One of the many pieces of false logic in Clark’s assumption that we only need Helen Clark and John Key at the televised leaders debates is the assumption that all undecided voters are simply choosing between a Labour-led government and a National-led government.
In fact there are also large numbers of voters who are deciding between […]
The Southland Times has a powerful editorial on Labour and National’s collaboration to reject the 39,000-signature petition supported by the Green Party calling for country of origin labelling on food.
It notes Labour and National’s contention that we have lots of choice is all fair and true if the you are looking for the sort of […]
At the slimmest edge of his reasoning, I find myself agreeing with that great Kiwi free market apologist, Roger Kerr. Poor oversight has pumped billions of dollars into useless paper assets, primarily property. However, It is entirely disingenuous to blame the government for that. An oil price spike, one of the early symptoms of the […]
These two letters in The Press caught my eye today:
Heh heh. And on a more serious note:
Incidentally the preferential trade agreement with China comes into force tomorrow (1 October). From that point on provisions that make it easier and faster for China to get its goods through our our customs and biosecurity take effect. This […]
The melamine scandal has wiggled its way out of China and into New Zealand with news that product from Tatua Cooperative Dairy Company has also been contaminated. Although I had to ask has an issue shot right past mainstream into the realm of the bizarre when Whale Oil says:
The more important story however, which has […]
Given the just failed US$700 billion financial bailout was about preventing widespread poverty and economic turmoil I’ve been wondering whether the money couldn’t be better spent in other ways. Now that the bailout is dead maybe USA can afford to be inventive. For that kind of money you are talking about a fairly comprehensive free […]
Last Thursday, the Global Carbon Project released its annual report on the state of the carbon cycle, Carbon Budget 2007 [pdf]. And the news is that carbon dioxide emissions are up 3 percent for 2007
Dot Earth commented:
More than half of global emissions, which totalled more than 34 billion tons of CO2 in 2007, are now […]
I just found this on US website, Red Green and Blue:
Mr. Kermit Frog revealed on Tuesday to the Associated Press that he has been lying to the American public since his initial appearance in Sesame Street on November 10, 1969.
“I tried keeping it a secret because of the industry,” says Kermit. “The last thing […]