Woodhouse gives Matt McCarten his beans
Michael Woodhouse has given Matt McCarten a good kick in the slats on Facebook.
Hugo Chavez
Tell them they’re dreamin’
Nicolas Maduro (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Venezuelan’s are conjuring up all sorts of fanciful stories. Now they are claiming the American killed Chavez.
They are probably the same seppos Trev reckoned were funding the National party when Labour were using Blue State Digital.
Venezuela’s acting president Nicolas Maduro has accused former US officials Roger Noriega and Otto Reich of plotting to kill him to prevent his victory in next week’s presidential elections. Read more »
Boris on Leveson – “if you want to keep clean the gutters of public life, you need a gutter press”
Boris Johnson speaks out on the Leveson reforms…and he is opposed, believing that only a gutter press can keep clean the gutters of public life:
When the moneymen are deciding where to do a deal, there is something more fundamental that brings them here – a feature of our culture and society that has been true for hundreds of years.
They know that London is about as uncorrupt as any jurisdiction on earth. They know that the deal will be honoured. They know that the law will be clear, and that their security to title is good. They know that they will not be tipped out of their hotel beds before breakfast and detained by the emanations of the state. They know that they will not be imprisoned without trial. They know that to do a deal in London, you don’t have to cut some minister in on the action, or employ their half-witted relative.
You cannot hope to win a contract in London by sending some public official a Rolex or a midnight poule de luxe; and that is because that official would be too amazed to accept, too honourable to accept, and above all too terrified to accept. British business, and British politics – and the nexus between business and politics – have been kept cleaner than in virtually all other countries because for centuries we have had a free press.You cannot hope to win a contract in London by sending some public official a Rolex or a midnight poule de luxe; and that is because that official would be too amazed to accept, too honourable to accept, and above all too terrified to accept. British business, and British politics – and the nexus between business and politics – have been kept cleaner than in virtually all other countries because for centuries we have had a free press. Read more »
Tagged: Boris Johnson • Clare Curran • Daily Telegraph • George III • Hugo Chavez • John Wilkes • media • Press Complaints Commission • The Spectator • United Kingdom • Venezuela
Keith Locke is a tool
Former Green taliban loon and Pol Pot fanboi, Keith Locke, thinks John Key should go to the funeral of a dictator. I suppose when you were an apologist for Pol Pot anything goes.
Hugo Chavez was a dictator. Key should no more go to his funeral than that of Robert Mugabe.
Prime Minister John Key’s refusal to attend the funeral of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is a “mind-boggling political blunder,” a former MP says.
Key expressed his condolences after the death of the fiery revolutionary president this week, but said he won’t be going to Caracas for the service on Saturday (Friday in Venezuela). He is currently on a ten-day trade mission across Latin America, and talks with Chilean president Sebastian Pinera have been delayed to account for the memorial.
Former Green MP Keith Locke says Key is wasting an opportunity to rub shoulders with leaders in the increasingly influential region. Read more »
US to blame for Chavez death, they gave him cancer, conspiracy theories abound
I wondered how long before the CIA get the blame for the demise of Hugo Chavez even though there is a Democrat in the Whitehouse.
Venezuela has accused the US of causing his cancer…their chemical and biological weapons capacity seems very advanced if that is the case.
Venezuela on Tuesday accused its enemies of causing ailing President Hugo Chavez’s cancer and expelled two US military officers for an alleged plot to destabilise the nation.
Caracas lashed out against the opposition and the US after announcing that Chavez had taken a turn for the worse and was struggling to breathe after contracting a new and severe infection.
Chavez died later on Tuesday after his two-year battle with cancer, ending 14 years of tumultuous and divisive rule that won him passionate support among the poor but hatred from business leaders and wealthy Venezuelans. Read more »
Huge or Hugo, matters not, Chavez is dead
Stuff broke the news that Hugo Chavez has died in a Herald-like manner:
BREAKING NEWS: Huge Chavez has died. More soon
— NZ Stuff Politics (@NZStuffPolitics) March 5, 2013
Hugo Chávez, President since 1999. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
How long before he appears in hell with Saddam Hussein on Southpark?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has died after a two-year battle with cancer, ending the socialist leader’s 14-year rule of the South American country.
The death was announced by Vice President Nicolas Maduro said in a televised speech.
The flamboyant 58-year-old leader had undergone four operations in Cuba for a cancer that was first detected in his pelvic region in mid-2011. His last surgery was on December 11 and he had not been seen in public since. Read more »
Celebs who brown nose dictators
Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman
Jason Mojica/VICE Media, via AP
Naomi Campbell who allegedly received a large diamond from Liberian dictator Charles Taylor who was later brought to trial on war crimes. Read more »
Tagged: Charles Taylor • Danny Glover • Dmitry Kostyukov • Hilary Swank • Hugo Chavez • Jean-Claude van Damme • Kevin Spacey • Libya • Mariah Carey • Military dictatorship • Muammar Gaddafi • Naomi Campbell • Nelly Furtado • Oliver Stone • Politics • Ramzan Kadyrov • Saif al-Islam Gaddafi • Seal • Sean Penn • Vanessa-Mae
Argentina gets support from FAG
Sean Penn has dropped in to tell the British they are not allowed to go all colonial over the Falklands, despite the Falkland Islanders wanting to remain British.
Sean Penn has accused Britain of colonialism and urged the government to open negotiations with Argentina over the Falkland Islands.
At a meeting with Argentine president Cristina Kirchner, the Left-wing Hollywood actor referred to the islands “the Malvinas Islands of Argentina” and said Britain should entered into a UN-sponsored dialogue over their sovereignty.
“The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology,” he said during the meeting in Buenos Aires.
“I know I came in a very sensitive moment in terms of diplomacy between Argentina and the UK over the Malvinas islands.
“And I hope that diplomats can establish true dialogue in order to solve the conflict as the world today cannot tolerate ridiculous demonstrations of colonialism.
“The way of dialogue is the only way to achieve a better solution for both nations,” he said, according to the Buenos Aires Herald.
The Oscar-nominated Penn has long been a friend of South American nationalism, visiting both Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez and Cuba’s
Stick to bad acting Sean….leaving the whipping of Argies to professional soldiers and sailors.
Stick to running drugs Hugo
Hugo Chavez should stick to running drugs, otherwise he will get a hiding:
Venezuela’s left-wing president has raised the stakes over the Falklands Islands by pledging his armed forces would fight alongside Argentina in any conflict with Britain.
The inflammatory promise from Hugo Chavez came in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the April 1982 invasion of the islands by Argentina.
At the same time Foreign Secretary William Hague insisted the deployment of a British warship and Prince William to the Falklands was ‘entirely routine’.
Mr Chavez was speaking at a meeting of the left-leaning ALBA bloc, an alliance of eight South American and Caribbean countries, which backed Argentina in its long-running dispute with Britain over the islands.
Argentina calls the islands Las Malvinas and claims they were ‘stolen’ by Britain 180 years ago.
‘The issue of the Malvinas Islands is an issue that concerns us, especially with the strong language that has emerged from the British government, accusing Argentina of being colonialist,’ Mr Chavez said at the meeting in Caracas. ‘I’m speaking only for Venezuela, but if it occurs to the British empire to attack Argentina, Argentina won’t be alone this time.’
I hardly think the Venezuelan Navy or Air Force will cause the British Armed Forces more than a moment of concern just before they blow then out of the water and sky. For a start they have no ability to sealift or airlift troops to the Falklands, and even if they did it would be unlikely they would even get there facing up to HMS Dauntless let alone the Trafalgar Class sub currently lurking in the Southern Atlantic.
Hugo Chavez should stick to drug running lest he destroys his country’s ability to defend itself playing silly beggars with the Argentinians in a game of high stakes against a country that has demonstrated a willingness to smack up upstart countries trying to take its land.
Hosking on Cunliffe’s big buy back scheme
Mike Hosking tears apart David Cunliffe’s nationalisation plans:
So what is David Cunliffe saying when he talks of buying back the assets National is about to sell?
Is he going to nationalise them, force people to sell their shares?
Places like Venezuela do that, people like Hugo Chavez. Is that all part of Cunliffe’s plan to reinvent his party? Or is he just expecting those who bought shares to sell them back, and at what price would they be sold back at?
The market price, and given chances are reasonably high that the market price is going to be higher than when the shares are sold given the sale will be a successful one and there will be more people wanting to invest than there are shares, just where is it the new Labour government will be getting the money from to buy them back?
And if you’re buying back assets, why not buy them all back? What’s so special about a couple of power companies? And given Air New Zealand has been on the market for years, why didn’t they buy them back when they were last in office?
And that, in a nutshell, is why A: You don’t want Cunliffe running the Labour Party, and B: Why the Labour Party is in the sort of trouble they are.
Economically, they’re a dog’s breakfast. Economically, they haven’t got the faintest idea about money.
It’s all about the headline, no idea about how it’s going to work.
Ouch, invoking Chavez to talk about Cunliffe.
Labour is more than entitled to be against the float, but dipping their toe into the world of fantasy economics and threatening to buy them back with money they don’t have, is a very stark reminder of just how dangerous a government can be when people who haven’t got the faintest idea of basic economics get their hands on the purse strings, and operate the budget using other people’s money based on political dogma and not simple maths.
Says it all really.
