I didn’t know something was wrong. It was hidden in plain sight under a whole lot of other shit and vague complaints but when I finally had a place to feel at rest and safe the exhaustion just did not go away an after months of plodding on I went to the doctor, urged to […]
Monthly Archives: July 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot about this for a while now and I thought today would be as good a day as any to introduce this brand spanking new award: the Guillotine award. Today the first time this award is awarded it goes to Lindsey Lohan not because I think she is a particularly bad […]
I wrote last week that this blog would deal with news around the BP oil gusher. The day after my announcement BP closed the well. Or so we were told. This stuck me as wildly optimistic but I choose to give it the benefit of the doubt and waited. I did not have to wait […]
Yes, now I can keep my blog going and connect to facebook at the same time. Awesome.
I think the fundamental issue… is there are serious concerns about the integrity of the casing that is the well itself. And that by putting the cap on and doing the stress tests… that the integrity of the steel is insufficient to hold the pressure of the well. And if you lose the casing its […]
This morning Stuff.co.nz announced there had been a setback to the attempt of closing the cap over the gushing oil spill. Here is the link as it links now to the updated article. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/3920770/Gulf-oil-capping-in-limbo-after-setback. The setback it was announced was the fact that for fear of compounding the disaster they were “overly careful” with closing […]
!!!This blog for the time being will be dedicated to the oil spill in in the gulf of Mexico!!! For the latest see under this post. For the last two months we have been watching the events around disastrous oil spill in the gulf of Mexico unfold. Most of us with the usual “Ooh oops […]
The leaders of the political coup that last month removed Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and installed his former deputy, Julia Gillard, were not just “faceless numbers men”, as sections of the media have insisted. Nor can the role of Rudd’s dispatchers – including Bill Shorten, Mark Arbib, David Feeney, Paul Howes and Gary Gray […]
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Bloody hell, tried to update my other blog with wordpress no 3 and screwed it up completely. I have to start from scratch. I wasn’t happy with the lay out so it isn’t much of a problem but damn how stupid can you get. I will be posting on this blog until things are set […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 