From his power deprived hotel room in central Wellington Russell Brown deconstructs Barack Obama’s Inauguration speech and highlights some of the main messages America and the world can take from it. In particular the passage that reaches out to the “non believers”. Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.
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Russell ponders where the Green vote went on Saturday given that the polls had them a few percent higher than the final result, however Russell is not too disappointed given that they managed to pull an extra to MP’s into parliament. So what now for the Greens?
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Before the votes are counted Russell give his thoughts on the US election campaign, the problems with the voting systems, and oh yes! Meanwhile the New Zealand election campaign takes a back seat but Russell gives his predictions for the polling booth outcome this Saturday.
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Green Party co-leader Russel Norman explains where the Greens fit in with what John Key is calling a coalition monster and says that the so called monster could also happen in a right-wing agreement. Russel says people should vote how they feel and not necessarily strategically and he also highlights the dangers of going back to a First Past the Post system.
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Prime Minister Helen Clark doubts the truth in figures out today that say National plan to spend more than Labour on Infrastructure initiatives if they win the election on November the 8th
Helen is hoping a spend up on public works will offset the negative effects of an economic downturn. At the same time the downturn is helping those trying to get into a first home.
Despite the benefits of having many coalition partners Helen says the official strategy for a Labour led government is two ticks for Labour.
Is she expecting a television attack ad? Find out…
BBC correspondent Chris Mason reports from outside the EU Summit meeting in Brussels where discussions have been under way to navigate the global financial crisis. Chris also reports on the rocky relationship between Britain and Iceland as well as the bad news for French families with a particular name.
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Russell gives up his thoughts on the TV One YouTube Debate and the form of Helen Clark and John Key in the first few few days of the election campaign. The Maori party also get a look in with their attention seeking welfare policy release.
Russell gives his view on the US election which has taken a sordid and vicious turn with racist taunts reportedly thrown at a black cameraman working at one of Sarah Palin’s campaign addresses. The Media 7 show tonight focuses on Fonterra farm dirty steams and Russell reports on the panel discussion. Finally its the Vodafone NZ Music Awards tonight, Russell is looking forward to a night out and I will be broadcasting live and twittering “behind the curtain”
Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net
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Laptops seized and examined for illegal music and movies on the United States border could become a reality if the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between New Zealand and the United States comes into effect.
ACTA could be included in a free trade agreement with the United States and New Zealand as part of talks to enforce each other’s intellectual-property laws, with residents of each country subject to criminal charges when violating the IP laws of another country. The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America filed comments offering suggestions for the trade agreement.
To explain more on this is Computerworld journalist Grant Gross who is based in Washington DC
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David Slack offers some insight to what is really important when it comes to tactics in a political debate in relations to today’s matchup between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. Also with a glass half full mindset David puts a positive spin on the looming recession and suggests that queuing up at the soup kitchen may not be so bad after all.
David Slack blogs at publicaddress.net keeps the recession at bay at speeches.com
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