Written By: - Date published: 12:33 pm, December 5th, 2019 - 23 comments
Christian tradition dictates Christmas falls on the 25th of December. This year though, if we simply view Christmas through a lens of ‘good things happening’, then Christmas is coming early.
Written By: - Date published: 7:35 am, September 17th, 2019 - 38 comments
Breaking it down.
Written By: - Date published: 1:40 pm, September 7th, 2019 - 3 comments
Survivor Backs Refuge.
Written By: - Date published: 6:30 am, September 5th, 2019 - 4 comments
Are congratulations in order Ang! Are you perhaps patting yourself on the back for some part you played in RNZ dropping a major story on serious issues at Te Whare Pounamu quicker than a hot potato and then seemingly propelling it to obscurity faster than a .45 bullet? Maybe not. Maybe that’s just what happens. […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, September 2nd, 2019 - 17 comments
When an organisation that exists to help abused people, itself abuses people, I suspect many people will have a lot to say. Here’s my initial take.
Written By: - Date published: 5:10 am, June 7th, 2019 - 174 comments
I confess that I wear underpants and that my body is exactly like Dan Carter’s – except maybe for some details around shape and size.
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, December 3rd, 2018 - 23 comments
Those were the words spoken by Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) during yesterday’s Presidential inauguration where he promised to end Mexico’s disastrous neo-liberalism.
Written By: - Date published: 11:09 am, December 2nd, 2018 - 12 comments
…in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Canada….
Written By: - Date published: 9:46 am, November 29th, 2018 - 23 comments
We wouldn’t tie a rope to a heavy load and then push on the rope with the expectation of achieving anything, right? So why is the Guardian’s Environment Editor entreating that we do just that? Is he merely stupid? Or is there something more cynical at play?
Written By: - Date published: 7:43 am, November 25th, 2018 - 84 comments
I don’t generally have a problem with clowns. But these clowns are dangerous. When mainstream media promotes centrist clowns promoting fascist clowns….
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, November 19th, 2018 - 26 comments
To jump or not to jump? Is “not jumping” about to mean “left behind”?
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, November 18th, 2018 - 42 comments
London’s bridges were closing down.
Written By: - Date published: 10:42 am, November 16th, 2018 - 15 comments
Yet another front opening up in the demand for action on global warming…
Written By: - Date published: 9:51 am, November 15th, 2018 - 13 comments
Avigdor Lieberman has resigned his position as Israeli Defense Minister because he can’t endorse the government’s “surrender to terrorism”.
Written By: - Date published: 1:17 pm, November 13th, 2018 - 71 comments
That’s the big question ‘big’ people are asking these days.
Written By: - Date published: 6:04 pm, November 9th, 2018 - 29 comments
Politics can be soap, or politics can be real. This post comments on some of the soap and offers an example of something that’s real
Written By: - Date published: 6:55 pm, November 8th, 2018 - 38 comments
Trump’s…I don’t actually have words for this little escapade.
Written By: - Date published: 12:35 pm, November 6th, 2018 - 55 comments
Another promising front is opening that might help encourage people to sit up, take notice, and act.
Written By: - Date published: 12:52 pm, November 5th, 2018 - 48 comments
Cenk Uygur might be said to have “skin in the game” when it comes to the US Mid-terms, and given that much of this post revolves around, or bounces from his commentary and analysis – which may not be quite as objective as he thinks – that should be borne in mind when reading this post.
Written By: - Date published: 10:29 am, November 2nd, 2018 - 215 comments
More than that, it needs to be torn down before it makes a serious bid at flight.
Written By: - Date published: 5:17 pm, October 30th, 2018 - 97 comments
When orders collapse, it doesn’t have to be a bad thing. We’re making it a bad thing.
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, October 29th, 2018 - 24 comments
When purveyors of propaganda come to believe their own spin and start entertaining really quite idiotic conspiracy theories and abandoning any pretense of being in possession of rational thought, then we’ve got a problem.
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, October 26th, 2018 - 86 comments
Shade it any colour you like…
Written By: - Date published: 12:36 pm, October 25th, 2018 - 54 comments
We say that knowledge is power…
Written By: - Date published: 10:41 am, October 25th, 2018 - 136 comments
Were you just taken for a ride?
Written By: - Date published: 1:53 pm, October 21st, 2018 - 59 comments
The Mariana Trench is pretty huge. And deep. And if the idea is to fill a hole in the ground with ‘stuff’, then it’s a fair sized hole to be filling, right?
Written By: - Date published: 1:46 pm, October 18th, 2018 - 13 comments
I’m not a great fan of George Monbiot. And Alex Jones is rubbish. But …
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, October 17th, 2018 - 56 comments
A counter to the “heroic dissident” narrative.
Written By: - Date published: 12:58 pm, October 14th, 2018 - 11 comments
An odd detail or change was buried within the IPCC report that came out last week.
Written By: - Date published: 1:05 pm, October 13th, 2018 - 80 comments
“Kavanaugh” – the name lends itself to being enunciated with a certain pluminess, don’t you think?
Written By: - Date published: 5:46 pm, October 12th, 2018 - 36 comments
Compensation for not getting to see someone in concert? $12 000. Compensation for being imprisoned in a big bloody compound and shot at by snipers if you go anywhere near the perimeter fence? Nothing. But…
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