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Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 6:42 pm, February 13th, 2025
..and..?...any luck with finding what has happened...?Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 12:35 pm, February 13th, 2025
Note to moderators: where have all the comments from the 'dire' thread gone...?Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 3:35 pm, February 12th, 2025
Wot a b said...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:47 am, February 12th, 2025
I'm finding the daily show to be one of the most reliable commentators on this ongoing madness..Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:32 am, February 12th, 2025
One in four nz children suffering from food poverty... One in two pasifika children suffering from food poverty.. All while the rich bathe in their extra cash... What are labour/greens promising to do about this obscenity...? ..and what share of the blame ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 1:40 pm, February 11th, 2025
Seymour:'when we take over.. I'm gonna make myself a field -marshall..'Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 1:36 pm, February 11th, 2025
Seymour: 'i'll betcha trump didn't think of this'..Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 7:45 pm, February 10th, 2025
'meow..!'...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 7:15 pm, February 10th, 2025
Seymour: 'i'm gonna use this...when we do the coup....'Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 6:20 pm, February 10th, 2025
Seymour: 'i'm gonna make luxon the starmer of nz ..! Then I will rule. !'Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 6:18 pm, February 10th, 2025
Seymour: 'this is fun..!...what will I do next ..? I know ..!... I'll go and pee in luxons letterbox..!'Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 12:55 pm, February 10th, 2025
On that 'arrest' note..a recent anecdotal (from prescribing doctor) was an individual @ a festival toking on a large Doobie..being approached by three policemen..one of whom asked: 'do you have a prescription for that?'.. Individual nodded in reply...the ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 12:24 pm, February 10th, 2025
I think the solutions come back to the individual to do something about it.. I have a solar set-up in the vintage caravan in which I live/beetle around new Zealand. ..( it's called being slightly upmarket homeless..heh..!) I have not paid a power bill in ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 10:27 am, February 10th, 2025
Not much to argue against...in that post.. The man is a total non-event as a p.m.. And Seymour is eating his lunch..each and every day.. As peters impotently froths away on the sideline.. A coherent gummint it ain't ..Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:40 am, February 10th, 2025
This is a public service announcement: (Good news for the nations' cannabis consumers..) Auckland city now has a legal weed dispensary...down on quay st... And for the rest of the nation the good it news is that they do phone consultations..and will ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 4:06 pm, February 9th, 2025
Two terms under a 4 yr term is eight years..one year less than three of the current 3 terms.. So I am struggling to see/understand what you are concerned about... ...and 'blessed'.... really..? They are what got us into the mess we are currently in... .. ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:26 pm, February 8th, 2025
So it is pure user-pays.. And if tarrifs mean/go hand in hand with real tax cuts for workers..that increase in income should lessen the impact of any increases in the cost of essentials .. What's not to love about that..?..from a left point of view...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:19 pm, February 8th, 2025
Thanks for the link...I just heard jon Stewart say it...in an aside..Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:12 pm, February 8th, 2025
As one of those 'left'types..um .!..no..!Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 7:11 pm, February 8th, 2025
Yet another fun fact is guess which president before trump deported the most refugees .? Yep..!..it was Obama..).. (colour me surprised ..eh..?..)Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 7:06 pm, February 8th, 2025
I had lunch with the fruit of the loin today...where we had to chuckle over the fact that there is a raw/('socialist' even?) appeal in the concept of switching government income to inter-government tariffs.. and away from workers incomes.. Especially as ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 6:40 pm, February 8th, 2025
(@ jenny)... I agree that the voting age should be lowered to 16... So how about four yrs/two term limits (as cited by ob..)..?...plus lowering voting age to 16..?. A tidy package..all in all.. Do I have yr vote now.. I hafta say that my initial reaction ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 9:02 am, February 8th, 2025
Re the 3 yr vs. 4 yrs parliamentary term debate... What could make shifting to a four year term more palatable would be to introduce a term limit for prime ministers... Two terms should do it... Of course the other benefit from this term limit would mean ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 11:44 am, January 22nd, 2025
I am still mildly gobsmacked that this (supposedly) financially literate party/gummint..handed over what everyone would agree is a critical portfolio..to an already proven to be lacking minister...who didn't even have a seat at the cabinet table .(!) So ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 8:42 pm, November 6th, 2024
So..they can put people into space ...but they can only manage the 'ambitious goal' of 25% reduction in homeless..? Reads like incrementalism writ large..to me ..Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 8:28 pm, November 6th, 2024
Just to lighten the mood a bit.. Both Nostradamus and a blind Indian seer...(With an impressive record of accurate predictions..whose name escapes me for now...) Anyway...both of them have predicted that the aliens arrive in 2025... So we could have that ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 8:22 pm, November 6th, 2024
Totally agree .. And Harris was a weak candidate.. And a rightwing former prosecutor.. ..in a party to the right of the national party.. ..never had me that excited/hoping for any real change... She isn't trump...that's about it.. ..and it clearly wasn't ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 8:11 pm, November 6th, 2024
Will trumps scooping up of working/middle class voters...driven away by the incrementalist traditional left party... Will this finally convince the nz labour party that the neoliberal incrementalistm they have peddled since the 80's...is an epic fail...? ...Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 3:52 pm, June 28th, 2024
Test..Written By: Phillip ure - Date published: 5:39 pm, May 22nd, 2024
Test.. [Take two weeks off, one for each link you refused to provide. I was thinking you could use this time learning to link, but you can actually do this already: https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-05-02-2024/#comment-1988165!? So, you have no excuse, ...
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