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The gutting of the RMA ... the heart of Kiwi values

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 5:59 pm | Anton Oliver

During my professional playing days as an All Black I was fortunate to travel extensively around the world. The more I got to see, the greater my appreciation of how beautiful and unique New Zealand was, and how fortunate I was to call it my home. More >>

Public Address 24 July 2013 - Tooled Up for Food

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 5:38 pm | Public Address

I was never any good at woodwork. At school, for me, it fell into the same category as playing the recorder: not only something I could not do well, but which actually caused me some grief in the attempt. More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Mad Woman the Problem

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 1:22 pm | Martin Doyle

Owen Glenn might not want to relitigate the past, but the revival of interest in the Hawaii case offered him - surely – an opportunity to model the sensitive response required to victims of family violence. Opportunity missed. More >>

Gordon Campbell on the GCSB Bill protests and the Royal Baby

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell

Tomorrow, the parliamentary committee that heard submissions on the GCSB Bill will report back. Few will be expecting significant changes to this egregious betrayal of our civil rights and national sovereignty. More >>

Scoop's Earthquake Coverage for Tuesday 23 July

Thursday, 25 July 2013, 9:57 am | Scoop News

Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown says the city is getting back to normal today after Sunday evening’s 6.5 quake. Road, rail bus and road traffic are heading back to normal weekday flows. More >>

Netanyahu, Abbas to Resume ‘Peace Process’ that Never Was

Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 6:36 pm | Ramzy Baroud

The political peddlers, think-tank experts and media professionals are all back in full force. They want us to believe that US Secretary of State John Kerry has done what others have failed to do. On his sixth trip to the Middle East during his post, ... More >>

Caving to White House Pressure - EU vote on Hezbollah

Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 6:16 pm | Franklin Lamb

It was reportedly a hectic and intense past weekend in Washington and London according to an emailed report from a Capitol Hill source, as the Obama and Cameron administrations tracked down and button-holed the leaders of the 28 European Union delegations gathering ... More >>

Solari: "The Surveillance State - What Does It All Mean?"

Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 6:07 pm | Catherine Austin Fitts

Jon takes on a very serious topic this week. What is the chilling effect of living in a surveillance state? Indeed, our challenge is not just that there may be no privacy. Our challenge is that we are literally not allowed to speak freely. More >>

Catching WikiLeaks: Australian Diplomats & the Manning Trial

Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 5:58 pm | Binoy Kampmark

With the Australian election stuttering towards its hideous climax (we hope with a hideousness moderated by the effects of smaller parties), it is worth noting what has been happening in terms of perceptions of the Manning trial. More >>

Soldiers in Moresby: implications for Rudd’s PNG solution

Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 5:47 pm | Stephen Howes

On Sunday 14 July, the day Prime Minister Rudd arrived in PNG, two truckloads of rampaging soldiers attacked medical students at the University of PNG medical school, firing weapons, holding knives to their throats and causing injury and widespread ... More >>

Adrian Maidment Cartoon - Blue for the boy

Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 11:18 am | Adrian Maidment

On the royal birth. More >>

Drunken US Army Project Staggers Along in 2013

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:43 pm | John Stanton

According to sources budget cuts will arrive at the US Army's Human Terrain System (HTS) at the end of July 2013. As is common in this age of austerity, senior leadership everywhere are figuring out who to keep and who to drop. More >>

Copperhead

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:40 pm | David Swanson

Copperhead was a name for Northern Democrats opposed to the Civil War. Now it's also the name of a remarkable new film: CopperheadTheMovie.com. This is not the first film about a family opposed to the Civil War. Many will probably recall the 1965 ... More >>

The Spotlight on Iran Darkens the World

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:34 pm | Dan Lieberman

Iran has its political limitations, human rights violations, governance failures and domestic problems - all indefensible. Not a rational for excuse, but qualify each of the contemporary rights violations with case stories and quantify them with ... More >>

Edward Snowden - Review: The Terminal (2013)

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:11 pm | War Is A Crime

This summer’s blockbuster is a remake of Steven Spielberg’s 2004 romantic comedy The Terminal. The main figure in the earlier film, Viktor--played somewhat awkwardly by Tom Hanks, affecting a nondescript all-purpose Eastern European accent--is trying ... More >>

Preview: 2013 New Zealand International Film Festival

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 5:01 pm | Funerals and Snakes

Now, I’m risking the ire of the extremely helpful and generous New Zealand International Film Festival team here, but I’m going to recommend an approach to festival-going that will probably reward you more than it will them. Here goes: don’t book for ... More >>

Gen. Hayden's Snow Job on Snowden

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 4:51 pm | War Is A Crime

Official Washington’s national security/mainstream media incest was on scandalous display when ex-NSA chief Michael Hayden posed as a CNN analyst to denounce Edward Snowden for exposing surveillance excesses that Hayden had a hand in creating. More >>

NZNewsUK up close & personal with The Black Seeds in London

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 4:30 pm | NZnewsUK

Kiwi music giants The Black Seeds are back in Europe for their “annual jaunt to the northern hemisphere.” Pre-show in London, I was fortunate enough to have a chat with the band’s Nigel Patterson. More >>

#FreeBrad Hall Of Shame: Lamo, Obama, Choike, Lind, et al.

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 2:20 pm | War Is A Crime

The rogues' gallery of those eager to participate in the persecution of whistleblower Bradley Manning will go down in infamy. Adrian Lamo, the Über lame snitch who seized his 15 minutes of fame by ratting out a young soldier in Iraq who was troubled by ... More >>

Sonnet 65: On the birth of a bludger

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 2:10 pm | Don Franks

A business opportunity has come to pass The birth of a baby royal to their Kate; 382 million profit for the ruling class for the rest of us, just our usual fate More >>

Gordon Campbell on Peter Dunne’s illusory gains on GCSB Bill

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell

In a week that will see nationwide protests against the GCSB, the politics of the passage of the agency’s governing legislation remain as polarized as ever. Now that Peter Dunne has re-assumed his usual posture as the government’s reliable ... More >>

Scoop News: Full Coverage of the 21 July 2013 Earthquake

Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 10:12 am | Scoop News

New Zealand’s capital city will be open for business tomorrow after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Cook Strait, while scientists say there’s a one-in-five chance of a similar-size temblor this week.. More >>

TPP: The Terrible Plutocratic Plan

Monday, 22 July 2013, 4:56 pm | David Swanson

Like most of you I do not spend my life studying trade agreements, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is disturbing enough to make me devote a little time to it, and I hope you will do the same and get your neighbors to do the same and get them to ... More >>

Earthquake in Wellington: Photos from the CBD

Monday, 22 July 2013, 2:31 pm | Alastair Thompson

An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 was felt in Wellington at 5.10pm last night. Buildings in the CBD received some structural damage, including broken windows and cracked walls. More >>

Earthquake Press Conference – PM Key & Mayor Wade-Brown

Monday, 22 July 2013, 2:23 pm | Phil Reed

Prime Minister John Key and Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown have held a press conference outlining the damage done by Sunday's earthquake to city buildings and the planned response from national and local government. More >>

America: Coup d'etat

Monday, 22 July 2013, 1:20 pm | Paul Craig Roberts

The American people have suffered a coup d'etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the ... More >>

Is a Civil Rights Intifada Brewing in Lebanon?

Monday, 22 July 2013, 1:14 pm | Franklin Lamb

They are 67 new families, or about 400 Palestinian refugees displaced from Syria, residing in 60 recently erected tents set up as an emergency ‘gathering’ near the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp adjacent to the city of Sidon in southern ... More >>

How the 18:1 Law Makes the War on Drugs Racist

Monday, 22 July 2013, 1:02 pm | John Spritzler

There is a United States federal law on the books, what I call the "18:1" law, that is, in its effect, as viciously racist as the old and now thoroughly discredited Jim Crow laws that explicitly discriminated against black people. More >>

A Gift from Europe

Monday, 22 July 2013, 12:50 pm | Uri Avnery

On my 70th birthday, I received a gift from Yitzhak Rabin: he signed the document recognizing the existence of the Palestinian people, after many decades of denial. He also recognized the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as its representative. More >>

TEDx Auckland : the final countdown!

Monday, 22 July 2013, 12:21 pm | Alastair Thompson

Last year's event was a sell-out, a full day of awesomeness and seriously inspiring. More >>

Wellington Mayor's Earthquake Briefing

Monday, 22 July 2013, 12:12 pm | Alastair Thompson

Scoop editor Alastair Thompson went along to Wellington Mayor Wade-Brown's earthquake briefing this morning in Wellington. More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Warning All Passengers

Monday, 22 July 2013, 10:45 am | Martin Doyle

Reading the claims by the captain of the Costa Concordia forces everyone to experience the kind of man who was (supposed to be) in charge on that fateful night... More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: Message to Boat People

Monday, 22 July 2013, 10:38 am | Martin Doyle

There's something gross about using Papua New Guinea as a kind of dumping ground for boat people. More >>

Scoop and R2.co.nz Live From Wellington - WREMO Quake Press Conference Video

Monday, 22 July 2013, 7:52 am | r2.co.nz

Richard Naylor is approaching the Wellington Station and will shortly start broadcasting live by webstream from this page. A press conference will be held by the council at 9am and this stream will endeavour to broadcast that press conference. More >>

Vaughn Davis : Saying yes to TED

Saturday, 20 July 2013, 4:18 pm | TEDxAuckland

Saying yes to helping out with TEDxAuckland last year has led me here: the cockpit of my wee plane, 6500 feet above the Kaimanawa Ranges between Taupo and Hastings (well that’s what it says on the iPad I’m using to navigate the thing). More >>

Youth Parliament Select Committee Reports

Friday, 19 July 2013, 4:08 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz

** ParliamentToday.co.nz is a breaking news source for New Zealand parliamentary business featuring broadcast daily news reports. More >>

Public Address 19 July - NZIFF 2013: Lights, Camera, Irony

Friday, 19 July 2013, 4:08 pm | Public Address

If you’d like to pop over to Public Address and read Russell’s too bloody right-eous indignation over the latest polish on the turd that is the government’s convention centre deal with SkyCity, I’m happy to wait. But there’s nothing preventing your ... More >>

Youth Parliament For 2013 Meets

Friday, 19 July 2013, 4:04 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz

** ParliamentToday.co.nz is a breaking news source for New Zealand parliamentary business featuring broadcast daily news reports. More >>

Seismic risks of building a ferry terminal at Clifford Bay

Friday, 19 July 2013, 3:26 pm | Joanna Murray

The Boo Boo Stream is a pleasant little waterway which meanders into the sea just south of Clifford Bay on the Marlborough Coast. On a more menacing note, its name was given to the 70 kilometre long Boo Boo Faultline, which runs east to west between ... More >>

Martin Doyle cartoon: A telling truth

Friday, 19 July 2013, 3:00 pm | Martin Doyle

The treatment of New Zealand's award-winning journalist Jon Stephenson by the Defence Force calls into question just what qualities our society holds dear. More >>

Leaks and Pseudo-Reality: The US Search for World Domination

Friday, 19 July 2013, 1:42 pm | Ramzy Baroud

Those enchanted by pseudo-reality must have been at the edge of their seats as they watched ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, a Hollywood account of how US SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden on May 1, 2011. More >>

US Elites Profit from Food Stamps, Unemployment

Friday, 19 July 2013, 1:28 pm | John Stanton

According to the US Census Bureau’s Median Value of Debt by Household (2011), the median household debt (both secured and unsecured) for 35-44 year olds was $108,000 (USD); for those 45-54, $86,500; and for 55-64 age group it was $70,000. More >>

The Destruction of Barack Obama

Friday, 19 July 2013, 1:03 pm | Robert J. Burrowes

Some people have been surprised or disappointed by certain decisions of President Barack Obama. His war-making, his use of illegal drone strikes, his failure to close Guantanamo, his failure to genuinely help those ordinary Americans who voted him ... More >>

Practicing Un-Medicine

Friday, 19 July 2013, 12:52 pm | Walter Brasch

Clutching a sheaf of newspaper clippings in one hand and a medical bag in the other, Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, knocking down pregnant ladies, students, the elderly, and even two burly construction workers who were waiting for a bus, rushed ... More >>

Solari Update: Equity Overview with Chuck Gibson

Friday, 19 July 2013, 12:20 pm | Catherine Austin Fitts

This week on The Solari Report, I will be speaking with Chuck Gibson, managing member of Financial Perspectives and my partner at Sea Lane Advisory, LLC, for our 3rd Quarter Equity Report. More >>

Talk Nation Radio:John Whitehead on Our Government of Wolves

Friday, 19 July 2013, 11:40 am | David Swanson

John Whitehead discusses a recent attack by Alcohol Beverage Control agents on college students purchasing water and the larger trends toward a police state in the United States. More >>

Killing In The Name Of God

Friday, 19 July 2013, 11:23 am | Alon Ben-Meir

Notwithstanding the cultural and interpretive differences between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the God worshipped by Muhammad is the same God that communicated with Abraham and to which Jesus prayed. More >>

The Challenge of the MSG Delegation Visit to Jakarta & Papua

Friday, 19 July 2013, 11:11 am | Selpius Bobii - Front Pepera Papua Barat

The planned visit by a delegation of member Foreign Ministers of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) to Jakarta and West Papua arose as a decision of the MSG Forum held on 16 June 2013 in Noumea. The Foreign Ministers of Fiji, PNG, the Solomon Islands, ... More >>

Greenpeace: It's Simple, Simon

Friday, 19 July 2013, 11:06 am | Greenpeace New Zealand

Minister of Energy Simon Bridges was just the other day branded the “Justin Bieber of the cabinet”. One can only guess that’s either because of his crooning at the Parliamentary karaoke nights, or that he wants to see his “name up in lights ... More >>

Cook Strait Quake! This Changes Wellington | 500 Words

Friday, 19 July 2013, 10:59 am | Alastair Thompson

Panic! Don't panic! Panic! Sometimes there is a moment which shapes history. And I think one of those events happened today. More >>

Father and son protest transforms Waihopai GCSB spy base

Thursday, 18 July 2013, 4:05 pm | Bill and Robbie McEwan

In protest over the current GCSB bill, father and son Bill and Robbie McEwan transform the Waihopai GCSB communications monitoring station near Blenhiem into a pair of testicles... More >>

Salient: The Media Issue - Bias Beware

Thursday, 18 July 2013, 12:55 pm | Cam Price and Duncan McLachlan

It’s been said that although there are three estates in government – the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the state – there is a fourth, non-governmental estate that is far more important than them all. The media is a central pillar in ... More >>

Salient: The Media Issue - Kim Kardashian Topless!

Thursday, 18 July 2013, 12:27 pm | Henry Cooke

Newspapers probably won’t exist in 15 years. Salient might not even be a magazine. It’s far too late to stop the internet’s reworking of the news industry, but there’s plenty of time to whine about how it’s ruining ‘proper journalism’. ... More >>

Salient: The Media Issue - Editorial

Thursday, 18 July 2013, 11:53 am | Salient

Media is changing. It’s no longer just limited to the newspapers we don’t buy, or the television news we don’t watch. We consume media differently to the older generation. For many of us, we are the media. We tweet, we status, we share information ... More >>

Gordon Campbell on the TPP's risk to national sovereignty

Thursday, 18 July 2013, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell

Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the countries who sign up to it, if said corporates happen to feel disadvantaged by any laws or regulations ... More >>

Milford Tunnel Project Idea Sunk

Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 5:09 pm | Hamish Cardwell

A proposed 11 kilometre tunnel in National Park land in Southland has been rejected. Minister of Conservation Nick Smith said turned down the project becaue of its environmental impact “were beyond what was appropriate” for the World Heritage Area. More >>

Judge Socks Ecuador Indigenous Groups With Huge Bills

Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 11:53 am | The Chevron Pit

Just when you thought Judge Lewis A. Kaplan’s maneuverings in favor of Chevron in the Ecuador case could not get any worse, they just did. The controversial judge, who was unanimously reversed by an appellate court in an earlier phase of the case ... More >>

Trayvon Martin: Department of Justice Petition

Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 10:57 am | Ben Jealous

As of Tuesday morning, one million people have signed an NAACP petition asking the Department of Justice to pursue federal and civil rights charges against George Zimmerman after he was founded not guilty in the murder of Trayvon Martin. More >>

Afghan Peace Dialogues and Post-America Regional Scenario

Wednesday, 17 July 2013, 10:11 am | Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan

President Barack Obama is keeping option cards close to his chest even though thinning out of some troops and heavy equipment has already commenced from Afghanistan. He has not ruled out any of three possible options yet. One, US forces vacate Afghanistan ... More >>