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		<title>Outsourcing Counter-Espionage.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/outsourcing-counter-espionage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The SIS recently released its 2008-2009 annual report. I will be analyzing it in further detail in a future &#8220;Word from Afar&#8221; column over at Scoop. However, I thought I would provide readers with a glimpse of one aspect of its activities that called my attention.
On page 14 (out of 29) of the report, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More narrativium</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/more-narrativium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A fortnight ago I wrote a post about how the government&#8217;s conduct in office makes them vulnerable to accusations of cronyism and a tendency to be vague about the boundary between the political and the personal. In the past week, two more events have come to light which fit this narrative.
The lesser of the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The limitations of N.8 wire, and how the political/policy talent bench is so thin.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/the-limitations-of-n-8-wire-and-how-the-politicalpolicy-talent-bench-is-so-thin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/the-limitations-of-n-8-wire-and-how-the-politicalpolicy-talent-bench-is-so-thin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As some may remember, I have been in NZ on a mix of research and personal business (truth be told, I am in NZ accompanying my partner on her research leave. The title of this post is her idea, with a hat tip to Brian Easton). As part of my project on the security politics of peripheral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heartless commuters</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/heartless-commuters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[An inclusive society]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Image used without permission (but with thanks!), by David Fawcett.
Earlier in the week, while having lunch with Pablo and his partner (and a good time it was, too), I mentioned that I&#8217;d been meaning to blog about the shambolic state of Wellington&#8217;s rail network.
Without straying too far into Poneke&#8217;s territory, I catch the train frequently, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let it burn</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/let-it-burn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
At the head of a large army [Po-ts'ai] was besieging Ch&#8217;ang-she, which was held by Huang-fu Sung. The garrison was very small, and a general feeling of nervousness pervaded the ranks; so Huang-fu Sung called his officers together and said: &#8220;In war, there are various indirect methods of attack, and numbers do not count for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important question</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/important-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given that in 20 months&#8217; time, we&#8217;ll be able to watch the All Blacks get thrashed on four different free-to-air channels simultaneously, why can&#8217;t we watch the All Whites get thrashed by Mexico on even one channel today?
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		<title>Resisting the decline</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/resisting-the-decline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After some reflection and consideration of the pretty well-made arguments against my last post on Sensing Murder, I now have a bit more understanding of and sympathy for the position of those who are so infuriated and offended (thanks, Tony, Keir, Andrew and others). While I still think the difference between psychics and other sorts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfettered free trade is like having unprotected sex with strangers.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/unfettered-free-trade-is-like-having-unprotected-sex-with-strangers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/unfettered-free-trade-is-like-having-unprotected-sex-with-strangers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a sexual addict, New Zealand has a dark obsession with free trade. The obsession may speak to a larger issue rather than the value of trade per se. That issue may be the pathology of NZ political-economic elites fantasising about trade benefits rather than the real benefits to their constituents.
 Whatever the case, the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A walking, talking, living advertisement</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/a-walking-talking-living-advertisement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/03/a-walking-talking-living-advertisement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for why civilised societies which hope to remain civilised don&#8217;t lock violent children up with hardened criminals in the hope that they&#8217;ll magically reform into model citizens.
I&#8217;m talking about Bailey Junior Kurariki, whose latest offences, according to criminologist John Pratt, are a sign he has become institutionalised. Of course, his victim&#8217;s mother doesn&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Psychic&#8217;s Advocate</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/psychics-advocate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 01:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Poneke has another post up about Sensing Murder. Just for the record, I agree with the core argument of the post, and its somewhat famous predecessor.  It should come as no shock to most of you that I also agree that the worst bit is that some journalists and current affairs directors treat them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life mimicking art: Heatley&#8217;s resignation</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/life-mimicking-art-heatleys-resignation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/life-mimicking-art-heatleys-resignation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extravagant mea culpa does strain belief just a little. The only way it could have been weirder is if Key and Brownlee had joined in the self-flagellation. Or if there&#8217;d been a musical accompaniment.




If you prefer, auf Deutsch:




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		<title>What not to say</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/what-not-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NZ Herald website&#8217;s lead story:
Telecom spokesman Mark Watts says this morning&#8217;s 111 emergency calls system failure &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t have happened&#8221; and is &#8220;a bad look&#8221; after the company&#8217;s recent repeated XT failures.

My emphasis. This illustrates that Telecom views the failure of an essential service &#8212; the only genuinely essential service they provide &#8212; as an image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we?</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/are-we/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While at the Save Radio NZ lunch-at-parliament today, it occurred to me that we&#8217;re probably the only country in the first world where you&#8217;re allowed to climb the trees on parliament grounds. Is this true? 
If so, I think it says a lot about us. 
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		<title>Unmix these metaphors</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/unmix-these-metaphors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
In the last couple of weeks the government&#8217;s pistons have started pumping. After a year&#8217;s worth of blue-boiler-suited (non-unionised) engineers making sure the sleek machine is primed and fuelled and oiled and ready for action, the engine has roared into life and is beginning to blow out a cloud of smoke in preparation for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are only as good as your opposition.</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/you-are-only-as-good-as-your-opposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pablo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the years that Labour was in government, I was appalled by the lack of serious discussion on security and defense issues (or any other issue, for that matter). Instead of asking hard questions of the government about defense policy, strategic focus, the military budget, reasons for the TSA,  Zaoui&#8217;s unfair inprisonement, the competency and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week off</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/week-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4146</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear KP readers, 
After a flurry of activity over the past few days, I&#8217;ll be a bit scarce for the coming week. Pablo is also travelling and will likely not be posting. In the mean time, here&#8217;s a forum for you to bring up and discuss things you think are interesting. The usual standards apply. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>False mean</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/false-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take Māori]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreshore and Seabed Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hone Harawira]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I never get tired of this cartoon. It reminds me what being a Sensible Moderate™ is not at all about.
The latest proposal for the foreshore and seabed is PC gone mad &#8212; put it in the public domain, but not really the public domain per se, and everyone&#8217;s happy. Or not unhappy. Hopefully. And if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The glow of the furniture, piled high for firewood</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/the-glow-of-the-furniture-piled-high-for-firewood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/the-glow-of-the-furniture-piled-high-for-firewood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Beaumont]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Claire Browning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Parks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neko Case]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been much analysis, wisdom, whimsy, and snark about Gerry Brownlee&#8217;s plans to mine the conservation estate. But rather than talk about it, I&#8217;m going to repair to a rather dubious poll from stuff.co.nz:

Two things are interesting about this poll. First, for an internet poll, the options are uncharacteristically nuanced. This leads to the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical interlude</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/musical-interlude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogosphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gil Scott-Heron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon Sweetman]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.kiwipolitico.com/?p=4116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m snowed in with work today (as I was yesterday), hence lack of commentary on the speeches and such. 
But thanks to Simon Sweetman, I know that the mighty Gil Scott-Heron has released his first album in a decade and a half, titled I&#8217;m New Here. And it&#8217;s good. The Guardian is streaming the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;I&#8221; thing</title>
		<link>http://www.kiwipolitico.com/2010/02/the-i-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lew</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jake Quinn]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as there are great expectations on John Key&#8217;s statement to Parliament today, the pressure on Phil Goff is only slightly less. He may not have the responsibility of running a country, but that&#8217;s the problem: little or nothing indicates he will have a country to run in the foreseeable future, the optimism of [...]]]></description>
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