Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Gordon Campbell on the House rejection of the bailout plan
So the House has rejected the bailout plan – or more correctly, the House Republicans rejected the plan concocted by their own President and Treasury Secretary. Has any president ever been so humiliated as Bush? President Bush was treated ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Luckily for Sarah Palin, the focus on the presidential debates and the $700 million bailout plan helped to bury a horrific series of news events for her last week. First, Palin kept stonewalling her way through the investigation into her role in the attempted firing of ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Gordon Campbell interviews Hone Harawira about Maori Party election strategy - Images Kevin List
While the Maori Party does at times consciously project an image of guilelessness, they have been highly successful – more so say, than the Greens - at concealing their major party preference in this election. Currently, the ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
This is crunch week for the US financial system, and the Democrats need to play hardball and vote against the $700 billion bailout plan. Because (a) the plan probably won’t work (b) isn’t fixable and (c) will be politically suicidal in the presidential race in November if the ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
By Gordon Campbell
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This week, the public itself could be forgiven for treating Parliament with contempt. In a majority decision, the privileges committee has found that New Zealand First leader Winston Peters had “ some knowledge’ of the $100,000 gift ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
By Gordon Campbell
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So, what impact is the world’s biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression having on the New Zealand election campaign? Of course, this is nowhere near as crucial as what happens to Winston Peters but…. hello ? Apart from a few ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Words Gordon Campbell - Images Kevin List
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The final lingering image of the privileges committee investigation of Winston Peters was an apt one - a scrum of journalists gathered round Rodney Hide afterwards, virtually begging to be spun. As it happened, the last day’s testimony in the privileges committee ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
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So election day is November 8 which – it seems from media commentary over the weekend – was totally obvious to political insiders all along. Or had been at least, since they stopped thinking it could be an early election - in which case October 18 had ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
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Winston Peters goal last night was simple survival. And if the rules of natural justice rules still apply, he did manage to shake Owen Glenn’s testimony just enough to avoid summary execution. Glenn’s account of events may still sound like the more plausible one - but ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Robert Fisk at the Copthorne Hotel, Mt Victoria Wellington September 2008 - Images Kevin List
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Robert Fisk was born 62 years ago in Maidstone, Kent – and if you’ve ever wondered about the residual worth of Latin and what happens to people who study it, the man did ...
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