When they write about it at all, the media tends to produce a lot of smash on the issue of global warming, and I’ve had enough of the crap. I apologise for both the length of this post and the number of data chewing links (pdfs and video). I’m hoping to write a number of posts looking at global warming from a variety of perspectives, and hopefully, it’ll be possible to keep others somewhat briefer than this one.
I need to say this – for those academics who will slice and dice a subject to slithers so small that all that […]
So much for any abatement of dirty politics…
Big fish and little fish.
A few simple questions on democracy.
So, the Deputy Prime Minister insists that no-one from the ruling National Party knew of an eleven year old letter from Labour’s David […]
Behind the passive receiving of cards, chocolates and flowers.
Karol has already mentioned this in her post from this morning. But in the interests of splitting milk from alcohol…
The 18th of September 2014 is a big day.
On that day, people living in Scotland will decide if they want to become citizens in a nation that will have reclaimed its sovereignty.
Taiwanese legislature occupied. Could be news…
Spot the difference?
Update: The referendum on the flag will be after the election.
That thing about truth and war…
For anyone who’s had enough of the media being footloose and fancy free with their reporting.
Looks like Mark Ames really has lost the plot viz a viz Glen Greenwald and ‘The Intercept’
When did the left leave the left? Or, perhaps more accurately, why do we continue to regard liberals as being of the left?
Change becomes embedded when it emanates from and across many quarters and traditions.
Governments are holding on to their traditional roles and functions, but the world has changed. We need something else.
Brief occasional updates were requested on the public meetings being held in Dunedin. I’ll be straight up about this. I’m not altogether comfortable about submitting these posts because some readers might see the meetings as being synonymous with me. They’re not. But since I’m the only person with posting rights and because it wouldn’t be be appropriate to post an opinion under ‘notices and features’…
This post isn’t a ‘contrast and compare’ piece on the policy announcements of National, the Greens and Labour. Enough to say that National are pursuing privatisation while both Labour and Green are at least trying to do good things.
Shame about the reality of the bigger picture then.
On the pipers, the dancers and the great unwashed.
A very brief and broad brushstroke account of yesterday’s meeting at Dunedin Botanic Gardens.
Saturday afternoon. 1 O’Clock. Bandstand in Dunedin Botanic Gardens.
There’s a rumour going around that we live in a democracy.
It never fails to amaze me that supposedly experienced and professional (ie, paid) political figures routinely reaffirm a fairly deep sense of stupidity.
…and into the world.
So many choices! What’s a body to do?
Some things don’t require much in the way of brains. Shame then that we tend to let no brain people determine shit so often.
You don’t have to be white and male and financially wealthy to assume a prominent position within systems of patriarchy, but it helps. And you don’t have to be financially strapped and black and female to feel the full weight of patriarchy always pressing down on you, but it helps.
The attitudes put on display by the young men calling themselves the ‘Roast Busters’ aren’t a glitch or the product of some unsavoury sub-culture. Those young men and the attitudes they hold are the product of very long and complex processes whereby some very fucked up shit has become normalised.
While some hold that the Labour Party conference being held this weekend could mark a watershed in NZ politics, something else that might constitute a somewhat more marked watershed is happening across the Pacific.
“I just utter one fear…”
Remember that?
3 billion reasons to be…cheerful?
Widespread and ongoing poisoning of civilians demands decisive and immediate international action, so…
On the one hand, there is the building propaganda blitz to justify military action in Syria, and on the other…
So Barack Obama is going to adhere to the US constitution this time around ( unlike as was the case with Libya) and await the potential green light of Congress before commencing with any military action in Syria.
Sometimes the most complicated and complex situation becomes clear when viewed from a simple and obvious perspective.
