I would like to see more of us hold the MSM feet to the fire on the issue of collusion with the Nats. Not a day had passed before the usual suspects on the Herald etc were writing up hit pieces on Winston and Jacinda. The people of New Zealand should ...
should post script that by saying i'm not actually advocating an invasion, just saying that that's probably what is necessary to displace ISIS, and an occupation is probably what necessary to keep the next ISIS from immediately filling the void. Whether ...
The idea that we need to and more importantly that we CAN bring the Sunni's on side from our current position, in order to defeat ISIS is wooley thinking. The coalition worked bloody hard to bring the Sunni tribes on side in Iraq during the surge, and ...
Just a correction too for Richard Harman's trash chit on Politik. We had, at the time of recess over 50 members on the roll, not a mere 10 as he states. Clearly journalistic integrity, fact checking and present a truthful account of matters are not ...
I am the Comms officer for ABP. Yesterday was tough, lots of conflicting emotions and cognative dissonance for me. There has been a lot of "Get in behind damnit and pull your socks up" from stalwarts of Labour, Kennedy lines were quoted, and the point was ...
http://i.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/67623849/south-taranaki-father-alan-lyall-left-to-live-on-47-a-week?cid=facebook.post.67623849 Really breaks ones heart to see this shit happening in a country with so much wealth. National's calculated ...
Amen.
National, Robin Hood's dark doppelgänger. A wealth siphoning government.
A busted flush, brilliant analogy. One has to wonder, if National were forced to campaign in each locale on local issues whether they would stand a chance of making Government right now. The success of the National campaign the last 3 elections was their ...
Ennui from /fit/?
I don't know where I actually stand on this whole ISIS troop thing. On the one hand, ISIS if fought conventionally, are going to slink away into the shadows and come straight back out once the West once again extricates itself from the hell that is the ...
I think this National government is one of the worst we have seen for this country, but this is one of the few things I believe they have done right. I would much rather see my tax dollars going to fighting against Bain receiving compensation than see my ...
Bain probably murdered his family. We cannot prove it beyond reasonable doubt, his first trial was a mockery, and the police bungled the investigation. The acquittal was probably the best move. But In order to receive compensation, the idea is that one ...
I'm not opposed to a clear concise demolishing, but when it drags on into a century long parenthesis as happened above, I think we are the ones who end up looking silly. I just think we are easy targets for trolls, an annoying side effect of having so many...
Funny how we call someone out for being a troll, then proceed to feed them copious amounts of what they were after all along. This happens all too often on TS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEe7JqBgvg
OAB, why do you think me or my friend are exaggerating things? What possible purpose does that serve? FYI apparently they left things on somewhat civil terms in the end, the person conducting the survey explained that their pay is dependent upon getting ...
Ok so you rewrite your legislation and make it waterproof. I don't see why your average citizen has to be forced to give up their personal information at a statisticians request under threat of fine just so we can ensure that the bankers give statistics NZ...
I'm replying here because I can't to your other comment above. My standard test of feasibility for any power tech is: do they have a reactor of at least 10MW stable and feeding into the grid anywhere yet? With nuclear power that was achieved by the mid ...
Thanks for quoting the relevant passage from the act. I didn't suspect she was lying or anything, I just don't think it's right that citizens are required by law to answer any questions government statisticians put to them, or receive a fine if they refuse...
Don't be so down on Thorium, the Chinese and Czech's ain't, the Chinese are investing $350 million and 140 PhD students into it, and they wouldn't do so if they didn't think it was feasible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor#...
So my family friend got a knock at the door the other day, and this person asked if she would like to take place in a survey, it would only take 10 minutes. So my friend invited her up, the person sat down at the table and whipped out her laptop and said ...
Partly it's the 'us and them' dichotomy, it's where you average kiwi draws the line in the sand. The people you include in your 'us' group, you care about, because you have a sense of cultural kin, of ownership in the existential sense. Think about it. ...
Hits all the right notes.
I like this edit: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1508689622729167&pnref=story
That's an important read there. The report might be scathing, but its release has been timed at a time when they think most people have little time for politics.
Slater: "ethics is important in politics" Oh the irony.
The whole negotiation in secret thing is really concerning. It seems these TNCs and their lobbyists have realized that if they arrange legislation as part of FTAs or global treaties they can get around the public debate by convincing member states that it ...
Our elder statesman in all his eminence and virtue.
This is something we need to lobby Andrew Little and Hipkins about.
There is a really big problem with Mars One that students at MIT uncovered, they don't have the technology to separate nitrogen from oxygen and pump it out, leaving the o2 and regulating the atmosphere within the living quarters at the prospective base. ...
Interesting that in the States, NPR is this juggernaut of high quality left journalism, and yet here in NZ our state radio is full of trite National pups suckling at the tit.
Recent Comments