Posts by Steve Barnes
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I hate to sound cynical, but I've seen (and made) any number of similar optimistic statements over the past few years about how this administration surely must crumble now,
Hopefully the "Power of Positive Thinking" will win in the end. ;-)
-
On a lighter note, headline in early online Herald...
Kiwi fugitives Simone Wright and Paula Bennett arrested in Australia
Now corrected, or is it a cover-up?.
:-) -
Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Lauda Finem comes across as a bit like an Alex Jones/InfoWars site for legal types.
Indeed, there seem to be connections to Ian Wishart and the main editor is, apparently, one Dermot Nottingham who exposed the Odometer fraud way back. Howling at the Moon, Wishart's publishing company, published a book on the subject, Car Wars: the true story of the Odometer Winding Scandal. The name says it all really.
Credit where credit is due, Wishart did quite a good job of exposing corruption in the banking industry in the eighty's, Fay Richwhite et al, but these people ruin their own credibility with their over the top rhetoric and, sometimes, outright defamation. No wonder they hide behind anonymity.Still, I do think SkyCity could be a tipping point
It may well be but Sabin will be the final nail in the coffin.
-
Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to nzlemming,
Oooh, I found
Now that is a real low down hate attack site if ever I saw one, nasty.
I cannot vouch for Lauda Finem but the site you linked to seems like an attack on any credibility they may have. It would seem, however that Lauda Finem have links to the rabid right and as such I find it quite telling that they and Slater, have turned on Key &co. -
Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Sacha,
why? other threads for that topic.
point me to one.
-
So, on to Sabin…
The same thing is happening with the Sabin scandal. Key’s line is that Helen Clark didn’t stand down as Prime Minister during ‘painter-gate’,
The disingenuous “Blame Labour” cry is wearing a little thin, It comes up with such regularity it is like the boy who cried wolf and coming, as it does, from the naked Emperor, makes me feel we are living in a Grimm tale, grim indeed.
The denial is strong with this one, so strong we have to wonder why. With a total lack of information we are left to guess as to what the offence must be and it must be bad.
I must say at this point that I hold dear the concept of being innocent until proven guilty and as such the police are caught between a rock and a hard place, what with the given super injunction and the secrecy surrounding this scandal. Silence begs noise and that is all we hear, noise and speculation.
Even the oily one has misgivings and he is not alone [redacted] in thinking the worst.
Key must come clean as it now appears that the investigations started as long ago as 2011 so our PM has either been kept in the dark and lied to by his advisors or he himself is being more than economical with the truth. -
Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Russell Brown,
I've been busy!
Fair enough and I hope it is all going well for you.
-
Speaker: Public art is no place for committees, in reply to Gabor Toth,
Gibb’s thoughts on how he commissions the works is nicely summarised in the first three minutes of Lightening Dreams.
Gibb's thoughts on anything are an anathema to me. Sure, I am concerned about what he has done with our money but more from the perspective of how he got away with it rather than how he enjoys it and in no way do I think his flaunting of his ill gotten gains is a favour to the people of New Zealand.
-
Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 2…, in reply to Alfie,
Like Steve, I've been expecting a pithy PAS post on the SkyCity fiasco.
And as if by magic.... !!KAPOW!!
eta Love the Armstrong piece.
;-) -
Back to life, back to reality
Welcome back Russell. I feared for a while you had been swallowed by some middle class monster, what with your house now being worth more than a million bucks.
I was imagining a headline on Kiwiblog... "Millionaire Brown quits the Loony Left"
;-)All of the above, your post, illustrates something I have been saying for quite a while.
The Key Govt. has been and continues to, put up false threats to the people of New Zealand and then backs away from those threats as if they are doing us all a favour.
The examples are so many that listing them is pointless but we should all be aware that this is their modus operandi. After telling the people that we didn't want Sky City to build an eyesore Key now saysPrime Minister John Key says the SkyCity convention centre plan grew in both size and "flashness" until a public backlash persuaded the Government not to spend any more money on it.
They listened to the people, yeah, right.
But in the end I just think that public opinion on this thing, rightly so, was: 'There's a deal, leave it as the contract said, even if SkyCity were right, it's possibly gone up a little more, we all need to live within our means', and that's what we are going to do."
I've heard that children of SkyCity executives are turning up at their Auckland private schools without having had a decent cafe breakfast. At playtime the kids have to fill their bottles with tap water.
Let them eat Gateaux I say.
We have for too long, more than six long years, been subjected to this cynical manipulation and I thank you Russ for standing up once more as our champion.