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Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:05 pm, February 10th, 2025
Have a signed copy of that album. All three members were previously in The Specials.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:36 pm, February 7th, 2025
For anyone needing a reminder of the 90's I thoroughly recommend The Jobs Newsletter. An excellent support for those advocating back then. http://www.jobsletter.org.nz/Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:32 pm, February 4th, 2025
Just doing what Key did - getting rid of all the state housing in posh areas.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:23 pm, February 4th, 2025
I had understood they can only sell to private enterprise in Cuba - capitalism vs communism. Indeed this seems to say the same. In a surprising development given Cuba’s worsening economy, exports of food and other goods from the United States were up last ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:21 pm, February 4th, 2025
Cuba is a bad example to use because food is an internationally grown commodity and trade with Cuba is restricted e.g. US suppliers are prohibited from selling food to the Cuban government. Given the success of their education and health areas to everyone ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:29 pm, February 3rd, 2025
I remember when John Key made the first decent lift in sole parent benefits for a long time. Labour couldn't even implement WEAG.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:35 am, February 3rd, 2025
43 pounds seized in a year less the 10.8 going the other way. Seems like a big problem. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2025/01/31/tariff-on-canada-not-justified-by-us-immigration-and-drug-claims/ In Fiscal Year 2024, USCBP seized 21,148 pounds ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:37 pm, January 31st, 2025
No I wasn't. Was just seeing what AI would produce. It seeems fair too even handed for what I've read - most were an abject failure as far as the promised savings, many have had to be bailed out and the cynical and exploitative Theresa Gattung policy of ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 3:01 pm, January 31st, 2025
Same reason they cottoned on that salt on chips sold more drinks at fairgrounds - as does the salt in soft drinks sells more soft drinks. Create a nice viscous circle of need and satisfaction.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:53 am, January 31st, 2025
privatization Yeah one meta-analysis identified only rubbish disposal as making any where near decent gains. growth of managerialism in the public sector. Yeah that's a fuck up of monumental proportions - made worse now by incompetent Ministers if my ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:24 am, January 31st, 2025
Censorship is also an issue. Deepseek has it built in e.g. ask about 1989 Tiananmen Square and you'll get that is beyond my scope. That alone makes it untrustworthy. I do find AI useful for getting sources but even then find the sources minimal overall eg ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:32 am, January 30th, 2025
There's something seriously wrong with this man. His evasion of acknowledging what seems obvious conflict of interest seems typical these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBlMpTfx-QWritten By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:56 am, January 27th, 2025
People aren't dumber than in the past. Tis the politicians who are fickle. The Greens have articulated quite well consistent policies and have picked up votes. Act the same consistency and picking up of votes (I might not like them but they are consistent ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 12:40 am, January 27th, 2025
They have deliberately been in "listening" and "reflecting" mode even beore they started debating new policy lines internally. Fuck how many more times do we have to hear this bullshit. And yeah I'll quote myself yet again. Why is it not possible for ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 9:17 pm, January 21st, 2025
That is mainly a hindsight view methinks. Nobody really knew at that stage what impact the mutated variants would have. My mother recalls being out of school for three months when the polio epidemic occurred.Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 4:20 pm, January 19th, 2025
We can't say we weren't warned. 2005 and 2006 Citibank's Plutonomy memos that they have issued take down orders for years now. https://www.scribd.com/document/403328612/Plutonomy-Memo-by-Citigroup Wealth Management Focused on UHNWIs: This approach ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:52 pm, January 19th, 2025
Aye I've cycled all my life due to not being allowed to drive. The increase in cycle lanes has massively reduced the opening car door risk that has upended me a few times - also causing significant injury to the people opening the door and stepping out at ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 10:09 am, January 15th, 2025
The privitisation of care services also had a lot to do with it as well. Staff for instance at geriatric wards got paid well. We oft paid the same for the wages i.e. no cost savings to the government, to the private sector but the profit had to come from ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:24 am, January 15th, 2025
union in the form of a marriage/long term commitment. Yeah cause women really loved having to stay in those abusive, controlling violent relationships. Maybe we should bring back the right to rape your wife to make the expectations clear - after all it ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:17 am, January 15th, 2025
Like most OECD countries we have an aging population we haven't done enough planning for and countries around the world are competing for our skilled young people. This is exacerbated by the above to make us non-competitive and also exacerbated by a large ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 4:45 pm, January 9th, 2025
They aren't a think tank at all. They are a right wing lobby group pushing a particular political agenda. Evidence is largely absent from what they peddle. not like they're misleading the membership Tis misleading the public is the issue. And who they are ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 5:27 pm, January 8th, 2025
Both sides of any story need airing to form an holistic view. FFS so not true. Mainly the right promote such a notion in order to get their non-sensical bullshit across. Fact checking as opposed to censorship helps mitigate people spouting shit. You form a ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 2:21 pm, January 2nd, 2025
I believe National wish to get rid of the annual assessments. Annual income A client who has income charged annually can receive up to $8,320 per year before their income will affect their benefit. For clients who receive over $8,320: income between $8,320 ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 7:05 pm, January 1st, 2025
Sole parents have always been able to earn. There was previously an annual amount which helped enormously in seasonal areas esp as they could work a season (or near enough to) without their benefit being affected at all. I think it was close to $5,000 a ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 6:53 am, January 1st, 2025
And what have Labour learned from this: Do they yet believe in an 8 hour day, 40 hour working week once again? Do they intend to implement the highlight of their government but the biggest failure in implementation, the WEAG report? Do they even comprehend ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 1:20 pm, December 31st, 2024
And the sad thing is is that good employers go under as they can't compete against the thieving ones. No different than went the Employment Contracts Act came in - good employer, after good employer went under as they could not compete against low waged ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 6:47 am, December 31st, 2024
No but making them actually pay the money on the payday - as opposed to just filing the return - will reduce the number of business going bust that owe IRD hundreds of thousands in PAYE deductions and identify much earlier businesses who are in trouble. It ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 8:56 pm, December 30th, 2024
Any legislation for this should include the non-payment of PAYE and student loan money and fine deductions to IRD. It should also make employers pay those payments directly to IRD on paydays when they are deducted to minimise such theft. One son has a ...Written By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 5:56 pm, December 30th, 2024
Well back in the day there was a certain gospel band. https://girdermusic.com/products/malcolm-and-alwyn-fools-wisdom-pre-owned-vinyl?srsltid=AfmBOorFAlLM-H3XcfTF-xiWOlyJtD9_hEUHh7tz300JJCwECnaFBSafWritten By: Descendant Of Smith - Date published: 11:04 am, December 30th, 2024
OMG There's two of you............
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