It was a very good month. Dig in. Every entry is a classic.
WorldChanging has this extremely interesting story. So the heads of the 12 biggest companies in the United Kingdom can figure out that climate change is a) not bullshit b) something worth worrying about and c) something definitely worth planning around and they’re calling on the Government to do something about it! I wonder [...]
After the fun of last week and Rod being quoted as saying
“The Chinese Government needs to understand that they are in New Zealand, not Tiananmen Square,” Mr Donald said. “We’re a democracy, not a police state.”
Guyon Espiner has gone out of his way to prove Rod’s point about the Police State in China and has [...]
So today New Zealand First launched their immigration policy at the Orewa Grey Power this afternoon.
An executive summary of his speech is as follows:
Nationalism
Patriotism
Nationalism
Patriotism
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
BIGOTRY
FEAR
FEAR
They don’t even speak ENGLISH!!
FEAR
FEAR
FEAR
“Now, whenever we raise this issue we get accused of being racist or xenophobic.
However, we raise it for one simple reason.
We actually have a choice about these demographic [...]
Rod
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Today the Greens held a silent protest to mark the arrival at Parliament of Mr Wu Bangguo, the chair of China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
Rod was on the forecourt holding a Tibetan flag in solidarity with the people of Tibet. The Chinese security tried to get the New [...]
So Forest and Bird like it. Business NZ don’t. Hardly any surprises there.
What’s most interesting is the silent response from the government. This can only be read as a good thing. Usually if a party puts out a policy, you get one of two responses.
1. Condemnation. This almost always [...]
Green Party Energy Policy launch
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I went to the launch of the Green Party energy launch today. You can read a summary of it here.
Got some damn smart stuff in it, especially the commitment to developing the solar industry with a view towards half a million solar panels for homes across Aotearoa. [...]
The Denizen has a good analysis on the Telecon hack. If you don’t understand who the bad guys are in this situation, read it. If you still don’t get it, maybe try reading the entire back catalogue of 2600 As an aside, the latest issue is pretty good, I now know more than [...]
So this year is the 30th anniversary of the International Year of the Woman. This time 30 years ago women from all over New Zealand converged on Wellington for the national Women’s Convention. So this year another convention is being held to celebrate and evaluate the gains made for women since then and [...]
It was out of it last week, I was out on the street helping with the Trans-Tasman Green campaign to lobby the Japanese to pull their heads in over their push to increase their ’scientific’ whaling take. And all these people told me that ‘Save The Whales’ was such an old slogan and we [...]
OK so on Friday night I went to the Green Room 004: Hope CD release party at Indigo. It was amazing!
The presales sold out the morning before so there were people lining up outside the venue an hour before the doors opened. And once the door sales went there was still a line [...]
So Thursday was one of those exciting days for political geeks like myself. Yes folks, Budget Day.
So what was in it?
um
yawn
Oh shit, sorry I’m awake now.
So the big story was the announcement of a new work based savings scheme for retirement and for first home buyers. This is in recognition that we’re REALLY [...]
So Brazil just had the second highest year of rainforest deforestation so the Green Party representatives resigned in disgust.
Repra-fuckin-zent
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Let’s have a wee positve moment (especially after this mornings diatribe!). I’m going to say stuff I like.
1. Student Protests
Especially when there’s heaps of them even though it’s kind of raining. And they’re shouting heaps and the Minister has to revert to name calling to combat their refusal to believe his bullshit.
2. Making [...]
The women of Kuwait have just won the right to vote and stand in elections. Despite fierce opposition naturally.
Good to hear. Big ups to all the choice chicks that would have worked unbelievably hard and copped tons of crap for making this happen.
Chur!
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OK so last night I saw the most offensive ad on television that I have ever seen.
Naturally, it was an ad for ‘feminine hygiene’ products or as I prefer to call them as ‘infiltrative poisonous capitalism swabs’. This ad featured some hot spunky south american chicks and some dodgy looking south american ‘baddie’ and [...]
The Herald is reporting a story about the collapse of the war on drugs in Columbia. Well duh, anyone who has spent 10 minutes learning about the corrupt situation in Columbia would know that there are some serious issues that need dealing with between the government and the drug cartels before any ‘war on [...]
NRT discussed the season for seasonal workers issues. I agree wholeheartedly about the issues in regards to pay. But it’s not just pay, there are some extreme renegade employers out there. I had a friend working on an orchard in Motueka a few years ago and the supervisor drove around the orchard [...]
If the Destiny Party had their way, is this the stuff we could expect to see in schools? Firstly for girls Iron Hymen and for boys Sex is for Fags.
I think not, don’t know if they get satire, irony, or sarcasm.
I want an abstinence badge.
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I remember being excited when my stat counter hit 1000.
Well, it just hit 5000! Hoorar!
Thanks for reading people, and thanks for all the feedback, both through the comments and via email.
I feel the aroha!
xxooxx
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Hmm
That cheeky Robson got his Bill pulled out to raise the drinking age back up. It might make first reading tonight but depends on how quick they go through the order paper.
From the Bill:
This bill amends the Sale of Liquor Act 1989 to raise the drinking age to 20 years, strengthen the provisions relating [...]
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