Written By: - Date published: 7:10 pm, March 27th, 2012 - 194 comments
What a surprise.
Cameron Slater’s been caught lying again.
Written By: - Date published: 4:10 pm, March 27th, 2012 - 3 comments
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here
Police have launched an investigation after Police Assistant Commissioner Malcolm Burgess alleged he was taped while speaking at a press conference yesterday…
Written By: - Date published: 2:25 pm, March 27th, 2012 - 14 comments
“Ms Collins strenuously denies hints by opposition parties that her office was involved in leaking Bronwyn Pullar’s information to the media. She says only herself, one staff member, chairman John Judge and ACC’s chief executive had the information”. Hmm. 4 people, at least 1 head to roll. Not hard to see where this going. Playing Russian roulette with Collins is where she pulls the trigger but aims the gun at you.
Written By: - Date published: 12:24 pm, March 27th, 2012 - 48 comments
The Nats selected Chinese company Huawei to build theparts of the UFB network after Joyce and English visited them in China. Now, the company’s been banned from Australia’s UFB project because of links to Chinese espionage. Key’s shrugged it off. Maybe there’s a risk, maybe not. But our government should give a damn and investigate. Its indifference makes it look compromised.
Written By: - Date published: 10:14 am, March 27th, 2012 - 6 comments
Mediation broke down in the Port dispute again yesterday with the PoAL management still refusing to make any concessions. So it’s back to court for a ruling on PoAL’s lockout without notice. Hopefully, the Court will side with reason, force the Port to allow the workers back and impose compensation for lost wages along with hefty fines.
Written By: - Date published: 9:13 am, March 27th, 2012 - 113 comments
The lead story on Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest newspaper is about the “violent comments” of Gerry Brownlee. How would we react if a foreign politician told those kind of lies about NZ? We’d go off our self-righteous rockers. In some countries, like Finland, a minister would resign without hesitation if they brought their country into disrepute.
Written By: - Date published: 8:20 am, March 27th, 2012 - 20 comments
German corporations’ boards are half employee representatives. This has stopped outsourcing, short-term executive thinking, outrageous executive/director pay and can only have improved worker relations. Their economy is sustainable and powering ahead out of the financial crisis through innovation and productivity. Could such an idea catch on here?
Written By: - Date published: 7:41 am, March 27th, 2012 - 36 comments
After months of attacking the media and bringing the weight of the state against a freelance cameraman, John Key is “turning the other cheek”.
What a jerk
Written By: - Date published: 7:10 am, March 27th, 2012 - 56 comments
When a government figure says someone broke a law when there has been no conviction they are effectively imposing an extra-judicial punishment by defaming them. Key and the Police cannot be allowed to serve up extra-judicial punishments to whomever they choose by branding them a criminal and then not taking them to court to prove it.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 27th, 2012 - 69 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 4:56 pm, March 26th, 2012 - 13 comments
It appears there is something irresistible about travelling with the PM. While the fact that only 2 news organisations can send a journalist to cover our leader’s involvement in a 54 nation conference is disappointing, so is the fact that being part of that cosy group travelling with JK makes everyone a bit too matey.
Written By: - Date published: 3:54 pm, March 26th, 2012 - 45 comments
The ever-diplomatic Gerry Brownlee has got New Zealand coverage in the European press. In an effort to try and score a point against David Shearer the former woodwork teacher called the country with the best education system in the world “uneducated,” and claimed that an economy with higher GDP per capita and faster growth than […]
Written By: - Date published: 3:37 pm, March 26th, 2012 - 42 comments
Throughout the teatapes affair Key has received special treatment. Huge police resources have been wasted. Today’s announcement of no charges is even timed for when Key is overseas. Key claims to be vindicated but no court has ruled Ambrose broke the law. The ruse of the warning and the letter of regret is clearly intended to allow Key to save face. Key literally asks us to “move on” but he must answer for the resources he had wasted and the chilling effect on the media of his strong arm tactics.
Written By: - Date published: 3:14 pm, March 26th, 2012 - 12 comments
In breaking news 3News reports that there will be no charge against “teapot” cameraman Bradley Ambrose.
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, March 26th, 2012 - 85 comments
New Zealand has one of the highest rates of imprisonment in the world, and an international study has just highlighted the fact.
Written By: - Date published: 8:53 am, March 26th, 2012 - 58 comments
It’s strange watching National’s factions fight it out in the media- the Herald on Sunday running the Collins/Slater faction stuff and the Dompost running material from Boag/Pullar. Both sides are scum. Pullar received (somehow) the largest leak in ACC and passed to the media. Collins has imitated her fellow ministers by leaking Pullar’s private details in revenge.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 26th, 2012 - 115 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 2:27 pm, March 25th, 2012 - 15 comments
Keeping PoAL workers out makes no sense industrially.
It means the port’s taking a political and PR hit without even gaining some cleared containers.
But perhaps getting the port making money isn’t the endgame for this dispute…
Written By: - Date published: 9:38 am, March 25th, 2012 - 159 comments
The rate of third world disease in this country is a crime. A crime against the poor perpetrated by the rich. They call it neoliberalism – the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the capitalist elite. They didn’t set out to make kids sick and kill them but it was an inevitable result of their actions and they don’t care. Now, what’s Labour’s take?
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, March 25th, 2012 - 18 comments
As we all should know by now, the road rules for giving way have changed.
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 25th, 2012 - 76 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 7:09 pm, March 24th, 2012 - 53 comments
Is it not strange and a bit disquieting that the parliamentary left, or more precisely, the Labour Party, is all at sea with regards vision? The vision of the left…the only vision there is for the left… is the same now as it always was. So why is the Labour Party struggling to articulate a vision? We know that the labour Party has lost touch. And we know that people are more or less disengaged from parliamentary politics. Why this should be isn’t very difficult to figure out. How to rectify the situation isn’t very difficult either.
Written By: - Date published: 11:34 am, March 24th, 2012 - 18 comments
NRT with yet another example of the Nats’ intimidation tactics.
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, March 24th, 2012 - 33 comments
Growth in the December quarter was 0.3%, a third of the government’s PREFU forecast.
Quarterly GDP per capita, $95/96 | |
Peak, Q4 2007 | 8,104 |
When Nats took power, Q3 2008 | 7,935 |
Now, Q4 2011 | 7,777 |
Brighter Future | any day now |
Anyone else find it odd that GDP per capita has fallen as much during the ‘aggressive recovery’ as it did during the recession?
Written By: - Date published: 8:40 am, March 24th, 2012 - 38 comments
We’ve received the following press release from Auckland Council Local Board members calling on Len Brown and the councilors to stand up to PoAL’s out of control management. The workers want to work and be more productive. The bosses want to screw them out of their pay to increase profits and are acting irrationally in pursuit of that goal.
Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, March 24th, 2012 - 42 comments
The government has introduced their welfare changes to parliament. In addition to making mums of 1 year-olds seek paid work in addition to raising children, it introduces private companies profiting from unemployment misery with welfare to work schemes. The UK has been trying this for a couple of years – let’s look at how that’s going…
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, March 24th, 2012 - 49 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, March 23rd, 2012 - 30 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Written By: - Date published: 12:54 pm, March 23rd, 2012 - 5 comments
The Herald editorial says many “saw a more efficient and more flexible port emerging from” contracting out at PoAL. This is an oft-spouted fundamental misunderstanding of what is happening. Contracting out would not reduce time or cost to move freight. It would just reduce the downtime the port pays for amounting to a simple transfer of wealth from wages to profits.
Written By: - Date published: 11:45 am, March 23rd, 2012 - 78 comments
Nick Smith’s handpicked chair of ACC, John Judge, denies that ACC leaked Bronwyn Pullar’s name to the media after she made public the biggest leak of private data in history from the organisation. So, who did? Given the government’s track-record – Bennett vs the solo mums, Brownlee publicising Dalziel’s redzone offer – I’m betting it was Judith Collins.
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