said. "It feels divisive, it separates people as opposed to bringing them together. These things ought to be resolved through dialogue." Mr Mapp said dialogue and sensitivity were "hugely

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Happy Birthday for yesterday to Albert Hoffman, whom we all know is the father of LSD. Mr Hoffman has just turned 100 which is pretty bloody impressive. Thanks for being a great chemist. xox

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I read today in The Age that Collingwood is to get a neighbourhood justice centre which includes a community representative on the magistrate selection panel. I'm not entirely sure how the judicial appointment process works here yet, but if it's anything like Aotearoa, they're appointed by the Attorney-General and is announced by a press release, which is rarely picked up by the media. So I see

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Tonight I decided to peruse the AM stations in Melbourne to see what I could find. While cruising through (searching for something in English, which was cool!) I heard a discussion about Wellington so I sat on that station for a bit. Now apparently (and this may not be big news to anyone else, but I'm not generally up with these kinds of things) the heart of Phar Lap is taking a visit to the

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The Melbourne Age reports that some billboards have been 'adjusted' in Melbourne. For those of you who don't live here the original ones were a source of entertainment to me. They were along the lines of "Attention fare evaders: you suck so much that we have to put notices up to tell you". And they sit quite nicely alongside the "Attention Passengers: If you see anything remotely suspicious,

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The Govt just announced the purchase of the Stonewall Block, a 121 hectare coastal property near Cape Palliser on the southern Wairarapa coast. Fully sick mate! Seriously, that is good news, there is some stunning coastline around there and it will be nice to see it protected. And secondly, the Karori Wildlife Santuary have just announced that their Hihi population has doubled in the last year

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Yay it's no longer 2005! Christ, what a year that was... So I spent NYE in the most wonderful place ever. Imagine sand dunes as far as the eye can see, not a single bit of civilisation anywhere and a soundsystem right in the middle; a killer crew of DJs and a small gathering of beautiful people dancing all night long. Aah :) So now I'm back and throwing myself back into life and all my

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Slowly integrating myself into the Australian blogosphere... Here's a couple more nice people blogs; Slackbastard and Broken Left Leg Oh and went down to Wilsons Prom the other day and saw a Koala and her baby!!! My cousin took a photo..

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More fun and games with the ol' Technorati search and I discover young Sam Bonner and his Socialist Free Haven. I'm impressed that someone that young is so politically aware. Pity about his analysis. But I was proud to be lumped in with Aaron Bhatnagar, Public Address, Tim Barnett and Tony Milne as the only blogs he doesn't like in this scary socialist world. For the benefit of Sam, I'd like

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Occaisionally I do a check on the ol Technorati to see who's been linking here and to see if anyone's actually discussing anything I've said. So I was quite surprised when I found this post over at Progressive Essays. Now I have to say, I am stunned and quite frankly offended at the gross assumption made by this person. I get an email one day from someone saying "hey, I've just got into the

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I just found this article on the Ausssie Greens site. It's a pretty good summary of the Green campaign in NZ during the election.

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Latest report from the fascist state of Australia. Last night they banned compulsory student unionism. That's right, banned it. No giving students the option or anything, just an outright ban. I think it's absolutely outright fucking outrageous, and I'm amazed the students of Australia haven't been more outraged by it all. The other piece of enlightened Australian news is that some federal

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As I posted a couple of days ago, I've been feeling a bit homesick. But I found a cure last night! Going to see my mates Cornerstone Roots play at the Northcote Social Club was so unbelievably cool! I spent the whole night grooving it out and I feel so much better now :) One of things I miss the most about being over here is what I would describe as the sound of home, and last night I got to

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As reported on frog Sue Bradford's Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill got drawn from the ballot today. That's the best bloody news I've heard in ages. As I've ranted about before, I think the idea of discriminating against someone based on their age is as abitrary as discriminating against someone based on what cuddles in between their thighs. I look forward to

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I received a letter in response today from the Speaker in regards to my queries about how the Parliamentary expenditure rules apply to the spunky new car that Rodney Hide has gotten himself. Her reply is as follows:7 December 2005 Dear ... I refer to your email from 1 December 2005 asking "…is using the parliamentary crest without the permission of the Speaker a breach of parliamentary

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I was sad to read that one of my favourite bloggers Ken Sain is retiring from blogging due to work demands. Well, aint that a shit? Thanks for all your info Ken. It was nice to have an easy access to information about what the US Greens are all about. Hope you get liberated some time. Good luck for the job. xox

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I just have to share this with the world... I really miss home. My whanau had a big gathering in the weekend to celebrate an important event and I was the only one missing. It was pretty hard for me. It was even harder this morning when I got sent some photos of all my whanau hanging out. But what just made things really hard was walking into the Kathmandu shop in Melbourne and they were

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Cool title huh? That's my average hourly wage since I got here. It's quite odd earning $40 an hour one moment and then $10 an hour the next. But it's better than nothing. I just hope the number of hours that contribute towards that figure increase themselves somewhat. I've found some pretty cool jobs to apply for and have applied for a number of jobs so far. I've got one in particular that

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West Papua Flag Originally uploaded by kakariki. Today is Independence Day in West Papua. For those of you who don't know, they have a rather Indonesian form of Independence, so fill in the gaps there. Or check out the PMA release for more info.

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I see Mr Hide has a new vehicle and he has gone and confused the masses by putting a Parliamentary Crest on it. Now, hmmm... The Parliamentary Crest (PC) is a registered image. It is registered to the Crown it can only be used for Parliamentary resources. So it can be used on letterheads and security badges and visitor stickers and all sorts of things like that. What it means is that the

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nternational Human Rights Day 2005 Rally STOP THE WAR ON HUMAN RIGHTS! Resist racism * Stop religious vilification * Defend civil liberties * Defend workers rights RALLY Details 1pm, Saturday December 10 State Library (After the rally finishes, come to a concert organised by Multicultural Arts Victoria at the old Melbourne Gaol - see below for more details). Human rights in Australia are

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You remember a while back I told you about my new guest map? Well, noone has clicked on it, which makes me feel sad. And when I say no-one I'm not counting the Bravenet Team, who had the decency to make an automatic pin on it ;) Please scroll down to the button under the Last FM button and click on it. You will make me happy, and it will make you more attractive to members of the opposite sex

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Yeah I know, I've been slack. But I've been so bloody busy! I'm working hard out with the Black GST campaign. On Sunday night went to this awesome gig at the Spanish Club in Fitzroy. Met heaps of amazing people and had the most outrageous boogie that I've had since I've been here. It was a reggae/hip hop gig so I felt quite at home. I particularly recommend Combat Wombat if you're into

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Today I got to participate in my first action on the steps of Parliament in a country other than Aotearoa! I was dressed as a Powerful Owl along with a whole bunch of other native Australian animals and birds to present a postcard petition to the State Environment Minister on behalf of the Wilderness Society. It was fun! For those of you who aren't up to speed with what's going on in Victoria,

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Celebration of the life of Rod Donald The Melbourne-based Aotearoa Greens would like to invite all Victoria Greens, ex-pat kiwis and other environmentalists to celebrate the life of Rod Donald MP. Rod Donald was Co-Leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and passed away suddenly on the 6th of November. Rod was well-known to many Australians as a result of his many campaigning visits

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Amongst all of the exceptionally cool things I've found out about and am getting involved with since I've arrived in Melbourne is the Black GST crew. As you all know the Stolenwealth Games is on in Melbourne next year and this crew is using this wonderful event to highlight the cost to indigenous people the spread of the Commonwealth has been. Black GST have got heaps of cool stuff planned and

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A friend pointed out Three Way Fight to me. It's pretty good. Got some quite good analysis of the French riots on there. I've been looking around a bit for some good analysis in english, cause you can never trust the media on that sort of thing. And most of what I've found has been in French, which I don't understand a word of. Except of course for the really useful words like menage a trois!

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I wrote this a few days ago but didn't manage to quite finish/proof it. Perceptions have changed a wee bit since coming to Melbourne, but a lot of it's still pretty valid. I really don't know what to make of this place. Actually I do. For the first time in my 'grown-up' life I get to see how great the effect of media is on the construction of understanding of reality. While I knew this and

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Before today the biggets protest I'd been in had about 8000 people in it. Two hundred and fifty thousand people is amazing. Check Kakariki Films soonish for footage. Wow.

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Yay I'm in Melbourne! I've been here for a couple of days now and it's HEAPS different to Sydney (thank goddess!). Except for the public transport. Now before I moved here heaps of people told me that I would love Melbourne because it had trams and other awesome public transport things like that. I thought Sydney was pretty cool cause you walk into a train station and there's a giant machine

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Dear TVNZ Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the live feed of Rod's funeral. Watching a funeral from an internet cafe in Bondi is a rather surreal experience, but it meant I could be there and for that I will always be greatful. Arohanui

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Rod Originally uploaded by kakariki.

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arrival Originally uploaded by kakariki. Found another couple of photos of Rod. This from one of Rod's most memorable public stunts.

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Cheeky bugger! Originally uploaded by kakariki.

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Oh that cheeky grin! Originally uploaded by kakariki.

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Rod and Jeanette Originally uploaded by kakariki.

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Rod and his team Originally uploaded by kakariki.

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I just wrote this big long post and then it got swallowed by the interwebby! It must be ASIO keeping an eye on me, they're pretty paranoid at the moment. Firstly, I want to thank all my friends for their emails and text messages of love, I wouldn't be coping if it wasn't for all that love. I did want to come home but I figured that Rod would call me a wimp, so instead I sat down and collated

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I think one of the hardest things about moving to another country is when you're not long gone and you hear the news of a friend or family members death. I was woken this morning by a phone call to inform me that Rod passed away last night. I honestly don't know how I feel about this yet. I have spent a good part of this morning in tears, mourning the loss of a very good friend and an

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Cause I'm leaving on a jet plane Don't know when I'll be be back again Gidday mates! This is my writing somewhere halfway between Hamilton and Sydney on board a delightfully smooth Freedom Air flight, drinking a cheeky wee Sauvignon Blanc, listening to Noam Chomsky (Post 911 Terrorism and the US, CBC Interview, 2002) and counting my blessings that I managed to be psychic enough to get the

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Damn I'm on a roll! Blogroll that is. I reorganised that lovely list down the side. I came to the conclusion that an abitrary list organisation was getting difficult to maintain and certain friends of mine kept fighting over their placing on my list. So it's now alphabetical. And I got rid of the Us Them thing cause that's a bit difficult to do as well. If you're not there and want to be

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And it's not my own this time! Check out Progressive Essays. Not entirely sure who this is but look forward to reading his/her/it's writing.

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OK I really can't sleep. But I got a Guest Map! If you scroll down the side to the end of my link list you'll see a wee button which takes you to it. Please tell me where y'all from! Cool.

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I've discovered something quite evil about not having a job. Apart from the fact you never know what bloody day it is, it quite seriously messes with your body clock. Take right now for example, I have to be up at 6.30 to drive to Auckland and I can't bloody sleep! This may have something to do with the fact that I spent the greater proportion of this last weekend drinking Lindauer, therefore

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And it's mine! Check out Kakariki Films /shameless self promotion

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Time for an explanation as to what the hell is going on in the life behind this blog. I'll give you a bit of context and answer DPF's post about blog fathers and I will not comment on the gendered language behind the family tree concept, lest I get attacked by the anti-PC brigade.. I started this blog a couple of years ago when I was finding myself getting very frustrated with the world around

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Check out Dean's cool thingies! Hattip Tony

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One of the nice things about Blogger profiles is that when people log in to make comments you can go to their blog and see what they have to say. And sometimes you find a gem! Like the art of the possible. What a nice blog! And I love finding bloggers with a similar sense of humour to mine and run by people who post more than me! Nice one smooth, you're on my links list now.

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So the National Party wants to eradicate Political Correctness. I'm sorry I'm struggling to take this one seriously but I will try. Now I believe that PC actually stands for Politeness and Courtesy, y'know being respectful to the people around you? Obviously the Nats have a major problem with this. So I suggest that they start by going through their entire policy book and replacing the words

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For those of you who missed it, Francis Till from the NBR wrote an extensive article critiquing the Green position on OSS, and it was, to put it nicely completely full of shit. Frog had a good go trashing the arguments and a number of the comments on that post are very interesting as well. Also this post from Russell Brown makes some good rebuttal points. But I want to add a couple of points.

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1130147551184056452005-10-24T22:44:00.000+13:002005-10-24T22:52:31.780+13:00

I'm in Tauranga at the moment soaking up the fantastic sun. People round here think it's cold, but compared to Wellington it's tropical! I haven't seen Winston, or Bob Clarkson, but did manage to squeeze in a visit to the hotel where that guy threatened to blow himself up if he didn't get to see Helen. It wasn't that exciting... But across the road is Bella Mia the Italian restaurant which I

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1129785074558547502005-10-20T17:58:00.000+13:002005-10-20T18:11:14.573+13:00

I'm in the middle of nowhere, neah neh neh neh neh!!!! But one of the downsides is that you miss out on some SERIOUSLY COOL protest action outside Te Papa. For those of you who missed it, the weapons conference was on at "Our Place" aka Te Papa and the Clown Army was out in force (Check Indy for details and photos). I am gutted I wasn't there, but so proud of the Welly crew! Well, I'm not

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1129532094595011832005-10-17T19:52:00.000+13:002005-10-17T19:54:54.610+13:00

Lets call this the "Labour/Progressive/NZ First/United Future Pedantic Semantics Government" or LPNZFUFPSG. Quite a lot more complicated than LPG but I'm sure you could still make a fuel out of it, if you ground them all up properly.

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1129527399234855102005-10-17T18:24:00.000+13:002005-10-17T18:36:39.250+13:00

One thing I can feel comfrotable about is the fact that we don't have a National-led Government. The thought of Don Brash cruising around the world representing this country did give me nightmares! But it isn't that wonderful. We now have two Ministers outside of Cabinet and outside of the Labour Party, Winston and Dunne. The full allocation of posts is as follows; Winston Peters picks up

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1129344230618021372005-10-15T15:25:00.000+13:002005-10-15T15:43:50.636+13:00

Yesterday some lucky punter (who happens to be from Corinda, Queensland, Australia, is using Win XP, Firefox and has a 1024x768 resolution monitor, but only stayed for 2 seconds!) was the 10,000th visitor to this website! How exciting! So big thank you to all of you out there who come and read what I have to say. It must be boring but I hope to entertain or inform you occaisionally. And at

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1129159066912903272005-10-13T12:13:00.000+13:002005-10-13T12:17:46.913+13:00

Got this one in the email and may be of interest to some of the young lefties out there: GREETINGS! I'm starting a group of Youth Podcasters. This would be the very first in Youth World. I am looking for partners for this endeavor. I hope everyone will have a chance and be interested in doing youth podcast. Basically, the main purpose of this is to hear the voice of the youth around the world,

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1129158821268476722005-10-13T12:12:00.000+13:002005-10-13T12:13:41.266+13:00

My friend Tony Milne has just started his own blog. Yay Tony! Here it is. Wish I was the devils spawn...

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1128815946907685242005-10-09T12:57:00.000+13:002005-10-09T12:59:06.923+13:00

Some of you will know that I'm involved in anti-fascist activism stuff. Now most of the people involved in SF, NF WS type stuff are particularly stupid and we take great pleasure in taking the piss out of them. But sometimes I wonder why we bother when they do SUCH A GREAT JOB OF IT THEMSELVES!!! Check this video out. I'm going to be chuckling about this one for days.

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1128542850769722572005-10-06T09:05:00.000+13:002005-10-06T09:07:30.796+13:00

My biggest biggest biggest ups to Fat Freddy's Drop for their success at the NZ Music Awards. That's the coolest news I've heard all week, and they totally deserve those awards. When I do my next thing (which shall be revealed soon...) I will certainly be taking that album with me and playing it to as many people as I can. Awesome mahi boys!

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Thanks to those of you who noticed my absence. I have had some personal stuff to deal with (aak! who let real life get in the way of my blogging habit!) and I was waiting for the specials to be counted before sharing my thoughts. Those of you who read this blog will probably guess how I am feeling now about the loss of Nandor from Parliament. I'm absolutely gutted. Not because the Greens have

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1127858365333230092005-09-28T09:25:00.000+12:002005-09-28T09:59:29.756+12:00

A friend sent me this via email today. I hope you may enjoy this marvellous spoof of the "Intelligent Design" movement in the USA, which is serving up this re-hashed version of Creationism and trying to force it into the school curriculum. Its new rival "Pastafarianism" is now sweeping the globe via the Internet. It seem to me a wonderful way to deal with Christian fundamentalist intolerance

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1127694818126720972005-09-26T12:32:00.000+12:002005-09-26T12:33:38.133+12:00

And boys that like fun games ;) Fun game!!

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Isn't it funny how on Blogger just above the text box is the 'recover post' link, this is kind of like a recovery post. So the election is finally over, sort of. And thank god the initial media frenzy around the potential government discussions hsa calmed down, I think they all finally figured out that when the politicians keep telling them that we won't know until the specials are out, they

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1127518394171786552005-09-24T11:04:00.000+12:002005-09-24T11:33:16.223+12:00

Congratulations to Mike Ward for winning the Supreme Award at the Wearable Art Awards last night. WOOOOHOOOO!!! Now I was hoping he would win a prize for this costume as it's pretty cool, but the Supreme Award YeHar! And I think Mike should take this award as not only recognistion of the masterpiece he has created but also his tireless commitment to the advocacy of the arts. Mike is not the

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Radical Youth welcome our new overlords. The spectacle that was the General election has been and gone, your obedient and doting youth are still as marginalized as ever. While we cannot vote we appreciate the fact that you who are so wise and noble are willing to make decisions for us. We also like the fact that you so intelligently restrict you're voting to once every three years, and don't

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126963927845944522005-09-18T01:30:00.000+12:002005-09-18T01:32:07.853+12:00

Tau Henare is back in Parliament. How weird is that? He is risen.

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So it's over 100% of votes counted and Labour has the majority. Here comes Helen for her speech... Yay thank you mainstream New Zealand! (although I would say fuck the mainstream, I'm part of a braided river). I am a wee bit sad that the Green vote has dropped a bit and the idea of parliament without Nandor does make me sad. But he's not gone yet and at least we're there! And I can't wait to

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126950236277452152005-09-17T21:41:00.000+12:002005-09-17T21:43:56.283+12:00

Yay this is getting better. Did have a few issues with the Greens being below 5% and the gap between the major two parties but went out for a bit and things got a whole lot better! And the one big surprise? Rodney's actually kicking ass! And Blumsky has conceded. yay! And we are now watching Jeanette's speech and the grin on her face has infected everyone in this room!! Damn she's wonderful.

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Tonight I will be reporting from the Green Party election party at Thistle Hall Cuba Street Wellington. We've been setting up here all afternoon and the place looks great! I certainly think no matter what happens in the polls we'll be rocking here tonight. So we're currently on 4.7% and smiling. There's a few people here and the bottles have been cracked... Til later.

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Tomorrow the people of Aotearoa will go to the polls to decide the fate of the nation for the next three years and in some policy areas, beyond that. This campaign has been the closest in my memory and probably the dirtiest. It has been long and gruelling and very tiring. But the highlight for me has been talking to people on the street and restoring my faith that this country is bursting with

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126758045922733612005-09-15T16:08:00.000+12:002005-09-15T16:20:46.233+12:00

But I did find it highly entertaining today while out campaigning to the lovely people in Wellington when some bogan started abusing us. We entered into friendly dialogue with the gentleman and it turned out he was wanting to vote for Don Brash because "he's the only one that will take us into war to defend the white race". Now with friends like that, who needs enemies?

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126738330015453652005-09-15T10:36:00.000+12:002005-09-15T10:52:10.056+12:00

Burn! Halliburton Gets Contract To Pry Gold Fillings From New Orleans Corpses' Teeth The Onion September 14, 2005 HOUSTON—On Tuesday, Halliburton received a $110 million no-bid government contract to pry the gold fillings from the mouths of deceased disaster victims in the New Orleans-Gulf Coast area. "We are proud to serve the government in this time of crisis by recovering valuable resources

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126670968156313132005-09-14T16:08:00.000+12:002005-09-14T16:09:28.156+12:00

Check this bid on TradeMe. "Third Party Insurance against a National Government - whats it worth to you?"

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Now if you were to wander over to the Green Party Tertiary Education campaign page you would notice something quite significant has happened to the debt counter. Yes folks, at lunchtime it hit $8 BILLION dollars. I went up to Victoria to check out HRH's visit and it was quite incredible. Labour got their shit together this time and had a parge bunch of supporters there with stacks of helium

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126507793145123912005-09-12T18:46:00.000+12:002005-09-12T18:49:53.153+12:00

FIRST ONLINE GLOBAL PARLIAMENTARY HEARING WILL FOCUS ON SPACE SECURITY www.e-parl.net Questions from parliamentarians, journalists and citizens welcome On September 14 the US Congress will be the scene for a new departure in international politics. A group of democratically elected legislators from ten countries will hold a joint parliamentary hearing, webcast live to enable participation

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Got forwarded this from a friend of mine and it did give me a wee chuckle or three ;) From SNAP! Radio Interviewer: SNAP! Radio can reveal with great pleasure that Don Brash's call for help to rid New Zealand of this wretched government has gone far and wide. In fact rather wider than he expected. I would like to welcome to the show the Corruptor of Souls, Bringer of Destruction, the Adversary

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126480462390790202005-09-12T11:13:00.000+12:002005-09-12T11:14:22.396+12:00

Frog has a link to a short flash animation where the Green man comes to life to protect our Nuclear-Free status. It's cute, check it out.

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I'm sick of talking about politics and I'm watching NZ Idol, so thought I'd share the pain with you all. Firstly, what the hell is up with Jessie? I was watching his performance thinking "Damn this is crap" and then all the judges just drooled all over him. What's up that? I hate to think what's coming that if Jessie was one of the best. Wait, the next guy is a little better, he has nice

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126399577751150492005-09-11T12:45:00.000+12:002005-09-11T12:46:17.753+12:00

I have really enjoyed the "12 reasons not to vote for..." series on Fighting Talk. And I must say, the latest contribution is the finest. Nice one Hamish.

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There's something really entertaining about the stupidity of Nazis. Obviously it's not entertaining when they hurt people, which is why some people keep a feckin close eye on them. But when certain idiots decide that it's OK to post details and photos of anti-racist activists online, they can't expect to get away with it too easily. I thoroughly recommend you read this summary of what was done

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126152235477637282005-09-08T16:01:00.000+12:002005-09-08T16:03:55.483+12:00

Or is the youth wages rate just laughable when you compare it to the very similar debate that was held when we abolished gender wage rates? "Why would I hire a woman, when I could get a man for the same rate?"

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This from two days ago:But National Party deputy leader Gerry Brownlee said this was nothing to do with the National Party. "We're not funding it, we don't know who those individuals are and we don't know what their motivation is but I think anybody who reads that pamphlet will find that pretty clear."

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126146598613422932005-09-08T14:28:00.000+12:002005-09-08T14:29:58.626+12:00

Got this email from United Future:Sadly, but perhaps predictably, the election has deteriorated into mudslinging and namecalling. United Future endeavours, for the most part successfully, to stay away from that territory but there comes a point when we need to respond. With that in mind my colleague Larry Baldock and myself have released the following letter to the media on Monday. It will be

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126135515248010112005-09-08T09:31:00.000+12:002005-09-08T11:25:15.326+12:00

They're all coming out of the wooodwork at the moment it seems. Firstly, we have to Bretherans funding smear leaflets. Feedback would show their leaflets are actually doing the Greens more good than harm. As for Brash refusing to answer questions about whether he knew about the leaflets in advance? Dumb, dumb, dumb. Although as I was typing this post, I was informed that Noelle from bFM has

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126045087057548502005-09-07T10:18:00.000+12:002005-09-07T10:18:07.063+12:00

Another billboard Originally uploaded by kakariki. A friend of mine sent me this one. Don't know who came up with it so I can't credit their genius. But prove it was you, and I'll credit it!But I really like this one. Good for an early morning cheer up!

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126044774964253352005-09-07T10:07:00.000+12:002005-09-07T10:12:54.973+12:00

I have to say (and yes I know I'm biased, but I've also got a background in art and design), that the Green advertising campaign is pretty feckin swish. Student media ads as follows: You'll have to get GreenSpin to see the TV ads, and Frog has the bNet ads. I particularly like the blah blah blah theme. Very clever!

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1126001471448965702005-09-06T21:52:00.000+12:002005-09-06T22:18:12.143+12:00

So there's one event every three years in New Zealand politics which just cannot be missed. Yes folks, the Aro Valley Community Meet The Candidate forum. And tonight was no let down. We had representatives from all parliamentary parties except for NZ First, plus the delightful presence of the Alliance, the Anti Capitalist Alliance, The Democrats, and the Libertarianz. I won't give you a blow

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1125960533486675212005-09-06T09:48:00.000+12:002005-09-06T10:48:53.546+12:00

Picture thankfully borrowed from Alan Gibson NZ Herald Who in their right mind would want one of these? Ick! And for the record, I really don't care who Winston thinks he's going to go with after the election. He won't get in anyway ;)

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Found this cool as website yesterday. It's called Get Green and was produced by the US Ad Council in the interests of raising awareness about important issues. So if you're wondering how you can make small differences in your own life to make a big difference to the life of this planet, check it out.

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Yesterday the Greens launched the first ever multimedia manifesto CD Rom, called Green Spin. It contains video, music, info about the Greens and their policies. The best bit about this CD is that it means you can listen to all of the Green MPs talking direct to you, without the spin. Nice one to all those that worked on it.

Kakarikinoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9259980.post-1125807644958407122005-09-04T15:34:00.000+12:002005-09-04T16:20:45.010+12:00

I'm sure you're all aware of the smear leaflet (if not, check out frog) I must congratulate Jeanette on her handling of this one. The Green reaction definitely shows a political maturing. In 1999 and 2002 there were a number of leaflets distributed about the Greens. My personal favourite was the leaflet distributed in Ohariu-Blemont about how the Greens would make kids smoke pot at school!

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