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The Decline of Car Culture in the West
Friday, 5 July 2013, 10:57 am | Auckland Transport Blog
We’ve covered this before, but it’s worth repeating. The OECD nations are all driving less, while developing nations are all driving more. Basically, and I bet almost 99% of westerners will be shocked at this thought, but people in China, India, ... More >>
Will the Black Sea Blow Up?
Friday, 5 July 2013, 10:46 am | Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan
The urgency with which Russian President, Vladimir Putin ordered his Black Sea fleet out from the harbour to conduct naval manoeuvres early morning, on 28 March 2013, sent a shudder down the spines of neighbours’ militaries. More >>
Child Poverty a Primary Hindrance in Fulfilling Child Rights
Friday, 5 July 2013, 10:34 am | Amir Murtaza
International and national researches, surveys and news reports have recognized that the incidence of poverty has been increased in Pakistan during the recent years. Massive corruption, primarily from top to bottom, mismanagement, unemployment, inefficiency, ... More >>
People Who Pretend To Be A Friend: Collaborators & Traitors
Friday, 5 July 2013, 10:25 am | Robert J. Burrowes
Some people have accused Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden of being traitors. But this obscures a deeper and more important question. If the government of the United States is engaged in endless acts of lawless violence, as the documentary evidence ... More >>
Reconciliation…One More Time!
Friday, 5 July 2013, 10:19 am | Abukar Arman
Ironic as it may seem, it is a statement of controversy to assert that a genuine national reconciliation is needed in Somalia. To some, that has already happened; to others, there is no need for it since the country has emerged out of the transitional ... More >>
Gordon Campbell:Key’s proud claim to being the village idiot
Friday, 5 July 2013, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly we – and that includes Kim Dotcom - have been giving Prime Minister John Key too much credit. Everyone assumed that a smart guy like Key would know his stuff, and would be in touch with what’s going on. Not the case, Mr Key is insisting. More >>
Urgency Brought To A Close
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 5:17 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Following Question Time, MPs completed the committee stages of the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Amendment Bill and the Taxation (Livestock Valuation, Assets Expenditure, and Remedial Matters) Bill . More >>
Kim Dotcom And Fiordland Tunnel
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 4:48 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
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Regional Trade Agreement more Lopsided against Pacific
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 4:30 pm | Adam Wolfenden
In the middle of July Pacific Island Trade Ministers will meet in Samoa with their Australian and New Zealand counterparts to discuss the regional free trade agreement known as PACER-Plus. This meeting comes on the back of a tense round of intersessional ... More >>
Wartime U.S. Travelogue
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 2:40 pm | David Swanson
In Washington Dulles airport I noticed a large advertisement. I'd seen it before and not paid attention. (No doubt that's why they saturate public space with the things.) It showed a woman's face with the words: "A car crash in California almost ... More >>
Egyptian military ousts Morsi, suspends constitution
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 1:41 pm | Citizens for Legitimate Government
The Egyptian military removed President Mohamed Morsi from power Wednesday and suspended the constitution in moves it said were aimed at resolving the country’s debilitating political crisis. More >>
Slow Progress Under Urgency
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 1:01 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
On Thursday morning, MPs completed the committee stage debate on the State Sector and Public Finance Reform Bill with most votes going 94 to 23 with National, Labour, ACT and Peter Dunne in favour. More >>
Public Address 4 July 2013 - A GCSB Roundup
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:44 pm | Public Address
The highly-anticipated confrontation between Kim Dotcom and Prime Minister John Key at yesterday's Security and Intelligence Select Committee hearing of submissions on the GCSB bill turned out to be mostly dull. The German wasted precious time complaining ... More >>
Funding the government's Auckland roading splurge
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:37 pm | Auckland Transport Blog
We can debate the merits – or lack of them – of the transport projects announced last week till the cows come home but one thing is certain. If they are all to go ahead then we will need to sort out is how we are going to fund them. More >>
Auckland Transport Blog: 3 cents a litre, y’all
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:31 pm | Auckland Transport Blog
3 cents doesn’t get you much these days. But when you’re talking 3 cents a litre, times 2.5 million cars, using 1,000 litres a year, it starts to add up. As of today, folks, the excise duty on petrol has been lifted by 3 cents a litre (from 50.5 cents ... More >>
Auckland Transport Blog: The Value of Time
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:23 pm | Auckland Transport Blog
Readers of this blog will be familiar with the notion of the benefit cost ratio (BCR), a figure that compares the forecasted benefits of a project with the financial cost of building it. It’s often used as a shorthand for the quality of a project: If ... More >>
Obama, Mandela and Leonard Peltier
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:05 pm | Harvey Wasserman
Barack Obama has taken his two daughters on a dramatic visit to the Robben Island cell once occupied by Nelson Mandela. Let's hope he takes them next to the one now occupied by Leonard Peltier. More >>
The Mask of Intolerance:Homeless Industries in San Francisco
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:01 pm | Binoy Kampmark
It is a condition that the United States has given a particular meaning to. From being the light on the hill for liberty, the American vision has become a case of survival on the streets. Homeownership, even renting, is a privilege. More >>
Submissions to the GCSB Security Committee Meeting - Video
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 11:10 am | Hamish Cardwell
In addition to Kim Dotcom the Intelligence and Security Committee heard other submissions on the GCSB Amendment Bill in Wellington yesterday. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Dotcom’s contribution to our security laws
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
While Kim Dotcom’s appearance was the highlight of yesterday’s hearings by the Intelligence and Security Committee, his commentary on the GCSB Bill was in sync with the flaws in the draft Bill identified earlier in the afternoon by other submitters, ... More >>
Urgency Makes The Earth Move
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 12:03 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
MPs spent most of Wednesday night under Urgency debating the largest overhaul of the state sector since 1988, which made the earth move for at least one MP. More >>
Kim Dotcom Appears at GCSB Security Committee Meeting
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 7:36 pm | Hamish Cardwell
There was standing room only at a security committee meeting today to see the much anticipated showdown between Kim Dotcom and Prime Minister John Key. More >>
Urgency Rumbles On
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 6:05 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Following Question Time MPs completed the second reading of the Psychoactive Substances Bill on a voice vote More >>
SkyCity And Spooks
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 5:07 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
John Key runs but cannot hide from Metiria Turei's questions about Sky City convention centre-for-pokies deal. More >>
Progress Under Urgency
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 1:03 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Before the lunch break, the House completed the second reading of the Financial Reporting Bill on a voice vote. More >>
Ecuador says no to Snowden asylum request
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 12:26 pm | Michael Collins
President Rafael Correa changed his tune after speaking to Vice President Biden. From the Guardian 11:44 EDT: Ecuador is not considering Edward Snowden’s asylum request and never intended to facilitate his flight from Hong Kong, president Rafael ... More >>
Tracking Journalists: The Parliament Security Form
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 12:23 pm | The Scoop Team
It was recently revealed that journalist Andrea Vance had security records of her movements in the Parliament complex released without her permission. They were given to David Henry's inquiry for the Prime Minister into the leaking of a report into ... More >>
Commitment of MSG regarding West Papua to be put to the test
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 12:17 pm | Selpius Bobii - Front Pepera Papua Barat
After more than 50 years of struggle, finally the voice of the Papuan nation has been formally discussed in the 19th Summit of the MSG which took place from 17-23 June 2013 in Noumea, New Caledonia. As the community of the nation of Papua we are ... More >>
Review: Man of Steel, Everybody Has a Plan and White Lies
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 12:02 pm | Funerals and Snakes
Man of Steel is a self-consciously epic re-imagining of the Superman story, first told in print in the 1930s and most recently rebooted on screen by Bryan Singer as Superman Returns just prior to the commencement of my reviewing career in 2006. More >>
CAMBODIA: Understanding nation building
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 11:32 am | Dr. Gaffar Peang-Meth
I owe this article to a number of Cambodian participants at the May 18 Cambodian Leadership Conference (CLC) in Tacoma, Washington, where I gave a keynote address on Building Leadership for Young Khmers, and two lecture-discussion sessions on political ... More >>
NAACP - We Must Build Our Greatest Strength: Diversity
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 11:18 am | Ben Jealous
"For a country regarded as the paramount leader in a multicultural world, the United States has yet to embrace its own diversity; continuing failure to do so will have profound consequences for governance." More >>
Nobel Peace Laureate Says Syrians Oppose Intervention
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 11:15 am | David Swanson
Mairead Maguire, recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, speaks about here recent trip to Lebanon and Syria, where she met with refugees, combatants, members of the opposition, and members of the government. She found that supporters and opponents ... More >>
Solari Update: 2nd Quarter Wrap-up
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 11:06 am | Catherine Austin Fitts
Please join me for the July 4th fireworks on the Solari Report! We will review the top 10 stories of the 2nd Quarter and connect the dots to the extraordinary swing of the financial pendulum back towards North America. More >>
Grinding Through Urgency
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 9:49 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
After Parliament resumed at 9am the second reading of the Families Commission Amendment Bill was completed by 64 to 56 with National, Maori Party, ACT and Peter Dunne in favour. More >>
Question Time To Proceed
Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 9:08 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
When Parliament resumed at 9am, Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee sought and received leave for Question Time to be held today and tomorrow as the House continues under Urgency. More >>
Parallel Film Importing Ban Extension Proposed
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 9:24 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
A bill extending a ban on parallel importing of films into New Zealand has been sent to select committee More >>
NSA collected US email records for over 2 years under Obama
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 5:59 pm | Citizens for Legitimate Government
The Obama administration for more than two years permitted the National Security Agency to continue collecting vast amounts of records detailing the email and internet usage of Americans, according to secret documents obtained by the Guardian. More >>
Royal Succession Bill Sent To Select Committee
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 5:54 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The bill ensures Royal succession is not dependent on a person’s sex, and so allows an older daughter to precede a younger son in the line of succession. It also allows the British king or queen to marry a Roman Catholic and says not every descendant ... More >>
Nepal Diary: Statesmanship in Deficit
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 5:51 pm | Mitra Bandhu Poudel
British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) had said, ‘The tragedy of one successful politician after another is the gradual substitution of narcissism for an interest in the community.’ Whether it is applied in Nepali politics or not, ... More >>
Urgency, Spies And Consents
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 5:03 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament plunged under urgency as PM chairs GCSB Bill hearings and Brownlee quizzed on Christchurch City Council building permits by Lianne Dalziel. More >>
Urgency Motion
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 3:56 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
The House agreed to sit under Urgency rules for the following business: • • the second reading of the Companies and Limited Partnerships Amendment Bill , • the first reading of the Royal Succession Bill and its referral to a select committee, ... More >>
Long Urgency Session Ahead
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 3:25 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
Parliament has gone into Urgency to make progress on a long list of Government bills. More >>
Military Actions Remembered
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 2:23 pm | ParliamentToday.co.nz
When Parliament resumed Speaker David Carter drew members’ attention to three new plaques on the walls of the House. More >>
Martin Doyle cartoon: Preparing for Dotcom's submission
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 1:42 pm | Martin Doyle
The Intelligence Security Committee are going to find Kim Dotcom heavy-duty. More >>
David Shearer: Sharples Resignation & Labour's Election Win
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 1:25 pm | Hamish Cardwell
Labour leader David Shearer discusses the resignation of Pita Sharples as co-leader of the Maori Party, Labour's by-election win and the GCSB hearings at his weekly pre-caucus press conference in Wellington. More >>
Rohani and the Future of Reform in Iran
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 1:09 pm | Firouz Mahvi
With the recent emergence of cleric Hassan Rohani, following the presidential elections in Iran, much has been made about the prospects for change in the country. To analyse the future of reform and Rohani's role as a "moderate", it is worth refreshing our ... More >>
Ruddstoration and the Refugees: The Ancient Regime Returns
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 12:55 pm | Binoy Kampmark
They are at it again. The not so ancient regime which was the previous ancient regime has promised that refugees heading to Australia will be given their fair share of rough treatment. More >>
US Continuity of Government: Cronyism of the Revolving Door
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 12:51 pm | John Stanton
All the media bluster and folly surrounding whistleblower Edward Snowden is detracting from critical thinking that Americans must engage in and act upon. At this moment, benefits from the Snowden data dump appear to be accruing to the US government and ... More >>
Indonesia must be part of the asylum seeker solution
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 12:45 pm | Ross Taylor
At last week’s Liberal Party Conference, former foreign minister, Alexander Downer told his party that, “any solution to the asylum seeker crisis must include Indonesia”. He is right. His leader’s idea that the way to ‘include’ Indonesia would be ... More >>
Undernews: July 1, 2013
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 12:34 pm | Undernews
The Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 decision to strike down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act was undeniably historic, a victory not just for gay rights advocates but for anyone committed to advancing equal rights in America. It was also an anomaly. More >>
Pita Sharples Resigns From Maori Party Leadership
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 11:52 am | Hamish Cardwell
With a “heavy heart” Dr Pita Sharples resigned as co-leader of the Maori Party today. At a press comference at his Wellington office Dr Sharples said the he made the decision to step down to bring unity to the party. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Kim Dotcom at Parliament tomorrow
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Ironic that in the same week that Kim Dotcom will appear before a Parliamentary committee to defend the right of New Zealanders to live free from surveillance from the GCSB, Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in Russia. (Reportedly, Russian leader Vladimir ... More >>
Of Cabbages And Kings
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 10:57 am | ParliamentToday.co.nz
MPs will debate everything from food regulation through to royal succession laws when Parliament sits today. More >>
PM Post-Cabinet Press Conference: *** - 01 July 2013
Monday, 1 July 2013, 7:56 pm | The Scoop Team
***Former High Court Judge Andrew McGechan has become the new Inspector General of Intelligence and Security. More >>
Martin Doyle Cartoon: Labouring Engine
Monday, 1 July 2013, 5:20 pm | Martin Doyle
An ineffectual Opposition never deserves to become Government. Time for a fresh set of hands? More >>
Public Address 1 July 2013 - Watching the Fourth Estate
Monday, 1 July 2013, 10:43 am | Public Address
You know, I'm still not clear on how we got so quickly from digital cinematography as an awkward, expensive option for feature film production to the closure of the last 35mm film processing lab in Australasia. More >>
Labour Hold Comfortably, Mana Beat Maori Party
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 9:08 pm | The Scoop Team
Labour’s Meka Whaitiri has comfortably won the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election with a majority of 1,761 on 4,368 votes and a very low turnout. More >>
Ikaroa-Rawhiti – Labour With Early Lead
Saturday, 29 June 2013, 7:20 pm | The Scoop Team
Early votes cast in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election put Labour’s Meka Whaitiri on 842 votes a majority of 223 over Mana’s Te Hāmua Nikora with 619 votes. The Maori Party’s Na Rongowhakaata Raihania was a distant third with 365. More >>
The Mexican state turns life into death to accumulate wealth
Friday, 28 June 2013, 5:12 pm | Hermann Bellinghausen
The murder in April of Juan Vázquez Guzmán, representative of the adherents of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon jungle in the ejido San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, is “is a punishment of the community for defending the waterfalls of Agua ... More >>
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