International

Zimbabwe leads the world

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 38 comments

It seems that Zimbabwe is, after all, a world leader. Mugabe’s government which followed the IMF and World Bank’s neo liberal plan for their […]

Johnny plays general

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 23 comments

This morning on Breakfast, Key said we’ll send in troops to Fiji as part of a multi-national force if need be. At the […]

Turning a blind eye

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 16 comments

Unlike some of the other Standard writers, I don’t usually find Fran O-Sullivan too bad but her reporting of Key’s trip to China […]

Teabagging fad sweeps US

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 7 comments

In 1773, a group of Bostonians who objected to being forced to pay a tax on tea by the British Parliament, which they […]

What comes around goes around

Written By: the sprout
Date published: - 3 comments

It wasn’t so long ago that National’s covert attack organ, the Free Speech Coalition, were squealing about how anti-democratic the last Labour government […]

Imagine

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 9 comments

I grew up in the long shadow of the Cuban Missile Crisis (you youngsters can go look it up). I have never quite […]

Compare and Contrast

Written By: RedLogix
Date published: - 4 comments

Prior to the last election our fearless MSM media uncritically repeated Key’s ‘NZ Sucks’ Crosby/Textor attack lines, framing an historically unremarkable rise in […]

G20 outcomes

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 40 comments

Well the G20 process – which many said would “redesign capitalism” – has now finished. Various agreements were reached, which are predictably being […]

G20 updates

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 8 comments

The Guardian has excellent video of the G20 protests. Gives you a real feeling of what things are like in the ground. So […]

G20 protests

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 65 comments

Tens of thousands of people protested yesterday April 1st in London at the G20 summit. The protest is made up of a multitude […]

Comparing freedom of information

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 3 comments

Idiot/Savant has a great post in an aussie blog Larvatus Prodeo on the legal and operational differences between our Official Information Act 1982 […]

House prices pop.

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 12 comments

First they go up, and then they come down. The Economist has an interesting table on the housing bubble. Those figures from the […]

Words fail me

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 8 comments

A link in the comments led me to ballon juice You Have To Be Shitting Me. It refers to a article at boston.com […]

Stop McCully’s cull of NZAID

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 13 comments

The Standard hasn’t commented on what’s happening with NZAID yet, and people can be forgiven for not knowing what’s going on. But chances […]

Key writes off Sealord jobs

Written By: IrishBill
Date published: - 50 comments

Despite making sound profits Sealord are laying off 180 workers in Nelson. They claim the move is part of restructuring and that there […]

Emigration still trendy

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 23 comments

Herald: “Almost 1000 a week leaving for Australia. The flood of migrants across the Tasman continues unabated, with latest figures showing New Zealanders […]

Education lesson from UK

Written By: Dancer
Date published: - 59 comments

Last year we saw how unpopular National’s “national testing” policy was going to be. Now a major study in the UK is highly […]

A sign of the times?

Written By: Dancer
Date published: - 5 comments

This item in the Brisbane Times caught my eye as to how the whole nature of campaigning is changing – and the mixed […]

Free doco

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 13 comments

There’s been a lot of talk over the last couple of days on Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the controversial referendum on removing […]

Trying to live on 500K/yr in NYC

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 9 comments

President Obama wants to set US$500,000 as the top pay for banking executives whose firms accept government bailout money. From Boing-Boing: The lead story in […]

Whither the PIF?

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 1 comment

I attended the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji back in 2006. The shadow of Bainimarama’s approaching coup hung over the forum but it […]

Obama makes world safer, already

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 31 comments

In response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s review of the proposed U.S. missile defence system in Eastern Europe, Russia is scrapping plans to […]

BastardWatch

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 54 comments

After losing their last four seats in the Senate after Australia’s 2007 election, the Australian Democrats are trying hard to stay relevant and […]

Job losses in Aussie

Written By: Dancer
Date published: - 17 comments

Across the Tasman Kevin Rudd’s plea for employers to save jobs has fallen on deaf ears, with some of Australia’s biggest companies (mining, retail and automotive […]

Obama implements pay freeze for some aides

Written By: Dancer
Date published: -

President Obama has announced his intention to institute a pay freeze on the salaries of senior White House aides earning over $US100,000.  He says […]