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House To Sit For Treaty Bills
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 10:14 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
MPs will debate the third readings of the Te Urewera-Tuhoe Bill divided into two bills (Tūhoe Claims Settlement Bill and Te Urewera Bill) and the Ngā Mana Whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau Collective Redress Bill . More >>
Paid Parental Leave Bill Runs Out Of Time
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 10:01 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
National MPs continued to put the brakes on the committee stage of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill with debate ending for the evening on clause four. More >>
Valedictories Speeches Heavy On Party Loyalty
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 6:55 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Retiring MPs began their valedictory speech this afternoon with a number of National MPs saying farewell. More >>
Petitions And Papers
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 2:09 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Three petitions requesting the House to urge the Government to connect three communities to the fibre broadband network were presented when the House resumed at 2pm. More >>
Israel committing “deliberate massacre” in Gaza
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 1:18 pm | Redress Information
Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi has accused the Israeli Wehrmacht of committing “war crimes” and carrying out a “deliberate massacre” of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. More >>
Nepal Budget of 2014
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 1:09 pm | Siddhi B. Ranjitkar
On Sunday, July 13, 2014. Finance Minister Dr Ram Sharan Mahat read out the Budget for the fiscal year (FY) 2014 at the parliament. The budget text was short but it had many useful tables with data for anyone to verify what Dr Mahat had said in the ... More >>
News Updates from CLG: Israel using flechette shells in Gaza
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 12:59 pm | Citizens for Legitimate Government
The Israeli military is using flechette shells, which spray thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts, in its military operation in Gaza. Six flechette shells were fired towards the village of Khuzaa, east of Khan Younis, on 17 July, ... More >>
Valedictories To Begin
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 12:35 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
After Question Time and the General Debate, the following MPs will give their farewell speeches in Parliament: More >>
Privilege Bill Makes Progress
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 12:24 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Attorney-General Chris Finlayson said the Parliamentary Privilege Bill showed NZ had reached the point where parliamentary privilege needed to be codified to ensure it was not reduced by recent court rulings. More >>
Review: A View from the Bridge
Wednesday, 23 July 2014, 9:32 am | Sharon Ellis
Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge is Circa’s latest big production, it opened on Saturday 19 July and it is a stunning triumph. More >>
House To Sit Wed Morning
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 10:08 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament resumes at 9am on Wednesday to consider two reports from the Privileges Committee on the Question of privilege concerning the agreements for policing, execution of search warrants, and collection and retention of information by the NZSIS and ... More >>
House Rises Debating Privilege
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 10:04 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Privileges Committee report on Question of privilege regarding use of intrusive powers within the parliamentary precinct was interrupted when the House rose and will resume at 9am tomorrow. More >>
The Political Objective and Strategic Goal of Nonviolence
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 4:52 pm | Robert J. Burrowes
All nonviolent struggles are conducted simultaneously in the political and strategic spheres, and these spheres, which are distinct, interact throughout. I have discussed this at length elsewhere: see 'The Strategy of Nonviolent Defense: A Gandhian Approach'. More >>
Genesis Energy Motion Passes
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 4:28 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
MPs have passed a motion ensuring Genesis Energy is a public organisation for parliamentary purposes. More >>
Memories, recollections, guesses and speculations about MH17
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 4:22 pm | The Vineyard of the Saker
I think that any analysis of the events surrounding the downing of MH17 should begin with the following admission: no matter what, the AngloZionists will blame Russia. Just like 9/11, there is no way, no amount of evidence, which would affect the unanimous ... More >>
A word of caution about premature conclusions
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 4:12 pm | The Vineyard of the Saker
I am very sorry to have to tell you all that it is too early to conclude that the Novorussian forces did not shoot down the Malaysian airliners. Though most Novorussian air defense systems are man-portable, the Resistance forces did get their hands on ... More >>
David Cunliffe and John Key press stand-ups: July 22 2014
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 3:56 pm | The Scoop Team
Labour Leader David Cunliffe met with reporters today to discuss Labour’s plans going into Election 2014, and Key’s lack of apology to Tania Billingsley. Prime Minister John Key also met with reporters today to discuss National MP Claudette ... More >>
MH17 And Gaza
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 2:48 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
When Parliament resumed at 2pm MPs passed a motion relating to the MH17 tragedy and the conflict in Gaza. More >>
Parliament Enters Its Final Weeks
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 10:47 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament begins its penultimate sitting week today with a number of planned extended hours sessions being used to wash up business. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the non-apology to Tania Billingsley
Tuesday, 22 July 2014, 10:04 am | Gordon Campbell
The refusal by Prime Minister John Key to issue a personal apology to Tania Billingsley has been accompanied by an array of excuses. Yes, there are judicial proceedings to be considered, as well an “independent inquiry” into how the incident was ... More >>
NZ Election Reactor #1 Tests Reaction to Cunliffe’s Apology
Monday, 21 July 2014, 9:35 pm | NZ Election Reactor
Labour Leader David Cunliffe’s “apology” over male violence seems to have polarised many voters, but the first run of the Roy Morgan Research / Scoop NZ Election Reactor showed the response was largely negative across the spectrum. More >>
PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference - 21 July 2014
Monday, 21 July 2014, 5:56 pm | The Scoop Team
Prime Minister John Key and Finance Minister Bill English met with reporters today to discuss: • The government’s activities in the public sector • Reductions to welfare • Crime statistics • NCEA results and policy • Civilian casualties ... More >>
Top 5 Scoop Press Releases Week To 19th July 2014
Monday, 21 July 2014, 11:59 am | Scoop Insights
The following five press releases were the top performing press releases (by NZ page view numbers) according to Google Analytics on Scoop for the seven days to 19th July 2014. More >>
"Party Party" - The Launch Of A Global Movement | 500 Words
Monday, 21 July 2014, 10:35 am | Alastair Thompson
The Launch Of A Global Movement The "Party Party" Tour (July 23-26 - AUCK CHCH WGTN DUND ) Interviews With Tommy Ill & Beat Mob Artur By Alastair Thompson More >>
Why the Israelis are repetitively violent
Friday, 18 July 2014, 5:37 pm | Lawrence Davidson
With the Israelis once more inflicting collective punishment in Gaza (a tactic which happens to constitute a war crime) it is time to consider the mindset behind their repeated violent and sadistic behaviour. More >>
Wellington protest for Palestine calls for end to bombing
Friday, 18 July 2014, 5:17 pm | Anne Russell
Around 300 people gathered outside the Israeli Embassy on Brandon St in Wellington earlier today to protest Israel’s occupation of Palestine. When three teenage Israeli boys were recently killed in Palestine, Israel responded with an extended bombing ... More >>
Adrian Maidment Cartoon: Cunliffe's Ice Water Challenge
Friday, 18 July 2014, 4:07 pm | Adrian Maidment
Adrian Maidment Cartoon: Cunliffe's Ice Water Challenge *** More >>
Gordon Campbell on the failure to prosecute the GCSB
Friday, 18 July 2014, 9:50 am | Gordon Campbell
So one hand of the state – the Independent Police Conduct Authority - has now washed the hands of its brother agencies, and declared that all hands are clean. Case closed. Does anyone feel re-assured by this exercise in familial self-exoneration? More >>
Workplace Surveillance and the Productivity Incentive
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 5:51 pm | Binoy Kampmark
A post by John Neiditz in Big Data Tech Law (Jul 12) makes use of a pertinent concept to relations in the workplace. He draws on the work of sociologist Erving Goffman, who suggests that individuals need a “backstage” to ready themselves for interaction ... More >>
Ravaging Gaza: The War Netanyahu Cannot Possibly Win
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 5:39 pm | Ramzy Baroud
When the bodies of three Israeli settlers - Aftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 - were found on June 30 near Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israel went into a state of mourning and a wave of sympathy flowed in from ... More >>
University of Illinois Channels Carl Woese for All
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 5:16 pm | Suzan Mazur
Author Isaac Asimov once told me he did his best thinking in his underwear. Asimov might have appreciated the convenience of MOOC-style learning, that is, the free "massive open online course" experience being offered by the University of Illinois, ... More >>
The Law of the Seize
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 4:52 pm | Rene Wadlow
8 June of each year has been proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as the Day of the Law of the Sea. However, according to my friend John Logue, Director of Villanova University Common Heritage Institute who had participated with me as non-government ... More >>
If Iraq Were in Central America
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 4:25 pm | David Swanson
Just as in discussions of bombing nations for women's rights it's hard to bring up the subject of the right not to be bombed, in discussions of shipping so-called illegal children away from the border where you've been terrorizing them in reenactments ... More >>
What if Hamas dumped all its rockets?
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 3:18 pm | Stuart Littlewood
The slaughter of innocents is necessary to stop Gaza rocket-fire. That’s what Israel says. “This isn’t about rockets from Gaza,” says Unite. The union Unite is to be congratulated on its no-nonsense analysis and statement expressing solidarity ... More >>
Asus Transformer Pad TF103
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 2:17 pm | Digitl
At first glance the Asus Transformer Pad TF103 is a decent low-cost tablet. The specification, build and performance aren't noticeable better than the multitude of rival Android devices aiming at the same market. However, the value is undeniably ... More >>
Israel's atrocity and the West's ignorance...
Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 5:19 pm | Jamal Kanj
Seeing "free" Western media with headlines like "Rockets raining over Israel", or describing the success of Israel's Iron Dome defence system in intercepting missiles from Gaza, you would assume there was a war between equals - or even that ... More >>
Korean miners to sue states over environmental regulation
Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 3:34 pm | Patricia Ranald
After all the publicity about the Japan-Australia trade deal, parliamentary hearings by the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties begin quietly this week to determine whether the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement negotiated recently is in the national ... More >>
Should parties tell us who they’d work with before election?
Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 11:51 am | Massey University
In New Zealand we watch elections as if they were horse races. Some of us even place bets. The big question, however, is not ‘Who will win?’ but ‘Who will form the government after the election?’ More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Dotcom emails
Wednesday, 16 July 2014, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Back in 2010 at least, the email trail recently released to David Fisher of the NZ Herald shows that the Immigration Service had found an interesting niche in business migrants: people who (a) have $10 million or more spare change to invest in this ... More >>
Is NZ violating the SIS Act over US drone strikes?
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 5:36 pm | Bob Rigg
After decades of lively public debate, New Zealand abolished the death penalty for murder in 1961. It is not widely known that the death penalty for treason remained on the statute books until it was also abolished in 1989. More >>
The Anti-Empire Report #130
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 4:49 pm | William Blum
What would a psychiatrist call this? Delusions of grandeur? US Secretary of State John Kerry, July 8, 2014: “In my travels as secretary of state, I have seen as never before the thirst for American leadership in the world.” More >>
Nine days of hope for Gaza ceasefire squandered by Israel
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 2:39 pm | Leslie Bravery
Had Israel used the nine days of Palestinian ceasefire to reinforce the suspension of violence, then it is very likely that the present carnage could have been avoided. On 21 November 2012, a unilateral ceasefire declared by Israel came into effect. More >>
Israel's dissenting voices get lost in the war echo chamber
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 2:35 pm | Neve Gordon
For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to "destroy them"- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians - "once and for all". The rockets being fired from Gaza clearly do have the effect of raising the level of ... More >>
Israel to the Palestinians: submit, leave or die
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 2:25 pm | Jeff Halper
US Secretary of State John Kerry’s initiative may have ended with a whimper instead of a bang, but its impact on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was significant and fundamental nonetheless. More >>
Ethiopia slides deeper into repression
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 2:05 pm | Graham Peebles
Faced with a brutal repressive regime, Ethiopians inside the country and within the worldwide diaspora –frustrated, angry and desperate – are considering all options to elicit fundamental change in the country. More >>
Passing Gas to the Consumer
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 1:50 pm | Walter Brasch
Gas prices at the pump during the July 4th extended weekend were the highest they have been in six years. This, of course, has little to do with supply-and-demand economics. It has everything to do with supply-and-gouge profits. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the shonky Police statistics, and Gaza
Tuesday, 15 July 2014, 10:49 am | Gordon Campbell
When people systematically alter how being statistics are recorded in order to gain personal and organisational advantage, that’s usually when the Police get called in. Yet in the case of the burglary statistics in Counties-Manakau, it was the Police ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Rats have a lot to offer
Monday, 14 July 2014, 3:37 pm | Martin Doyle
With their numbers ballooning to 15 million in recent months, rats are doing very well under National. Not just green-voters, but presumably everything in the New Zealand ecosystem, will welcome Nick Smith's timely extermination programme. More >>
Top 5 Scoop Press Releases Week To 12th July 2014
Monday, 14 July 2014, 12:30 pm | Scoop Insights
The following five press releases were the top performing press releases (by NZ page view numbers) according to Google Analytics on Scoop for the seven days to 12th July 2014. More >>
An Invitation To Rate the Highs & Lows of the Political Week
Monday, 14 July 2014, 12:00 pm | NZ Election Reactor
Dear Scoop Readers/Subscribers, An Invitation To Rate the Highs & Lows of the NZ Political Week from Scoop Publisher Alastair Thompson More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Someone somewhere is responsible
Friday, 11 July 2014, 5:43 pm | Martin Doyle
The PM is on holiday and won't comment on the diplomatic immunity issue, the Acting PM won't comment, and Murray McCully is commissioning some kind of inquiry into his very own micro-managed department and won't comment. Is this what we call responsible ... More >>
SRI LANKA: Targeting Freedom of Expression
Friday, 11 July 2014, 4:44 pm | Asian Human Rights Commission
A notice has been issued by one D.M.S, Dissanayake as the director/registrar of the NGO Secretariat in a letterhead of the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development warning the NOGs that they are acting beyond their mandates by conducting press conferences ... More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Whoa to the chased
Friday, 11 July 2014, 3:56 pm | Martin Doyle
It has been clear for several years that the current policy round police chases is causing unnecessary danger and deaths. Rather than address the issue while it's in the air at the moment, Police are once again flooding the media with other tales ... More >>
Public Address 11 July 2014 - Five new posts!
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:47 pm | Public Address
Just a quickie post this week, because I’m flat-out with with and conferences and stuff. And besides, there’s Campbell Walker’s prodigious guest post on Peter Jefferies and his work if you want some more reading and listening pleasure. More >>
Why Are So Many Black Girls Suspended from School?
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:40 pm | Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu
Why has America and the Black community been silent about this epidemic? We hear so much about the 47 percent dropout rate among Black males, but I believe a 40 percent dropout rate among Black females is outrageous and unacceptable. More >>
How Politics and Lies Triggered an Unintended War in Gaza
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:37 pm | J. J. Goldberg
In the flood of angry words that poured out of Israel and Gaza during a week of spiraling violence, few statements were more blunt, or more telling, than this throwaway line by the chief spokesman of the Israeli military, Brigadier General Moti Almoz, speaking ... More >>
U.S. Out of Germany
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:31 pm | David Swanson
If Germany hasn't had enough, we in the United States sure have. Despite the supposed ending of World War II, the U.S. still keeps over 40,000 armed soldiers permanently in Germany. Despite the ending of the Cold War, the U.S. still spies on the German ... More >>
Israel’s Gaza Genocide Redux
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:29 pm | Prof. Francis A. Boyle
I delivered the following Oral Argument before the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Commission for the Indictment of Israel for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity on November 21, 2012 during Israel’s genocidal Operation Cast Lead II ... More >>
Israelis indifferent to lynching and war crimes
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:23 pm | Uri Avnery
Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed. Again. Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before. More >>
Tania Billingsley demands accountability for sexual assault
Friday, 11 July 2014, 1:56 pm | Tania Billingsley
Since my assault I feel that people have been assuming that my idea of justice is to have Rizalman found guilty in a New Zealand court. While it is an important part of justice being done, my main reason for wanting this is not for my own sense of ... More >>
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