The Green party in NZ put all their eggs in the AGW basket and have no position to retreat to from it.

They are also the enemies of the environment as the anti AGW policies they have advocated are creating massive harm – economically and environmentally – especially for the poor who – highly paradoxically – they claim to stand for in New Zealand.

The other aspect they have no morals on is the negative influence on, and exploitive use of, young people through the needless panic and worry they create .

Dr Matt Ridley says in the Times:

The Chinese government sponsored hackers are back in business:

Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed their attacks  using different techniques, according to computer industry security experts and American officials.

The Obama administration had bet that “naming and shaming” the groups, first in industry reports and then in the Pentagon’s own detailed survey of Chinese military capabilities, might prompt China’s new leadership to crack down on the military’s highly organized team of hackers — or at least urge them to become more subtle.  Read more »

I have always said that I won’t support a republic for New Zealand until two people are dead. One is Helen Clark and the other is Jim Bolger.

As a former Prime Minister and a man very firm in his views, Jim Bolger has always been a bit stroppy.

But after his performance in Washington last night at a reception for the US NZ Partnership Forum, someone may be asking him to tone it down a bit.

He used his speech as chairman of the NZ US Council to dwell on the Anzus rift over New Zealand’s anti-nuclear laws, which was perplexing to those who wanted to celebrate and move on now the rift is over.

On Friday next week HMNZS Te Mana will be the first NZ frigate to dock at a US naval base, in Guam, in almost 30 years.  Read more »

Alan Jones on Joe Hockey about his stomach stapling:

He embarrassed Hockey over his recent weight loss, due to stomach stapling surgery, and said he hoped the doctors hadn’t taken his spine out during the operation.

There were plenty more sledges of Joe Hockey, who is likely to be Australia’s next Treasurer.

It began happily enough. Jones announced Hockey as ”the next treasurer of Australia”.

Jones did annotate this introduction with “the one left with the mess”, but still, any anointment from Jones is not to be lightly dismissed.

This is the man Hockey once called “the greatest broadcaster of all time”. Furthermore, it was the day after Treasurer Wayne Swan had brought down his sixth budget, and his sixth deficit. Barring an apocalyptic science fiction-esque event that results in a giant lizard demolishing Parliament House in a single swipe of its reptilian tail, it will also be Swan’s final budget.  Read more »

Oh for an Independent Commission Against Corruption in New Zealand. In Australia meanwhile dodgy ALP ratbags are being found out daily.

And you will just love the reference to the Herald sub-editors.

Former NSW Labor MP Paul O’Grady thought there must have been a sub-editing mistake when he read a newspaper report in which Eddie Obeid claimed Ian Macdonald had never been into Mr Obeid’s office.

Mr O’Grady, who was a member of the Upper House from 1988 to 1996, told the Independent Commission against Corruption on Monday that he was “incredulous” when he read a report in the Daily Telegraph last week where Mr Obeid had told ICAC that controversial former minister Ian Macdonald had “never been in my office in 20 years of me being in politics.”

Mr O’Grady, who had the office next door to Mr Obeid, said he saw Mr Macdonald “coming and going back and forth all the time.”  Read more »

The Poms are clearly not as enlightened as us Kiwis. David Cameron facing a defeat in the House of Commons over gay marriage.

David Cameron is facing the prospect of another defeat in the Commons over his plans to legalise gay marriage.

More than 100 Conservatives are said to be ready to back a “wrecking” amendment to the same-sex marriage Bill that could cost the Treasury £4 billion.

If enough Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs also support the amendment – which would open up civil partnerships to heterosexual couples for the first time – then Mr Cameron’s plans will be in jeopardy.

The amendment, proposed by Tim Loughton, a former Tory minister who opposes same-sex marriage, will be backed by many Labour MPs, opposition sources said.

The Liberal Democrats are known to support such a reform.  Read more »

MARION VAN DIJK/FAIRFAX NZ via Stuff

If they can’t get affordable housing going in the middle of nowhere, how does the Green led Labour party stand a chance?

The Motueka couple who thought they were making headway with their fight to prove affordable housing options existed, will now pull down their illegal dwellings to avoid “being made criminals”.

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Via the tip-line

I’m no fan of the union-like cartel that comes in the form of the Building & Services Contractors. I’ve posted on their El President Patrick Lee-Lo a number of times.

Thanks to the tip-line, members of the ‘FISH GANG’ are looking at calling a special meeting seeking to dissolve the Society. Good job I say.

Spotless Facility Services (NZ) have to most to gain by saying ‘yeah, nah’ to keeping the BSC going. You see those Aussie directors have been asking questions about what they get for the $20,000 a year membership spanking.  Read more »

I was on NewstalkZB last night with Larry Williams and Josie Pagani on The Huddle.

Our topics were:

The first segment was discussing the latest Green PR campaign calling for a ban on all deep sea oil drilling – attempting to destroy a $2 billion per annum export industry plus all the jobs that are created. Then there is their racist 15% tax on all overseas based property buyers. They are not really going to help the economy!

And of course the answer to the housing problems from them too.   Read more »