John Key lies about Kiwibank the way Zuckerberg lies about facebook

Sweaty Zuckerberg has his 'Richard Nixon moment'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sweated profusely as he was quizzed about recent privacy failures on the same stage where Apple CEO Steve Jobs a day earlier was forced to deny his company's Chinese factories were "sweatshops". During an interview at the D: All Things Digital conference, Zuckerberg, described on the NYTimes.com Bits blog as being "visibly uncomfortable and sweating profusely", defended his company against claims it was forcing users to make more and more information available publicly and to third party websites. Reuters noted that "Zuckerberg began visibly perspiring, to the point that All Things Digital's Kara Swisher had to ask if he was all right". MarketWatch called it his "Richard Nixon" moment.

Mark Zuckerberg looks like John Key when he is promising not to sell Kiwibank. We are going to miss Jim Andertion in the House when he gets elected to Christchurch, he was the one who dragged up the 9 quotes John Key gave before the election where he said he would 'never ever ever sell Kiwibank. Ever'.

PM pledges not to sell Kiwibank after all
Prime Minister John Key has changed his position on the sale of Kiwibank and now says there will be no sale or part sale while he is Prime Minister. Staking his leadership on the pledge puts it in the same league as his promise on superannuation, where he said he would resign as Prime Minister if he cut superannuation. Last week the notion of a part sale of Kiwibank through a share float remained a possibility by National in a second term. Now it is completely off the agenda. Finance Minister Bill English had raised it at a post-Budget lunch in response to a question from the audience.

BULLSHIT! Bill English was pushing a clear message when he singled out Kiwibank and it was to the Auckland Business Mafia who bankrolled National's last election, they want change for their cash NOW, English was telling them, 'wait till after the next election'. This term has been spent preparing the country for sale, if National win post 2011, it's sold. Watching Key try and quiet that dog whistle message meant for the Auckland Business Mafia to the wider audience. NOW Key is claiming he'll step down as PM if Kiwbank is sold, what a load of cobblers.

He's floated it, it's predictably gone down badly, they've shushed it up and by 2011 and the severe economic crises we will be living through because of the W dip recession will mean everything is back on the table, why would you believe a word that comes out of Key's mouth? He said he wouldn't raise GST, remember?



..remember that? Look, post 2011, it's full on National, they've said this from the start. 2008 was National lite, if you want the full bodied creamy motherload of right wing freemarket madness, vote for the buggers in 2011, but let's not pretend Key's empty words mean anything.

As the brilliant Gordon Campbell points out...
No doubt the sale of Kiwibank will be packaged as being for the benefit of those fabled “Mum and Dad” investors, to give them the chance of re-buying a stake in the assets that they already own 100 % – an action that will inevitably dilute the 100% local ownership that is so central to the Kiwibank brand.

John Key fires blanks literally and metaphorically.