Let’s see the options
Over at the Dim Post Danyl is complaining about our complaining again. In a classic piece of sophistry he seems to have decided […]
January 2009
Time to pony up with some policy
After three years of solid growth, the latest stats show international tourist numbers collapsing 8% last November compared to November 2007 due to the global recession. […]
Brownlee blowing smoke – or is it Coalfinger in disguise?
Gerry Brownlee was puffing smoke this Wednesday morning about his daft (in terms of the Kyoto agreement) decision last month to remove the […]
What does President Obama mean for you?
If you’re living in New Zealand, President Obama isn’t going to change your life. Remember, you voted for John Key. You’ll have to […]
Holiday hackery
I’ve long regarded John Armstrong as the best political press journo we’ve got. Not least because he’s one of the few without a […]
Penny wise?
Health Minister Tony Ryall has followed Paula Bennett’s* lead by cancelling a conference for PR purposes**. In terms of symbolism it’s great. Even […]
Watch Obama’s inauguration live
The embedded stream below is meant to work even outside the US. Fingers crossed. If you find/know of another good live source drop […]
Obama’s inauguration
[I’ve taken down the streaming footage now]
What would Jehovah say?
Reports from Hawkes’ Bay confirm that the Exclusive Brethren broke its rule against voting to ensure a National/ACT victory last year. The Exclusive Brethren […]
Deflation rears its ugly head here and around the world
Inflation, predictably, plunged in the last quarter. With the international prices of oil and other commodities coming off their record highs following the super-spike last […]
A bouquet among the brickbats
We often criticise media coverage of politics, so it’s a pleasure to say something nice. I would love at this point to link to Martin […]
Bad trips
I remember feeling sick to my stomach as the media childishly replayed Clark’s fall, particularly the morning Paul Henry sat there pissing himself […]
I hope so too
Here’s a cool interactive feature from the NYT – “I hope so too”: The New York Times asked more than 200 people in […]
A little help
Oddly the Standard hasn’t received its invite to the “job summit” yet. I’m sure this is just an administrative error but just in […]
Fox to guard the henhouse
The National/Act government has announced its chair for the “job summit” and it’s stock exchange boss Mark Weldon. I may be missing something […]
Climate change laffs
Easily impressed
John Key in person is extremely amiable; talking to him face to face, it’s hard not to like the bugger. I guess that […]
A topic for the NACT talk-fest. Needs a slogan for success.
My favourite indicator for a deep recession is showing up. The applications and enrollments for colleges and graduate programs appears to be significantly […]
Imperfect but far better than the alternative
It’s good to see Kiwipolitico taking a critical view of the Left from the Left – it’s certainly better than any critiques we […]
The Standard wager
John Key has announced his ‘jobs summit’ at the end of Feburary saying “I don’t want this to be a talk fest, I […]
How peak oil can devastate the rest of the economy
We all know the story of the sub-prime crisis that had developed into the credit crisis – a flood of credit saw mortgage […]
National’s first hundred days of (in)action
Govt creaks into inaction
Only four weeks into a well-deserved holiday following two frantic weeks stripping Kiwis of their work rights, the National/ACT Government has been spurred […]
Change of career for Campbell?
Is John Campbell leaving TV to pursue his childhood dream of being a pugilist? No, it’s diminutive Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez. Uncanny […]
Serendipity, now with dinosaurs
Truly sensible sentencing
“I’m not one for ideological stances; I support what works”, said John Key in a speech to the Salvation Army in early 2007. Well […]
Internet campaigning
There have been two interesting pieces from the Guardian recently on the way UK Labour are beginning to embrace the opportunities of the […]
When will oil peak?
We’ve seen that oil production in oil fields and countries peaks long before the oil actually runs out, and as individual countries go, […]
Time for a truce in sentencing bidding war
An interesting article from the Sydney Morning Herald: THE NSW Opposition has pledged to end the “law and order auction” in a dramatic […]
crashtheinauguration.com
Via SwissMiss: CrashTheInauguration.com, an online Inauguration guide created by AirBedAndBreakfast.com, is connecting last minute travelers with accommodations in Washington DC. Individuals or groups can […]
War crime?
Idiot/Savant seems to think so. DPF doesn’t. Robert Fisk does: What happened was not just shameful. It was a disgrace. Would war crime be too […]
Streetview sleuthing
Nikki Kaye might be right to fear Google’s watchful eye but police in Massachusetts have used streetview to solve the alleged kidnapping of a 9-year-old girl […]
The supply of oil must peak, get used to it
There is only so much oil in the world. It was all formed when, over the course of a few hundred million years, creatures […]
Anger, that’ll solve our problems
Yesterday, Labour leader Phil Goff challenged National to present its plan for getting the economy through the global downturn. Halfway through National/ACT’s much-hyped […]
Israel – a failed democracy
The following quoted text is a e-mail response by Mike Treen from Global Peace and Justice Auckland to someone who was complaining about […]
What’s the economy? or why energy matters
The more I learn about energy, and peak oil in particular, the more concerned I get. So, in the spirit of the season, I […]