This collection, thankfully, doesn't waste space with cheap shots. Anyone can do that. The Bush Administration is dangerous in that it is openly, defiantly, putting US interests ahead of other policy

the operation of specific provisions of the Resource Management Act”. We’ve had to become accustomed to neo-liberalism’s habit of shifting goalposts. Nick Smith, the then Minister of Local Government,

500 million. A favourite way to waste money was propaganda. In 2010/11 the Defence Force Communications budget was $2,731,675, up from around $1.5 million two years earlier (Sunday Star Times, 11/9/11)

completely hiding information and long-term media management are prime tools used by powerful interests to gain political advantage. When information is the currency, it makes sense why investigative

Trade Compliance Risk Management Process" (http://www.customs.gov/imp-exp2/pubform/tradcomp.htm#top), it is stated that it has found: Serious problems with textile transshipment through Hong Kong —

remarked, a good crisis should never be wasted. The fact that 30 years of global “free market” economics have not only culminated in recessionary crisis but have raised a wide range of yet more fundamental

Meanwhile in New Zealand, the Resource Management Act and the Local Government Act, which helped enact neo-liberalism, are being reformed to purge them of token concerns for environmental and social values.

The habit of what’s called “scientific management” can be dated to FW Taylor’s organisation of an American factory. In 1898 Taylor wrote that increased profitability “involved laying off many

prisoners escaping and errors in clinical data management which led to people dying. Forget the Chief Executive; the true cost of Serco comes from the degradation of services which are deemed essential

seminar organised by the Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), which was a first for ABC. PIRM also invited Bob to write an article for its Pacific Ecologist magazine. In my 2002 Report I said