Malls are closing all over the United States "50 haunting photos of abandoned shopping malls across America" https://www.businessinsider.com.au/american-retail-apocalypse-in-photos-2018-1?r=US&IR=T#:~:text=American%20malls%20are%20dying%20out,malls%20will%...
I love Lauda Finem - New Zealand's pre-eminent website dealing with police and judiciary corruption and written in a great contemporary "hard boiled" style that Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett would be proud of. http://laudafinem.com/
I noticed at my parents' place last night that Farrar and Slater had run of the roost on one of the radio stations at the prime time of 6pm last night. I'm sure someone else will know which one it is. They have carte blanche to pretty much say whatever ...
Disagree. The reason MySpace went by the wayside was because Facebook came up with a new, more interactive model. Similarly, Twitter and Instagram presented their own social media model. Until Facebook's model is superseeded by a new model (not just ...
Tsk tsk - that's two similar high profile cases in Masterton. The Wairarapa electorate (which goes all the way from southern Hawkes Bay to the south coast) gave National candidate Alastair Scott a real easy ride into Parliament, despite all the hard work ...
No surprise this, but New Zealanders buy bigger cars than most other places in the world, according to the MTA http://www.mta.org.nz/n3766,198.html "New Zealand’s ‘Top 10’ featured two sport utility vehicles (SUVs), four utilitys and just four standard ...
No need for a horse's head in the bed of a Hollywood mogul as they are already co-operating And New Zealand's casinos are already owned by the family so no need for a Moe Greene moment
The Greens do excellent press releases - an excellent way to keep up with things for those who subscribe to them. They come out very quickly after events and are pretty much always on the money
At the very least Andrew Little has the capability to settle things down in the Labour Party. I remember him from years ago when he was president of the Victoria University student union and there are some very positive qualities about him that I doubt ...
What about people who sell drugs on bicycles - are they "peddling drugs" or "pedalling drugs"?
Hubbard sits just above Nisbett
Emmerson is the only political cartoonist I highly regard these days
Tea Break Petition Don't know if this subject has been covered yet but regarding the petition to save tea breaks going round, I won't be signing it for the following reasons (even though they shouldn't be lost) 1/ Loosing the legal right to tea breaks is ...
They would only have to build ten and they would be doing twice as good
Reminds of Norm Kirk, George McGovern in the US, President Allende in Chile - funnily enough it didn't end well for any of them.
I'm with Bill and Shorts, unless someone does a McCready and forces the police's hand. Just one whitewash after another. As for Slater, I'm with Shorts on that as well.
The Greens always do. The Greens come out quickly within hours with excellent press releases on all issues. Their press releases get a reasonable airing on National Radio but you can't force more of the media to pick them up. You can sign up for news ...
That horse bolted a long time ago. An awful lot of New Zealanders had the opportunity at the last election to at least vote for parties that were sincere in looking for solutions. Instead they voted to not just close the gate, but permanently lock it from ...
The only answer for the Left IS to work together and I know the Greens want to work with Labour but a good part of the Labour leadership just don't seem to understand that they will never be in power again without working with the Greens. I'd like to see ...
Interesting email from a male friend of mine: “I went out for a meal after work and was sitting quite close to the till. It was really interesting hearing the conversations this young French woman server was having with people. In particular, just while we...
I think a common problem for New Zealanders is that they find it hard to put themselves in the position of others. I think this is in part because New Zealanders have not had to suffer the hardships that many others have. For example, does Israel Dagg have...
I recommend getting a copy of the September edition of Rolling Stone and reading the article New Hope for the Climate by Al Gore. He points out that solar power is revolutionising power generation around the world and is heading in the same direction as ...
So our national (party) rugby team lost to South Africa on the weekend. Perhaps this was due to their bad karma. I've always been a supporter of the All Blacks but I see them as politically compromised after the Rugby News cover with John Key dressed as an...
I seem to recall over 50 percent of those who participated in the last elections actually voted for mass survelliance so I guess this is just a case of giving the people what they wanted. All complaints from National voters should go in the big box marked ...
Hi Phillip - I too would have been in favour of the Greens not having a candidate stand against Dunne.
Interesting to see quite a lot of political columnists presently bagging the Greens for not selling out on their principles. I conjecture that what has happened is the election results which saw the majority of voting New Zealanders ignoring the moral ...
Interesting syncronicity to see New Zealand sending troops to the Middle East almost exactly 100 years after the First New Zealand Expeditionary Force went there during the First World War. I predict this war will be over by Christmas too. Looking forward ...
Lauda Finem has been closely following the court case between Cameron Slater and Matthew Blomfield. It seems to be quite closely intwined with other activities of Slaters and is worth keeping up with in tandem with developments regarding the Dirty Politics...
Whether Key and National are forcing the shut down of Facebook and Youtube pages or not, the fact is that people's expectations of them are so low now that a vast number of people are now listening to such speculation with an open mind. It's not a matter ...
Not disagreeing with your point of view as such. As a Green Party party voter, I gave my party vote to the Labour candidate who I thought was pretty good just so he got in instead of the National Candidate. But I think the Green Party candidate would have ...
I'm gonna start me a charter school, get the government to pay for the land with the ownership signed under my name, make sure it fails ,and flick the asset on at a tidy profit.
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