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Month July 2008

A vote for National equals a vote for lower wages

The Stand­ard points out National’s record on wages (via No Right Turn). Vote for National to lower your wages people.

New Zealand Police soft on serious crime?

It appears the New Zea­l­and Police are soft on ser­i­ous crime. The U.S. Sec­ret­ary of State, Condoleezza Rice, travels to New Zea­l­and this week­end and I’m ashamed to say she’s able to without a prom­ise from the NZ Police that she will be arres­ted and charged with war crimes, includ­ing tor­ture and the “supreme inter­na­tional crime,” initiating…

Spineless politicians drafting spineless law

To draft and sup­port loath­some law like this surely you have to be either extremely ignor­ant of his­tory or have sym­path­ies for fas­cism. Some politi­cians clearly have no qualms show­ing off how spine­less they are by using fear to trade our freedoms and make it look like they’re actu­ally doing some­thing. No Right Turn on…

Where does this lead I wonder?

Today I watched a bus driver in Lon­don half pull up to a bus stop and then pull away before stop­ping when he saw the only per­son wav­ing him down. She happened to be a little old lady with dark skin and a head scarf. There were mur­murs of dis­taste from the two people standing…

Bush regime drops preconditions to talks with Iran

It appears as if someone sens­ible finally has Bush’s ear. Maybe Tom Engel­hardt is right.

The quick green guide

Nat Tork­ing­ton shares Clive Matthew-Wilson’s quick guide to cli­mate change (via Hard News): I nearly ran an energy con­fer­ence and did I ton of read­ing and learn­ing for it. Loved the Dog and Lemon Guide guy. His final com­ment was fuck­ing bril­liant, and I think he was closest to my opin­ion on the whole sub­ject. Offsets…

Why the U.S. won’t attack Iran

The pro­spect of an attack on Iran has been on my mind since the attack on Iraq, not in the least because it would prob­ably pre­cip­it­ate a great depres­sion and turn much of the world into a fire­ball. Tom Engel­hardt has a thought­ful piece on why he thinks the U.S./Israel won’t attack Iran, des­pite some of the nutters…

Iran is not the belligerent party

The media in the West has a lot of blood on its hands already. Is it going to have more blood on its hands in Iran? Iran is not the bel­li­ger­ent party: When it comes to demon­ising Iran, the US, Israel and Bri­tain have a uni­fied mes­sage and a com­pli­ant media, which has learned noth­ing from…

Peter Beaumont throws his toys

What’s Peter Beau­mont up to? First he’s cyn­ic­ally try­ing to sell papers by drum­ming up con­tro­versy where there is none, now he’s threat­en­ing to sue Sur­vival Inter­na­tional, a charity, for call­ing him on his shit. Sur­vival Inter­na­tional have pos­ted a silly phone mes­sage from Beau­mont whereby he threatens to sue them for “asso­ci­at­ing” him with the false alleg­a­tions that the uncon­tac­ted tribe pictures…

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