Month: December 2005

The long awaited book “Mitrokhin Archive: the KGB and the World” is due out very soon. Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin was a KGB archivist who pilfered…

Some have complained that I overemphsise the negative. Here then is some extremely positive news. Eight Wellington parking wardens have been sacked for not ticketing…

“Unite”, currently organising strikes in fast food outlets, is NZ’s newest and most militant union. It targets young and low paid workers because they are…

From a “Unite” union press release on this morning’s “Scoop” Small Country’s Workers Take On Big Name Brands “Young workers in a small country at…

Sent to me this morning by a friend (an ex secondary school teacher) What is the difference between Heinrich Himmler and David Benson-Pope? One of…

Every year, the Christchurch based Campaign Against the Foreign Control of Aotearoa issues their “Roger” award for the “worst transnational corporation operating in NZ”. This…

Peter Cresswell at Not PC has a link to US writer David Horowitz’s excellent new site Discover the Network (link on sidebar). This site is…

Abridged from today’ NZ Herald “Companies owned by the daughter of Te Wananga o Aotearoa head Rongo Wetere earned more than $74.2 million in five…

I went to visit my friend, Bruce Logan yesterday at the Maxim Institute’s Christchurch branch. He was clearing out his desk, his last day at…

When I first posted on the wasted life of Keith Locke, the Green Party’s “Frogblog” came out with some very dodgy statements, which I will…

The Green Party openly acknowledges that it is directly descended from the Values Party of the ’70s. Co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons and late co-leader Rod Donald…

In a few hours, in the clean, affluent, modern state of Singapore, 25 year old Australian citizen Nguyen Tuong Van, will walk onto a scaffold,…

Discrimination has lost is old viruous meaning and is now a dirty word, almost interchangeable with Prejudice. “I hate racial discrimination”, or “you homophobe, that’s…