Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 11:52 am, April 22nd, 2025 -
10 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, poverty, religion
Tags:
“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”
Written By:
advantage -
Date published: 5:36 pm, December 6th, 2023 -
18 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, religion, sustainability, uncategorized
Tags:
Pope Francis has been pope for a bit over 10 years. He’s made a difference.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 7:30 am, August 17th, 2018 -
14 comments
Categories: International, music, us politics
Tags: aretha franklin
Soul diva Aretha Franklin has died aged 76.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 8:32 am, September 26th, 2015 -
98 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, climate change, Environment, International, poverty
Tags: Pope Francis, speech, speeches
Pope Francis has given two important speeches recently.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 7:20 am, June 22nd, 2015 -
219 comments
Categories: climate change, global warming, religion
Tags: christianity, climate change, Pope Francis, truth
Written By:
Bill -
Date published: 1:07 pm, June 16th, 2015 -
66 comments
Categories: capitalism, climate change, Economy, global warming
Tags: AGW, climate change, Pope Francis
No beating about the bush.
Written By:
mickysavage -
Date published: 1:02 pm, October 11th, 2014 -
33 comments
Categories: democracy under attack, Media
Tags: cameron slater, cathy odgers, fran o'sullivan, nz herald
Fran O’Sullivan’s column in the Herald today clearly lays out why the issues surrounding Hanover Finance’s collapse should be investigated by the Police and not by a Government inquiry.
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 9:48 am, October 17th, 2012 -
131 comments
Categories: spin
Tags: fran mold, GCSB
Well, Fran Mold has done it now. She’s got Shearer to go large (it is alleged) based on her man’s claim that there is a tape of Key talking to the GCSB in February about Dotcom. But no proof’s emerged. All Fran’s foul-up has done is give Key a breather and put Shearer on the ropes.You don’t get a bigger fuck-up than that as a spin doctor. I can’t imagine she’ll be around much longer.
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 10:07 am, October 7th, 2012 -
27 comments
Categories: blogs, capitalism, economy, humour, newspapers
Tags: andrew geddis, fran o'sullivan
Parasitic blogger takes on Very Important Columnist who does Real Journalism Work to bring to her readers Informed and Insightful Commentary on The Issues That Really Matter.
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 3:05 pm, August 15th, 2012 -
18 comments
Categories: act, conservative party, dpf, election 2014, electoral commission, electoral systems, greens, john banks, mana, maori party, MMP, national, nz first, political parties, Politics, united future
Tags: matthew hooton
Frank Macskasy over at Frankly Speaking writes some very long posts that are often full of interesting information. This one does a good analysis of the recommendations from the Electoral Commission and various party positions on it. On the way through he has a good swipe at John Banks, who it would be safe to say, he considers to be political cabbage.
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 10:54 am, August 4th, 2012 -
57 comments
Categories: humour
Tags: fran o'sullivan
Has Fran O’Sullivan been replaced by a communist infiltrator? Today, she gushes over a central government plan to use emergency powers to appropriate land and bypass RMA property rights. She even suggests the Government could use such powers to redesign other CBDs according to its own grand plans. Next, she’ll be calling for a 5-year plan.
Written By:
notices and features -
Date published: 11:13 am, July 31st, 2012 -
103 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, john key, poverty
Tags: Frankly Speaking, hypocrisy
Many of those who participate in the comments here at The Standard also run their own excellent blogs. We regularly feature No Right Turn and Imperator Fish Today we’re reposting (with permission) pieces from two other blogs that attracted some attention in Open mike recently. First up here’s Frankly Speaking…
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 5:36 pm, February 15th, 2012 -
64 comments
Categories: Media
Tags: crafar farms, excessive sarcasm, fran o'sullivan, overseas investment act
Now there is a surprise (not). The Crafar farms sale doesn’t conform to the economic benefits required under the Overseas Investment Act. Fran O’Sullivan is going to be distressed. The decision by the OIO and government was not in conformance with the the Overseas Investment Act. Fran waffled about everything except what was required by the Act – as our “anonymous” authors pointed out and were abused for doing so by Fran.
Journalists – pah!
Written By:
lprent -
Date published: 2:02 pm, February 5th, 2012 -
216 comments
Categories: business, Economy, trade
Tags: crafar farms, fran o'sullivan, free
Fran O’Sullivan took objection to RedLogix criticizing her articles on Crafar farms. It helps our traffic, but really she should relook at the utter crap she has been writing before attacking the questioner. She talks about everything except why the OIO within their legislation limited framework should or should not have approved the sale. The more that I reread her work on this subject, the more I ask: what in the hell is she trying to hide?
Written By:
Anthony R0bins -
Date published: 2:00 pm, October 23rd, 2011 -
78 comments
Categories: sport
Tags: All Blacks, RWC
Now for the final – ABs vs France 9:00 pm at Eden Park – may the best team win.
[whew … that was close … imagine the national wailing and gnashing of teeth if the French had had a successful penalty kick in that last attack. Well done the ABs. Eddie]
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 12:25 pm, April 3rd, 2011 -
21 comments
Categories: law and "order"
Tags: fran o'sullivan
Jenny reacts to Fran O’Sullivan’s latest article: “It seems the stench of the decision to remove the right to a jury trial from those arrested in the ‘Terror Raids’ has even risen into the nostrils of usually conservative members of the intelligentsia.” [conservative intelligentsia – there’s a shallow pool. Ed]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 1:00 pm, October 22nd, 2010 -
31 comments
Categories: activism, democratic participation, International
Tags: protest
Vernon Small had an atypically disappointing piece in the Dom yesterday concluding that everyone must be happy in NZ because the 20,000 protesters who turned out on October 20th did so peacefully and legally, whereas in France there is rioting in the streets. I/S explains why people have to take to the streets to get affect political change in France.
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 9:56 am, January 20th, 2010 -
10 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, community democracy, democracy under attack, democratic participation, local body elections, local government
Tags:
The people of Franklin and Papakura, who overwhelming oppose becoming part of the National/ACT government’s Supercity experiment, have been denied their request to keep their own councils. Instead, Papakura will be forced into the Supercity while Franklin will be carved up between the Supercity, Waikato Council, and Hauraki Council. The people of Franklin and the rest […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 10:36 am, January 16th, 2010 -
42 comments
Categories: energy, Environment, International, law, Media
Tags: fran o'sullivan
Despite almost never agreeing with Fran O’Sullivan, I have respect for her. She comes from the ACT-right and her pieces reflect that but she argues honestly and intelligently, the latter in particular being in short supply in this country’s political discourse. So, I’m a bit saddened by her piece this morning: If Wellington was devastated […]
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 11:52 am, November 18th, 2009 -
8 comments
Categories: employment
Tags:
For the first time ever I wholeheartedly agree with Fran O’Sullivan’s column. In today’s Herald she writes about the government’s inaction over youth unemployment and what it will mean in terms of a lost generation. The percentage of young people who can’t find jobs snowballed after the global economic crisis hit New Zealand. But (so […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 2:40 pm, September 9th, 2009 -
22 comments
Categories: Media, MMP, national/act government
Tags: fran o'sullivan, national's secret agenda
Fran O’Sullivan has rather given the game away on the MMP referendum. Frog has explained it so well, I can’t do better than repost it: Holding a referendum on MMP was discussed at cabinet on Monday 31 August 2009. Yesterday Ms O’Sullivan informed Newstalk ZB drive time host Larry Williams of how this information was conveyed to […]
Written By:
Eddie -
Date published: 11:34 am, July 8th, 2009 -
18 comments
Categories: national/act government, workers' rights
Tags: bill english, don brash, fran o'sullivan, nz herald, productivity, Rodney Hide, wage gap
A few weeks ago the NZPA reported that the Government had agreed to establish a taskforce to “work on ways to close the productivity gap between Australia and New Zealand”. The taskforce would be selected by ACT leader Rodney Hide and would be announced within the month. The story then sank without a trace. So […]
Written By:
Tane -
Date published: 12:22 pm, April 25th, 2009 -
17 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, democracy under attack
Tags: capitalism vs democracy, fran o'sullivan
Fran O’Sullivan shows that she gets it – National-Act’s supercity is designed to serve the interests of the business elite by taking democracy away from the people of Auckland, and that’s the reason for their refusal to give the people of Auckland their referendum. Problem is, Fran’s all in favour of getting rid of democracy: […]
Written By:
Steve Pierson -
Date published: 8:30 pm, February 28th, 2009 -
66 comments
Categories: Media
Tags: fran o'sullivan
Fran, you’re pretty smart, you can do maths, and you understand the economy. You’re ideology is fundamentally flawed but at least you’ve got the analytical tools. So, how can you go and write something like this “It can cut a number of Labour’s own expensive prior election bribes, like making student loans interest-free.” Fran, think […]
Written By:
Tane -
Date published: 3:55 pm, November 26th, 2008 -
23 comments
Categories: election 2008, polls
Tags: kids voting
The results are in from the NZ Post-sponsored Kids Voting project, and while it’s a worthy project it nonetheless shows why we don’t allow children the franchise. More than 13,000 school students nationwide took part in the project aimed at encouraging kids to take an interest in our democracy. The resulting Parliament had Labour and […]
Written By:
Guest post -
Date published: 12:34 pm, October 31st, 2008 -
23 comments
Categories: humour
Tags: satire, stephen franks, wellington central
In a strange twist in the Franks billboard monitoring saga, infra red camera footage has revealed that Franks himself was responsibile for defacing his own hoardings. Franks had previously claimed that he was the victim of an organised campaign to deface his hoardings and had installed infra red cameras to monitor his billboards. Photographic evidence […]
Written By:
Tane -
Date published: 5:47 pm, September 22nd, 2008 -
85 comments
Categories: Social issues
Tags: bigotry, civil unions, gay rights, grant robertson, stephen franks, wellington central
National’s candidate for Wellington Central, Stephen Franks, is having a wee cry on his blog today over Agenda’s decision to air that embarrassing Youtube clip where he complains about “grumpy Christians and whining gays” and compares civil unions to marrying your dog. Apparently he’s been “cited out of context” by “the militant gay media” and […]
Written By:
all_your_base -
Date published: 3:16 pm, August 29th, 2008 -
58 comments
Categories: national, youtube
Tags: grant robertson, national, stephen franks, wellington central
Here’s National’s Wellington Central candidate Stephen Franks giving his view on Civil Unions. I’m not even really sure what to say about it. It might just be best to let Stephen Franks speak for himself…
Written By:
IrishBill -
Date published: 9:51 am, May 6th, 2008 -
84 comments
Categories: Media, spin
Tags: granny, Media, railways, spin
Here’s the first par of National’s release on the rail deal: National Party Leader John Key says at a time when householders are struggling to pay the weekly bills, Helen Clark’s decision to spend the thick end of a billion dollars to buy back the rail rolling stock does not make any sense. Here’s Fran […]
Written By:
Steve Pierson -
Date published: 3:33 pm, April 3rd, 2008 -
9 comments
Categories: crime, humour, john key
Tags: crime, humour, john key
That’s what Key said when asked about his plan to increase GP fees. A reader reckons Key’s planning to apply the same market logic to crime: Great cartoon. No wonder National’s Law and order Spokesperson, Simon Power, is distancing himself from Key’s policy.
Written By:
all_your_base -
Date published: 2:10 pm, October 24th, 2007 -
4 comments
Categories: climate change
Tags: climate change
Lights Out San Francisco is a citywide energy conservation event next scheduled for March 29, 2008. On this night, they invite the entire city of San Francisco to install one compact fluorescent light bulb and turn off all non-essential lighting for one hour. Below are a couple of shots from the event run four days […]
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