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Bridges to safety
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 2:08 pm | Martin Doyle
Let us hope that Simon Bridges' new safety agency is more than just window dressing, because the casualty list in our workplaces (released by CTU's Helen Kelly) is crying out for action. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Govt tramples on rights of family carers
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:17 am | Gordon Campbell
Don’t want to be unduly alarmist about this, but we seem to have an outlaw government on our hands – if by that we mean a government willing to suspend the ability of citizens to seek the courts’ protection if and when the government violates freedoms ... More >>
A Global Fair Deal On Copyright, OurFairDeal.org | 500 Words
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:52 am | Alastair Thompson
Yesterday I participated in the launch of OurFairDeal.org a new website home for global citizens coalition around the issue of copyright as it pertains to the internet. More >>
UN General Assembly Vote - Shift in Syrian Public Opinion
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:52 am | Franklin Lamb
It’s not hard to find critics of the Assad government in the Governorate (Muhafazat) of Homs or for that matter, to varying degrees in Syria’s other thirteen Governorates according to Syrian analysts interviewed by this observer and reports from human ... More >>
The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:44 am | Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham
Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing a pile of papers down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom. More >>
PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference - 20 May 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013, 6:08 pm | Hamish Cardwell
Budget 2013 | Holdup on Meat Exports to China | Family Carers. More >>
Citizens for Legitimate Government: 19 May 2013
Monday, 20 May 2013, 1:00 pm | Citizens for Legitimate Government
The Pentagon's chief of irregular warfare still sees a war against al-Qaida that will last decades, all over the world -- a prospect that prompted astonishment and constitutional debate in the Senate. Asked at a Senate hearing today how long the ... More >>
Standing Tall for Landowner Rights
Monday, 20 May 2013, 12:21 pm | Walter Brasch
Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is the Bois d’Arc Creek. More >>
Last Chance – Stop Florida’s HB 87 and ForeclosureGate II
Monday, 20 May 2013, 12:16 pm | Michael Collins
Florida Governor Rick Scott may have just one more day to veto Florida’s big-bank friendly foreclosure act, HB 87. Nearly 1,200 Floridians have signed the Veto Florida’s Foreclosure Act Petition, despite indifferent coverage by Florida’s mainstream ... More >>
Call to improve asthma care and control
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:59 am | Citizen News Service
When there are evidence-based methods to control asthma effectively, then why is the disease burden growing over the past 30 years, particularly in the low- and middle-income countries? More >>
Parliament Sits On Saturday Morning
Saturday, 18 May 2013, 9:16 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House resumed at 9am on Saturday to debate the last clauses of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 Amendment Bill ’s committee stage. More >>
To The Midnight Hour
Friday, 17 May 2013, 7:22 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House sat into Friday evening under Urgency rules and looks set to come back on Saturday morning. More >>
San Onofre at the No Nukes Brink
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:26 pm | Harvey Wasserman
In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cake walk. With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license exception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator ... More >>
Israel's racist and ethnocentric view
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:21 pm | Jamal Kanj
Palestinians are this week commemorating the 65th anniversary of Al Nakba (the disaster). On May 15, 1948, Israel was declared a nation on the ruins of more than 500 townships and 800,000 expelled Palestinians. More >>
No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:17 pm | David Swanson
After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times -- are up for sale. And one of the potential buyers? The Koch brothers. And wow are people outraged! More >>
Drone Pilots Expose Politicians' Lies
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:10 pm | David Swanson
Our elected and unelected officials tell us that drone strikes target top level enemies of the United States who are imminent threats to us, and that killing innocent people is avoided altogether or minimized. More >>
Hit and Stay
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:04 pm | David Swanson
The CIA has been so busy consulting on Zero Dark Thirty, not to mention funding Hamid Karzai, bribing Russians, lying about weapons, and conducting humanitarian drone murders, that it didn't have any time at all to help out with Hit and Stay, and yet ... More >>
MPs Briefed On United Nations
Friday, 17 May 2013, 3:52 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee receives a briefing on UN reform and NZ's bid for a security council seat. More >>
Busy Week – Budget, Bills And Blue
Friday, 17 May 2013, 3:02 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
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Public Address 15 May 2013 - Introducing David Herkt
Friday, 17 May 2013, 11:45 am | Public Address
Like almost everyone in the Western world, I remember 9/11 vividly. I woke in the morning to the rolling TV coverage and the collapse of the Twin Towers on repeat. Terrorism met the Age of Spectacle in a purpose-planned event. More >>
Comie Lawn: Obama's Rain Press Conference With Turkish PM
Friday, 17 May 2013, 11:31 am | Connie Lawn
It rained on President Obama's rose garden news conference with the Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It was a fitting end to a very hard week for the President. Connie Lawn sends an audio report. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the 2013 Budget
Friday, 17 May 2013, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The Budget lockup retains a symbolic value these days, but little more than that. This is the government’s best annual opportunity to bury its usual screw-ups and regale the public with power-pointed examples of its vision, shrewd thrift and judicious ... More >>
Parliament Resumes To Pass Budgets Bills
Friday, 17 May 2013, 9:14 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House resumed on Friday under Urgency rules to debate a number of Budget related bills. More >>
Urgency Progress
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 9:03 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill to fast track land supply particularly aimed at increasing Auckland’s housing supply has progressed under Urgency. More >>
Urgency Motion
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 5:39 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House went into urgency to debate Budget related legislation ranging from increasing petrol prices through to increasing land supply for housing in Auckland. More >>
Bill English’s Fifth Budget And Debate In Reply
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 5:05 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
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House Goes Into Urgency
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 4:59 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House has gone into urgency to debate Budget related legislation ranging from increasing petrol prices through to increasing land supply for housing in Auckland. More >>
Scoop Coverage of Budget Day 2013
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 4:24 pm | The Scoop Team
As always and especially after the managerial mishaps of the past few weeks and months, (e.g. Aaron Gilmore, the Mighty River Power share float, the GCSB mishaps) Budget Day 2013 was always going to be a pageant of reassurance. A promise that austerity ... More >>
Budget And Bills
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 2:03 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Central government: Result of the 2011/12 audits by the Finance and Expenditure Committee More >>
Budget Day And Urgency
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 10:13 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Budget 2013 will be delivered in the House on Thursday 16 May, after 2 p.m. More >>
Members Bills Progress, Blue Says Goodbye
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 6:03 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Todd McClay, who sponsored the Prohibition of Gang Insignia in Government Premises Bill , said gangs were a scourge on society and changes made in select committee would mean the ban on gang insignia would now include every school. More >>
Without Russia, World War II Goes On
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 5:07 pm | John Stanton
Most Americans are ignorant of Russia’s incredible contribution to the defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan. Americans can barely remember the details of World War II and worse still they do not want to be bothered with more than a cursory review of ... More >>
United States: How Your Town Can Stop Drones
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:56 pm | David Swanson
Local resolutions have helped advance many issues, including war opposition, when they've been passed in large numbers. When we passed a resolution in Charlottesville, Va., last year opposing any attack on Iran, I heard from numerous cities that wanted ... More >>
Fall and Rise of Khan: Pakistan General Elections 2013
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:46 pm | Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan
Empires rose and fell in the history but none fell before the rise. The empire (a metaphor) characterised by his appeal to the masses’ passion rather than territories that is christened by (Imran) Khan, a cricketer turned philanthropist and later a ... More >>
Solari: Coming Clean: My Water is Wonderful with Dan Hillard
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:36 pm | Catherine Austin Fitts
One of the advantages of serving as Assistant Secretary of Housing - Federal Housing Commissioner was that I got to meet hundreds of exceptional experts in the world of housing and real estate. After leaving that position, I chose the one I considered ... More >>
Grilling Over MMP Ahead Of Budget
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:30 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
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Angelina Jolie: Breasts, Celebrity and Choice
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:19 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Popular culture, and celebrity, have come to this. A well-endowed personality, a figure of celluloid appeal, has to justify to the other-worldliness of an action personal and specific to the person in question. More >>
Ministers Should Take Political Responsibility: Carter
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 2:12 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Ministers should answer written questions properly and not hide behind the technicality that legally departments were responsible for operational matters, Speaker David Carter said today More >>
Martin Doyle Cartoon: Put your house on it
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:45 pm | Martin Doyle
Encouraging gambling is itself a kind of gamble. But then again the Convention Centre is a tempting payout. More >>
Alex Parsons Cartoon: Joyce & Novopay
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:12 pm | Alex Parsons
Alex Parsons Cartoon: Steven Joyce & Novopay – I'm confident we can get the system into working order... More >>
Alex Parsons Cartoon: Cheers Aaron!
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:09 pm | Alex Parsons
Alex Parsons cartoon – Aaron Gilmore and the GCSB Bill More >>
More Goodbyes And Members Bills
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 10:39 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Another MP will give their valedictory speech today with Members Bills dominating the rest of the day’s proceedings in Parliament. More >>
Gordon Campbell on stonewalling about the GCSB, and MMP
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 10:37 am | Gordon Campbell
This week has seen two examples of turkeys refusing to vote for an early Christmas – while busily denying the evident self interest involved. First, the GCSB is refusing to identify the 88 people it has illegally spied upon – as revealed in the Kitteridge ... More >>
Crown Entities Debate Gets Animated Over Asset Sales
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 9:57 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
MPs completed around 2 and a half hour of the three hour set piece debate on the performance and current operations of Crown entities, public organisations and State Enterprises. More >>
Education Reform Bill Progresses
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 5:56 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The bill setting up partnerships schools or charter schools as they are commonly known has progressed in Parliament. More >>
Search for Historical Truth:Partition of India and Palestine
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 5:30 pm | Zahir Ebrahim
This charter known as the Indian Independence Act, 1947, is a declaration by a King to create Pakistan as a separate independent nation-state by the fiat of royal power: "An Act to make provision for the setting up in India of two independent Dominions, ... More >>
Auckland Unitary Plan to make housing less affordable
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 5:21 pm | Dale Smith
To understand why this maybe so and who would benefit from this happening, we need to first define what ‘affordable’ means as the word has a number of international, and institutional definitions. The reason why it is important to use the right definition ... More >>
Uri Avnery's Specious Attack on the One State Solution
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 5:04 pm | John Spritzler
Uri Avnery may be the most sophisticated defender of Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. He defends this ethnic cleansing while posing as a great friend and sympathizer of Palestinians, supposedly proven by his opposition to Israel's occupation ... More >>
The Donkey of the Messiah
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:53 pm | Uri Avnery
“The two-state solution is dead!” This mantra has been repeated so often lately, by so many authoritative commentators, that it must be true. Well, it ain't. It reminds one of Mark Twain’s oft quoted words: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” More >>
Facebook Founder Gets an Earful after Promoting XL Pipeline
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:38 pm | David Swanson
Mark Zuckerberg's complaint box is filling up. The billionaire founder of FaceBook is behaving as destructively as other sociopaths who hoard vast riches while others starve and die for lack of medical care. And people are letting him know how they ... More >>
Gilmore Goes, MMP Stays The Same
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:34 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Judith Collins indicates the electoral system won't be changed ahead of the 2014 election. More >>
Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:29 pm | David Swanson
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is. And if we had direct democracy, polls suggest we would be investing in green energy. More >>
Pakistan: The Election watered down on Change Lovers
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:23 pm | Syed Atiq ul Hassan
Political observers, experts and senior analysts were predicting that the election 2013 in Pakistan will write new history in the country. The 11th May 2013 election will bring a new change in the corrupt political system of Pakistan. More >>
Funerals and Snakes movie review: Star Trek Into Darkness
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:18 pm | Funerals and Snakes
The 2009 Star Trek reboot went into production on the eve of the writers’ strike and therefore had no right to be as entertaining — or to make as much sense — as it did. In fact, it was so successful that it has become the gold standard of ... More >>
Stopping the Drones: Pakistan-US relations in the High Court
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 3:37 pm | Binoy Kampmark
Alternate realities in the conflict Pakistan is waging against insurgents in its tribal areas tend to be regular affairs. Intrinsic to them is the contorted relationship the country has with the United States, three bits domestic violence to two bits ... More >>
Lebanon gives Special Rapporteur for Palestine an ear full
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 3:33 pm | Franklin Lamb
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Professor Richard Falk, came to Lebanon last week on an unofficial visit to survey opinion while fact finding the condition in Palestinian refugee’s camps. More >>
Gilmore Goes Peacefully
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 3:20 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
National MP Aaron Gilmore has said goodbye to Parliament saying it was the not place or time to attack those who he believes did him wrong. More >>
Petitions And Papers
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 2:09 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A petition requesting the House urge the Government to take all steps possible to ends child labour around the world. More >>
Florida HB 87, Homeowners, and the Foreclosure Inferno
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 1:17 pm | Michael Collins
A bill passed last week by the Florida legislature offers efficiencies and advantages to banks that may launch a major increase in foreclosures in the state known for its volatile real estate market. The only thing standing in the way is a veto by ... More >>
Parting Shots And Education
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 10:37 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Education legislation introducing charter or partnership schools will be debated in Parliament today, though most attention will be likely on the parting shots of a maverick MP. More >>
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