by Selwyn Manning

Auckland Chamber of Commerce’s Michael Barnett says APEC motorway signs are too confusing.

The signs are designed to warm Auckland motorists that delays and closures can be expected during the APEC leader’s summit.

The motorways will be closed to public traffic while motorcades of heads of state and other dignitaries are escorted and transported to Auckland’s central business district.

But Mr Barnett says the signs are intimidating and are sending the wrong message to Aucklanders.

He says the signs are warning of chaos during APEC. This is dismissive and defeatist. Every effort, Mr Barnett says, should be made to keep Auckland as operable as possible during the conference, not to create a public panic.

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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>>