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- Lest we forget, indeed. . .
Material on Redline about the First Great Imperialist Slaughterhouse War, aka World War I, includes over 50 items. Below are some of the main ones. Stevan Eldred-Grigg’s The Great Wrong War: New Zealand society and World War I Gallipoli Invasion: ...2 hours ago - Report on 2018 ‘Historical Materialism’ conferenceby Michael Roberts This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. HM covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political, cultural, psychological and economic. But it’s economics that this blog concentrates on and so my ...2 hours ago
- New Melon Health Investment
Punakaiki Fund has a public offer that closes on Wednesday, 14 November at 5pm. Read the PDS and invest online at punakaikifund.co.nz/investnow After some gestation it’s great to be able to share the news about our latest investment in Melon Health. We are leading ...3 hours ago - Speaker: What almost everyone is missing about KiwiBuild
Many people are ripping into KiwiBuild at the moment. A lot of these criticisms have a strong whiff of partisan heckling – this is politics after all – some of them are fair and others are just looking for trouble.One ...5 hours ago - A Diet Of Lies.
5 hours ago - The Herald’s Latest Cycling Smear
An article that went up on the Herald’s site last night, and presumably in the dead tree version today, titled “Auckland cycleways overestimated demand to obtain taxpayer funding, says Auckland Transport report“, raises questions about some cycleway projects. Auckland Transport ...7 hours ago - Unreasonable
That's the Chief Ombudsman's formal opinion of Horowhenua District Council's practice of redirecting, blocking and editing emails from people on a secret shitlist. While the Ombudsman recognises that sometimes members of the public might send emails that require management to ...23 hours ago - Hard News: Getting serious about the cannabis referendumThe organisers of last Friday's Cannabis Referendum Conference had a specific aim: they wanted to demonstrate that they, as the Cannabis Referendum Coalition, represented a credible, serious and organised campaign for New Zealand's forthcoming vote on legalising cannabis.They didn't have ...23 hours ago
- This is what happens when agencies investigate themselvesThe State Services Commission's inquiry into its appointment of Deputy Police Commissioner Wally Haumaha has reported back - and unsurprisingly, cleared the SSC of any wrongdoing. The full report is here, but the short version is that the appointment panel ...23 hours ago
- We don’t need more terror lawsBack in 2007, the New Zealand Police invaded Ruatoki, terrorised the town, and held children at gunpoint as part of a series of raids against "terrorists". But when it came time to prosecute the seventeen people they'd arrested, the whole ...1 day ago
- “Not a priority”On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld the right of the courts to formally declare laws to be inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. This does not overturn or invalidate them, but it sends a clear message to Parliament that ...1 day ago
- Nov-18 AT Board meeting
Tomorrow the AT board meet again and the Closed Agenda Items for Approval/Decision Northcote Point Ferry Wharf – This will likely decide the fate of the currently closed wharf. It’s noted that John Gillon (Kaipatiki Local Board), Cr Richard Hills and Dan ...1 day ago - “The Great War” and, like all wars, the hard questions it poses for society…
The Great War! The “War to end all Wars!”… and so it went. On the 100th Anniversary of Armstice Day, and the completion of that “War to end all wars!”, which history clearly shows it did not do so at ...2 days ago - A hundred yearsToday marks the centenary of the end of the first world war. While it wasn't quite the world's stupidest war - that title probably goes to the Football War or the War of Jenkins' Ear - it ranks among them. ...2 days ago
- What We “Don’t Know And Can’t Know” – The Truth About World War I.
2 days ago - New research, October 29 – November 4, 2018
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change impacts Mankind Altered Disease Risk from Climate Change (A special issue in EcoHealth) Climate change perception: an analysis of climate change and risk perceptions among farmer types ...3 days ago - Flashback Saturday: Public transport and congestion in Wellington
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Peter was first published in September 2015. Last week, I took a look at some new research from the Netherlands that estimated the benefits of public transport for car travel ...3 days ago - What the Mid-Term’s weren’t, what could easily happen, and a rocky road to 2020
Firstly, we must open with that breaking news… Attorney General Sessions is out. But Sessions didn’t “resign” so much as he was basically asked to, well, GTFO – just in more “Presidential” terms, cough. But this is like swapping Trump ...4 days ago - CANA Newsletter, November 2018
Check out our November newsletter, which covers the Te Kuha decision, No Mining on Conservation Land, the IPCC 1.5 warning, Just Transitions, book reviews, and more! The post CANA Newsletter, November 2018 appeared first on Coal Action Network Aotearoa. ...4 days ago - The costs of choice in the New Zealand history curriculum
History is not just an account of past events, but an interpretation. Which historical events are taught in schools, and how they are presented, communicates an important message to pupils about national identity. Currently, in New Zealand, these important decisions ...4 days ago - Ending the pillageBack in 2015, we learned that miners were destroying Northland's wetlands to dig up swamp kauri and exporting the raw logs to China under the guide of "carved temple poles". The latter was obviously taking the piss, a pretext solely ...4 days ago
- RIP performance-linked funding
Tertiary Update – Vol 21 No 20 For years union members have worked together to change the way the tertiary education sector is funded. Earlier this week, the government agreed with what students and staff have been saying and brought an end ...4 days ago - Listen to staff on proposed merger of WelTec and WhitireiaChief Executive Chris Gosling and Commissioner Neil Barnes must take seriously and heed the views of staff and students affected by their proposal to merge Whitireia with WelTec, which includes closing the Kāpiti campus, and make the distinct local and regional needs of ...4 days ago
- TEU Kuia Whaea Kāterina Daniels retiresThe Tertiary Education Union Te Hautū Kahurangi held a special retirement celebration in Wellington recently with Whaea Kāterina Daniels to acknowledge her decades of service to the union that she has been a part of since the early 1980s. During that time she ...4 days ago
- Stuart McCutcheon will step down as Auckland Uni VC next yearUniversity of Auckland Vice-Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon has said he will step down at the end of 2019. Reporting the news, NZ Herald quoted TEU national president Sandra Grey on the subject of the appointment process for his successor. She said academic staff at ...4 days ago
- One way of fixing itPrivate spy companies infiltrating environmental groups to disrupt and spy on them for governments and toxic industries seems to be becoming increasingly common. In New Zealand, there's a whole company, Thompson and Clark Investigations, specialising in it. But UK anti-asbestos ...4 days ago
- VindicatedBack in 2016, the High Court declared that National's 2010 prisoner voting ban (the one which was so shabby and shoddily passed that it brought Parliament into disrepute) was inconsistent with the Bill of Rights Act. The case has worked ...4 days ago
- Sep-18 Ridership
It feels like it’s taken a while but we’ve finally got the ridership results for September and they’re looking positive despite there being one less working day than September 2017. Overall, ridership was up 4.8% on September last year but ...4 days ago - The White, Male, Losers’ Liberator Wins Again.
4 days ago - What If We Are On Our Own?
In order to maintain international liquidity during the Global Financial Crisis, the US Federal Reserve and other central banks arranged $US580b of ‘currency swaps’ in which for a limited period they exchanged US dollars for the local currencies.read more ...5 days ago - Restoring the RMADuring its final term in office, National removed democracy from the RMA by removing notification and appeal rights while allowing Ministers to dictate local plans from their office in Wellington. now Labour is planning to repeal that as the first ...5 days ago
- Police look the other way on crime by their ownAnother report from the Independent Police Conduct Authority was released today, finding that police who sped at 200 km/h down a busy Auckland motorway during a pursuit violated pursuit policy in multiple ways and should have been charged with dangerous ...5 days ago
- Third Main Update
Apologies It has been a long time since my last post. I have had a little trouble with my health and as a result had to move to Brisbane. I’m feeling slightly better now and hoping that I can get ...5 days ago - Good riddanceThe government's offshore oil exploration ban has already borne fruit, with Canadian oil firm TAG Oil quitting New Zealand:Taranaki oil and gas producer TAG Oil is selling its New Zealand operations for US$30 million to Tamarind Resources, citing the less ...5 days ago
- Good – But Could Be Better
Labour was, not surprisingly, in good heart at its annual conference last week in Dunedin, as Jacinda Ardern celebrated her first anniversary as Prime Minister. The past year has not been without its difficulties for the new government, but the ...5 days ago - Viewshaft E10: “The full cost could easily be double”
This is a follow up guest post from Geoff Cooper, Director of Economics at PwC, on work he’s done looking at viewshafts. You can read the first post here. I’ve had a lot of feedback on the results of our ...5 days ago - Brexit—another day in the death of the old world order
John Smith looks at Britain’s impending departure from the EU in a wider context and explains why the Irish border has become such a make-or-break issue. (Originally published on MR online) Five months before the March 29 leaving date, ...6 days ago - Climate change science comeback strategies: ‘In it for the money’
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Karin Kirk Image by Karin Kirk. When you don’t like the message, attack the messenger. It’s an age-old tactic and an easy way to energize opposition while distracting from the real issue ...6 days ago - Climate Change: The next stepThis morning Parliament passed the Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Act, outlawing future offshore oil and gas exploration. As I've already argued, its fatally compromised by allowing existing permits to be extended and expanded - effectively giving the fossil fuel industry ...6 days ago
- EMBARRASSING: Winning Melbourne Cup horse just ran around in a big circle like some kind of idiot
What a stupid animal. It’s been revealed today that Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter only won the race by running around in a circle like some big, dumb, horse-faced idiot. Counter, 3, was hailed by the excited crowd as he ...6 days ago - 17,000 employed under LabourThe labour market statistics have been released, showing that unemployment has dropped to 3.9% - its lowest level since 2008. The number of unemployed has dropped to 109,000, 17,000 less than when the government took office. This is a ...6 days ago
- Ramshackle and decrepitWatching the US elections from the bottom of the world in New Zealand, I'm struck by how ramshackle and decrepit the system is. The tales of broken or even missing voting machines and long queues to vote bring to mind ...6 days ago
- Hard News: The MidtermsThis week's US midterm elections are inescapably a referendum on Donald Trump's presidency, and would have been so even if he hadn't gone to such lengths to make it that way.The closing campaign ad that was so racist and mendacious ...6 days ago
- Auckland’s City Centre Plans
Auckland’s city centre has been growing strongly with more and more people living, working or studying there. On top of that, over the last 10-15 years we’ve seen a significant shift with more people now arriving in the city centre ...6 days ago - Whitireia and WelTec MergerCE and Commissioner must listen to staff and make regional needs a priority in proposed merger of Whitireia and WelTec The Tertiary Education Union (TEU) today called on Chief Executive Chris Gosling and Commissioner Neil Barnes to take seriously ...7 days ago
- Neither free nor fairThe US midterm elections are tomorrow, and people are quite reasonably painting them as the US's last chance to remain a democracy. But looking at them from New Zealand, that status looks doubtful already. Free and fair elections where the ...7 days ago
- Limiting democracy is not the answerAn unrepresentative Parliament. Political parties taking millions of dollars in secret cash. Crony appointments and revolving door jobs. There's a lot wrong with our political system at the moment, and an international environment where some countries seem to be consciously ...1 week ago
- Labour’s Dunedin Conference: Returning To The Scene Of The Crime.
1 week ago - Auckland Transports Restructure
There’s been some worrisome news in recent days after it emerged that Auckland Transport are disbanding their Walking and Cycling team as part of organisation wide restructure. Auckland Transport is axing 84 positions and creating 112 new ones in an ...1 week ago - Te Pūtake o Te Riri
The ‘two-worlds’ analogy retains its stubborn hold. Two worlds mapped onto Niu Tireni, sharing space, differently placed. You say Raowmati, I say Raumati; You say Oohtackie, I say Ōtaki. Or as poet Robert Sullivan put it: You say Treaty and ...1 week ago - Julian Assange’s mother appeals for her son’s freedom
Despite many appeals for the freedom of incarcerated journalists throughout the world, our media remains largely silent about Julian Assange who has effectively been imprisoned in the London Embassy of Ecuador for over 6 years and faces the possibility of draconian ...1 week ago - Speeding, surveillance, and ANPRNZTA will be trialling point-to-point speed cameras in Auckland, in the Waterview Tunnel and on the Southern Motorway. Speed is a killer, and these are a useful way of policing it. At the same time, there are obvious privacy concerns. ...1 week ago
- Hard News: The big vision and the small problemsIt was always on the cards that Jacinda Ardern's first conference keynote as Labour Party leader would contain a significant policy announcement; a reward for the people in the room, an underlining of her government's brand. What's pleasing is that ...1 week ago
- NonVoters in New Caledonia went to the polls yesterday in an independence referendum, and voted 56-44 to remain a colony of France. Which is what happens when you ship in colonists for generations and make the indigenous inhabitants a minority ...1 week ago
- Sucking us dryForeign water bottling plants are a ripoff for New Zealand. Foreigners are essentially given a resource for free, and they then turn around and sell it for at least $1 a litre. That's morally odious and corrupt, but it gets ...1 week ago
- Access: Reaching outWhat do you do when you’re not at all sure how to be ok anymore? The well known, well-publicised advice is to talk to someone, which is excellent advice and a great start. What if you feel like your life ...1 week ago
- A possible solution to Party campaign funding rorts
. . 1. Party donations As the law currently stands with regards to party donations, there are set limits to election spending. According to the Electoral Commission; Expenditure limit A registered party’s election expenses during the regulated period for the ...1 week ago - Puhinui Station Interchange Concept
One of the key public transport projects to be delivered over the next decade is a busway from the Airport to Botany (A2B). While the full busway will take years to be built, some parts, such as an upgraded Puhinui ...1 week ago - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #44
Story of the Week... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Reviews... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... Startling ...1 week ago - The perks prayerby Don Franks The well intentioned folks wanting Jesus put back in parliament’s prayer are on the wrong track. The enemy of money changers wouldn’t want his brand tarnished by that shower in the Beehive. If MPs really must have ...1 week ago
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #44
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week from Sunday through noon on Friday. Editor's Pick Earth’s carbon dioxide levels are likely the highest they've been in 15 million years ...1 week ago - Why Lime Is Leaving A Sour Taste In My Mouth.
1 week ago - New research, October 22-28, 2018A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change Temperature, precipitation, wind Radiosondes show that after decades of cooling the lower stratosphere is now warming Verification of an approximate thermodynamic equation with application to study on ...1 week ago
- Flashback Saturday: Improving Upper Symonds St
Every weekend we dig into the archives. This post by Matt was first published in September 2015. An interesting idea emerged yesterday from the Uptown Business Association for improving the southern end Symonds St. It’s an area I know well having formerly lived ...1 week ago - October ’18 – NZ blogs sitemeter rankingImage credit: Blogging Jokes I notice a few regulars no longer allow public access to the site counters. This may happen accidentally when the blog format is altered. If your blog is unexpectedly missing or the numbers seem very low ...2 weeks ago
- Hard News: Friday Music: Return of the Rhythm MasterYou can't have followed beat-based music in New Zealand for the last 15 years without being at least peripherally aware of Julien Dyne, but he's been particularly in my ear lately, with his work on the Avantdale Bowling Club album ...2 weeks ago
- KiwiBuild Should Be Targeting The Poor.
2 weeks ago - Climate Change: The opposite conclusionAnother day, and another article full of special pleading from farmers (or their mouthpieces) about how the rest of us should continue to subsidise them on climate change. This one is from National MP Stuart Smith, and takes the usual ...2 weeks ago
- New Fisk2 weeks ago
- City Centre population and employment growth
Over the last few weeks Stats NZ have updated their annual population and employment stats and there’s a couple of interesting trends to note. Population In the year to 30-Jun, Auckland’s population is estimated to have risen by just under ...2 weeks ago - Climate impactsThis is a re-post from ...and Then There's Physics Carbon brief has a very nice interactive report that show the impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond. It presents the various projected climatic, ecological, and economic changes on both global ...2 weeks ago
- Should Porkers Rule OK?From the 1930s when GDP was first systematically measured, economists knew that it was not a good measure of wellbeing.read more ...2 weeks ago
- Climate Change: How to kill coal in NZIf we are to avoid catastrophic climate change, then we need to end the mining and use of fossil fuels. This means not just ending oil, which the government is taking its first feeble steps towards today, but also coal. ...2 weeks ago
- Labour’s entrenches bad faithThe Crown Minerals (Petroleum) Amendment Bill, which is supposedly about banning offshore oil exploration, is back before the House for its second reading this afternoon. I say "supposedly", because the government has left loopholes in the bill the oil industry ...2 weeks ago
- Nightmare On Bolsonaro Street.
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