Even Banks against Key’s ‘Party Central’ fiasco
At first, I thought I must have been dreaming yesterday morning. There was John Banks loudly attacking central government politicians from Wellington. How dare […]
Summary of Facts – as requested
UPDATE 14/01 – my Summary of Facts My only charge is still obstructs police – seemingly because I refused to comply with an […]
Bully Brownlee forces SOE CEO to withdraw critical blog
Powershop is a subsidiary of Meridian Energy, an SOE. It is the most highly rated power retailer by its customers, with 92% satisfaction. On […]
Scumbag Slater attacks child sex victim just to get some attention
The other day on the telly, Cameron Slater said why he had breached suppression orders intended to protect the identity of sex attack […]
Govt: All workers to get same holidays as PM
Workers to get same holidays as PM Monday, 11/01/2010, 11:30pm Press release: New Zealand Government The Government will raise the minimum annual leave […]
Open mike 12/01/2010 to 14/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
Wishart. Research kiddie.
This is just too funny. One of Ian Wisharts sources in AirCon which he quoted from ‘verbatim’ turns out to have been a […]
Key adopts Bush foreign policy
“We’ve got no intention of cutting and running from Afghanistan,” the Prime Minister said from his holiday home in Hawaii.* If you’re a […]
Slater’s attention-seeking attack on sex abuse victim
So, Slater wants to be a martyr. Fits well with his personal myth of the hard done by battler fighting this PC world. […]
John Key, Minister for Overseas Holidays
Happy new year! If you’re lucky enough to be on a bit of a break overseas say ‘Hi’ to Prime Minister John Key […]
Foreign banks buggering NZ
I’m no big city banker. But I was under the impression that profit is the income that is left over once you’ve paid your […]
A Potty Peer making money off future misery.
Gareth over at Hot-Topic has written a delightful post “Popgun for hire: A$20,000 detailing one person who is making money off climate change. […]
Open mike 09/01/2010 to 11/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
3rd time today – when will they learn?
As lprent has already posted: I was arrested today for chanting on a megaphone. This is the third time I have been arrested […]
Good photo….
Granny reports that there have been more arrests. Damn, we’re due to head off to Young Labours summer school in Otaki shortly. Be […]
Tax Working Group is inherently flawed.
Marty wrote on taxation expert Craig Elliffes opinion series in the Herald a few days ago. The third in the series wound up […]
Nats: anti-whalers’ lives forfeit on the altar of trade
On Wednesday, Japanese whalers tried to murder five New Zealanders. There is no other way to put it. They ran down a ship […]
Five more unlawful arrests of protesters today
John Darroch called today to inform me that the police were starting to round up and arrest protesters, and that they had three […]
Govt to waste $400 million on white elephant highway
Steven Joyce has finally revealed the benefit/cost ratio for the billion dollar Transmission Gully project. A few weeks ago he was mocking Sue Kedgley […]
How Act’s failed coup went down
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The police ignore Brooker
Idiot Savant at No Right Turn points out that the police (once again1) are violating the law surrounding protest and dissent. The post […]
The house that slavery built
There’s no denying that the Burj Khalifa is impressive. Not all that much short of a kilometre high, it’s easily the highest building […]
Great balls of fire
The Kepler Telescope was launched into space and began transmitting data last year. It’s job is to find evidence of planets outside our […]
Open mike 06/01/2010 to 08/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the […]
Right’s threadbare excuses for tax gifts for the rich
The Right is trying to build momentum for more tax cuts for the rich. The argument comes on three fronts: ‘if we don’t […]
Between Nats lines, not much to be found
Bill English has usurped his do-nothing leader with an op-ed in the Herald framing National’s agenda for the year to come. This piece was […]
Anything substantive to say?
My assumption whenever I read Cameron John Slater’s trash over at Whale Oil is to assume it’s just that trash. That’s why I […]
Granny is surprised, no-one else is.
John Banks is steadily dropping away from a possibility of gaining the Auckland super-city mayoralty. A Herald online poll has John Banks falling […]
Barefoot and kiwi
There is a weird article in the Sunday Star Times about a US lecturer missing out on a job because she objected to […]
Open mike 01/01/2010 to 05/01/2010
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Happy New Year!
Final thoughts for 2009: Looking at deep time
Well it is the end of 2009. So here are some final thoughts on the implications of the political shifts in the climate […]
Updates
Haven’t had as much time as I’d like for updates so far – there are some who have been insisting that I be […]
Time for a Just Transition?
With so much attention on climate change, and such a lack of concern, urgency and commitment to action from the current Tory government […]
Phil O’Reilly – dumb enough to fail
Phil O’Reilly of Business NZ has an opinion piece in the NZ Herald today decrying businesses that trade on the ‘clean and green’ […]
Re-run: Benefits, wages and anger
The recent furore about benefit levels has brought a lot of comments along the lines of “I don’t get it why should they?” […]
Re-run: Where’s my pony?
Umm, some posts we get sent are a bit quirky. Enjoy. _____________________________ OK. I’ll confess. I’m one of the ones who fell for […]