Westpac's chief economist Brendan O'Donovan is a clown. In a less gentle age he would have been held in stocks in the public square...
THE IDLE THOUGHTS OF AN IDLE FELLOW
I am intending to write a post on the CTU's continued allegiance to the dismal Labour Party but that will have to wait for another day a...
READ IN RUSSIA
Normally the most hits this humble blog receives are obviously from New Zealand based readers. Although I recall that a couple of years I ...
WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN ELECTION MAKES
Christchurch was yesterday hit by a series of aftershocks which did more damage to already severely damaged buildings, saw a cordon tempor...
MERRY XMAS, THE ECONOMY IS COLLAPSING
The New Zealand economy is in a state of collapse. The economy shrank by 0.2 percent in the September quarter - and that follows just a ...
ANOTHER REASON NOT TO WATCH TVNZ OR TV3
Normally I use the 'Media Clown' column to dump on New Zealand's dizzying array of right wing media clowns. But today I am throw...
KNOCKING ON HISTORY'S DOOR
In just a few days it will be 2011 and the vicious and unrelenting war being waged by capital and its governments against ordinary peop...
DOWNLOAD THE WIKILEAKS NZ CABLES
I'm not sure how widely available this material is, but Bryce Edwards has helpfully posted a link to a 613 page PDF of all the recen...
WIKILEAKS CATCHES OUT KEY AND MCCULLY
The Wikileak cables have revealed that the Government have been running two different polices on Tibet. One policy - the real policy - ha...
IT GOES ONE AT A TIME
President Barack Obama visited Trish Kahle's hometown of Winston-Salem, North Carolina recently. Despite a promise to bring 'change...
MARRYATT MISSES OUT
Three out of four ain't bad. I predicted that Sideshow Bob and his faithful followers, Barry Corbett and Sue Wells, would be re-appoint...
CIVIL DEFENCE CRITICISES BOB'S MEDIA ANTICS
We now learn that Civil Defence weren't exactly thrilled with Sideshow Bob's media antics in the immediate aftermath of the Septembe...
BOB IS MEDIA CLOWN OF THE YEAR!
Last year TVNZ's Paul Henry won my inaugural Media Clown of the Year Award by the proverbial country mile, thanks to his ridiculing of ...
IT STOPPED BEFORE IT STARTED
We head into an election year faced with the prospect, in the light of the deficit blowout, of even more severe austerity measures. No priz...
CHARLIE AND CAMILLA'S BOGUS JOURNEY!
TVNZ's UK reporter Paul Hobbs was aghast by the massive student protest in old London town - against the tripling of tuition fees an...
RIGGED APPOINTMENTS AND GRAVY TRAINS
Despite promising to be a more transparent and all-embracing Christchurch mayor, it hasn't taken Sideshow Bob long to revert to type. H...
ASSANGE WANTED FOR 'HAVING SEX WITHOUT A CONDOM'
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the victim of a campaign of harassment and intimidation driven by the Obama administration. Assange has...
A GOOD CORPORATE PRESIDENT
Beware of so-called 'liberal' American president's bearing gifts. Step up Barack Obama, the 'man of the people', who pr...
THE WAR AGAINST WIKILEAKS
In January of this year the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an 'unfettered' internet and condemned all those who co...
WHERE IS WIKILEAKS? HERE IT IS...
I've had a couple of emails from people who are getting increasingly frustrated because they cannot access Wikileaks.Not surprisingly, t...
WIKILEAKS LOSES WEB HOST
It looks like Barack, Hillary and co are pulling out all the stops to disable Wikileaks. From the Huffington Post we read: New York — The w...
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