I referred to one of the other commenters - so I must have read at least a single word. making your reply false and discrediting you as a source of honest debate. However admittedly when people start using words like "pricks" I do turn off a bit since they...
That isn't a very important question unless you first agree that it should change and can describe the risk that you think should be acceptable.
No I am happy to hang the people responsible for the disaster. We should have enough information for that as it is. To say you need to get into the mine to do that is to be a tool for the guilty in the same way that a government might say "lets organize a ...
This is a function of the system and how we weigh the benefits of getting the bodies vs. the risk of loosing some rescuers. The system is set up to tolerate almost no risk of rescuers being killed in the mines. As per Andrew I am inclined to think that is ...
It is important to keep in mind that the issue is not the decision from the police - it is WHY they made that decision. If they had taken this to court they would have applied pressure on girls to go to court and all the stress that that a high profile ...
Red, That was either a bit lazy or dishonest to misquote in quotation marks. You may call it as you see it - but if that is the case I think you may be legally blind.
I suspect that even going to Cambodia to hang out with pol pot and commit crimes against humanity would in practice not be nearly as much 'fun' as it sounds despite his very convincing advertising... Daesh are lots of bad things - but the suggestion made ...
Indeed, even if the US behaves badly - the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend - sometimes they are just plain crazy (like ISIS).
Not really sure what good we are going to do on the security council. I presume Key feels he can corruptly squeeze something out of the USA and China when they need support on specific issues. It looks like we might be able to get about 16 million in cash ...
There is a significant number of people living in NZ working for far less than the minimum wage (I guess thousands). Often less than half the minimum wage. I'd find it hard to believe it was true - if I hadn't met so many of them.
What if we extended the powers of the GSB by telling them that they should investigate political corruption like it does pedophilia, copyright theft and everyone in a blue moon, terrorism. (political corruption is probably more dangerous anyway) So giving ...
If you go to the public and talk about providing people with services that give them a hand up you will find wide spread support. I was in a focus group discussing this once and giving people specific support had almost universal support and giving them ...
When I hear Shearer's comments it sounds like a person who wants revenge and is willing to kick his own party in the guts to get it. But one should also realize that things can get so bad that one has to call out people for that sort of behavior. You can ...
Do any normal people read Slater's blog? I thought it was just bots and media circle j*rking and maybe Slater and his friends under 50 different pseudonyms. Simply it just isn't very interesting site with all the click bait paid articles and whatever.
Having achieved something in parliament is a red herring. That sort is strategy would have you picking a politician's politician every time - and Labour is in the process of getting thrashed by someone who had achieved basically nothing before he was prime...
or you could have it with all 5 other colours pixel thin on the far right of the dial.
What is the point to reaching out to a party who's support (for any leftist policy) you are guaranteed anyway? I don't think that does much to protect workers rights. But there is a major benefit to not reaching out to them - you can be clear about the ...
I imagine the labour politicians have a "hope he retires" strategy. One could try ones luck with a One track Muldoon strategy I suppose. then undermine the faith of the public in politicians and then see if people will vote for the rat or the snake.
I presume Nash is hoping that NZ first implodes and he can set up a middle party and be the king maker.
I think the dirty politics thing did have some impact - just it was not enough to change most people's votes because people were already going to vote right. It instead just made them want to vote NZfirst and Conservatives in the same way that a major ...
I suspect that most NZ politicians have an ugly side where they have sacrificed ethics for political progress in some sense. Overseas they talk about how if you were ethically clean you could never even get off the ground in politics. Maybe it isn't quite ...
+1. real answer is probably that there is no significant threat in NZ, and it is more plastic swords than real ones. But Key definitely wants to have it both ways.
I'm happy to see ISIS wiped out - but sending troups over there may not help at all. ISIS is the renamed alquaeda in iraq which only exists as a significant issue because the west decided to go over there and blow stuff up in the first place. Beheadings ...
As with all these things the difference will be definitional. A quarantine procedure was initiated. It is strict relative to just dumping everyone in a pile. But it involves people probably getting a lot closer to each other than we would be comfortable ...
Maybe the Labour party should have pushed it harder. I guess they did not want to because it emphasized the lax security they had - but I think the "if i leave my window open it doesn't mean you can steal my credit cards" argument works fine for that...
Very interesting - thanks.
Security organizations have so much spare time between the very rare events where they really have to deal with a serious threat.... during that time they 'need' to find something to do with their idle hands.
If they are already in the car they could just drive it out to the provinces a. And tell their boss he isn't paying enough. At the moment they seem to be effectively subsidising an employer who is underpaying them (if he isn't paying enough to allow a ...
All taxes cause distortions. If the selling of the bach is seen as an interference with your personal freedom consider the extreme interference you experience every time you buy something with GST on it or pay PAYE. The question of house building comes ...
Whether it should be or not - it is probably a disadvantage. Speaking Chinese would be an advantage, maybe Samoan might be good.
Someone like Nash ticks boxes in terms of being able to attract a certain type of working class man voter back to labour - a key demographic - but a second factor in winning is stability, you need a person who is trained enough in politics to not make ...
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