It wasn’t front page news and why would it be? It didn’t happen in one of our own harbors after all but near Yemen and funny stuff happens there all the time after all, n’est pas? But last week a huge container barge just happened to break in two, out of the blue, leaving a […]
You know you’re going crazy when you have to agree with Pat Buchanan but there you have it! That’s how crazy the world has become.
The European Commission is changing the European Union’s plant legislation, apparently to enhance food safety across the continent. This move has sparked a heavy opposition from many, saying that the measure will threaten seed diversity and favour large agrochemical businesses. This new law creates new powers to classify and regulate all plant life anywhere in […]
No Evidence: ‘Obama does a Bush’ to get No-Fly Zone and war in Syria This sounds all too familiar. The Bush Administration did the exact same thing in Iraq. There was no evidence then, other than fabricated sexed-up intelligence. The same is true today. Obama’s famous ‘red line’ on chemical weapons was never red, it […]
The Turkish Health Ministry issued a threat to take medical licenses to practice away from doctors who have been providing treatment to the protesters in Istanbul. They are also demanding the names of all medical volunteers including Emergency Medicine Technicians. This threat constitutes a violation of the human right of the protesters to receive treatment […]
In an interview with the French TV station LCP, former French minister for Foreign Affairs Roland Dumas said: ‘’ I’m going to tell you something. I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other business. I met with top British officials, who confessed to me that they were preparing something in […]
Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies […]
Is president Obama setting the stage for a “humanitarian intervention” by casually accusing the Syrian president of killing his own people? “Following a deliberative review, our intelligence community assesses that the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale against the opposition multiple times in the last year,” […]
Tomtidomtidom… Australian coalminer Bathurst Resources’ shareholders have almost unanimously approved the company’s corporate shuffle across the Tasman. At a meeting today in Perth, its registered city of origin, Bathurst got the nod from its mostly Australian owners to create a New Zealand incorporated company. Of the 99 per cent of shareholders represented, 96 per cent […]
Max and Stacey on the Oops my Bad economy, renting tires and other economic mayhem
Tomtidomtidom…. Fairfax Media editorial boss Paul Thompson has been appointed the chief executive and editor-in-chief of Radio New Zealand. Thompson replaces Peter Cavanagh who has been CEO of the national broadcaster for the last decade. Cavanagh, an Australian, announced in January that he would not be seeking to extend his term. Thompson will take over […]
“I don’t believe it’s in the public interest to go into the operational programmes used by GCSB or SIS,” says Mr Key. Chances are that if you are reading this blog, you are on the list. Chances are that if you are reading this blog at least some of these 27 terrifying quotes from Edward […]
As some of you may have noticed I have been extremely derelict in my self imposed duty to inform you, my readers of the global political events. This I can assure you was not one of my own doing but sometimes life happens while you are making plans. Coming back to my blog I am […]
In a overwhelming vote majority of 7 to 1 Fluoride was voted out in the city of Hamilton. After a grueling 3 day hearing today at 10:15 am the council of Hamilton voted for common sense and the overwhelming evidence against the use of mass “medication” through the water supply and on June 21 2013 […]
Kissinger (who thinks we are cockroaches), Cameron (One of John Key’s soulmates) and God knows who else doing their secret thing (but no conspiracies here). Anybody know where John Key is this from the 6 to the 9th? British taxpayers will have to foot the bill for the ‘exceptional costs’ of policing of the clandestine […]
Aotearoa: A Wider Perspective 