@Stuart Munro - Real change ONLY comes from outside parliament - We had several good Labour governments but as soon as people who remembered the great depression and why change had been necessary had passed-on there was no one left to keep Labour MPs on ...
Before Labour first came to power we had a conservative party and a liberal party that both served the establishment - albeit albeit different wings of the establishment. In the UK conservative and liberal were literally the names of the parties. I think ...
Keep up the hard-man talk greywarshark, calling people children, calling my argument wet - Judith Collins would be proud. You proposed a system of health care that effectively punished people who don't take the vaccine. That's a human rights issue and ...
@greywarshark that's a pretty vindictive attitude, and a fore taste of what could happen on social media - just like AD was saying. It's either a human right to refuse medication or it's not. Rationalising a system of second class service for people who ...
I enjoyed the analysis but was dismayed at the personal attacks on other left wingers at the start. I'm really looking forward to the day when this stuff dissapears.
Shanti, that makes total sense - maybe you should have written the main article.
They had a go at renaming Hamilton 20 years ago and Waikato City was the council's preferred option. The idea was met with derision, mostly because it was motivated by discomfort at Hamilton's lack of cool - but also because the initials W.C. also mean ...
So we come once again to the fact that politicians can't change the political orthodoxy. This means we need to stop putting our faith in them and getting upset when they don't deliver. They're not Christ and can't do miracles. The political orthodoxy only ...
@Incognito you seem to be just sniping around the edges of my argument rather than dealing with the core issue but I'll answer anyway: The countries that took the virus seriously and instituted serious quarantine procedures (and these are are well known) ...
@Louis, thanks for the party political broadcast but my point was the system is over-stretched right now and not able to handle an extra load - just as it's about to get one. Labour Party talking points are not going to be any use if the system gets ...
What do you mean our health system works well usually? It had 9 years of underfunding by the National government and Labour/NZ First have continued the tradition, there are constant articles in the media about problems caused by this chronic underfunding ...
Hey Weka fantastic to see you putting out info about Regnerative Farming - I was in a state of despair about how few people in New Zealand know about it. To put this in perspective Democratic candidates in the US have been using the phrase but I couldnt't ...
Why does anyone ever bother debating with Gosman? He's such a right wing troll that there is never any chance of reasoned debate, Based on his actions I'd have to say his primary purpose is to waste time and distract people from constructive debate.
I'm quite surprised no one is talking about this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/409298/bridges-says-national-won-t-tone-down-ads-after-asa-ruling National just got ticked off by the Advertising Standards Authority for telling porkies in an advert ...
That's a good point - and probably a harder nut to crack than just getting the word out about carbon sequestration.
I don't think proper emphasis has been put on the point that regenerative farming sequester's carbon in the soil. This is the most important aspect of the debate but it seems to get lost in the debate about diets. Even if we stopped eating meat and stopped...
Just like in the past educated people continue to look down on working class people. The difference in this (neo-liberal) era though is that educated people identify mostly as leftwing but still look for reasons to dislike the working class. These days we...
Don't take it from the elderly, take it from the super rich with a financial transactions tax! Mind you, if Shamubeel Eaqub actually suggested that it would probably be the end of being sought out by the media for comment :-)
If you ban it people will just make up some lies and release them from a source that has no connection to a political party - so incredibly easy to do and in the midst of a campaign who has the resources to track down the source of posts online. Isn't that...
So what you are saying is that the police have decided to help XR with their aim of clogging up the court system. Now where's I put the popcorn?
All I see is the democrats getting their excuses ready for when Trump wins next year... First they'll shaft Bernie and then their nicer version of Hilary will lose and it will be Facebook's fault all over again. Don't get me wrong, I have zero trust in ...
It's what we need to do. If we want to make rapid change then we need to spend money, it's that simple
Macron comes from the banking world so it's surprising to see him be so blunt about the failings of the economic system. If he isn't careful he'll lose their support. Of course if he plays it right he might gain the support of the French working class - ...
Interesting that they're citing Jacinda's elevation to PM as a role model. Obviously looking to appeal to the "middle" voters who decide each election and appear as a 'moderate'. Equally obvious is; he's actually following the John Key model - and it ...
Wow! I've been waiting so long for someone in the mainstream to make the very obvious connection between government spending and economic stimulation. We've been talking about taxes for decades now as if the money just gets poured into a hole in the ground...
Continually astonished at the approach to this issue from TS and I have a question: Has anything from Wikileaks ever been published on this blog? Because if it is then the 'editor' of the blog could also be extradited to the US in the way that it looks ...
Thankyou Adrian - I keep being surprised at the anti-Assange articles on TS, it's nice to see some of the readers here can see the big picture
This reads like a US propaganda piece. I'm quite stunned to find someone on TS linking to US media when discussing Russia and then totally swallowing the Skripal affair lies from the UK as well. Amazing.
@Draco T Bastard. The people have the most power and have always had it - not as individuals, but collectively. Governments and corporations spend a lot of time convincing us that we don't have any power but a quick look through history will show that ...
BM don't you think that it is more important to investigate the National Party's links with Sroubeks ex-partner? Specifically don't you think we should look at Mark Davey,National Party member and candidate for the National Party Auckland local government ...
Have you talked to some real people on the ground in Yemen? They might have a bit to say about the "shady" side of the US. Or you could ask the people of Iraq, or Palestine, or Vietnam or most countries in South America... I think it's pointless trying to ...
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