The Frog Roars
Greens call on Super to quit funding cluster-bomb makers
The New Zealand Super Fund has increased its investment in cluster bomb manufacturers, despite the Government hosting a conference next week which aims to have cluster bombs banned, the Green Party says. Co-leader Russel Norman said the fund had increased its investments in Lockheed from $15.8 million to $21.9 million and Raytheon from $1.5 million to $2.3 million. He said both were involved in the manufacture of cluster bombs. Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff said this week that the four-day conference, which begins on Monday, would make an "important contribution to achieving an ambitious vision of a ban on cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians". The bombs failed to explode and were then stumbled upon, often by children "to devastating effect".
I criticized Russel Norman for being Dr Invisible, and wagged my finger when they dropped below 5%, but with their 9.1% rebound the life is beating in their veins with Storman Norman slashing Labour up for dumping Chapter 13 in the recent state of the environment report that clearly blamed the Dairy Industry for the majority of the filthying of our country, and today he’s pointing out the hypocrisy of our Government holding a conference to ban cluster munitions while boosting our investment in a company that builds cluster bombs, Labour are going to need to do more than host a conference if they are wanting to gain credit with liberal NZ.
posted by Bomber @ 7:09 am
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Don't get to excited Bo ber.
Under 5% to 9.1%
Ever heard of the Dead Cat Bounce?
Greens are history.
Along with Winston, Dunne, and maybe in an election or two, Labour.
Personally I hope National renege on their promise to repeal the EFB.
It would be fun to watch all the Anti free speechers that voted this legislation in get a good botty reaming by it.
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Hmmm - maybe - look I pointed out that last august the Greens were about 8%, then the Urewera stuff went down and the media heard eco terrorist and environmental connections, this resulted in a drop to their 4.3% activist base and that result was enough for a lot of post-inconveniant truth NZers to come off the fence and they supported the greens in full force - the Greens should use that lift to remind themselves there is a post-inconveniant truth electorate out there wanting a green voice, it's almost as if the Greens needed to be less radical about supporting high on their own supply blow hards playing boy scout with semi-automatic weapons and more radical on actual policy - Russel has lead two big raids on the Government, I think your analysis is clouded by your desire to see the Greens go down.
The Greens need actual policy, or they're buggered! Last time I voted Maori Party,(on the party vote) because at least they got up and said what they stood for. Good on Russel for actually doing something - if you don't make a noise, then nobody knows you are there!
I think your analysis is clouded by your desire to see the Greens go down.
Yup, you're probably right there.
Really though, they haven't taken advantage of the countless strategic opportunities that have come their way in the last ten years.
Positioning themselves as the party has, has left them in a corner that there seems no way out of. Labour has no need to make major concessions to them as they have no where else to go.
Their policy base is attacked daily by the mainstream parties and the Greens seem incapable of repositioning themselves into new areas that the mainstreamers won't touch yet.
This whole orchestrating of Norman into Parliament looks very bad IMO. Bypassing people higher than him on the list is undemocratic and cynical.
I think you'll find the RM poll was prior to 'stormin Norman' squealing about Chapt13.
All in all The Greens should be very worried.
IF they manage to squeeze (if Labour drops lower than 32% watch them eat the Greens vote for dinner, no friends under 32%) into Parliament after the next election they should be taking a long hard look at where they're going and how they're going there.
They're losing traction very quickly and I won't be sorry to see them fold into Labour or a new alliance style party.
If Labour dropped to below 32%, couldn't that (theoretically) mean that voters are deserting to the Greens?
Yup It could Stephen - except the Greens don't seem to be putting on very much.
Latest Colmar Brunton had them at 6%
I will be surprised to see them get over 5 come election time. I keep hearing rumours that some info to be released in the next couple of months is going to damage them big time.
Really if they don't get in its no ones fault but their own.
Green policy?
http://greens.org.nz/docs/policy/
peace
W
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