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 […]
International
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]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Get out of Gaza
Israel’s latest attack on Gaza, purportedly to stop Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, is an unjustified, immoral, and, above all, stupid action. I […]
Obama in 1980
From Time: In 1980, when Obama was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he was approached by an aspiring photographer named […]
US ‘shoes-for-guns’ program in Iraq backfires
[The shoe-thrower is a journo from a Baghdad newspaper taking his opportunity to make his feelings known during Bush’s surprise farewell visit to […]
Cui bono?
I’m no lover of the car industry but it’s interesting to see why the effort to put together a bailout for US carmakers […]
Occupy, resist, produce
Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis describe in the New Statesman how: [a]lmost entirely under the media radar, workers in Argentina have been responding […]
Hanging up on Barack
According to the BBC: US Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen thought she was being hoaxed when a man who sounded a lot like Barack Obama […]
The ethical considerations of Christmas trees
Christmas is coming. We want to feel like we’re part of the sustainable, clean and green in action movement. So what sort of Christmas tree […]
Wailin’
Foreign Minister and Whaling Spokesperson Murray McCully has announced that New Zealand will be breaching international law by not undertaking search and rescue […]
A plea to National
Don’t let Key go abroad representing us again until he has had some diplomacy training. I can’t believe, I literally can’t believe, the […]
Free trade no answer to credit crisis, part 2
I’m a bit concerned to see people welcoming APEC’s commitment to re-igniting the Doha Round of free trade talks as if they are […]
All the facts
National’s David Farrar has been running a series for some time trying to paint NZ Labour as out of step with Labour Parties […]
Signature performance
Before our new Prime Minister went to APEC I wrote “it’s not an opportunity to get some names in your autograph book”. I […]
Work choices
Watching this new ad from the Australian Council of Trade Unions on employment law reform was kind of depressing – while the Aussies […]
Free trade no answer to credit crisis
Free trade is basically a good idea. We live on a world of limited resources, we should use those resources as efficiently and […]
Time for Keynes’ real ideas
The article below is well worth a read for anyone concerned about the global economic crisis. It looks at Keynes plan for managing […]
Key’s first test – fail
Well, John Key took my advice and gave a speech at APEC different from the pro forma MFAT-written speech that might have been […]
Do we want to be a world-leader or a global joke?
According to a leading financier, carbon credit broker Nigel Brunel, of OMF Financial, New Zealand has become “a bit of a joke” in Europe […]
A chance to make his mark
John Key’s off on his first trip as PM tomorrow – APEC in Peru. When I saw him interviewed about this he seemed […]
Obama launches weekly YouTube address
Time for a Green New Deal
With a masterful awareness of the import of his actions, President Roosevelt termed his economic program to lift the US out of the […]
Context
Yesterday morning on Sunrise, John Key was moaning that there is no context to the latest secret agenda tape, where Bill English praises […]
US election thread
Ok, so all the action can be followed on the US sites but I’ll set up this post for comments you might like […]
The Nats on Iraq
The Nats have had two responses to English’s “pull the trigger” comments revealed last night: first the taping itself was branded a “dirty […]
English “worried” about Obama
More from 3News tonight on the secret recordings taken at the Naitonal Party conference in August. This time it’s Bill English expressing concern over […]
English pulls a Lockwood
Oh dear. In the same week Lockwood Smith made his racist remarks and Maurice Williamson committed the gaffe of talking openly about National […]
Scratch a Tory…
…and you still reveal a bigot, it seems. Here is National’s Immigration spokesperson, Lockwood Smith, (he who likes to swallow dead fish) on […]
Daily Show on Fox
Jon Stewart looks at some recent clips from Fox News on the American presidential race. Just incredible.