They told us he was different than the others …….. That he was not a like normal politicians ….and would bring higher standards with international business skills and a rich mans deal making savvy
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They said his mother and family escaped Nazi Germany where persecution and extermination of the jews was carried out based on a govt led hate campaign using negative stereotypes of them
They said he was raised humbly in a state house and appreciated the help his mother received from our welfare state state
They said he was generous to the less well off and even “gives his salary to charity” ……
They said he got rich and made his fortune through hard work and superior investment skills
Sadly for New Zealand it was the biggest pile of horseshit ever assembled in our media ….New Zealands media presentation of key is so false that if it were a a company prospectus the writers would be facing fraud charges …..
Key certainly is different and initially his Merrill Lynch experience was sold as a positive …. until his old firm and others like it directly caused the GFC …. crashing the the world economy through greed and financial frauds.
Higher standards in parliament turned out to be gutter Dirty Politics which stank to high heavens and flowed like sewage directly from the prime ministers office….Sky city casino and the alcohol industry gained special favor from his business skills and deal making …….
The lessons of cruelty and inhumanity that the Nazis and holocaust taught us about state sanctioned stereotypes and the murderous abuses which followed has been ignored by key despite his families direct suffering ……
Instead he saw the power of them to debase normal thinking… and they have been a feature of his government …. enabling them to be cruel to certain citizens without suffering political fallout ……………………………….
Key has used them, to denigrate New Zealand workers as ‘lazy druggies’when less than 1% of job-seekers on welfare have failed a urine drug test and……..and it was people like john key who has fucked the job market with cheap immigrant Labor and rodgered the world economy.though greed and cheating .
Lynch mob stereotypes from Mike Sabin, paula bennet and tolley are used to demonize and evict tenants from ‘toxic’ state houses, which are non-toxic…..
and if we dissolved their daily dosage of 25mg into enough liters of water ….we could spray and contaminate the surface area for approximately 50,000 ‘ failed meth tests…. and up to $600,000,000 of ‘decontamination’ costs if we had sprayed this incredibly diluted child s dose of prescription medicine onto interior new zealand house walls ….$600 million.
For even more stupid numbers consider that a 400mg or 500 mg overdose of Desoxyn may not be a fatal dose and kill a child ……. but at current testing levels its enough to contaminate 1 million homes ……….. do we have that many homes in NZ?
Its a shame they have created and funded a scam industry to waste millions and millions on …
I guess it serves Bennett and the nats purpose …………………Housing is for speculators … not poor people.
Key has firmly turned his back on his state house upbringing and sees the houses as just more dollars to go in Bills cooked government books … another state asset to sell as he carves up and privatize everything he can get away with …
State welfare has been replaced with cruel hardships placed on the victims of structured inequality and poverty ..
Keys myth of being generous would be funny if it were not so sick ….. He will not show his tax returns because the sham would be revealed and previous newspaper headlines such as “key pledges PM’s salary to charity” shown as outright lies …….
Key earned the bulk of his money by helping the devious rich and other bad apples steal from the poor ……Billion upon Billions taken from state budgets and things like health, education etc etc
Keys work for Merrill in Ireland seems to have consisted of using tax havens and other double Irish cheating to allow rich individuals and corporations to steal from children and others ….. with Billions taken from budgets for health, education, pensions etc
His work for Merrill in Asia is where Corruption was also rife with 25% of funding for projects and sometimes up to 50% being taken by regimes like Suhartos …… when the corrupt illegitimate leaders are removed or flee the country the banksters debts remain ………. this always gets paid and is sometimes over 50%) of a governments expenditure ….while poor children suffer malnutrition and die from lack of sanitation or basic medical care ….
The Asian currency crisis took place in the 1997 and like most crashes involved speculation and innocent workers paying the price for the greed of the financial sector ….
In our country and the developed world this ‘legal’ tax cheating means things like ‘voluntary’ school fees for financially stressed parents……,our young get large student debts for education that used to be free and part of the social contract … longer waiting lists from a underfunded health sector…..,underfunded police etc etc
In poor countries this economic apartheid for the rich kills the children of the poor ……
Ask yourself , would you steal from a baby ? …. people who build and use tax havens do ….. and presumably john shewan and the aussie banks reckon a 2.2 Billion getaway vehicle was worth a spin …… no harm in trying for them.
Keys investment skills suggest he left the largest portion of his paper wealth in his old firm which was crashing and burning with tens of Billions of debt blowing up in their faces as the GFC started ….
Bank of America was backing out of a deal to buy merrill when their books revealed their assets as sub-prime piles of shit with rapidly escalating multi Billion dollar losses……
Merrill and the financial sector were vaporizing wealth at a rate which is hard to comprehend … It was like Bernie Madoff of had taken control and a huge ponzi scheme was collapsing
The American government stepped in and the Bank of America was forced to rescue the imploding Merrill and stop a domino effect collapsing of the American financial system ….. American taxpayers, pension funds and other victims were forced to come to the rescue ……. and paid for the bailout in direct cash to the perpetrators and investors ….. Average and honest citizens got loss of jobs wealth and security.
Despite his mouth and words distancing himself from Merrill when the Global Financial Crisis revealed their sham products, dishonest accounting and reckless gambling … His Bank of America shares show him staying firmly invested with Greed guiding his actions,,,, Merrill shares almost hit $100 before collapsing and heading towards worthlessness …………..
Blinded by greed describes Key and perhaps explains his support of tax havens…./.
The government is being urged to end the political drive to get more people into university after new research showed that graduates are “colonising” jobs in banking, education, the police and estate agency that were the preserve of school-leavers in the past.
Because having uneducated people in those roles is sooo important.
Successive governments have said that rising university numbers are justified by a graduate premium – higher lifetime earnings that more than compensate for tuition fees and living expenses.
But the CIPD said the notion of a tertiary education premium is being called into question by graduates’ average debt of £44,000 and official estimates that 45% of loans would never be paid off. Noting that its previous research had shown more than half of graduates take non-graduate jobs, the CIPD said the current system was not just bad for many of those who had been to university but also for school-leavers who were overlooked for jobs that did not require a degree.
That’s not a reason to prevent people getting an education but it is a reason to get rid of education fees. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it’s proof that charging fees is a failure.
But the CIPD said the Brexit vote made it important for the government to take stock of policy towards higher education and skills.
That’s is, of course, wrong. What they need to be doing is developing the economy so that those higher educations actually get used. Obviously the neo-liberal free-trade system is failing to do that.
One does wonder why this organisation is scared of well educated people and who they’re representing.
“Students fight as teachers watch on”.
One does wonder whether the teachers are trying to get people upset at the Government.
After all the left blamed the Government about the fights that happened at Mt Eden prison. Hard to see the difference with this isn’t it? Have the teachers been suspended?
Alwyn, your ignorant prejudice is nauseating. You suggest that teachers are spinning this? I am now 70, and too old to step in and stop student fights as I used to. In earlier days I was threatened with clenched fists, and on one bloody occasion I discovered that the aggressors were from outside the school, beating up a 5th-former whose face was a truly bloody mess. Even the normally voyeuristic students who love watching fights were showing signs of horror. I thank the heavens that I got there in time to stop those bastards from doing worse, and I record that as one of my worst moments in my long teaching career.
Ever done anything like that, Mr eloquent Alwyn?
I am sure you will say that teacher unions are self-serving provider-capturers.
Congratulations – I now despise you more than the regular trolls like Pockish Rouge and ‘would of’ Chuck.
” I thank the heavens that I got there in time to stop those bastards from doing worse”.
Since you did stop it you are to be applauded. Why don’t the current lot follow your example?
They are not ‘the current lot’ – I don’t like your sneaky pejorative tone. But in answer –
Many still do, but for legal reasons they may now be getting advised not to. That very advice was given out at staff briefing this morning at the school where I now do day-relief. Easier to call senior staff via cell-phone nowadays, but I am sure there are still plenty of teachers who will step in when they think it best, and worry later about the law, etc. Please do not generalise from sensationalist media stories.
+1 Paul ………. well spotted and its good that people like you bear witness and comment on the real shitty stuff happening in NZ
Teachers and their union are seen as an enemy of National …… and the herald are among the worst for pro-national bias ….. Dirty politics hearld sums them up…
As a side issue …..Lately I’ve noticed our pack of cocks here at the standard ( trolls ), have been giving you a bit more attention and criticism than usual …. with creepy old alwyn and his tired old dick dribble being the latest example in this thread.
Keep up the good work Paul as it gives people with heart a little boost to see that there are other New Zealanders like yourself who actually give a fuck …..
I see that Phil Goff has come out promising that a “living wage” is to be paid by the Auckland Council. Did he ever mention this during his campaign or did he wait to bring it up until after the campaign was over?
Still I suppose he has to pay off the people who paid for his campaign and give something to the unions. I wonder what he will do to thank his Chinese friend who coughed up $150,000? Only 52 more days and he will have to tell us who it is.
Thank you for the information.
If he did say he would do something during the campaign he can of course justly go ahead with the idea afterwards.
The whole policy is crazy but Auckland people seem to like a bit of idiocy in their Mayors. Unfortunately so do the bulk of the Wellington voters and I, as a Wellington resident, get stuck with the result.
Oh well, it wasn’t intended.
I was just trying to use different words. It gets so boring reading, or listening to, someone who keeps repeating the same few words.
“Like, it was so cool, totally awesome like. Fred is awesomely cool, you know. Really cool in an awesome way like you know”.
By the way, if you are happy with the result of the election are you in favour of our new Mayor wanting to spend up to half a billion dollars on extending a runway that the airlines don’t want?
I didn’t say happy – I said I don’t find it unfortunate – there’s a bit of a difference. But yeah… I’m not a fan of a runway extension generally, even though I’ll probably find that, personally, it works for me.
Still, Wellington has a pretty good recent history of avoiding council and business white elephants that spoil public space.
In August, the Australian reported how a mass of Chinese property buyers who had snapped up Sydney units off the plans had started to walk from their agreements because they could not get their money out of China.
The investors were even forgoing their 10 per cent deposits, the newspaper reported.
That spooked those Aussie banks so that by last month, Townsend and other New Zealanders were beginning to feel the fallout.
Worried developers with mass housing schemes began calling the Herald, describing how new lending was hard to secure, saying they were shocked at the sudden turnaround.
By September 27, Westpac NZ chief executive David McLean revealed how his bank – New Zealand’s second-biggest residential lender after ANZ – had indeed loaned to the Auckland apartment sector last decade but was less involved this decade.
Yet Prime Minister John Key has said repeatedly that young first-home buyers in Auckland must consider apartments.
“I tell you where their first house is – it’s an apartment. That is the reality of a first home for a young couple in Australia,” Key said last month.
Trump was never very good at this whole business thing.
The Trump Taj Mahal, which Donald Trump once called the “eighth wonder of the world,” shut its doors Monday morning after failing to reach a deal with union workers, who have been on strike since July.
The 17-acre casino and hotel, which cost more than $1 billion to build, has lost almost $350 million in the past few years, according to a statement from Carl Icahn, a friend of Trump’s who bought the Atlantic City property out of bankruptcy last year.
You did notice the bit in the article that says
“Trump, the Republican candidate for president, no longer had any financial interest in the Trump Taj Mahal.” I assume?
If he owned it when it first went into bankruptcy you may have a point. However if he got out of the business before this happened you can hardly blame him now.
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Minister for Disability Issues Penny Simmonds appears to have delayed a report back to Cabinet on the progress New Zealand is making against international obligations for disabled New Zealanders. ...
The Government’s newly announced review of methane emissions reduction targets hints at its desire to delay Aotearoa New Zealand’s urgent transition to a climate safe future, the Green Party said. ...
The Government must commit to the Maitai School building project for students with high and complex needs, to ensure disabled students from the top of the South Island have somewhere to learn. ...
Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey and his Government colleagues have made a meal of their mental health commitments, showing how flimsy their efforts to champion the issue truly are, says Labour Mental Health spokesperson Ingrid Leary. ...
Māori are yet to see anything from this Government except cuts, reversals and taking our people backwards, Māori Development spokesperson Willie Jackson said. ...
The Coalition Government’s refusal to commit to ongoing funding for social housing is seeing the sector pull back on developments and families watch their dreams of securing a home fade away, says Labour Housing spokesperson Kieran McAnulty. ...
Changes to minimum wage and benefit indexation means many New Zealanders will get less this year, as the Government gives a big tax break to landlords instead. ...
New Zealand is demonstrating its commitment to reducing global greenhouse emissions, and supporting clean energy transition in South East Asia, through a contribution of NZ$41 million (US$25 million) in climate finance to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-led Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announced ...
The Government is today releasing a list of organisations who received letters about the Fast-track applications process, says RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop. “Recently Ministers and agencies have received a series of OIA requests for a list of organisations to whom I wrote with information on applying to have a ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today announced the appointment of Wellington Barrister David Jonathan Boldt as a Judge of the High Court, and the Honourable Justice Matthew Palmer as a Judge of the Court of Appeal. Justice Boldt graduated with an LLB from Victoria University of Wellington in 1990, and also holds ...
Education Minister Erica Stanford will lead the New Zealand delegation at the 2024 International Summit on the Teaching Profession (ISTP) held in Singapore. The delegation includes representatives from the Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) Te Wehengarua and the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI) Te Riu Roa. The summit is co-hosted ...
A stopbank upgrade project in Tairawhiti partly funded by the Government has increased flood resilience for around 7000ha of residential and horticultural land so far, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones today attended a dawn service in Gisborne to mark the end of the first stage of the ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will represent the Government at Anzac Day commemorations on the Gallipoli Peninsula next week and engage with senior representatives of the Turkish government in Istanbul. “The Gallipoli campaign is a defining event in our history. It will be a privilege to share the occasion ...
Science, Innovation and Technology and Defence Minister Judith Collins will next week attend the OECD Science and Technology Ministerial conference in Paris and Anzac Day commemorations in Belgium. “Science, innovation and technology have a major role to play in rebuilding our economy and achieving better health, environmental and social outcomes ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The Prime Minister was accompanied by MP Paulo Garcia, the first Filipino to be elected to a legislature outside the Philippines. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon and President Marcos Jr discussed opportunities to ...
The Government has announced that $20 million in funding will be made available to Westport to fund much needed flood protection around the town. This measure will significantly improve the resilience of the community, says Local Government Minister Simeon Brown. “The Westport community has already been allocated almost $3 million ...
The Government is proud to support the first ever Repco Supercars Championship event in Taupō as up to 70,000 motorsport fans attend the Taupō International Motorsport Park this weekend, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. “Anticipation for the ITM Taupō Super400 is huge, with tickets and accommodation selling out weeks ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced an increase to the Rates Rebate Scheme, putting money back into the pockets of low-income homeowners. “The coalition Government is committed to bringing down the cost of living for New Zealanders. That includes targeted support for those Kiwis who are doing things tough, such ...
The Coalition Government is investing in a project to boost survival rates of New Zealand mussels and grow the industry, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones has announced. “This project seeks to increase the resilience of our mussels and significantly boost the sector’s productivity,” Mr Jones says. “The project - ...
Benefit figures released today underscore the importance of the Government’s plan to rebuild the economy and have 50,000 fewer people on Jobseeker Support, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “Benefit numbers are still significantly higher than when National was last in government, when there was about 70,000 fewer ...
The Government’s commitment to doubling New Zealand’s renewable energy capacity is backed by new data showing that clean energy has helped the country reach its lowest annual gross emissions since 1999, Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says. New Zealand’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2022) published today, shows gross emissions fell ...
The Government is bringing the earthquake-prone building review forward, with work to start immediately, and extending the deadline for remediations by four years, Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk says. “Our Government is focused on rebuilding the economy. A key part of our plan is to cut red tape that ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and his Thai counterpart, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, have today agreed that New Zealand and the Kingdom of Thailand will upgrade the bilateral relationship to a Strategic Partnership by 2026. “New Zealand and Thailand have a lot to offer each other. We have a strong mutual desire to build ...
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector. "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
Changes to the Resource Management Act will align consenting for coal mining to other forms of mining to reduce barriers that are holding back economic development, Resources Minister Shane Jones says. “The inconsistent treatment of coal mining compared with other extractive activities is burdensome red tape that fails to acknowledge ...
Trade, Agriculture and Forestry Minister Todd McClay has concluded productive discussions with ministerial counterparts in Beijing today, in support of the New Zealand-China trade and economic relationship. “My meeting with Commerce Minister Wang Wentao reaffirmed the complementary nature of the bilateral trade relationship, with our Free Trade Agreement at its ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today paid tribute to Singapore’s outgoing Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Meeting in Singapore today immediately before Prime Minister Lee announced he was stepping down, Prime Minister Luxon warmly acknowledged his counterpart’s almost twenty years as leader, and the enduring legacy he has left for Singapore and South East ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon held a bilateral meeting today with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. While in Singapore as part of his visit to South East Asia this week, Prime Minister Luxon also met with Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and will meet with Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. During today’s meeting, Prime Minister Luxon ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has made further appointments to the Board of Antarctica New Zealand as part of a continued effort to ensure the Scott Base Redevelopment project is delivered in a cost-effective and efficient manner. The Minister has appointed Neville Harris as a new member of the Board. Mr ...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis will travel to the United States on Tuesday to attend a meeting of the Five Finance Ministers group, with counterparts from Australia, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. “I am looking forward to meeting with our Five Finance partners on how we can work ...
The coalition Government has today announced purrfect and pawsitive changes to the Residential Tenancies Act to give tenants with pets greater choice when looking for a rental property, says Housing Minister Chris Bishop. “Pets are important members of many Kiwi families. It’s estimated that around 64 per cent of New ...
State Highway 1 (SH1) through Wellington City is heavily congested at peak times and while planning continues on the duplicate Mt Victoria Tunnel and Basin Reserve project, the Government has also asked NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) to consider and provide advice on a Long Tunnel option, Transport Minister Simeon Brown ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters have condemned Iran’s shocking and illegal strikes against Israel. “These attacks are a major challenge to peace and stability in a region already under enormous pressure," Mr Luxon says. "We are deeply concerned that miscalculation on any side could ...
Hundreds of people in little over a week have turned out in Northland to hear Regional Development Minister Shane Jones speak about plans for boosting the regional economy through infrastructure. About 200 people from the infrastructure and associated sectors attended an event headlined by Mr Jones in Whangarei today. Last ...
Health Minister Dr Shane Reti has today thanked outgoing Health New Zealand – Te Whatu Ora Chair Dame Karen Poutasi for her service on the Board. “Dame Karen tendered her resignation as Chair and as a member of the Board today,” says Dr Reti. “I have asked her to ...
The NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has signalled their proposed delivery approach for the Government’s 15 Roads of National Significance (RoNS), with the release of the State Highway Investment Proposal (SHIP) today, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Boosting economic growth and productivity is a key part of the Government’s plan to ...
New Zealand is renewing its connections with a world facing urgent challenges by pursuing an active, energetic foreign policy, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “Our country faces the most unstable global environment in decades,” Mr Peters says at the conclusion of two weeks of engagements in Egypt, Europe and the United States. “We cannot afford to sit back in splendid ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced the Australian Governor-General, His Excellency General The Honourable David Hurley and his wife Her Excellency Mrs Linda Hurley, will make a State visit to New Zealand from Tuesday 16 April to Thursday 18 April. The visit reciprocates the State visit of former Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy ...
Associate Health Minister David Seymour has announced that Medsafe has approved 11 cold and flu medicines containing pseudoephedrine. Pharmaceutical suppliers have indicated they may be able to supply the first products in June. “This is much earlier than the original expectation of medicines being available by 2025. The Government recognised ...
New Zealand and the United States have recommitted to their strategic partnership in Washington DC today, pledging to work ever more closely together in support of shared values and interests, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “The strategic environment that New Zealand and the United States face is considerably more ...
April 11, 2024 Joint Declaration by United States Secretary of State the Honorable Antony J. Blinken and New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs the Right Honourable Winston Peters We met today in Washington, D.C. to recommit to the historic partnership between our two countries and the principles that underpin it—rule ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced further New Zealand cooperation with the United States in the Pacific Islands region through $16.4 million in funding for initiatives in digital connectivity and oceans and fisheries research. “New Zealand can achieve more in the Pacific if we work together more urgently and ...
Kia Ora Gaza A passionate haka reverberated through Auckland International Airport as a medical team of three New Zealand doctors received an emotional farewell from a big crowd of supporters before flying to Turkey to join the international Freedom Flotilla to Gaza. The doctors, who left Auckland yesterday, hope to ...
With submissions closing today, Macassey-Pickard says groups around the country have been supporting a huge range of people to make their submissions. ...
Our response to the new legislation is informed by targeted conversations with practitioners working in the system and through an implementation lens. ...
The new ‘Fast-track Approvals Bill’ would give just three Ministers the power to approve or deny development projects. They would avoid the usual checks and balances that are in place to protect rivers, land, the ocean, and communities. ...
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The government's released the list of organisations provided with information on how to apply - just hours before public submissions on the bill close. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Before climate change really got going, eastern Australia’s flash floods tended to concentrate on our coastal regions, east of the Great Dividing Range. But that’s changing. Now ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pearce, Professor, School of Allied Heath, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, La Trobe University This week, Collingwood AFL player Nathan Murphy announced his retirement, brought on by his concussion history and ongoing issues. The 24-year-old’s seemingly sudden retirement, ...
The Mental Health Foundation provides support and resources for those facing the loss of their job, so it’s wrong in the very week the Government adds another 1000 jobs to its tally of cuts, that this is happening. ...
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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says threats by ministers Shane Jones and David Seymour to reform or close down the Waitangi Tribunal were “ill-considered”, as legal experts say the ministers may have breached Cabinet Manual conventions. “I think those comments are ill-considered and we expect all ministers to actually exercise good ...
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Wajnryb McDonald, PhD candidate in Criminology, University of Sydney Less than 24 hours after Ashlee Good was murdered in Bondi Junction, her family released a statement requesting the media take down photographs they had reproduced of Ashlee and her family without ...
Chief executive Shaun Robinson said it has not had any government funding cut, but government-funded contracts have not kept pace with rising costs. ...
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“It will cause significant harm to our environment and communities. It is completely at odds with New Zealanders’ relationship with nature and our need for a low-carbon, sustainable economic future." ...
The Chair of the National Maori Authority, Matthew Tukaki, has warned a Parliamentary Select Committee that fast-tracking legislation is a perilous practice that undermines the core tenets of democracy, transparency, and accountability. ...
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The cover story sounded alright …..
They told us he was different than the others …….. That he was not a like normal politicians ….and would bring higher standards with international business skills and a rich mans deal making savvy
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They said his mother and family escaped Nazi Germany where persecution and extermination of the jews was carried out based on a govt led hate campaign using negative stereotypes of them
They said he was raised humbly in a state house and appreciated the help his mother received from our welfare state state
They said he was generous to the less well off and even “gives his salary to charity” ……
They said he got rich and made his fortune through hard work and superior investment skills
Sadly for New Zealand it was the biggest pile of horseshit ever assembled in our media ….New Zealands media presentation of key is so false that if it were a a company prospectus the writers would be facing fraud charges …..
Key certainly is different and initially his Merrill Lynch experience was sold as a positive …. until his old firm and others like it directly caused the GFC …. crashing the the world economy through greed and financial frauds.
Higher standards in parliament turned out to be gutter Dirty Politics which stank to high heavens and flowed like sewage directly from the prime ministers office….Sky city casino and the alcohol industry gained special favor from his business skills and deal making …….
The lessons of cruelty and inhumanity that the Nazis and holocaust taught us about state sanctioned stereotypes and the murderous abuses which followed has been ignored by key despite his families direct suffering ……
Instead he saw the power of them to debase normal thinking… and they have been a feature of his government …. enabling them to be cruel to certain citizens without suffering political fallout ……………………………….
Key has used them, to denigrate New Zealand workers as ‘lazy druggies’when less than 1% of job-seekers on welfare have failed a urine drug test and……..and it was people like john key who has fucked the job market with cheap immigrant Labor and rodgered the world economy.though greed and cheating .
Lynch mob stereotypes from Mike Sabin, paula bennet and tolley are used to demonize and evict tenants from ‘toxic’ state houses, which are non-toxic…..
As an example if a child were prescribed the prescription medicine Desoxyn http://www.healthyplace.com/other-info/psychiatric-medications/methamphetamine-desoxyn-full-prescribing-information/…..
and if we dissolved their daily dosage of 25mg into enough liters of water ….we could spray and contaminate the surface area for approximately 50,000 ‘ failed meth tests…. and up to $600,000,000 of ‘decontamination’ costs if we had sprayed this incredibly diluted child s dose of prescription medicine onto interior new zealand house walls ….$600 million.
For even more stupid numbers consider that a 400mg or 500 mg overdose of Desoxyn may not be a fatal dose and kill a child ……. but at current testing levels its enough to contaminate 1 million homes ……….. do we have that many homes in NZ?
Its a shame they have created and funded a scam industry to waste millions and millions on …
I guess it serves Bennett and the nats purpose …………………Housing is for speculators … not poor people.
Key has firmly turned his back on his state house upbringing and sees the houses as just more dollars to go in Bills cooked government books … another state asset to sell as he carves up and privatize everything he can get away with …
State welfare has been replaced with cruel hardships placed on the victims of structured inequality and poverty ..
Keys myth of being generous would be funny if it were not so sick ….. He will not show his tax returns because the sham would be revealed and previous newspaper headlines such as “key pledges PM’s salary to charity” shown as outright lies …….
Key earned the bulk of his money by helping the devious rich and other bad apples steal from the poor ……Billion upon Billions taken from state budgets and things like health, education etc etc
Keys work for Merrill in Ireland seems to have consisted of using tax havens and other double Irish cheating to allow rich individuals and corporations to steal from children and others ….. with Billions taken from budgets for health, education, pensions etc
His work for Merrill in Asia is where Corruption was also rife with 25% of funding for projects and sometimes up to 50% being taken by regimes like Suhartos …… when the corrupt illegitimate leaders are removed or flee the country the banksters debts remain ………. this always gets paid and is sometimes over 50%) of a governments expenditure ….while poor children suffer malnutrition and die from lack of sanitation or basic medical care ….
The Asian currency crisis took place in the 1997 and like most crashes involved speculation and innocent workers paying the price for the greed of the financial sector ….
In our country and the developed world this ‘legal’ tax cheating means things like ‘voluntary’ school fees for financially stressed parents……,our young get large student debts for education that used to be free and part of the social contract … longer waiting lists from a underfunded health sector…..,underfunded police etc etc
In poor countries this economic apartheid for the rich kills the children of the poor ……
Ask yourself , would you steal from a baby ? …. people who build and use tax havens do ….. and presumably john shewan and the aussie banks reckon a 2.2 Billion getaway vehicle was worth a spin …… no harm in trying for them.
Keys investment skills suggest he left the largest portion of his paper wealth in his old firm which was crashing and burning with tens of Billions of debt blowing up in their faces as the GFC started ….
Bank of America was backing out of a deal to buy merrill when their books revealed their assets as sub-prime piles of shit with rapidly escalating multi Billion dollar losses……
Merrill and the financial sector were vaporizing wealth at a rate which is hard to comprehend … It was like Bernie Madoff of had taken control and a huge ponzi scheme was collapsing
The American government stepped in and the Bank of America was forced to rescue the imploding Merrill and stop a domino effect collapsing of the American financial system ….. American taxpayers, pension funds and other victims were forced to come to the rescue ……. and paid for the bailout in direct cash to the perpetrators and investors ….. Average and honest citizens got loss of jobs wealth and security.
Despite his mouth and words distancing himself from Merrill when the Global Financial Crisis revealed their sham products, dishonest accounting and reckless gambling … His Bank of America shares show him staying firmly invested with Greed guiding his actions,,,, Merrill shares almost hit $100 before collapsing and heading towards worthlessness …………..
Blinded by greed describes Key and perhaps explains his support of tax havens…./.
Excellent….. Reason for President!
Thanks Garibaldi 🙂 ……………… but all I really want is honest and factual reporting from our news media and other sources of information ….
If people are given bad and false information then it becomes almost impossible for them to make the right decisions and choices ….
Two examples being : Support for George Bushs illegal war and invasion of Iraq based on WMD lies ….
& Voting for John Key based on he’s a good business man and not like normal investment banksters
If I must be president could I please be Jose Mujica …… retired on a little farm with my wife and 3 legged dog 🙂 https://www.indy100.com/article/8-reasons-why-well-miss-jose-mujica-uruguays-maverick-president–e1t_MupEpl
+++ Reason has been devalued! Lol. What counts nowadays is perception and emotions.
Huge increase in number of graduates ‘bad for UK economy’
Because having uneducated people in those roles is sooo important.
That’s not a reason to prevent people getting an education but it is a reason to get rid of education fees. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that it’s proof that charging fees is a failure.
That’s is, of course, wrong. What they need to be doing is developing the economy so that those higher educations actually get used. Obviously the neo-liberal free-trade system is failing to do that.
One does wonder why this organisation is scared of well educated people and who they’re representing.
+1 Draco
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/everything-is-rigged-the-biggest-financial-scandal-yet-20130425
https://www.oxfam.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/OXF003-Tax-Havens-Report-FA2-WEB.pdf
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail-20120314
http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/2013/05/22/the-great-british-bank-robbery-the-big-banks-raiding-uk-pension-funds/
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
http://www.michaelwest.com.au/oligarchs-of-the-treasure-islands/
https://www.oxfam.org.nz/blogs/2016/05/09/top-economists-sign-open-letter-end-tax-havens
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/03/observer-view-on-corporate-tax-global-reform
Is the Herald running a series of stories to make teachers look bad?
Students fight as teachers watch on
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11726978
Hawke’s Bay teacher hit child over head with laptop cover
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=11726802
Wonder is there’s a reason for this?
Rotorua teachers reject global funding proposal
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11713478
“Students fight as teachers watch on”.
One does wonder whether the teachers are trying to get people upset at the Government.
After all the left blamed the Government about the fights that happened at Mt Eden prison. Hard to see the difference with this isn’t it? Have the teachers been suspended?
Alwyn, your ignorant prejudice is nauseating. You suggest that teachers are spinning this? I am now 70, and too old to step in and stop student fights as I used to. In earlier days I was threatened with clenched fists, and on one bloody occasion I discovered that the aggressors were from outside the school, beating up a 5th-former whose face was a truly bloody mess. Even the normally voyeuristic students who love watching fights were showing signs of horror. I thank the heavens that I got there in time to stop those bastards from doing worse, and I record that as one of my worst moments in my long teaching career.
Ever done anything like that, Mr eloquent Alwyn?
I am sure you will say that teacher unions are self-serving provider-capturers.
Congratulations – I now despise you more than the regular trolls like Pockish Rouge and ‘would of’ Chuck.
” I thank the heavens that I got there in time to stop those bastards from doing worse”.
Since you did stop it you are to be applauded. Why don’t the current lot follow your example?
They are not ‘the current lot’ – I don’t like your sneaky pejorative tone. But in answer –
Many still do, but for legal reasons they may now be getting advised not to. That very advice was given out at staff briefing this morning at the school where I now do day-relief. Easier to call senior staff via cell-phone nowadays, but I am sure there are still plenty of teachers who will step in when they think it best, and worry later about the law, etc. Please do not generalise from sensationalist media stories.
+1 Paul ………. well spotted and its good that people like you bear witness and comment on the real shitty stuff happening in NZ
Teachers and their union are seen as an enemy of National …… and the herald are among the worst for pro-national bias ….. Dirty politics hearld sums them up…
As a side issue …..Lately I’ve noticed our pack of cocks here at the standard ( trolls ), have been giving you a bit more attention and criticism than usual …. with creepy old alwyn and his tired old dick dribble being the latest example in this thread.
Keep up the good work Paul as it gives people with heart a little boost to see that there are other New Zealanders like yourself who actually give a fuck …..
Andrew Judd. This morning on RNZ. Fantastic. When I am PM he will be Race Relations Commissioner.
Outstanding.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201819481/judd-local-elections-disappointing-for-maori-representation
I see that Phil Goff has come out promising that a “living wage” is to be paid by the Auckland Council. Did he ever mention this during his campaign or did he wait to bring it up until after the campaign was over?
Still I suppose he has to pay off the people who paid for his campaign and give something to the unions. I wonder what he will do to thank his Chinese friend who coughed up $150,000? Only 52 more days and he will have to tell us who it is.
Yes he did mention it during the campaign. More than once.
Please stop it with the facts, you’re interrupting the tr$ll ranting.
Thank you for the information.
If he did say he would do something during the campaign he can of course justly go ahead with the idea afterwards.
The whole policy is crazy but Auckland people seem to like a bit of idiocy in their Mayors. Unfortunately so do the bulk of the Wellington voters and I, as a Wellington resident, get stuck with the result.
Are Wellington voters also not usually Wellington residents? do tell…
I pay my rates in Wellington – I don’t find the outcome of the election unfortunate.
?
I don’t see anything confusing in what I said, or any implication that voters aren’t normally residents.
However if it confuses you……………
It just reads as if you’ve set yourself apart, as a Wellington resident, from Wellington voters.
Oh well, it wasn’t intended.
I was just trying to use different words. It gets so boring reading, or listening to, someone who keeps repeating the same few words.
“Like, it was so cool, totally awesome like. Fred is awesomely cool, you know. Really cool in an awesome way like you know”.
By the way, if you are happy with the result of the election are you in favour of our new Mayor wanting to spend up to half a billion dollars on extending a runway that the airlines don’t want?
Fair enough…
I didn’t say happy – I said I don’t find it unfortunate – there’s a bit of a difference. But yeah… I’m not a fan of a runway extension generally, even though I’ll probably find that, personally, it works for me.
Still, Wellington has a pretty good recent history of avoiding council and business white elephants that spoil public space.
Housing bubble i Auckland about to burst
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=11726531
Auckland apartment project abandoned
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/315414/auckland-apartment-project-abandoned
Housing bubble about to pop, Bryan Gould predicts
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/81379799/Housing-bubble-about-to-pop-Bryan-Gould-predicts
Gee, only $370 million for an apartment…
No wonder no one was buying.
Even if it was $370 million for all 91 that comes to ~$4 million each.
I suspect serious misreporting.
The Chinese will buy them up
Not according to the articles above. The Chinese are suddenly finding it difficult to remove money from China.
Once the money supply dried up the correction will commence.
Yep and that’s looking like it might be about to happen now. If it is then we’re at the top of the market now and it’s all downhill from here.
All usual Samantha Bee warnings apply. In spades
https://youtu.be/_gk72KC4jWc
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/putin-cancels-campaign-event-with-trump?mbid=social_facebook
Trump was never very good at this whole business thing.
The Trump Taj Mahal, which Donald Trump once called the “eighth wonder of the world,” shut its doors Monday morning after failing to reach a deal with union workers, who have been on strike since July.
The 17-acre casino and hotel, which cost more than $1 billion to build, has lost almost $350 million in the past few years, according to a statement from Carl Icahn, a friend of Trump’s who bought the Atlantic City property out of bankruptcy last year.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/trump-taj-mahal-closes-union-strike-229561
You did notice the bit in the article that says
“Trump, the Republican candidate for president, no longer had any financial interest in the Trump Taj Mahal.” I assume?
If he owned it when it first went into bankruptcy you may have a point. However if he got out of the business before this happened you can hardly blame him now.
Trump built a dog and it went bust – his mate bought the dog and it went bust – Trump builds dogs that go bust – Trump is shit at that business thing.
Shameful victim blaming from Judith Collins, and a total lack of commitment to address child or any other sort of poverty from the Nats:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/315489/'i-see-a-poverty-of-parental-responsibility‘