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Gordon Campbell on profit potential ahead of human potential
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 9:42 am | Gordon Campbell
Does New Zealand – despite our claims to egalitarianism and everyone being equal before the law – treat the people engaged in tax evasion more leniently than the people who commit welfare fraud? Yes, we do. (Why we do is the real issue.) More >>
Gordon Campbell on the smelter deal, Fonterra and Iran
Friday, 9 August 2013, 10:40 am | Gordon Campbell
Well, it does seem that about $30 million is the kind of pocket money that the government has readily at hand to throw at foreign corporates - at Warners over The Hobbit, and now at Rio Tinto over the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Fonterra milk powder scandal
Monday, 5 August 2013, 10:33 am | Gordon Campbell
The Fonterra tainted milk powder scandal is at risk of becoming the export equivalent of foot and mouth disease, and needs expert management now to staunch the damage. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Vance phone scandal
Thursday, 1 August 2013, 9:58 am | Gordon Campbell
Pity the poor Prime Minister. The phone records of Fairfax reporter Andrea Vance? Don’t look at him. Once again, John Key has been let down by his minions, or by the people who were misled or intimidated into compliance by his staff’s overtures, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell: Manning conviction | Dotcom’s latest round
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 9:59 am | Gordon Campbell
So, in a US kangaroo court, the sole presiding judge has found Bradley Manning guilty of espionage, theft and fraud under the US Espionage Act of 1917. So much for the whistle blower defence, and for Manning’s claim that his actions were intended ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Defence Force’s paranoia about journalism
Monday, 29 July 2013, 9:45 am | Gordon Campbell
If the thousands of people who marched on the weekend against the GCSB Bill wanted further justification for their concerns, the Defence Force has just provided it with bells on. More >>
Gordon Campbell on why Miyazaki is fighting Japan’s new PM
Friday, 26 July 2013, 10:20 am | Gordon Campbell
Everyone likes the new-ish Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right? Why, his so called “Abe-nomics” promises to deliver Japan from two decades of economic malaise, by embracing the supply side prescriptions endorsed by right thinking folks within ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the GCSB Bill protests and the Royal Baby
Thursday, 25 July 2013, 10:13 am | Gordon Campbell
Tomorrow, the parliamentary committee that heard submissions on the GCSB Bill will report back. Few will be expecting significant changes to this egregious betrayal of our civil rights and national sovereignty. More >>
Gordon Campbell on Peter Dunne’s illusory gains on GCSB Bill
Tuesday, 23 July 2013, 12:13 pm | Gordon Campbell
In a week that will see nationwide protests against the GCSB, the politics of the passage of the agency’s governing legislation remain as polarized as ever. Now that Peter Dunne has re-assumed his usual posture as the government’s reliable ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the TPP's risk to national sovereignty
Thursday, 18 July 2013, 10:38 am | Gordon Campbell
Remember the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and those scary stories last year about how it would give foreign multinationals the right to sue the countries who sign up to it, if said corporates happen to feel disadvantaged by any laws or regulations ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the SIS, and Auckland transport
Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 9:54 am | Gordon Campbell
At what point did the SIS lose the technological ability to fulfil its statutory duty, which is to detect and to counter threats to our domestic security? Surely, out of its annual budget, the SIS should have been setting aside the funds required ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on the ‘conscience’ vote on the SkyCity deal
Thursday, 11 July 2013, 10:56 am | Gordon Campbell
Gambling, for all the social evils that it can bring in its wake, is a legal activity enjoyed by many. And during night’s debate in Parliament on Te Ururoa Flavell’s Gambling Amendment Bill (a Bill that has been gutted at select committee of all its ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on asset sales contortions, GCSB and Jay Z
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 10:18 am | Gordon Campbell
Hope you’ve got it straight now. Treasury said $100 million from the Mighty River Power sales proceeds had been earmarked to prop up Solid Energy’s “recovery facilities” – although John Key said it hadn’t been, and that Labour’s Clayton Cosgrove ... More >>
Gordon Campbell:Key’s proud claim to being the village idiot
Friday, 5 July 2013, 9:48 am | Gordon Campbell
Clearly we – and that includes Kim Dotcom - have been giving Prime Minister John Key too much credit. Everyone assumed that a smart guy like Key would know his stuff, and would be in touch with what’s going on. Not the case, Mr Key is insisting. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Dotcom’s contribution to our security laws
Thursday, 4 July 2013, 11:02 am | Gordon Campbell
While Kim Dotcom’s appearance was the highlight of yesterday’s hearings by the Intelligence and Security Committee, his commentary on the GCSB Bill was in sync with the flaws in the draft Bill identified earlier in the afternoon by other submitters, ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Kim Dotcom at Parliament tomorrow
Tuesday, 2 July 2013, 11:00 am | Gordon Campbell
Ironic that in the same week that Kim Dotcom will appear before a Parliamentary committee to defend the right of New Zealanders to live free from surveillance from the GCSB, Edward Snowden is seeking asylum in Russia. (Reportedly, Russian leader Vladimir ... More >>
Gordon Campbell on Syria, RNZ and Michael Shannon
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 10:19 am | Gordon Campbell
Since the Arab Spring began, the rebellion in Syria has been the only one to evolve into full scale civil war, and still is the only conflict with the potential to shape the politics of the entire Middle East. More >>
Gordon Campbell: everyone's stake in surveillance reduction
Friday, 14 June 2013, 10:29 am | Gordon Campbell
In a week dominated by surveillance and privacy issues, the Economist has done its level best to rationalize why Barack Obama has chosen to expand the surveillance state . More >>
Gordon Campbell on the Speaker’s lifeline to Peter Dunne
Friday, 7 June 2013, 10:44 am | Gordon Campbell
Whatever wiggle room exists under Standing Orders, yesterday’s ruling by Speaker David Carter on the Peter Dunne funding scandal will have done nothing for the tattered reputation of Parliament among the general public. More >>
Gordon Campbell on the latest Novopay revelations
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 10:51 am | Gordon Campbell
Poor lambs. They were led astray by shockingly poor advice from their officials. All of it was an operational failure within the Education Ministry and the State Services Commission, folks. Yes, according to the Novopay ministerial inquiry, the ... More >>
