Faux pro-smacking march fun
With all his usual wit, James of Editing the Herald proposes a spike of the so-called ‘March for Democracy’ in Auckland this week. The […]
Open mike 17/11/09
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Over to you…
Maori Party shafts Maori workers
The Maori Party says it will support John Key’s emissions trading scheme in exchange for a lucrative deal for the wealthiest Maori. According […]
Key’s $155b subsidy to polluters
A month ago, I wrote that National’s moves to gut the Emissions Trading Scheme would increase government debt by $73 billion by 2050. A Treasury […]
Kiwis will continue to subsidise PM’s rich mates
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has released its report on John Key’s Emissions Trading Scheme. ACT, Labour, and the Greens refused to support […]
Key’s loose government
Over the weekend r0b reckoned the shambles of the Key government would start to really hurt. I was sceptical. Winning the next election […]
Recession’s causes still not fixed
Recessions are meant to be about fixing economic problems that built up during the previous boom – unwinding imbalances in the parlance. Higher […]
Light at the end of the tunnel
We’ve been in the tunnel of love too long. (You youngsters can go look it up.) The media’s affair with our personable but apparently […]
Open mike 16/11/09
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Over to you…
Failures of leadership: English, Hide, and Harawira
I know this point/counterpoint series of posts on Hone Harawira maybe getting a bit tiresome but I have to disagree with the assertion […]
Is there anybody out there…
OK, this has nothing to do with NZ politics, but I’m trying to stick to my resolution not to rant as usual on […]
Iwi tuaroa is Maori for spine
Throughout the mana enhancing relationship between the National and Maori parties, we haven’t yet seen a lot of give and take. Well, I […]
Open mike 15/11/09
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Over to you…
I don’t give a shit about Hone. But the lynch mob is interesting.
Whatever argument there is between the hierarchy of the Maori Party and Hone really doesn’t concern me. While I’m sure Kelvin Davis is […]
Still a trader at heart… gambling with Kiwi lives
Here is one excellent article from Tracey Barnett in the Weekend Herald … Admit it: John Key’s most memorable moment in one year […]
Vote red, get fed
Labour needs to stand up for its electorate, the worker. While National is gutting the infrastructure Labour set up in the last nine […]
Greens greenwashing for anti-environment govt
The Greens have announced the collapse of the cornerstone of their Memorandum of Understanding with National. With Gerry Brownlee as Minister for Energy, National […]
National will lose the next election
Here’s a prediction for you. National will lose the next election. The reason that they will lose is that they are running a […]
Open mike 14/11/09
Topics of interest, announcements, general discussion. The usual rules apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Over to you…
Planned outage
At about 7pm on Saturday 14th there will be an outage while the server gets another upgrade to a new OS kernel. Your […]
Maori Party schism inevitable
The Maori Party was never going to be a sustainable political vehicle. No political movement that tries to exist in defiance of the […]
Council shafts Wellingtonians
In 2006 Wellingtonians resoundingly rejected a proposal to build a Hilton on their waterfront (834 submissions out of a total 994 were against), […]
Climate Change cowardice hurting NZ’s image abroad
One of the UK’s most influential newspapers, The Guardian, carries a stinging attack under the title New Zealand was a friend to Middle […]
More jobs and pay bad – JPMorgan
I was sent a press release from financiers JPMorgan in Australia. There’s a line in it that reveals much about how the capitalist […]
Sciblogs
Welcome to a new NZ blog, Sciblogs. From the About: Sciblogs brings together the best science bloggers in the country on one website, […]
Harawira offensive & dumb. No excuses
Frankly, I don’t appreciate being called a white motherf**ker, by Buddy Mikaere and Hone Harawira. Before you start, that’s not to deny that Pakeha stole vast […]
What stimulus spending?
According to Stuff Bill English is planning to pull back the stimulus spending. The problem is there hasn’t been any significant stimulus spending. […]
Political Jurisprudence
There’s no question that Hone Harawira’s comments were stupid, but I don’t believe they were racist. For a start, the white mofos reference […]
Open mike 13/11/09
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Stupid stupid stupid
Our government is stupid. Sorry, it’s the only conclusion I can draw. Our government is made up of confused, muddled thinkers incapable of […]
Poll shows Kiwis prefer MMP
NZPA reports on a new poll from UMR which shows Kiwis don’t want to dump MMP for a less proportional electoral system. The […]
Heads will roll!
The Government has today announced a full inquiry into all instances of politicians calling for ‘heads to roll’ following the controversy over Mr […]
The resistance
A very well-produced youtube vid on National’s distortions over ACC The clever thing National has done is set up ACC as the agent […]
Give the snip snap to the zip zap plastic fantastic? Yeah right!
Brian Fallow has a great post over at Granny Herald this morning. “Emitters on bludger’s end of deal” deals with the way that […]
Wages fall, except for union members
The Labour Cost Index tells us that most workers this year failed to get pay rises to match inflation in the past year. […]
Information from the uninformed
Thing that got me about Bill English’s propaganda ad was how god awful the original script was. Can you imagine the Deputy Prime Minister, […]