Month: February 2006

The state has one legitimate role and no other. That is the protection of its citizens from force or fraud by internal or external criminal…

From the Chinese Communist Party’s “People’s Daily Online” 19/05/1999 President Jiang Zemin Meets Li Ka-shing President Jiang Zemin met in Beijing on May 18 with…

From Parliament yesterday Overseas Investment Commission—Strategic Infrastructure 11. PETER BROWN (Deputy Leader—NZ First) to the Minister of Finance: Is he satisfied that the Overseas Investment…

According to Hutchison-Whampoa’s web site: “The World of Hutchison Port Holdings covers a broad spectrum of port operations and related service companies spanning the entire…

The Christchurch City Council is attempting to take over the Lyttelton Port Company so that it can then enter into a joint venture with Hong…

Catholic groups are up in arms about C4’s plans to air an episode of the cartoon show “Southpark”, which will depict a menstruating statue of…

Marxist Green MP and his socialist sister, Maire Leadbetter (centre) at today’s anti Guantanamo Bay protest in Auckland. This is one of the very few…

Richard Prebble in today’s “The Letter” sums up the seriousness and implications of Labour’s electoral over-spending scandal. Labour’s electoral over spending is now being investigated…

Russel Norman has some competition for the Green party co-leadership. Former Green MP and number 8 on the party’s 2005 list, Mike Ward, has announced…

Maia over at Capitalism Bad-Tree Pretty has gone a bit dark on me. However she’s completely spewing about Green Party poster boy, Russel Norman. She…

If anything could make me embarrassed to be a Cantabrian, it would be this. Lindsay Mitchell reports that “Canterbury Health Board wants staff to boycott…

In a momentous decision, the Anti-Capitalist Alliance has re-named itself as the “Workers Party”. The Anti-Capitalist Alliance was formed in 2002 and has functioned as…

The Maxim Institute are leading the charge against Green MP, Sue Bradford’s, “anti-smacking” legislation. This is from there latest “real Issues” email newsletter. Many readers…

From yesterday’s NZ Herald Otago police are investigating the accounting practices of the University of Otago’s Maori students association. The matter was brought to police…

According to Green Left Weekly, February 8th, 2006, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in a series of fiery speeches on the closing day of the World…