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		<title>Whining John.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/whining-john/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last year a friend of mine who works in the media said to me that the press had turned on John Key over the Teapot Tape affair. Key&#8217;s attempt to have the photographer prosecuted, following on his defamatory and/or contemptuous treatment of individual members of the press corps, was seen as the last straw. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Against &#8220;courageous corruption&#8221; as Crown policy</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/against-courageous-corruption-as-crown-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/against-courageous-corruption-as-crown-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 00:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It should come as no surprise that I disagree with Chris Trotter&#8217;s latest piece about the Urewera raids. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8212; I think his assessment of the operational capability New Zealand police and intelligence services are correct. Their actions were strategically and tactically flawed, and they seemed to hold unrealistic expectations of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thought for the day: Bank Economists as media expert commentators.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/thought-for-the-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/thought-for-the-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 01:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This may sound mean but having bank economists talk about global macro-and political economics on major NZ news outlets is like having pedophiles talking about childcare. Having them speak authoritatively on the &#8220;news&#8221; skews public perceptions of economic matters towards the preferred constructs of finance capital. Leaving aside the matter of finance capital&#8217;s interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;What a great day for humanity&#8221; would probably have done the trick</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/what-a-great-day-for-humanity-would-probably-have-done-the-trick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/what-a-great-day-for-humanity-would-probably-have-done-the-trick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the President of the United States of America came out (if that&#8217;s the right term) in support of gay marriage. Hours later, The leader of the New Zealand Labour party did likewise. The responses they got could hardly have been more different. Obama&#8217;s statement was greeted with a worldwide ripple of excitement; Shearer&#8217;s with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The GC: is this what we&#8217;ve come to admire?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/the-gc-is-this-what-weve-come-to-admire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/the-gc-is-this-what-weve-come-to-admire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 22:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After some consideration of my sanity, I watched the first episode of The GC. It was more or less as I expected. I&#8217;ll probably never watch another minute of it, but it&#8217;s not a show for me. Nor is it a show for all those other high- and middlebrow honkeys (including Mike Hosking, TV reviewers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Showing The Money versus Making Numbers Work.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/showing-the-money-versus-making-numbers-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/showing-the-money-versus-making-numbers-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 05:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That simple phrase &#8220;make the numbers work&#8221; catches John Key&#8217;s approach to the perennial tension between efficiency and transparency in a democracy. To simplify things, it can be said that the more democratic and transparent the policy process, the less efficient it becomes. That is because the more actors are involved in policy decisions, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the mandate to work</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/putting-the-mandate-to-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/05/putting-the-mandate-to-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[comparative politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I struggle to believe the National party that read and led the public mood so well for most of the previous six years has so spectacularly lost its way. Recent months, and the past few weeks in particular, have been the government&#8217;s hardest, and only part of that is due to ministerial incompetence and bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fortune-cookie strategy and the Labour leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/fortune-cookie-strategy-and-the-labour-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/fortune-cookie-strategy-and-the-labour-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claire Trevett]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since at least the mid-20th Century it has been fashionable in our culture to adopt postures derived from Asian martial manuals &#8212; most notably Sun Tzu&#8217;s The Art of War, and Miyamoto Musashi&#8217;s The Book of Five Rings &#8212; in diverse civilian contexts including business, and politics.* There is much to recommend in these texts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving Bamiyan.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/leaving-bamiyan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/leaving-bamiyan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence and Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the NZDF will pull out of Afghanistan next year, one year earlier than originally planned. According to the government the situation is so good in Bamiyan Province that responsibility for security has been turned over to local Afghan forces and the NZDF has downscaled its armed patrols as it concentrates on packing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missile Envy (with postscript).</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/missile-envy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/missile-envy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So let&#8217;s get this straight: North Korea attempts to launch a ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and the international community goes ballistic, claiming it is a serious provocation that has grave consequences for regional and world peace. The UN condemns the launch and humanitarian assistance is suspended in retaliation for it. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Turn to Mean.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/a-turn-to-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/04/a-turn-to-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I watched various labour conflicts over the past few months, then took in accounts of greed-mongering of various types (the wheel-clamping rort being the latest), I set to wondering if things have turned mean in NZ. I tend to think so, and believe a lot of it has to do with National&#8217;s presence in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which Way, Huawei? (With postscript).</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/which-way-huawei/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/which-way-huawei/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 04:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All internet architecture has the potential for use as a Signals Intelligence Intercept platform (SIGINT). Data mining already occurs at the mid-range of  IT frameworks, such as when Facebook collects personal information on users for consumer research (or more nefarious) purposes. Cell phones have GPS trackers, which requires software. The range of data-mining already at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s new Tui Ad.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/labours-new-tui-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/labours-new-tui-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8096</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Police Minister Annette King says that she and her cabinet colleagues were not informed about Operation 8 until the night before the dawn raids. She says this after stating that the Solicitor General advised the Police at the time to charge those arrested under the Terrorism Suppression Act, only to change his mind after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: On Iran, New Zealand&#8217;s Silence Speaks of a Subtle Shift.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/blog-link-on-iran-new-zealands-silence-speaks-of-a-subtle-shift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/blog-link-on-iran-new-zealands-silence-speaks-of-a-subtle-shift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest Word from Afar column over at Scoop speculates on New Zealand&#8217;s seemingly odd silence on the issue of Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.]]></description>
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		<title>Urewera Terror: epic fail</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/urewera-terror-epic-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/urewera-terror-epic-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever your opinion regarding the Urewera Terror raids, you have to admit that the Police and Crown Law have failed. The so-called &#8220;Urewera 4&#8243; were convicted on about half of the least-serious charges brought, and the jury was hung on the more serious charges of participation in an organised criminal group. The defendants may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theater of the Absurd.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/theater-of-the-absurd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there something in the water that trial lawyers drink? First the prosecution claims that the Urewera Four and their merry band of role-playing wanna-be commandos were in the bush training for urban guerrilla warfare and posed an imminent threat to New Zealand&#8217;s peace and tranquility. The defense answers that all the gun play was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accumulation versus Distribution.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/accumulation-versus-distribution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/accumulation-versus-distribution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The bottom line of any political economy resolves around the question of accumulation versus distribution. Productive activity that generates surpluses (profits) can be accumulated by those who control the means of production (workers or capitalists), or can be distributed throughout the larger community in which production is located. In capitalist system decisions about accumulation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Servitor Imperialism.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/servitor-imperialism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/03/servitor-imperialism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the golden age of imperialism is long past, the early 21st century has seen a resurgence or perhaps a new form of imperialism in the guise of US-led expeditionary wars to &#8220;bring democracy&#8221; to rogue or failed states. Besides the wars of occupation waged in Iraq and Afghanistan, the not so covert intervention in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Link: A New Containment Policy in the South Pacific</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/02/blog-link-a-new-containment-policy-in-the-south-pacific/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/02/blog-link-a-new-containment-policy-in-the-south-pacific/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=8041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column focuses on revelations that New Zealand is part of an effort to curtail Chinese influence in the South Pacific. How it proposes to do so while reducing its work force by a fifth is another matter.]]></description>
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		<title>In an age of increased international interdependence, NZ shrinks diplomatically.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/02/in-an-age-of-increased-international-interdependence-nz-shrinks-diplomatically/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2012/02/in-an-age-of-increased-international-interdependence-nz-shrinks-diplomatically/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lunatics have taken over the asylum. Not only has National adopted an incoherent foreign policy in which it attempts to straddle the fence between China and the US by tying its trade fortunes to the former and its security fortunes to the latter (something that it thinks is hedging but which is untenable given [...]]]></description>
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