More likely to try and split off sufficient of the (imaginary?) right of the Greens so neither wing gets over the 5% threshold and the core Green vote - say 7% gets no representation in Parliament. National's whole long term strategy appears to be based on...
I’m little concerned on how Ron is going to push Defence upgrades though cabinet every other Government department has also been ran into ground by the bloody NAT’s Restoring government capability occupied the 1st 2 terms of the last Labour-led ...
The 1st three points of the NZ First Defence polices were the election were: 1. Develop a full-spectrum defence force capable of expeditionary warfare and Humanitarian and Disaster Relief (HADR) within New Zealand’s vast Maritime Area of Responsibility (...
Yes - I thought it was interesting how often NZ First & Greens policy seems to overlap. Clearly they have differences but there seems to be a lot they can work together on. That, of course, is no surprise to anyone (other than the media) who has spent some...
The changes to the capital structure are fairly well covered on the Wikipedia entry for Fonterra. Spierings was appointed CEO in 2011 after the vote to change the capital structure occurred. I imagine though that many of the board are the same people.
There is a book "The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West " (ISBN 1591142954) written by Karl-Heinz Frieser (a Lieutenant Colonel in the German Army and a trained military historian who served for many years at the Militargeschictliches ...
You fundamentally misunderstand the concept that taxation is a large-scale collective action that is different from an individual act. Even if Gareth Morgan were to pay more taxes than he currently does it would have negligible effect on Government ...
My wife and I will be voting this weekend.
It was from Political Compass - I linked to it above.
Perhaps Political Compass helps? US Presidential Election: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016 French Presidential Election: https://www.politicalcompass.org/france2017 UK Political Parties 2015: https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015
"Threads" in particular is grim viewing.
to protect their client states. And themselves.
NZ's Defence Forces and defence establishment are such a shambles there's not even an Inspector-General for Defence (i.e. a body outside the NZDF Chain of Command - perhaps sitting in Justice but independent like an Ombudsman) to run even the semblance of ...
I seem to recall there has been a historic tendency for most of the polls to underestimate NZF support. Perhaps it's a bit like Trump's election - people don't want to say they support them but how they vote in the privacy of the polling booth is another ...
was so proud of our SAS helping to rebuild and assist Cinny you should note that the NZSAS deployments were essentially separate from the NZ Provincial Reconstruction Teams (NZPRT). NZSAS had different tasks from the NZPRT. We don't really know all of ...
You can find copies for sale on Amazon, Book Depository, AbeBooks and Ebay. MightyApe also lists copies.
Thanks. I should perhaps have added the Greens into the mix of alternatives for Māori collectively to support.
I then voted Mana and I lost faith in them. Was that because of the Mana-Internet connection? Objectively at the moment it appears Māori (collectively) can choose to go MP, Labour or swing to the left with Mana (I'm assuming Māori will not repeat the NZ ...
I suspect in some cases just keeping out of the eyeline of the loon is going to be seen as a legitimate diplomatic move.
New Zealand's defence spending as a % of GDP has declined quite steeply since 1988 (2.1%) to it's current level 1.18%. Strangely enough though the decline pretty much is mirrored in a decline in the amount the world spends - despite it feeling like defence...
My wife just made the observation to me that the "Fallout" series of computer games (set in the post-apocalyptic US) is based on the premise of a Chinese-USA war. The game involves remnant technology from the war - Remote drones, Power Armour, Energy ...
Trump was an idiot - he created a martyr when he didn't need to. He could have comfortably sat back and waited until Sessions was confirmed. He's too thin-skinned though - can he sustain 4 years of counter-attacking every time he is opposed?
Sort of ironic after he double dipped on accommodation some yeas ago. Which today's Stuff article was noticeably silent about I note.
Thanks Mike for sharing the story and the links. It takes the breath away listening to these personal stories of war - both fascinating and horrifying at the same time.
A tough call , and a difficult situation. Many different angles on this. No there's not. A simple extension of the kickback by conservatives over Roe vs Wade. Just another manifestation of conservative patriarchy trying to have things their way and impose...
It was specifically introduced by Reagan to stop foreign NGOs that receive USAID family planning funds from using their own, non-U.S. funds to provide legal abortion services, lobby their own governments for abortion law reform, or even provide accurate ...
Like them pushing the fake news story that Trump had taken down the bust of Martin Luther King It was one reporter at Time (Zeke Miller) that reported it and then quickly corrected his mistake. It was picked up by others of his Twitter feed (because ...
Perhaps a better analogy would be that Andrew Little was "...the former head of the Taxpayers Union" rather than "...the former head of the EPMU"! :evil:
I should add that Access to Public Records is decided by the Agency responsible for them. Access can and is changed. For example quite a few open Police Records had to be restricted once the Clean Slate legislation was passed (it was a bloody nightmare and...
Perhaps it would be helpful if people actually read the Purpose of the Act. The PRA mandates the Creation, Maintenance, Disposal (either destruction or transfer to Archives), and Preservation of Public Records.. One of the most important parts of the 2005 ...
I assumed at the time it was made, at least partially, to give Gorbachev some political cover to strengthen his position internally (on the principle "better the devil you know"). I guess they weren't to know that the coup against him would actually lead ...
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