September 2007

Dick Quax accuses council of political meddling

by Whaleoil September 30, 2007


Scoop: Quax accuses coun­cil offi­cials polit­i­cal meddling

Fresh from accu­sa­tions that there is con­sid­er­able polit­i­cal med­dling hap­pen­ing in Auck­land City we now have a lead­ing may­oral can­di­date accus­ing the Manukau City Coun­cil of run­ning meddle-some radio ads dur­ing the elec­tion process.

Manukau City Coun­cil has run a radio adver­tis­ing cam­paign that has the poten­tial to inval­i­date this year’s local body elec­tion in Manukau. The adver­tise­ments have been play­ing on two Auck­land youth radio sta­tions claim­ing “hav­ing things like free youth events could change depend­ing on who gets voted on to our local coun­cil”.
[quote]“It’s an exam­ple of Coun­cil offi­cer activism that I have been fight­ing against for the last two terms on Coun­cil. Peo­ple elect Coun­cil­lors to rep­re­sent them and this is being over­rid­den by bureau­crats who have taken it upon them­selves in an endeavor to influ­ence the polit­i­cal process”.
“Our demo­c­ra­tic processes are impor­tant to us and the very idea that peo­ple who are paid by the rate payer inter­fer­ing in that process by push­ing a polit­i­cal line should not be tolerated”.[/quote]
This could get very inter­est­ing espe­cially if the elec­tions are ruled invalid as a result.

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Why stop at schools

by Whaleoil September 30, 2007


Nats may let land­lords own state schools — 01 Oct 2007 — NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

National is look­ing at let­ting the pri­vate sec­tor build and own the phys­i­cal land and build­ings for schools, whilst the State is essen­tially a tenant.

Labour of course has reacted with froth­ing and spit­ting despite the fact that have already done exactly the same thing with police sta­tions and hos­pi­tal car parks.

One has to ask why we don’t do the same thing with pris­ons and hos­pi­tals and dare I say it, roads.

Cur­rently the Crown rents a great deal of office space from build­ing own­ers in Welling­ton, if Labour are pre­pared to “die in the ditch” over the Crown being the owner of prop­erty for schools then why not for office build­ings in Wellington?

These dis­cus­sions show inno­v­a­tive think­ing on the part of National and pure ide­o­log­i­cal dogma on the part of Labour.

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Mayoress now running “The Dick’s” campaign

by Whaleoil September 30, 2007

The Gluc is report­ing in the HoS (sorry no link) that Diana Hub­bard is now run­ning the Dick’s campaign.

I won­der if she knows any­thing about the law regard­ing polit­i­cal signs on mov­ing vehi­cles. No, per­haps not.

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Dick endorses former Young Nat.….

by Whaleoil September 29, 2007

… and promises to move to Welling­ton.  Or has he just given up on Auck­land?  Or is he just really confused?

I’m pick­ing both. The word is a rather large con­tract is about to be let for wheelie bins and doc­u­ment shred­ding at Townhall.

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UN">Bainimarama speaks to the UN

by Whaleoil September 29, 2007


No Min­is­ter: Care­ful, Rea­soned Analy­sis? Not Likely

Despite the best efforts of Win­ston and the MSM to shut down debate about Fiji, espe­cially as Labour and Win­ston try to shut down free speech in New Zealand.

Adolf has been assid­u­ous in dis­cov­er­ing details the media won’t pub­lish and he has tracked down the Commodore’s speech to the UN where he out­lines the chal­lenges he has been fac­ing since dump­ing the cor­rupt Qarase into ignominy.

The speech is worth a read, if any­thing to edu­cate your­self about hap­pen­ings in Fiji and com­pare them to what is start­ing to hap­pen here.

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The Shield is Ours!!!!!

by Whaleoil September 29, 2007

Cry me a river Canterbury.

This is going north for the off season.

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Not the start to an article I’d want

by Whaleoil September 29, 2007


Give me another go — 29 Sep 2007 — NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

There is an in depth review of Hubbard’s and Banksie’s may­oral bids. Unfor­tu­nately for Dick the Her­ald started its first sen­tence rather poorly.

[quote]The prize Dick Hub­bard and John Banks are fight­ing for in the race to be Mayor of Auck­land City has proved elu­sive. Both men are after a sec­ond chance. If Hub­bard loses this elec­tion in two weeks time, he will join Banks and his pre­de­ces­sor, Chris­tine Fletcher, who were voted out after three years in the job. If Banks wins, he will be the first mayor to make a come­back since Sir Dove Myer Robin­son in 1968.[/quote]

The arti­cle is fair and bal­anced but makes no men­tion of Hubbard’s ille­gal signs and improp­erly autho­rised elec­tion material.

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NBR covered launch of Kill the Bill campaign">NBR covered launch of Kill the Bill campaign

by Whaleoil September 29, 2007

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Irony?

by Whaleoil September 28, 2007

Is it just me?

Per­haps, but I find it very ironic that the left are ral­ly­ing behind pro-democracy pro­test­ers in Burma and at the same time try­ing to shout down our fight to retain free speech in New Zealand.

Now at least the monks are putting their lives on the line for what they believe in, the only thing the left­ist lick­spit­tles bay­ing at us about our stance against the Elec­toral Finance Bill believe in is that the left is always right espe­cially if Helen says they are.

Not one of them has even laid out a sin­gle sane and rea­soned argu­ment as to why the EFB should be even con­tem­plated as it stands. Not one of them has jus­ti­fied the egre­gious way in which it has been han­dled with no pub­lic consultation.

They just shout and scream and fail to present any logic in defense of the indefensible.

They deny any rel­e­vance to the argu­ments that the Human Rights Com­mis­sion and the Law Soci­ety and hun­dreds of dis­parate Kiwi’s from PhilU to me have pro­vided against stink­ing ‚dirty, cor­rup­tion of a bill, the worst assault on our fun­da­men­tal free­doms in a democ­racy we have ever seen.

Mean­while we are all sup­posed to jump in line and sup­port Burmese pro­tes­tors. The only per­son stu­pider than Sonic, Tane and all the other hyp­ocrites, who if they lived in Burma and crit­i­cised would be shot, is Win­ston Peters, the ultimatehypocrite.

He had this stu­pid thing to say;

[quote]“Myanmarese author­i­ties must respect the legit­i­mate right of its peo­ple to engage in peace­ful protest, and refrain from unwar­ranted or vio­lent acts of repression.“[/quote]

Dick head, they are a Mil­i­tary Dic­ta­tor­ship, they don’t respect any legit­i­macy or any rights, if they did they wouldn’t be in charge would they.

How­ever my com­plete dis­dain for Win­ston wors­ens when he is the poo­dle sup­port­ing the ban­ning of free speech and the set­ting up of a reg­is­ter of dis­senters which could very eas­ily lead to “unwar­ranted acts of repres­sion” and a search and seizure regime that smashes down nor­mal legal processes.

If you don’t believe me I give you two words as proof of the gov­ern­ments unwar­ranted acts of repres­sion, “Exclu­sive Brethren”.

 

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Hubbard’s Campaign Illegal

by Whaleoil September 27, 2007

While Hub­bard breaks the law coun­cil offi­cers are being sent on a witch-hunt to track down other offend­ers through polit­i­cal manipulation. 

Mayor Hubbard’s elec­tion bill boards are ille­gal and con­tra­vene the very same By Laws he voted for at City Hall. Like many deci­sions at City hall the Mayor and Coun­cil have often not under­stood what they are doing or the impli­ca­tions of what they are vot­ing for.

Hubbard’s Bill Boards on the back of buses have been around for weeks and although ille­gal Coun­cil Offi­cers have elected not to do any thing about it yet imme­di­ately some one else’s signs appeared on vehi­cles action was swiftly taken within hours.

As posted here pre­vi­ously Coun­cil Offi­cers have acted as a result of polit­i­cal intervention.

Coun­cil Offi­cer Stephen Blox­ham sent an email to the other offend­ers dated 27 Sep­tem­ber 2007 point­ing out By Law 27.3.4

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Kill The Bill Campaign Launched!!

by Whaleoil September 27, 2007

David Far­rar, Bernard Darn­ton and I have launched the Free Speech Coali­tion to attempt to Kill the Bill.

http://www.killthebill.org.nz and we also have a Face­book Group  

Please help us Kill the Bill – while we still can.

We have launched the Free Speech Coali­tion. We want it to be a focal point for all indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions opposed to the Elec­toral Finance Bill. From it you can find out about all the ways in which this law will pre­vent free speech — it will reg­u­late e-mails, web­sites, protest marches, plac­ards, posters, news­pa­per ads — basi­cally every­thing that men­tions a polit­i­cal issue.

We plan to run an ad cam­paign. Our ads will edu­cate New Zealan­ders about this Government’s unprece­dented assault on our cher­ished free­dom of speech.

We’ve got a cre­ative team wait­ing to get crack­ing. But we need your sup­port and/or your money.

You can donate instantly online. You can also donate via Inter­net Bank­ing to our BNZ Account 02 0500 0908920–00 or by send­ing a cheque to the Free Speech Coali­tion, PO Box 12270, Thorn­don, Wellington.

Also you can sign up as a sup­porter, join our mail­ing list, place our ban­ner on your own sites, or help out in other ways. We need your help. We can’t rely on the politi­cians to pro­tect our rights to crit­i­cize them. Once this Bill becomes law, then it will be too late.

So please help us to Kill the Bill.

David, Bernard & Cameron on behalf of “The Free Speech Coalition”

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UK Government over Gore Bull">Truck Driver sues UK Government over Gore Bull

by Whaleoil September 27, 2007


UK govt in court over Gore envi­ron­ment film — New Zealand’s source for World News on Stuff.co.nz

Good stuff, finally some peo­ple are start­ing to push back against the silly con­tentions in Gore’s work of fic­tion “An Incon­ve­nient Truth”.
[quote]Stewart Dim­mock, also a school gov­er­nor, is chal­leng­ing the deci­sion made in Feb­ru­ary by the then edu­ca­tion and envi­ron­ment min­is­ters — Alan John­son and David Miliband respectively.

Dimmock’s lawyer Paul Downes told the High Court that the Oscar-winning film, “An Incon­ve­nient Truth”, con­tained “seri­ous sci­en­tific inaccuracies.

“Given the seri­ous inac­cu­ra­cies in the film and the mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tions it con­tains, the film is irre­deemable,” he said.

He added that only half the film related to sci­en­tific mate­r­ial, 30 per­cent was polit­i­cal and the remain­ing 20 per­cent was “sen­ti­men­tal mush – mush there to soften up the viewer for per­sua­sion.” [/quote]
He might even add that the sci­en­tific con­tent is fic­tion as well, but hey it’s a start.

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Whaddya mean it doesn’t do 170

by Whaleoil September 27, 2007

This photo of the gar­goyle is beg­ging for a caption.

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T-Shirt Hell is running an ideas comp

by Whaleoil September 27, 2007

T-Shirt Hell who quite frankly have the best non-PC insult­ing T-shirts on the planet are sick of pinko, greenies.

[quote]People are talk­ing about the envi­ron­ment a lot these days. Global warm­ing, going green, organic prod­ucts, and the rest of that crap. Frankly these sub­jects, and the peo­ple who want to make the world a bet­ter place need to be mocked, ridiculed, humil­i­ated, and scorned. Do your best.[/quote]

Sub­mit your ideas here

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Start again on election bill says Law Society

by Whaleoil September 27, 2007

Start again on elec­tion bill says Law Soci­ety — The Law Soci­ety has added its voice to calls for the Elec­toral Finance Bill to be com­pletely thrown out.
The society’s pres­i­dent, John Mar­shall, gave its sub­mis­sion to the jus­tice and elec­toral select com­mit­tee yes­ter­day, say­ing… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Wow!, the Human Rights Com­mis­sion and now the Law Soci­ety have said Kill the Bill.

[quote]“Legislation such as this, which goes to the heart of out demo­c­ra­tic
sys­tem of gov­ern­ment, should be broadly accepted both within Par­lia­ment
and in the wider com­mu­nity. The con­tro­versy sur­round­ing this bill shows
it does not have that broad acceptance.“[/quote]

Too bloody right, but watch as Labour and its poo­dles ram this through. 

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