Stephen Donald Wins All Blacks’ the World Cup (Hell fails to freeze over)
Jordan Pearson — November 3, 2011 0 Comments
The All Blacks finally won the Rugby World Cup last weekin a tough 8-7 victory over France and it was a penalty kick from the most unlikely of heroes that …
Culture
Sublime All Blacks reach world cup final
Jordan Pearson — October 22, 2011 4 Comments
it’s been 24 years, not since the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 that an All Blacks captain has held up the William Webb-Ellis trophy, earning the All Blacks the …
Culture
Japan’s eikaiwa industry in serious trouble after the bankruptcy of GEOS
Jordan Pearson — May 25, 2010 11 Comments
There once was a time when recent university graduates could escape to Japan to stave-off adulthood and responsibility for a few more years while making a decent living and paying …
Economics
New Zealand plans to mine itself to destruction
Jordan Pearson — May 13, 2010 3 Comments
That the statistics aren't more overwhelmingly against the government's plans is surprising to me because I always thought one of the few issues that united New Zealanders (apart from child …
Editor's Pick, Politics
The “Al-Qaeda” fiction: How you’re being lied to about the world’s most feared group
Jordan Pearson — November 30, 2009 18 Comments
This, of course, is not to say that terrorism doesn't exist; it obviously does, and on a global scale. The world's biggest terrorists are, of course, the U.S. and Britain, …
Editor's Pick, Politics
Remembering 9/11
Jordan Pearson — September 10, 2009 6 Comments
The terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September the 11th are events forever etched in the memory of all those who witnessed them and all those who lived and still live their …
Editor's Pick, Politics
Real corporate criminals and scapegoats in New Zealand
Jordan Pearson — May 22, 2009 0 Comments
According to a Commerce Commission report into the electricity market released yesterday, New Zealand power companies have overcharged customers to the aforementioned sum of $4.3 billion over the last six …
Editor's Pick, Politics
Infiltration of activist groups in New Zealand is wrong and detrimental to the country
Jordan Pearson — December 22, 2008 8 Comments
There has been a concerted effort to infiltrate activist groups by companies and police in New Zealand; and these groups are only working to keep New Zealand safe and clean. …
Editor's Pick, Politics
SuperNOVA: The bankruptcy and implosion of Japan’s largest language school chain
Jordan Pearson — November 29, 2008 13 Comments
I was working for Nova, the largest Japanese language school, when it imploded a year ago. But its bankruptcy and ham-fisted efforts to keep going through it all reveal where …
Economics, Editor's Pick
‘Anti-terror’ raids in New Zealand remind of old brutalities
Jordan Pearson — November 17, 2008 19 Comments
Operation 8 was billed as a massive 'anti-terror' operation in New Zealand last year. But on closer inspection the whole exercise looks more like a ideological crackdown on indigenous political …
Editor's Pick, Politics
The propaganda about Zimbabwe cloaks an imperial mindset
Jordan Pearson — October 10, 2008 11 Comments
Robert Mugabe may be a brute, but the endless invective about his dictatorship is pure Western hypocrisy. What about all the "well-behaved" dictatorships we continue to support? …
Politics
What sort of sick country is New Zealand?
Jordan Pearson — October 9, 2008 3 Comments
New Zealand is due to have a referendum on whether to repeal a law banning parents from using physical force against their children. Has my country gone mad? Of course …
Politics
Jordan Pearson
Jordan Pearson was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand and is currently "teaching" English in Japan where he finds ample time at work for writing between taking naps. He has little professional writing experience, but was awarded many gold stickers at Primary School for English. He enjoys long walks on the beach and holding hands.