Archive for the 'Media' Category

A jail that leaks like a $6m sieve. Who’s being screwed?

Topic: Consumer, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society, Your money

People who are condemned to live in privately owned leaky homes will not be happy with the Government’s rapid response to the newly revealed problem of convicts living in a leaky prison.
A leaky roof does not a prison make - unless you privately own it. Pictures by Dreamstime.comWhile law-abiding honest victims languish in rotting houses [...]

Oh Gore Blimey… it’s The End Of The World again

Topic: Consumer, Environment, Media, Politics, Society, The world

Our world… it’s being hijacked by the stupid and gullibleThe Greens have scored a perfect own goal with the title of their follow-up to Al Gore’s one-sided blockbuster movie. They’ve called it “The Age of Stupid”.
They could just as easily have chosen “The Age of Gullible” or “The Age of Politically Opportunist” as [...]

Ban the SFO and pass the ETS? That’s serious fraud

Topic: Consumer, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

Any hope that Winston Peters can keep Helen Clark afloat is virtually gone, now that we know the Monaco millionaire benefactor to the Winston First Party warned his friend the Prime Minister that he had donated $100,000 to Peters’ legal fund – and that she failed to reveal this until today.
Yesterday, Clark criticised Peters for [...]

The scales of justice are seriously out of balance

Topic: Law and order, Media, Society

Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice dismissed is far worseA grave allegation has been made against one of New Zealand’s judges, and naturally – even though it’s hearsay – we’re duty bound to repeat it in the hope that some paid journalist somewhere will do a bit of investigation for a change.
The claim, made during [...]

Where there’s smoke, there’s a politically correct prat

Topic: Consumer, Education, Environment, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

It’s sad, when you find a dead cigarette lighter in pristine native bush. Picture: the Studio at Dreamstime.comIt has been revealed that British American Tobacco is quietly sponsoring anti-littering group Keep New Zealand Beautiful to the tune of $300,000.
Naturally, this donation was immediately pounced on and condemned by false do-gooders. Cancer Society chief executive [...]

A waste of energy on an Olympian scale

Topic: Art and culture, Education, General, Media, Society, Sport, television

Ten thousand automatons, more thousands of fireworks, and billions glued to their screens at ungodly hours of the night. What is there to show for for the counterfeit Beijing Olympics?
Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics champion. Black man beats a white supremacist systemA vast undemocratic nation, covered in smog and fumes, countless millions of viewers concentrating on [...]

Don’t take “Lying Wanker” for an answer

Topic: Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

The lies have it - the Gospel according to GoebbelsThe Nazi propaganda genius Dr Joseph Goebbels often said that if you repeat a lie enough, people will come to accept it as the truth. He was right, for a short while. A 21st Century variant of this idea is that if you deny an accusation [...]

Malice in Blunderland: Is he as mad as a hatter?

Topic: Media, Politics, Your money

With Peters, you get a fraction of the pictureIt’s becoming increasingly difficult to see how any sane elector could ever again vote for New Zealand First, after the Great Leader’s manic performances during the last two weeks. For a start, decent, law-abiding and well-spoken old folks surely will not take kindly at the polls to [...]

The law’s an ass, but don’t be seen dead in Parliament

Topic: Humour, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

The UK Parliament. A place familiar to madmen (Picture by Ian Britton, freefoto.com)Not many people know that it is illegal to die within the precincts of the British Houses of Parliament. The official explanation is that Parliament is a Royal palace. This is an odd law, because it did not stop a series of English [...]

Trust Winston to know all about trust

Topic: Media, Politics, Your money

According to The New Zealand Herald, wealthy Monaco-based Kiwi Owen Glenn donated lots of money to New Zealand First. The newspaper claims to have emails that say this, but Glenn’s PR people seem to know nothing and Winston Peters denies it, says he knows nothing of any such donation(s), and challenges the newspaper’s reporters and [...]