by Selwyn Manning -

Under Siege - A group is proposing to boycott businesses owned by Auckland City’s mayor and three councillors over their having failed to disolve Metrowater.

New tariffs will be considered this month which will examine reducing Metrowater’s fixed wastewater charge from $250 to $50 - on top of its current user pays regime.

Water Pressure Group spokesperson, Penny Bright, says the Mayor and some councillors have abandoned their campaign and election promises of dumping Metrowater.

Newly Elected councillors found legal contracts surrounding Metrowater, and the said White Elephant, Britomart development, entered into by the previous Auckland City Council would be too costly to withdrawal from.

Ms Bright says the boycott is a form of comeback against them.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>