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Key has claimed the foreshore and seabed issue is not about compensation. Tariana's answer? This has never been about money says Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia "I am astounded and disappointed that some critics of and commentators on the report of the ministerial review panel…
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After a remark by all-your-base the other day, I'm testing how good Akismet (the Wordpress anti-spambot) is. I've removed the need for entering a captcha for registered and logged-in users. That is a reasonable compromise for a test as the registration is protected with a…
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As has been expected for some time, the National Distribution Union has announced that its President, Robert Reid, will be taking over as National Secretary from Laila Harre in August. Harre will leave with a stronger union than she found it, and will probably be…
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Just received this from Drinking Liberally Wellington: We hope you've enjoyed our unannounced winter break. We're back this Thursday, at 5:30 at the Southern Cross on Abel Smith Street. This week our special guest speaker is Mark Eden, from the Wellington Animal Rights Network. He…
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Now days everybody wanna talk, like they got something to say, but nothing comes out when they move their lips, just a bunch of gibberish, and all of you act like you forgot about oil. Yup, just when you thought it was safe to go…
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Is he named for the great economist John Maynard Keynes or Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan? Either way, he speaks a lot of sense: There was an attack on the ‘bureaucracy' during the 2008 election, and the front line was held to be sacrosanct. The rest…
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It seems to me that National has fundamentally misunderstood what the foreshore and seabed debate is about. Key's statements yesterday suggest it is about a mere symbolical recognition of an iwi's traditional ties to sections of foreshore and seabed. It's not. He seems to think…
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There's a lot of empty, over-optimistic talk around at the moment about 'green-shoots' in the economy. Supposedly, these are little early signs of recovery which mean that soon everything will be back to normal and we can go back to getting rich selling each other…
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1) Go read Editing the Herald. 2) Bookmark it. 3) Read it every day. It's the best thing on the Internet.
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Great new video from 350.org.nz calling on the Government to back a 40% reduction in emissions by 2020. Current National Party policy is 50 by 2050. Public meetings on the Government's emissions target start today. Check out frogblog for more information about how you can…
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Well, we told you so. The Nats lied for weeks that a credit rating downgrade would be imposed on us if we didn't cut contributions to the SuperFund. We didn't fall for that for a minute. Even before the Budget, we pointed out that, except…
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The US has finally managed to pass a bill through the house of representatives dealing with climate change (sort of). It is laden with pork-barrel initiatives because the congress members realised that they could treat carbon credits as a type of free-money boondoggle. It still…
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Pop quiz - did you know that earlier this week the UN released a major report on the "Green Economy"? Here is a good summary: Green Economy: A Transformation to Address Multiple Crises The current financial and economic crisis is throwing millions of people into…