What if the “former” Soviet Union had “talent spotted” a young radical named Barack Obama? What if the Soviets/Russia had used their minions in the Communist Party USA and the Democratic Party, to smooth Obama’s career path? What if America’s greatest enemy had made America’s worst ever President? If that had indeed happened, would President [...]
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Pip posted this on David Farrar’s Blog yesterday I am interested that the VP of ACT doesn’t think expropriating someone else’s property is any kind of an issue. Pip was referring to my cut and paste of some biographical notes on Radical Youth member, John Darroch. I lifted the segment, with slight editing, from Tearaway [...]
Excellent!!!!! From a Dom Post report on Rodney Hide’s speech to the weekend’s ACT conference. ACT would press for a flat 15 per cent tax rate and a Bill of Taxpayers’ Rights, which would hold per capita spending at present levels unless a referendum approved an increase
So far, Cristcthurch City Council’s plan to sell a part share in the Lyttelton Port Company to a subsidiary Hutchison-Whampoa has not gone smoothly. So far, several letters to the editor and blog posts have revealed Hutchison’s links to the Chinese Government and Peoples Liberation Army. Otago Port Company has swooped on Lyttelton Port Company [...]
From Alliance Party member, Joe Hendren’s Blog The Keep Our Port Public coalition (KOPP) is holding a public meeting in Christchurch opposing the sale of Lyttelton Port Company to Hutchison, a Hong Kong based multinational corporation. The sale represents the restart of the agenda to privatise publicly owned assets, and there are good indications the [...]
Excerpts from today’s issue of Aussie Marxist-Leninist paper Green Left Weekly. Article by Omar Hamed of Aotearoa Radical Youth. On March 20 in the heart of Auckland’s central business district, 1000 high school students who had walked out of school that morning rallied to demand an end to youth rates. The students were demonstrating the [...]
Part of the new ACT Board at yesterday’s ACT annual conference in Wellington. Standing Warren Jones, Helen Simpson, David Seymour, Garry Mallett (President), Mike Collins, Muriel Newman, Andrew Falloon, Yours Truly, Barbara Astill (Party Secretary) Seated Great leader, Rodney Hide, Helmswoman, Heather Roy
Members of ACT New Zealand have elected Garry Mallett as their new President and Trevor Loudon as Vice-President “ACT members have once again elected quality people with talent and passion”, said outgoing ACT President Catherine Judd. Regional Board Members Auckland North: Brendon CullenAuckland South: David SeymourWellington: Michael Collins Deputy Board Members Auckland South: Warren JonesWaikato/BOP: [...]
Congratulations to my husband, Trevor, on his sucessful bid for Vice Presidency of ACT today. The party couldn’t have a more diligent, loyal and philosphically aligned VP. Love Tracey
From Outsidethecube Worlds largest energy cooperation agreement. A number of important cooperation agreements have been signed between Russia and China during the visit to China of President Putin. The most important are in the energy cooperation and a number of joint ventures.It is readily identified that the growth of the Chinese economy has been fueling [...]
My Fifth, Where Are You Now, Campus Radical? profile is of TVNZ’s newly appointed publicity manager, Joss Debreceny. From a “Public Relations” family (his father worked for the Labour Party in the ’70s), Joss Debreceny is well on his way up the corporate ladder. Immediately before joining TVNZ, Debreceny worked for a well known PR [...]
My latest Where Are You Now, Campus Radical? profile is of Quentin Jukes, a long time colleague of Green MP, Sue Bradford. Quentin Jukes was active in student politics at Waikato Uni in the early ’80s. Jukes studied Social Sciences and was on the Waikato Students Union executive in 1982/83. In 1985 he was Vice [...]
If human cloning ever becomes a reality, this picture might be a taste of the horrors to come. From Rodney’s Blog British Labour MP Austin Mitchell’s snap of me the day before the election last year has won 100 pounds for the CLIC Sargent charity that provides care and financial support for children and families [...]
After her brief fling with the Green Party, Sue Bradford settled back into her old patterns, organising demos, getting arrested and running the Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre. In January 1991 she led a sit in at the US Consulate in Auckland after the first Iraq war broke out. In February she was prominent at [...]
From today’s Herald A convicted paedophile has been awarded $25,000 damages for invasion of his privacy after police alerted people in his neighbourhood to his presence. Barry Brown – who has convictions for sexual offences dating back to 1982 – sued police in Wellington District Court for $80,000. He was identified in 2001 after he [...]
A comment from David Farrar’s KiwiBlog yesterday by “Ted Kennedy” Some enterprising journo should do some digging and ask specifically what links Radical Youth has with Unite, the Greens, and the role played in RY by the likes of John Minto and Matt McCarten. While Ted is dreaming if he thinks any mainstream journo is [...]
The latest issue of “Investigate” also probes the proposed deal between the Christchurch City Council and Hong Kong based Hutchison-Whampoa. Investigate’s front cover proclaims “NZ Port Security Threat-China’s Richest Man Wants to Buy NZ Ports-but he’s linked to the Chinese military” Good to see Investigate giving this issue the coverage it deserves. Shame on our [...]
According to the Investigate magazine Blog Attorney-General David Parker could face up to $1.8 million in fines or a five year jail term after filing false statements with the Companies Office during his time as a Labour MP, according to a story in the latest Investigate magazine. The magazine says it has six documents bearing [...]
Writing in today’s Herald on Sunday, Matt McCarten, tells where Labour gets its money from. What matt really wants though is for unions to fund his comrades in the Green Party, so we could have more “pro-worker policy.” Hat Tip Rodney Hide Yet the trade union movement still puts all its eggs in one basket. [...]
The NZ Police top brass are gutless wonders. If you’re doing 5Kms over the limit on your way to work to make some money to pay your taxes to pay their wages, its ZERO tolerance. If you’re a farmer in a remote area and you shoot some hood trying to steal your property, the police [...]
Former ACT Deputy Board member Aaron Bhatnagar has this to say, regarding my defence of Rodney Hide’s exposing of David Benson-Pope. In the end, politics is not about being negative and “hurting the other party” but about advancing society through the application of your philosophy and policy. By way of example, look at Wayne Mapp’s [...]
I stole this from Andrew Falloon. He stole it from the Ashburton Guardian. It’s about the police stealing from motorists. If Ashburton’s police officers are focused on their jobs, they should be able to issue one traffic ticket per working hour, says AshburtonÂs police chief Arnold Kelly. In the past year, Ashburton officers issued 13,000 [...]
From The Whig part of a comment by former ACT board member, turned Nat, Aaron Bhatnagar. Rodney has allowed a sort of McCarthyist politics dictate his actions in Parliament. It’s a “get Benson-Pope at any costs” mentality, which will never win ACT votes. It may in fact put people off from voting for ACT even [...]
New Zealand First MPH Barbara Stewart’s members bill cutting the number of MPs from 120 to 100 was passed 61 to 60 at its first reading last night. The bill will founder and so it should. The number of MPs in our parliament is not the problem. In fact I would be comfortable with more. [...]
From today’s Herald A National Party bill to allow a 90-day probation period for new workers passed its first hurdle last night and will proceed to a select committee. The probation period employment bill – which will give employers a 90-day trial period in which they can get rid of people who don’t work out [...]
The Crown Law Office will advise police by the end of next week whether or not to prosecute the Labour Party for alleged over spending in the 2005 election. How the hell will Crown Law wriggle out of the fact that Labour spent $446,000 from Helen Clark’s leader’s fund, on pledge cards for purely electoral [...]
This piece, comes, with the above heading from the Philippines Solidarity Network Aotearoa’s Kapitiran No 22 of January 2003. The author is PSNA Secretary, Murray Horton “One major concern had been that New Zealanders supporting liberation movements overseas (which more often than not have to resort to armed struggle – East Timor is the most [...]
The Philippines Solidarity Network Aotearoa is very concerned at the arrest of the leftist Anakpawis Party’s Congressman, Crispin Beltran in the Philippines. PSNA have asked Helen Clark to intercede with Philippines President Arroyo on Beltran’s behalf. The PSNA toured Beltran here in 1999, as long time head of the Kilusang Mayo Uno, the Communist Party [...]
From the Star-Sun Network Online February 26 2006 Party-list Legislators, Communist Leaders Sued for Rebellion MANILA — In line with the crackdown on people allegedly out to destabilize the government, police on Monday filed rebellion charges against 15 individuals identified with the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army. In his complaint [...]
From the NZ Herald 13.03.06 By Paul Smith Prime Minister Helen Clark is being urged to raise human rights abuses with the Philippines government during a meeting there this week. President Gloria Arroyo declared an effective state of emergency last month, saying it was necessary to prevent a coup. There are reports that one of [...]
