Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 2:24 pm, March 19th, 2024 - 2 comments
Categories: class, discrimination, employment, human rights, jobs, law, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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Uber Drivers are in the Court of Appeal today. Uber is appealing against Employment Court decision they they are employees with worker rights. Its a no-brainer, so they are and should have them. John Campbell covered the issues well in this 1News story …
Even more curious is that he said there is a 5.6 billion dollar hole facing the present government, which Finance Minister Nicola Willis denies. Obviously you can't go ahead with tax cuts with such a hole, assuming you don't want to create a banana ...
The following will happen shortly. We will begin to see various news stories about landlords that have been ripped off, their houses trashed, fittings stolen and rent unpaid by bad tenants. Not that it hasn't happened, it happens, and it has always ...
I suppose it all comes from a general assumption that people who talk and dream about a particular subject must actually know a great deal about it. I'm sure everyone knows that it is not necessarily true. As the Americans like to say, "you can talk the ...
The present government wouldn't even know what it was. [Please correct the typo in your user name in your next comment, thanks - Incognito]
His attitude is probably something like if it's those pesky greenie lefties that suffer then why worry?
Seems like any bod in a uniform votes National by default. Perhaps they should ask themselves why.
Does that mean you won't be able to get police person when you need them? Doesn't sound much different from the normal situation.
Oh yes the old keep politics out of sports argument! Sport and politics have been one for many many years Gosman, whether you recognise it or not. Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Fifa World Cup just three examples where politics runs the show.
Chris Luxon should lead by example and reduce the rent on the houses he owns.
I have many American friends who like me believe in cooperation rather than competition and peace rather than war, and who oppose anyone or any institution that advocates deliberate first use of nuclear weapons.
National likes to boast about what they have "achieved" in 100 days. What they don't boast about is how low Luxon's rating as PM is after 100 days. New PM's usually are high in the ratings, as befits the honeymoon period of a new government. But how many ...
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:38 am, March 9th, 2024 - 18 comments
Categories: AUKUS, gaza, Judith Collins, uncategorized, us politics
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in a war over Taiwan" is the title of an Atlantic Council paper produced last September. They mean nuclear weapons use. These are serious people; Undersecretary Bonnie Jenkins addressed them last year about AUKUS. The Atlantic Council paper's conclusion …
I think the roots of it go back to the 1980s, if not earlier, when the neo-liberal forces of the world - governments and institutes - began a campaign to gain control of the MSM and make the economic theories of Friedman and Hayeck the norm. Part of this ...
"Look good" are the operative words. Everything the NACTZ government does is designed to look good, because their conspiracy theory prop supporters and the shallow MSM lack the intelligence and foresight to delve further from the surface. I've said it many...
When I read Seymour's comments my first thought was: Revenge of the Nerds. Peters' and Seymour's payback to the media who have said and done rotten things to them over their long parliamentary careers. Now you lot will get your comeuppance.
I suppose that when you own a stack of houses and are the representative of an affluent blue ribbon seat like Botany then anything less than a mansion is unliveable. But I bet it is still infinitely better than the places that many people have to live in, ...
I wonder what would have happened if someone had given the assailant a bunch of fives in retaliation for his attack on the victim? I know exactly what would have happened. The police would have gone after the avenger at all cost and ignored the offender. ...
By the way Michael P. I am still waiting for you to validate your claim that the Hurricanes Poua team receive taxpayer funding.
Please give details of the taxpayer funding that they receive. I am interested to know.
Cheers to the Hurricanes Poua rugby team daring to publicly call out the redneck divisive NACTZ government for what they are. They can add one more to their fan list.
ACT certainly has a thing about poor people. It goes all the way back to early Industrial Revolution England era. The rich, who made maximum profits on the backs of paying their workers minimum wages, convinced themselves that if a person was poor, it was ...
To hell with Cayman Islands bank accounts, may as well keep your ill-gotten gains here and save a lot of trouble.
I didn;t know about the "toe the line" either, although as a keen classical historian I knew "decimate". We so often use expressions that we have no idea what they actually mean.
A distracted minister of broadcasting is a real concern - the conspiracy theorist media are already thinking how they can profit by this.
For a balanced view on China, it's worth having a listen to New Zealander David Mahon. He has lived there for nigh on forty years.
That's another Mike Smith - there are lots of us. I agree he has done a brilliant job
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 8:21 pm, March 3rd, 2024 - 32 comments
Categories: AUKUS, australian politics, China, defence, don brash, helen clark, jobs, Judith Collins, Pacific, Peace, tech industry, Ukraine, winston peters
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US Undersecretary of State Bonnie Jenkins is in Wellington this week with a hard sell for us on a promise of AUKUS Pillar 2 wunderwaffen maybes. The US's real intent is to tie us to their wheel for the next fifty years. We should say tai hoa. China is the…
To add another insight. The rich always like to boast that they get rich through hard work, you know how they always claim towork 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for 40 odd years, yah de yah de yah....... Fact: you don't get rich by ...
Maybe, just maybe John Key is the "John Frum" that people on the Vanuatuan Island of Tanna believe will one day come and lead them to salvation. On second thoughts, nah!
I heard TU's Jordan Williams on a Newstalk ZB news bulletin this morning being uncharacteristically gentlemanly, almost apologetic, about Chris Luxon's faux pas, describing it as "an administrative oversight" or similar words. You can be sure he wouldn't ...
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