Archive for June, 2016
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
First published on Werewolf.co.nz
So… Boris Johnson is promising that he won’t be holding a snap general election, if he’s chosen as the next UK Conservative Party leader.
Reportedly, he is even making that promise a feature of his leadership campaign, since a vote for Boris would therefore mean (wink wink) ...
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
First published at Werewolf.co.nz
Like the political equivalent of lithium, Prime Minister John Key is routinely administered to dull any politically dangerous mood swings amidst the general public. Tax havens? Here? Goodness no, our handling of foreign trusts, is, quote, world class, unquote. And when subsequent evidence shows the opposite ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2016
First published on Werewolf.co.nz
Be careful of what you ask for. Now that it has woken up from its Brexit victory hangover, is Britain acting as if it has just won the World Cup? Hardly. Exasperated EU ministers may be urging Britain to go ahead and trigger its (ostensibly two ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
First published on Werewolf.co.nz
On the brink of the Brexit vote, the irrationality of the “Leave” option is now apparent. Voting for “Leave” requires (a) a fantastically unbalanced view of the impact of immigration on modern Britain (b) a demonizing of the EU “regulations” that are commonplace within a modern economy ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2016
First published at werewolf.co.nz
Once again, the RNZ news packages from the US and UK this morning underlined the striking difference in the treatment of the Pulse night club killings in Florida and the murder of the British Labour MP, Jo Cox. From day one, the Miami shooter has been described ...
Posted in Articles | Comments Off on Gordon Campbell on the “T” word, and the Spanish election
Monday, June 20th, 2016
First posted at werewolf.co.nz
So China and the US both have competing trade deals on offer – the TPP for the US and the RCEP for the Chinese - each of which pointedly exclude the other superpower. That fact alone should signal that these deals are not primarily about mere trade ...
Posted in Articles | Comments Off on Gordon Campbell on the RCEP trade deal and other entanglements
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
First published at werewolf.co.nz
If you’re a ministerial spin merchant can you ‘accidentally’ pass on to a journalist the fact that a prominent critic of your Minister and her government is under Police investigation?
Even in in the event that you did think you were only sharing common knowledge – and in ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
First published at werewolf.co.nz
The miserly nature of New Zealand’s response to the global refugee crisis continues apace. Yesterday’s announcement of an increase in our intake of UNHCR refugees from 750 to 1,000 refugees will only kick in from 2018, after the recent special intake of 650 Syrian refugees over two ...
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Column - Gordon Campbell
Once again, government spending on Defence is increasing by leaps and bounds, without any rational cost/benefit analysis. Yep, even Prime Minister John Key admitted this week that “the country can be confident it does not face a military threat in the ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
As with Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali changed the times in which he lived so thoroughly that anyone coming along afterwards will probably struggle to understand the scale of his achievement. At the time, rock’n’ roll had seemed bad enough ; but that could (for a while) be brushed aside as ...
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