I see that Hendo's celluloid exercise in self-promotion is on TV2 tonight. We're Here To Help was released in 2007 and as I said ...
THE HERESY OF THE GREEKS OFFERS HOPE
The struggle of the Greek people against the forces of neoliberalism is an inspiration for the rest of the world, writes John Pilger As Brit...
A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL
It's been raining for five solid days in Christchurch and the weather forecast says it'll be more of the same for at least the nex...
2000 PEOPLE APPLY FOR 100 JOBS
Earlier this month the not very bright Paula Bennett was crowing about the so-called drop in unemployment from 7.1 percent to 6 percent. Th...
BRENDA PILOTT IS 'CONCERNED'! AGAIN!
PSA National Secretary Brenda Pilott is concerned. In fact she seems to be permanently 'concerned'. Let's look at a few exampl...
GUTLESS UNION LEADERS ARE SELLING US OUT AGAIN
When John Key talked about real change at the last election I don't imagine many people thought he meant big tax cuts for the wealthy an...
THE DRINKS ARE ON YOU!
Approximately a third of the Christchurch City Council's 1200 strong workforce have purchasing (P) cards which allows them to pay for s...
ANOTHER HENDO DOGFIGHT
Sick of waiting in traffic for hours on end? Got a lousy neighbour who could benefit from a little low flying strafing? Maybe you should buy...
KEY PROPAGANDA
TVNZ's Guyon Espiner thinks its excellent that the Government is giving more money to the rich while tossing a few crumbs to the rest o...
A ROTTEN BUDGET FROM A ROTTEN GOVERNMENT
As I speculated in a previous post, this Budget represents a shifting of wealth from labour to capital and represents a serious and orches...
LAUNCH OF NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN FOR TAX JUSTICE
The Alliance Party and Socialist Worker are jointly launching a nationwide tax campaign on Saturday 22 May. The campaign will champion tax c...
MARK HOTCHIN HAS DONE NOTHING WRONG!
Talkback host Mike Hosking thinks people are just envious and resentful of the financial 'success' of Hanover Finance co-founder Ma...
JOHN KEY'S REAL AGENDA
The shape of Thursday's Budget statement is already clear and, once again, it'll be a Budget that will do no favours for Joe and J...
THE LIKELY LADS
I have been struck by a common theme emerging from the news reports about David Cameron and Nick Clegg's marriage of political conveni...
IS BOB HEADING FOR AN ELECTION DEFEAT?
Jim Anderton MP is already on the campaign trial for the Christchurch mayoralty. In my letter box today was some of Jim's election mate...
THE DANGEROUS POLITICS OF 'LESSER EVILISM'
Imagine a knock on your front door one afternoon. You open the door and there stands a guy in a grey suit. He's wearing a red rosette an...
COMMISSIONERS REJECT BOB'S CONCRETE BLOCK
In another big political defeat for Sideshow Bob and all the councillors who supported him, the plans to drop a concrete block in the mid...
AND THE WINNER IS...
Predictably Gordon Brown and Labour did not win the British general election but neither did the Conservative Party. The dislike for Labour ...
'THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT WAR'
Such is the nature of blogging and such is the speed of events occurring in Greece, its hard to keep pace. But one thing is absolutely clea...
'STUNNING' UEMPLOYMENT FIGURES? YEAH RIGHT
While TVNZ, the unofficial cheerleader for the National Government, heralded the so-called 'drop' in the unemployment figures as ...
PAULA BENNETT IS NOT VERY BRIGHT
Last week Paula Bennett could be heard in Parliament quoting from Professor Peter Saunders's book The Ends and Means of Welfare . Profe...
PROTESTORS STORM THE ACROPOLIS
Euro stocks have taken a nosedive ahead of the massive general strike in Greece. With the Greek Government attempting to impose a further wa...
NEW WAYS OF DELIVERING EXACTLY THE SAME RESULTS
I see that the Labour Party has supposedly decided to open up its policy development to its membership. However don't get the impressio...
SIDESHOW BOB RUNS FOR COVER
Given that he campaigned to have the Environment Canterbury councillors sacked and later described this attack on local democracy as 'co...
MAY DAY 2010: WHY SOCIALISM?
Albert Einstein's famous essay on socialism was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review in May 1949. Is it advisable...