Re-naming Auckland railway stations. Where is the widespread public demand for this? There is not any. But there is a widespread public demand to rein in wasteful council spending. Start saving money by firing the people who foist this stupidity on us. ...
Except by 21st century folk who can't read history, or are 'professionals' who view ordinary workers with disdain. Yes Labour deserted ordinary workers in 1984 but somehow covers that up with 'fairy dust'/'free' shit to retain a voter base.
Consider the rot that contributed to finishing off union power was social policy like no-fault divorce and 'daddy state' benefits with a feminist movement co-opted by neo-liberalism. The aim was to weaken men both in the home and on the paid work front. ...
President Trump has been talking with the ACOE for a year. As Commander-In-Chief, he needs to direct the Army to build the wall. The DOD has plenty of $ for this effort.
Another failed socialist state. Dictators must be removed.
You dickwads. Nathan Phillips is not a Vietnam Vet. I am tired of fake news. Do your due diligence! Anyway, what adults treat children the way they treats these Covington kids? Answer: Child abusers. This is one of the most fake, phony, fraud news stories ...
Amazing post
Q. - How can you tell the American university students holidaying in Europe? A. - Their backpacks have Canadian flags on them. The only Americans you know for sure are war criminals are the ones who live in the White House.
All clear. No danger of confrontation. The president of "Kiwis for TPPA" is in Hawaii and the other member is skiing in Queenstown.
the government is delivering for new zealand record new homes record new jobs the best export figures in generations ,new education systems to meet the demands of the 21 st century life in new zealand has never been better john key is delivering for new ...
The hortcutural industry isn't that big we can afford to loose it but can't afford to loose john key nobody else can win elections like john new Zealand would fall apart without. John key
You people just like to blame john key the fly would got in anyway what's the big Deal john keyb is a winner we wone the election get over it nothing to see here Go get some fly spray pack winngers
As a child/youth I could pretty much swim in any river or lake I came to without fear of it being polluted. Not anymore. The loss of this essential rite of my youth should fill everyone with fear. I don't have kids, but have many friends who do, I would ...
+1 Karol. Couldn't agree more. If the raid hadn't happened one wonders whether he would still be funneling money to the right.
white phosphorus is allowed to be used as an obscurantist and depleted uranium isn't illegal either.
Y'all don't want to win this year do you?
I am a member of David Cunliffe's LEC. David is adored by his LEC. Over the past 11 years I have watched him build it into a large, ethnically diversified, well-managed team. If Cunliffe switches parties, I predict the entire LEC will switch with him. If ...
Seriously. Stop fighting get your shit together behind the leader and go after National. Do you think the res tof NZ thinks this is a vote winning idea? No.
Xtasy needs to do his or her homework before launching into such diatribes. Energy prices fell for 3-4 years after the reforms in 1998, and lines prices fell for many years before slowly rising again. The data shows that clearly. And the retail electricity...
xtasy - who is unnamed to the public bothering to read this blog - says power prices didn't reduce after the 1998 reforms. Try the facts at: http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/opinion/187418/electricity-reform-facts-and-fiction You then launch into a commentary...
The further the debate moves on, the less the commentators show their understanding of (a) competitive markets and (b) the structure of the electricity sector in NZ. For Redlogix, let me say I have been involved in energy economics since the 1970s as an ...
If the competition is the evil that Keen thinks it is, and that monopolies are "the most efficient firms", then why is it that all governments - except North Korea and other quaint countries like that - are pursuing neo-classical market competition? You ...
It might be so in your terms, but we still won't be on any ground worth arguing, as you are starting from the proposition that the 1998 reforms were to move to a "free unregulated market". They never were that e.g. the lines business was and still is ...
We simply aren't going to agree will we? The blog exchange you referred to in 2009 pointed out a number of references, and fact based research which commentators on the left choose not to agree with, so we'll simply have to agree to disagree.
I could find you a dozen scholarly articles arguing the opposite too. It suffers from at least 2 problems: (1) it ignores the facts of what happened in the NZ context, and the facts of what happened to electricity prices and why; and (2) how is it that the...
Bollocks to you too. National said power prices would drop after the introduction of competition, not privatisation, and they did. It was only after the Clark led Labour government reintroduced a bizarre form of regulation from 2002 onwards and compelled ...
This was an outstanding speech by David Cunliffe. He covered all the issues and articulated clear proposals for a saner, more prosperous, more equal society. This Saturday (June 23, 1 pm,) he takes on the Greens at the Titirangi War Memorial Hall. I've ...
New Zealand is NOT a democracy. It is a parliamentary dictatorship. The next great battle will be for democracy: for the voters to be able to stop actions of parliament (via binding citizen initiated referendums) and for voters to have decision making ...
No I don't accept that, I'm talking about the current decade, and the things people might take into account when deciding whether to vaccinate their children in 2012. I wasn't saying anything about how safe vaccination was 50-100 years ago, when the ...
This post is crap. It’s a joke to say you don’t want to start a vaccine debate, and then state your uninformed personal opinion that vaccination is not necessary for healthy children. Someone, anyone please point me towards some scientific evidence that ...
"The state is not stealing from you; the state is requiring you payback the investment in education, healthcare, roads, infrastructure, law and order, power generation etc" Don't you think CV in knowing that we work our arses off longer than most OECD ...
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