Welcome to New Zimbabwe

The bilious Rosa Klebb and her labour government have plumbed new depths of depravity in their clinging to power. This government must be the most corrupt and dishonest bunch of thieves to ever govern a Western Democracy. The lies and the deceptions around Philip Fields criminal behaviour, and the gall of labour to think that they can hoodwink the people of New Zealand and continue to govern beggars belief.

The Greens, New Zealand First and Peter Dunne will not come out of this untainted. I had hoped that Jeanette Fitzsimons had some integrity, but has shown the shabby lows to which she will sink to push her wacky ideas. Winston is politically dead and even the voice of reason Dunne has shown up to be the greedy grasping for power.

If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon.

Many of the labour ministers have shown how incompetant they are in their posts and that this goverment has been held together by this vicious, foul-mouthed dyke. That you have supported her forever ties you to her.

Hang your heads in shame!

"clinging on to power is all that motivates this desperate and dangerous Government now"

-Helen Clark

Families Commissioner - another Labour Fat Cat

Get real Mr Prasad - you are yet another Labour appointed Fat Cat wasting OUR money and not producing the goods.

"Families Commissioner Rajen Prasad needs to get off his business class seat and come down to the coalface with me," says National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins.
She is responding to a startling admission by Dr Prasad at a select committee this morning that he has never visited the HIPPY programmes running in Auckland.

"Yet, he has spent three weeks and nearly $11,000 of taxpayer money on a visit to New York where he attended a HIPPY conference, and met with academics working in the same field.

The Home Interaction Programme for Parents and Youngsters (HIPPY) is a home-based programme that supports parents in becoming actively involved in their four and five year old children's learning.

So Mr Prasad, what have you done to deserve your salary, perks and overseas travel?

IRAN - Again

DEBKAfile - Feb 12th. "The US military in Iraq Sunday accused high-level Iranian officials of approving the smuggling of extra-powerful roadside bombs into Iraq. Iranian-made “explosively formed penetrators”- EFPs have killed 170 American troops, injured 620, since June 2004 when they were first smuggled to Iraqi Shiite militias."

Bill Roggio's Fourth Rail - Feb 11th. "Tehran has begun supplying Iraqi insurgents and Lebanese Hizballah forces with home-made QW-1 shoulder-carried missiles copied from Chinese anti-air missiles to maximize their threat to US and Israeli helicopters in two battle arenas – Iraq and Lebanon, respectively. Russian-made SA-7 anti-air missiles are also being delivered to these terrorist forces by Iran."

and "Iran is involved in supplying explosively formed projectiles or EFPs and other material, such as explosive charges, booby traps, mortar shells of different calibers and remote controls to detonate IEDs to "multiple" insurgent groups. More than 120 US and coalition troops have been killed by these things, and 620 wounded."

BBC - Feb 13th. In reply to a question about Iran supplying weaponry to Iranian insurgents a "spokesman for UK Prime Minister Tony Blair said: "We keep finding the weaponry which we don't believe to be sourced from anywhere else."

The accusations by the American government are that this is being done with the blessing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei and that his Al-Qods brigade are supplying support and training.

These increasing accusations of Iran's involvement in Iraq, the pressure on Iran over it's nuclear programme, plus the military build up in the Persian gulf is pointing at America's impatience with the Islamo-fascist theocracy in Iran. Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadimwit says he doesn't fear an attack by America.

The Big Whip-around II

Funds sought for Mugabe birthday

People in Zimbabwe are being asked to contribute funds towards a big birthday party for President Robert Mugabe, who turns 83 on 21 February.

This is while Zimbabwe is mired in its worst economic crisis, with annual inflation at a record 1,593% - the world's highest; there is record unemployment, the health and education sectors are failing and there is widespread malnutrition.

The cost of this bash - a mere 300 million Zimbabwe dollars (US$1.2m).

Ethics of Medical Research

A study conducted on 1 300 women in 4 developing countries - South Africa, Benin, Uganda and India - was being undertaken to see if a microbicide gel had been created that could allow women even greater empowerment for caring for themselves and ensuring they do not contract HIV.

Many women do not have a choice of a condom being worn during sex if the man does not like it, and her husband/partner will not wear one despite the woman knowing that he poses a risk to her. If she should insist on him using a condom, he will accuse HER of cheating on HIM.

A few women who were part of the study contracted HIV during the study, and so fear arose that perhaps the gel actually increased their chances of contracting HIV. The study was prematurely terminated.

With the increasing difficulty in getting research projects accepted by Medical Ethical Committees in Western countries, drug companies, who stand to make enormous profits, are turning to 3rd world countries to do research that exposes participants to unacceptable risk. Would the drug company involved ever have contemplated this sort of research in the USA?