Call for UN Nation States to be Earth trustees – University of Auckland
An environmental law expert and academic from the University of Auckland is calling for the United Nations to adopt the…
Year: 2017
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Non-religious group renews call for repeal of NZ’s outdated blasphemy law – Humanist Society
The Humanist Society today renewed calls to repeal New Zealand’s outdated blasphemy law. The group cites the blasphemy investigation by…
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Best Twitter Burn of the day – Andrea Vance vs Jordan Williams
Best Twitter Burn of the day – Andrea Vance vs Jordan Williams
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Why Jonathan Coleman called the “People’s Mental Health Report” advocates ‘Left-wing, anti-Government protesters’
Don’t for one second think that was a gaffe by a Health Minister embarrassed by a damning mental health report, because Health Minister’s don’t gaffe. The specific use of those trigger words have already been poll tested and National know that by writing the criticism off as coming from ‘left wing anti-Government protestors’ that their rump electorate will ignore the urgency of what the report has found.
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Yes We CAN? Labour launches its Community Action Network
PEOPLE ON THE LEFT bang on and on about “community”. It’s a nice safe word that allows Labour centrists to express ideas that are vaguely collective in nature, but without resorting to that awful, unspeakable word – class. That said, it is difficult to drive into an ageing state-house suburb like Otara, in Auckland, without the word “community” popping into your head.
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MEDIA WATCH: Rod Oram steps down from Fairfax after ‘editorial differences’
While blue green hipster wank blog, ‘The Spin-Off ‘, cravenly worshiped the corporate media against the ComCom decision, the best economic columnist in NZ, Rod Oram, has stepped down from Fairfax for ‘editorial differences’ after he wrote a column in support of the Commerce Commission decision to stop Fairfax’s newspaper monopoly…
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GUEST BLOG: Robin Westenra – The death of pure water in Lower Hutt
Lower Hutt, and especially Petone, has had some of the purest aquifer water anywhere in the world and people came from many miles around to fill their bottles at a communal tap. All that has disappeared, in an instant, as it were, and it doesn’t look as if we are ever going to get our pure water supply back. Clearly there are a lot of angry and upset people who are no longer able to access pure water, free of chemicals, for their families.
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Weekly Cricket Pasta recipe – Garlic Sautéed Cricket Pasta with Broccoli
Garlic Sautéed Cricket Pasta with Broccoli:
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Viva La What Exactly…?
Well, the dust has already started to clear; and the inevitable, inordinate triumphalism appears to have begun in earnest. No sooner had news of Macron’s 65-35 victory over ‘the dreaded’ Le Pen become public, than the caterwauling chorus of ‘usual suspects’ had come out of the woodwork to proclaim this some combination of the Midway and the D-Day in the ongoing fight of once-dominant neoliberal globalism back against the newly resurgent ‘spectre’ of more economically left nationalism.
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Trumpwatch – What’s a few more nails in the planet’s coffin?
Trump’s First 100 Days can boast of several “achievements”. But not the variety that progressive-minded people – especially those concerned with global environmental problems and threats to peace – would welcome with a cheer.