I'm a relative newcomer to the blogosphere. It's only in the last two years that I've been taking it seriously and posting on a ...
LWR WORKERS SOLD OUT BY UNION OFFICIALS
Lane Walker Rudkin has finally been completely closed and, as the year rolls to a close, the remaining eighty workers are now without jobs....
MORE MONEY FOR MARRYATT
Ho Ho Ho! What has Santa Sideshow Bob got in his sack then? 'Not much' is the answer if you happen to be a mere worker for the Chr...
HENRY GETS AWAY WITH IT - AGAIN
TVNZ has delivered its verdict on the latest Paul Henry outrage - its 'very sorry' for Henry's behaviour. TVNZ's complaints ...
'WE SHALL OVERCOME'
“Copenhagen is not the end, I repeat, but a beginning: the doors have been opened for a universal debate on how to save the planet, life on ...
COPENHAGEN TRAVESTY
What a complete and utter travesty Copenhagen proved to be. Despite all the rhetoric from our political 'leaders' about the grim f...
ATTACKING MAORI BENEFICIARIES
...Tamihere's agenda is particularly hypocritical. This guy supported the free market policies that wreaked such devastation among worki...
SELLOUT 'UNACCEPTABLE' - VENEZUELA
The Venezuelan delegation to the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, denounced Tuesday the attitude of developed countries in the ...
MEDIA CLOWN OF THE YEAR
It was not a hard task to pick my inaugural 'Media Clown of the Year'. There were some strong contenders. Leighton Smith put in a st...
EMPTY GESTURE
When the Maori flag flies on all government buildings on Waitangi Day it'll fly in a country where the Maori working class - like their ...
GOODBYE TO PUBLIC BROADCASTING
There is a certain degree of irony - well, a lot of irony really - in the spectacle of the Labour Party and its supporters (eg The Standard ...
CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
The present 'vigorous discussion' occurring within the Labour Party is not so much about two principled political currents disagreei...
THE THREE STOOGES
A few years ago Mark Hotchin of Hanover Finance was basking in the glow of an uncritical media. He, along with fellow Eric Watson were bein...
A SHORT MUSICAL INTERLUDE...
My local mall, like malls everywhere, seems to think that we would really like to hear sickly saccharine Christmas songs all day and every d...
COPENHAGEN TALKFEST
Despite all the political hype about 'saving the planet' - or words to that effect - the Copenhagen conference is already dead in t...
THE GREAT CARBON TRADING FRAUD
Annie Leonard looks at the forces that are driving the 'climate change solution' being discussed at Copenhagen. She introduces us to...
LEAKED DOCUMENTS, SUPPRESSED REPORTS
Mayor Sideshow Bob is presently in North America (along with Mrs Sideshow Bob and his loyal lieutenant, Tony Marryatt), apparently studying ...
THE 'CLEVER' PAUL HENRY
For those of you who haven't seen it - and are interested - here's Paul Henry having a go at British singer Susan Boyle. Meanwhile ...