Posts by Steve Barnes
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I think that both are worth watching closely.
The outcome of the US elections have a large impact across the globe and should not be ignored.True but ours is one we can do somthing about and a lot of what is going on seems to go under the radar, dismissed as of no importance. The strike story I linked to earlier no longer appears on the Heralds online front page (the link still returns the story) and I, for one, am wondering why, any ideas?
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Is it just me or are there others who think that, just maybe, our General Election might be a little more important than the circus that passes for democracy in the US ?
illic es nullus sic caecus ut illud ut mos non animadverto. -
Following last week’s High Court decision, upholding the decision of the Electoral Commission to register the Labour Party’s largest union backer, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union (EPMU), as a third party under the Electoral Finance Act the Herald offers us this "Strikes on the cards as tough times bite" . Nationals campaign continues, a campaign of destruction, the destruction of our democratically elected government through untruths and downright lies. As if that load of cobblers was not enough the Herald continues to spew FUD with this little scare story, "Scheme will hit everyone's pocket" about the ETS legislation that, thankfully, will be passed this week. As I have noted before this is national campaign, they have no real policy so if they are elected they can choose their own mandate, and that, my friends, is scary.
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Hmm, cant seem to do a thing right this weekend. I'll go away before I get slapped again.
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Department: Information Systems & Operations Management
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & EconomicsBum. Another Owen Gren lionk ;-)
65 Koro Tawa Botany
Press Release: 17th July 2008
Labour chooses University Lecturer to contest Botany Electorate.
The Labour Party selected university lecturer, Koro Tawa, as its candidate to contest the Botany electorate in a well attended selection meeting on Thursday night.
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Perhaps you could do me the courtesy, and you too, Steve, of not telling me how to do my feminism.
And oerhaps you could do us all a favour and try and stick to the topic rather than turn this thread into another of your "Man Hating" trolls. But then you are so much more importrant than the rest of us aren't you?
I'm over it. In the words of our esteemed host "Goodbye!" -
Teaspoons.
All I ever do is try to empty the sea with this teaspoon; all I can do is keep trying to empty the sea with this teaspoon."
I used to have nightmares like that (or should I say NightHorses for fear of sounding sexist ;-) ) and I feel a bit like that now. I wish you guys would look at the bigger picture, with regard to Nationals campaign, instead of jousting with some perceived daemon.
Here's an interesting bit of background on Lynton Crosby and Mark Textor from The Guardian 2005.One Labor candidate received £34,000 in damages in 1995 from Mark Textor, Crosby's business partner, and others after suggestions that she supported abortions at nine months. Textor, who is offering informal advice to the Tories, had deployed "push polling", a US tactic of spreading damaging information about opponents under the guise of questions.
But Wait, there's more...
The poster message looks as though it has been scrawled in lipstick.
"How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?"In another, the blonde, sensible-looking teacher looks accusingly at the camera. There is extensive bruising around her eye and a cut to her lip.
"Under Labour it's not just pupils that get bad marks," reads the message.
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So has anyone figured out what Owen Glenn is all about? Seems to have plenty of money to throw around, a bad memory and fancies a title - is that it?
Ian Wishart did a piece back in February in which he, after quite good research, came up with a lot of tenuous links and assumptions. I wouldn't take it on face value but it could be a good place to start your own research.
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I made a comment a few months back concerning the so called power crisis. At the time I called it a beat-up. Last Wednesday there was a headline in t' Herld claiming that Kiwi-saver was creating chaos and the IRD, that is also a beat-up trying to smear Kiwi-saver. The people complaining about Kiwi-saver were, according to t' Herld, accountants, note it was not the IRD themselves.
The, so called, Power Crisis was championed by TV3's John Campbell but also took up considerable space in t' Herld. The people claiming there was a power crisis? hard to pin that one down but it flared across the house from the National benches. Those in the know in the Power industry were quick to dispel fears of blackouts pointing out that you cannot, truly and honestly, guarantee supply, this was picked up by National as "Labour, after nine years in power, have done nothing to guarantee security of supply"
This business with Winston is just another part of Nationals campaign, a campaign that has no policy, a campaign that relies, solely, on the destruction of your opponent. If they win with this strategy they will be elected without clear mandate, they will be able to do what they damn well like.
Chris Trotter's table thumping style wins him few friends in the modern world, he's so 70s people power revolutionary, but he did reveal something that we should bear in mind when considering Winston's plight.“There’s a big pot of money out there to get Peters this time - big money.”
And you will find, if you look hard enough, that the big money is linked to the "Wine Box"
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Hey, you guys? You might make a few of us with vaginas who don't appreciate slut-shaming metaphors a little uncomfortable with that one
Well excuse me for being offended. The mention of jenny Shipley was bad enough but to have her genitalia thrust into my mind whilst eating was a step too far, Muldoon would have been far worse.