Archive for June 30th, 2008

Half of all tomatoes contain endosulfan. ERMA happy with this

Monday, June 30th, 2008

The Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA New Zealand) has just released its assessment of endosulfan and recommended its continued use in New Zealand. Wikipedia says of endosulfan:
Endosulfan is one of the more toxic pesticides on the market today, responsible for many fatal pesticide poisoning incidents around the world.[17] Endosulfan is also a xenoestrogen—a synthetic substance […]

The Greens’ not so secret Australian political operatives

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Russell Brown over at Public Address seems to be obliquely fingering the Greens for using a political operative in 2002 in the same vein as Crosby Textor:
Political strategy is a cynical business by its nature. Labour’s people were not appealing to higher ideals when they ran the “slippery” campaign against Key this year. Even the […]

NZ’s big diplomatic threat - Twenty20 cricket

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Keith is calling for a New Zealand to support a boycott of Zimbabwean cricket, including the upcoming World Twenty20 cup next year.
We’ve got to use every bit of leverage we have against the Mugabe regime.
I am appealing to New Zealand Cricket to stand squarely behind the England and Wales Board in this matter at the […]

Get your policies here, John

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Brian Rudman adds this morning to the growing media meme that it is time National let voters know what it they are actually going to be voting for.  He uses the example of the electrification of Auckland rail to build his argument.  National’s transport spokesperson, Maurice Williamson has spent a lot of time declaring his […]