December 10th, 2013
John Key is about to lead a small delegation of New Zealand politicians to South Africa for the memorial service of Nelson Mandela. Why that delegation includes two members of the National Government led by Robert Muldoon who labeled Mandela a terrorist and allowed the 1981 Springbok tour to New Zealand and no one from the groups that organised the protests against the tour is beyond me.
When the Prime minister can't even man up about his own feelings towards apartheid at the time of the tour, the question has to be asked whether he is really the person that should be leading the New Zealand delegation in the first place. A response of 'I can't be bothered going into it' tells me he probably is not.
More here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/yasmine-ryan/apartheid-new-zealand_b_4411734.html
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August 8th, 2013
Apparently the White House said last Thursday that it is “extremely disappointed” in Russia’s decision to grant National Security Agency leak source Edward Snowden temporary asylum in the country, casting it as a setback in the countries’ bilateral relationship.
That seems perhaps just a touch hypocritical given Russia and the US have no extradition treaty and the fact the the US have routinely refused to extradite people facing much greater charges (including genocide and war crimes) even to countries they do have extradition treaties with... more here
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July 29th, 2013
Judith Collins has always struck me as someone who is pretty sure of herself, which kinda makes her tweet today all the more disturbing:
"So anti-GSCB hackers have closed down Government MPs websites proving what they could do to people's bank accounts."
Taking two unrelated things and deciding one somehow proves the other is not the best look, particularly when you are the Minister of Justice.
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John Key conveniently forgets that fossil fuels cause global warming and decides to base New Zealand's economic future on them...
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