Search Results » @author "Stephen Bradley"
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Comment on They all do it…
It is internationally accepted by the vast majority of countries that Taiwan is part of China. Though some people would prefer that the government of China be in the hands of the Kuomintang rather than the Communist Party of China. Unfortunately for them, …
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Comment on When is a Free Speech Union not a Free Speech Union?
I’d be very surprised if the Otago Uni .V.C., speaking as a leader of the organization did not consult with and represent the views of the his peers. If he got that wrong no doubt the University Council would have something to say. I urge the Free Speech …
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Comment on Uncertain Futures and Political Change
Plenty to chew on here. I’ll add one or two comments. Nigel Haworth has one of the bigger brains in the social-democratic family, coupled with a huge and varied international experience. His contribution(s) require thoughtful responses. Just to keep it …
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Comment on Shane Jones loves fossil fuels
He’s so clever he was caught out using his Ministerial credit card to book up porn videos from the motel he was staying at while on government business. Go figure!
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Comment on Some random and unusual responses to the US invasion of Venezuela
The US government has always treated Canadian inshore waters as if they were part of the United States territorial domain. Prime example – all of the Arctic Archipelago from 70 degrees north latitude for 1000 miles to the Arctic circle at 85 degrees North. …
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Comment on Good work if you can get it
Sunny was always hanging around Helen Clark back in the day. A brown-nosing opportunist. Crimes and misdemeanors are committed by people who have been abused by the capitalist state since before they were born, either directly or by neglect. Inadequate …
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Comment on The tawdry silly argument in favour of selling assets
Very good to read such sharp critiques of selling our collectively-owned assets. A more fundamental question is to ask: has the Crown run out of money? Answer: how is that possible, when the Crown is the issuer of all money? In an independent country with …
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Comment on Hayek’s Acolytes and History’s Judgement
Without in any way trying to diminish the immense and continuing harm done by Bolger, Birch, Richardson, Shipley and the rest of the Tory cabinet, with the Mother of All Budgets and the Employment Contracts Act, it’s worth recalling also the surrender of …
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Comment on The Department of War
Remember that Crimea, which includes the Black Sea Russian Naval Port of Sevastopol, was ‘given back’ to the Ukraine SSR from the Russian SFSR during the then leadership of Nikita Khruschchev. Recall that recently an internationally supervised referendum …
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Comment on Psy-Op Alert: The Four Horsemen of the Linguistic Apocalypse
Lots of good points for discussion. My contribution in particular is to complain about NZ mass media reporting of the international news since the emergence of the military conflict in Ukraine. I can recall that on the six o’clock news on TV1 every night …
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Comment on The World has too many Oligarchs
Auckland Library system has a number of free up to date analysis books covering the situation we are in now, how we got here, and how we and our planet get out of our progressive crushing by capitalism. A few I’ve read recently are: Jason Hickel, Less is …
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Comment on Are Lester Levy and Shane Reti “cooking the books?”
Every time I see him on TV, Lester Levy is looking decidedly unhealthy for a man that is not that old. I wonder what kind of illness he’s got. I hope he can soon recover to full health.
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Comment on The importance of political narrative
When I was a boy, say 1955, my elders would refer to the ‘big lie technique’ in reference to news stories broadcast over the wireless. The ‘big lie technique’ was developed by Dr Joseph Goebbles, Reich Minister of Propoganda in the National Socialist …
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Comment on Drug testing at music festivals
Following on from the recent legalisation of non-medical cannabis by the federal government of Canada, I see that cannabis retailing in the province of British Columbia is going to be another line of business largely under the control of the BC government. …
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Comment on Is youth the new political divide?
Yes there have been attacks on the union movement. But not only from the usual quarters of multi-national corporations, Farmers, rich domestic millionaires, and their glove puppets in the bureaucracy and professions, but also and critically from within the …
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Comment on Where did Labour gain its extra votes?
Thanks to ‘Mickey’ for getting the ball rolling. When the final tallies are in we will need some detailed analysis, polling place by polling place. Some of this will be done in the university politics departments. Some will be done by MP’s parliamentary …
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Comment on A test for NZ media and democracy
I’d like to nominate Stephen Joyce for the Joseph P. Goebbles Memorial Award for the biggest lie of 2017, so far.
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Comment on Quantitative easing for the masses
It’s all been done, quite recently, and quite close to home. In 2008 the federal government in Australia squirted $1100 in to my pension account in response to the GFC. Even though I was only the recipient of a tiny pension due to only 3 years work there, …
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Comment on Government U turn on inner city rail link
I’m convinced National’s inner circle was dragging the chain on the city rail link only until they got the nod from sufficient of their investor mates that purchases of strategic properties en route had been completed. Now the fat cats can sit back and …
