Someone must have called in the angels on Saturday morning. Our massive earthquake caused monumental amounts of damage to Christchurch and surrounding Canterbury, but not one life was lost. The Haiti earthquake, exactly the same force at 7.1 on the Richter scale, killed 300,000 people. Thank goodness for our First World building standards and the… [Read more…]
August 20, 2010
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Owen McShane, a resource management consultant who writes for the National Business Review is best known as a friend of the free market Right and rampant property developers. But on occasion his conclusions have resonance that greenies and public transport advocates should take note of. Click here to read his views on the visit of… [Read more…]
July 22, 2010
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“Constitutional right to oblivion.” The call to allow citizens to maintain a greater degree of anonymity. http://nyti.ms/bNQC7P
June 20, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism “Obama cannot order fish species to survive, or brown… [Read more…]
April 27, 2010
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In my role as Chair of NZCU South, I have recently been a participant in a credit rating process conducted by Standard and Poors on our credit union. We ended up with a respectable BB rating. Forced on us by recent government regulation, it was an interesting process. I will spare you my grief over… [Read more…]
April 21, 2010
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The US navy is set to be both green and mean with the dawning of an new eco-friendly assault force that will mind its carbon footprint as it destroys its enemy. It is to launch “the Great Green Fleet”, a fighting force of ships, submarines and planes powered entirely by biofuels. The first group will… [Read more…]
December 2, 2009
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Gareth Morgan proposes radical tax restructure & guaranteed minimum income http://ping.fm/0crDQ
September 5, 2010
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