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Mother Jones has an icky story about imported Chinese food in the USA involving contamination, salmonella, bateria and pesticides.
At one [poultry] plant, inspectors had found paint from the ceiling “on the table used for edible product,” while workers at another facility wiped down meat-handling areas with dirty cloths. Parts of a third factory, designated for […]

It’s getting to be half week old news now. But, just to show the Greens are not into stopping all sporting tours, here’s the Green spokesperson on sports, Keith calling for more cricket. Go Keith.
“Pulling out [of the Champions Trophy in Pakistan] now would badly dent New Zealand’s good reputation in Pakistan, and cannot be […]

While I’m on the topic, there were calls for an arms race in this morning’s Dominion Post:
Police Association president Greg O’Connor said police welcomed Tasers but were concerned they could be issued at the cost of firearms.
“That can’t happen,” he said. “They must be ‘as well as’, not `instead of’.”
Why?  So that you can taser […]

The debate in Parliament yesterday around the use of tasers seemed entirely to be game playing by a government that, up until now had been unwilling to politically debate the issues around tasers – claiming it was an operation matter for police, not a political one for MPs.
Nonetheless, it is an important issue, and worrying […]

You know, Parliament’s question time was interesting yesterday.  Well, not so much all the Winston Peters stuff.  The funniest bit of that exchange was Dail Jones trying to claim that Owen Glenn’s damning letter might be a forgery.
The stuff I found interesting though was the discussion on the Waterview Connection. Russel began by asking whether […]

Xavier Goldie couldn’t quite believe Brian Lochore said what he did this week:
Apparently, not only did Lochore leave his babies (not children, but three week old babies) outside in the mud while he was boozing, but he actually attempts to justify the fact that he assaulted other people’s children. WTF?
Meanwhile, also on s 59 related […]