The Standard points out National’s record on wages (via No Right Turn). Vote for National to lower your wages people.
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…
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…
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…
It appears as if someone sensible finally has Bush’s ear. Maybe Tom Engelhardt is right.
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…
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…
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…
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…