The state of Berlin has bought back 670 apartments on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee from a private owner after decades of property privatisation in the German capital.
A 1950s prestige project for socialist East Germany, the grand boulevard that stretches from the city centre to Friedrichshain in the east has been the frontline of a months-long fight over gentrification and rising property prices.
The struggle erupted last November when the property management firm Predac announced its intention to offload 700 apartments on the road to Berlin’s largest property company, Deutsche Wohnen.
Fearing rent increases, tenants organised protest marches and hung banners from their apartments, eventually pushing the city senate to block the sale.
[…]
Berlin’s mayor said the move was indicative of a wider strategy to reacquire housing stock sold to private investors in the 1990s, following rapid rises in rental costs in the city in recent years.
“Berliners should be able to continue to afford living in the city,” said Michael Müller. “That is why it was and continues to be our intention to buy up apartments wherever we can, so that Berlin can regain control of its property market.”
Thanks for that link and quotes, joe90. The whole housing issue in Germany is very, very different to that in NZ. Far more people in Germany rent their homes rather than own them, but renting is a very different experience/philosophy etc than in NZ. Renting is far more long term with tenants having to provide far more of the fittings and fixtures while above to make improvements, renovate etc with much greater freedoms. As I understand it rental prices have been much more stable until recently.
Sabine has provided some very good information on this over recent months but don't have time to find links.
He's dead right, and it applies most of all to the right's nationalist and identitarian groups that sustain Trump in power. Although the left are not immune.
(Thompson) followed Nixon from the late 1960s when he wrote in Pageant Magazine that Nixon/Trump was “…a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad… absolutely humorless; I couldn’t imagine him laughing at anything except maybe a paraplegic who wanted to vote Democratic but couldn’t quite reach the lever on the voting machine.” Ring any bells?
The impeachment decision involved both parties and the trial would have required members from both parties to vote guitly – do you think the current lot will do that?
And Nixon was re-electedwith a landslide.
The main advantage of impeachment inquiries in this instance is to get as much evidence as possible so he goes to jail in or after 2021. The main objective is to win the 2020 election.
'Peters acknowledged the US pulling out of what was originally the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying before amendments were made to get the multilateral trade agreement to where it’s at now, “many of us in NZ had similar reservations”.
“Although some were disappointed [by the US]… we understand and respect the right of your administration to make this decision,” Peters said, recognising President Donald Trump’s preference for bilateral agreements.'
Anyone else still struggling to accept the WC Cricket.???? If you are not struggling good on you, seriously.
My beefs are
1. We bowled England out, surely that should have been the end of the game. Gordon Campbell thinks so too. No need for super over etc.
2. While I completely accept umpires make mistakes and that we have to accept that, shouldn't umpires in a world cup be completely au fait with the rules????? None of the three of them seemed to know the rules regarding the knock on on Stokes bat. This cost
NZ a run and therefore the cup. Enquiry please as to why three umpires ignorant of rules.
3. The deciding factor i.e. that number of boundaries scored is ludicrous, arbitrary and totally lacks any understanding of the game. Did they make this up after a few too many drinks??????
I would have completely accepted a loss as I did in 2015, but actually can't accept this as anything but the BC's actually won.
This is very bad for cricket in my humble opinion.
I loved it. Fantastic game. Brilliant result. Best team in the world won.
Shame for NZ the super over rules were in force before the competition began, that runs win, lose or tie games not the amount of wickets lost, and there's ambiguity in the Stokes' extra runs rule as to whether it's from the throw or the moment it hits the bat.
An alternative to boundaries scored would be to have done what they do in some other sports and sorted it through the head to head result in the round robin.
As it is, you'll just have to learn to live with choking twice in the one game.
The ambiguity to the rule is whether the batsmen cross before the throw or after it hit the bat, in which case, as the guy was diving full stretch for the crease coming back for the second run, it would obviously have been after they'd crossed, so six runs.
Don't care about you calling me an uncharitable pom.
Law 19.8 – overthrow or wilful act of fielder:
If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be:
any runs for penalties awarded to either side;
the allowance for the boundary; and
the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
There is some potential for ambiguity in the law, because “act” could be interpreted as the moment the ball deflected off Stokes’ bat.
I would have preferred a six off the final ball, but in football, I'd take extra time and penalty shoot out, or in rugby union a final minute drop goal, or in netball a final second basket, or a last gasp tiddle in the wink.
Could have gone either way, so you gotta take the smooth with the rough once in a while… And let’s face it, there’s been plenty of rough.
I am afraid The Allen I believe this and the umpire quoted more than what you say……………………..But I think the English will be rationalizing their win left right and centre right now. Which is kind of pathetic…………..
I still think if one team is bowled out, the other still has wickets at hand and the runs are equal, that should end the game whatever the rules say. That imo is the most logical way to determine the winner.
But the rule weren't adhered to by the umpires who are there to carry out the rules………….
A victory, but not much of one…….as I say their world cup "victory" will be always be tainted in the eyes of many. Both fans and people who know a lot more about cricket that you and I do.
Anyway, I will stop feeling this way soon. But their will always be a shadow over Englands win.
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
Dress it how you like, it'll change nothing, but England won the world cup according to the tournament rules. Count back, by 160 runs or 9 wickets, the win is a win. NZ would have taken it at the start of play, no doubt about it.
It was a complicated, rarely used rule in the most important game of cricket for 4 years. Umpires make mistakes too, it's very unfair to put the reason for a loss on a single decision like that in my view.
NZ's mistakes were more egregious, they wasted a review when Guptill was plumb infront meaning Taylor had no reviews left when he had a high lbw later on. Boult went to complete the catch on the boundary and stepped on the rope instead of stopping the six first and saving 4 or 5 runs.
I expect all players to make mistakes and all players did…….I also expect umpires to as well. But it wasn't a mistake the umpires made it was incompetence. Three of them don't appear to know the rules. Did cost us the game.
Maui. Whatever the mistakes at 50 overs both teams scored the same……….But England bowled out………….
England didn't win the game nor did NZ lose the game. England were awarded the cup.
T Allen would believe the take that the international umpire (whose name escapes me) made rather than yours. No one in the ICC has dispute what said international umpire said.
It doesn't matter England were bowled out, it's the number of runs that count. Always has. The scores were tied, so super over. According to the rules of the competition, in a tie, it's a count back to boundaries scored. You lost fair and square. That is an indisputable fact.
Besides that, during the tournament, England beat Australia, India and NZ… Twice. Best team won.
It seems odd that if all your batsmen are out that they get a second chance to bat. There should never have been a super over because there was noone left in the English team to bat.
The rules are the rules and so the English won the cup. That's the way the cookie crumbles in sport.
But I think it is reasonable to say that the rules were unfair and that they should be changed. The rules should be a priori fair to the best of our ability.
And you can take some comfort in that as you wipe the dribbles of snot from your nose and salty tears from your eyes with your Purex man sized tissues 😆
Ha, you're on one all right. I've said nothing about empire at all, or even once alluded to it or the notion of superiority, other than to say the best team won the cricket.
Look, you don't have to have an inferiority complex with me. I'm just a working class man from nothing who moved here and now has next to nothing, apart for a sharp mind, quick wit and an ability to draw out shit from arseholes on the internet.
It would be hard to win any more as the 'losing' team as the NZ Black Caps did taking everything into account, in an international showpiece world cup final.
In many ways they hit it out of the park. Congratulations to England also.
Oh look. John Key's ANZ has been downgraded because of poor management. I though he was supposed to be a superstar in business!
Australia's ANZ Bank has taken another hit, with the international credit rating agency Fitch downgrading the bank's operations in both Australia and New Zealand from a 'stable' to a 'negative' outlook, citing "material shortcomings in operational risk management, which were not aligned with the assessment Fitch had previously incorporated into its ratings".
One thing for sure though, The Black Caps are the best guys, best sports (think Roy arguing with the ref, Stokes brawling outside a bar)…………and the winners of everyone's hearts. Englands win will ALWAYS be tainted.
You said he was ‘fighty’, and I agreed. Great rearguard action in the face of adversity. National treasure now. They'll call it the Stokes effect for sure. 😆
Although as we learnt on here following mayor Len and his affair, apparently what goes on outside work doesn't affect or influence one's ability to do their day job.
Bizarre equivalence. Drunk, Stokes smashed someones face in and was suspended by his employer for some time. So it did affect his ability to do his job.
Then this:
Shortly after being arrested in September 2017, a video emerged which showed Stokes mimicking Katie Price's disabled son.
In September 2018, Stokes was charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the ECB. The charge related to the incident in Bristol and social media posts. In December 2018, the Cricket Disciplinary Commission, which is independent from the ECB, announced that Stokes would be fined £30,000
Again, you said he was a kiwi, and I said, yeah, and with Maori ancestry.
There's nothing in that apart from what you appear to be wanting to add to it. A bit low, though, playing the race card because NZ lost a game of cricket. Or are you just throwing out some shit in the hope some of it will stick?
Anyway, as you'll know, Stokes was acquitted at trial, so not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
That's the order the conversation stream went. Why wouldn't I add to your statement he's a kiwi with further information about it? It’s not a secret.
Pretty poor attempt on your behalf to lay a race charge at my door. Knowing that I clearly haven't intended anything of the sort you've alluded to, I will accept your apology and say no more about it.
Righto. That's a pretty thin explanation you'll admit.
I don't 'clearly' know anything about what you were thinking. To be honest, your comments tonight are a departure from what I'd come to expect from you (defending thugs and gloating at unhappy fans) so who knows what was on your mind.
It's not an explanation, it's a repeat of the timeline of events of what happened and what was said, and of course there won't be an apology, you think your work is done. Slyly throw a racist smear at me here, question my left wing leanings over there, say I support thugs even though many good sorts on here have argued the case for punching nazis and haters.
Not even close. You'll have to work a lot harder than that to settle your old scores. 🙄
Kane actually is the best example of sportsmanship. I doubt you will find anyone who disputes that. But clearly you have no answer to what I have said about Stokes and Roy…………….
Anyway, I came on line about this as I said I was struggling and I thought it was unfair. All you have wanted to do is rub the awarding of the cup to England in my face. Unkind and uncompassionate. It's obvious that how the end of the game was dealt with leaves questions about the rules and the umpires not knowing the rules leaves questions too.
If it had of been a clear victory to England I would have wished them well as I did to Australia when they won in 2015.
I deliberately didn't come on here the morning of the victory and rub anyone's nose in it, and I wouldn't have said a word about the game if you hadn't have posted about the unfairness of it all.
I was pretty classy, I reckon, for one failing Tebbit's cricket test with so much ease.
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
That's a good way to look at it. A Claytons win. They had to give it to someone – it might as well be the team the umpires helped up to the finish line.
I admire Julie Anne Genter but my admiration has gone up a notch because of her gutsy move to go on the Facebook pages of National MPs to correct the deliberate misinformation around the Government proposal to introduce a Clean Car Discount from 2021.
The ‘neutral’ MSM frames it as “defensive”, thoughtless, “incredibly thin-skinned”, “hyper defensiveness”, “out of touch with voters”, “Genter's social media crusade” and other subtle ways to paint a (negative) picture of the Government handling of the proposed scheme and to suggest a lack of confidence that the scheme will stand on its own merits.
There are hints that they know full well who is on the right side of the facts:
This has left Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter seemingly with no other choice but to stoically dive deep into the heart of Opposition online territory as the last bastion of defence against misplaced skepticism of Government policy.
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The EV policy has plenty of positive messages which sit behind it. [my emphasis]
Shame though that none of those positive messages were mentioned in the article except for the screenshot of JAG’s excellent comments on those Facebook pages.
Good for her heading it off at the source. The left parties should make a habit of it in the run up to 2020. Be the headline with their own message. not the subject of someone else.
I read Julie Anne Genter's comments on Stuff. I think it is a mistake for a Minister to engage on another party's facebook page. Interesting concept though. Very different to me commenting on The Standard. I am a private citizen, just doing my thing for the interest of it.
I think the big issue on the EV policy will be the $3,000 impost on tradies and rural contractors utes. Though I expect that Winston Peters will fix that by having an exemption if they are primarily used in business. After that there will be no issues with the policy.
Not sure the Ford Ranger, or VW Ute (the two favoured models on the Shore) are really second hand import vehicles.
Anyway the tradies I know won’t like the govt dictating their vehicle choice. I know that statement is not literally true, but you get the point. They will expect Winston to moderate the policy, at least for vehicles that have a work use. Those who buy new Rangers to tow big boats could be expected to pay.
Tend to agree.. the Ford "Monster Truck" is a necessity on the Shore. The rough unsealed 4WD forestry roads there are impossible to navigate without such a vehicle.
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses. $3,000 is not an irrelevantly small amount of money for them.
It's difficult not to conclude $3000 is an irrelevantly small sum when they go for the top of the line Wildtrak and then further tart it up with stuff that actually reduces functionality like 20" wheels and a big chrome rollbar.
"Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses"
I must remember to write that down in my little black book for the next time the gNats are in power and you/your colleagues decide to create another bugger's muddle like MoBIE and stuff it full of short term thinkers
Hasn't Dr Wayne spent his life working in gold plated public service jobs?
Also, maybe to old guys like him is MPs commenting on social media not a good look, but to anyone under 40 (I'm 45 so maybe anyone under 50?) commenting on social media is a pretty acceptable thing to do.
I couldn't possibly comment @ I feel love. I'm hanging out for the Gold Card in the not too distant, but @Wayne's conservatism and ideologically driven comments never seem to amaze me. He kind of reminds me of all those old radio dramas at times (like Doctor! Paul), alongside a few britiss comedy sketches. What a silly silly SILLY old duffer old boy.
You can't describe him as a ponce because that implies those 'He's a gay' connotations. Having read him on all those social media platforms as well as his spray and walk away contributions on here, the best I can come up with is that he's a self-entitled ToryBoy with a supercilious attitude aattached.
I'm sure he's a nice guy and I live in hope. Maybe he's just a 'late developer'.
Meantime I hope 'Mother' – (aka woify), makes him a nice cuppa tea and alerts him to the next media gig he's called on to do.
Edit, btw – he has his rivals – half of them are in that public service with gold-plated benefits he now seems so willing to criticise – even some heading academia (which maybe how he came – nahhhh too cruel)
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
And here it is again: pay lip service to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing environmental damage, while firmly resisting any attempt to actually reduce them. The only people who would describe hobbling environmental policies as "fixing" them are those who believe AGW isn't happening. It would be nice if right-wingers would at least be honest about that when commenting on the subject.
I get the point, which is that when you frame it like that, it evokes a different (emotive) reaction.
I’m still not clear why you think it is a “mistake” to engage on FB. How is this different from engaging on Twitter, for example?
It seems to me that JAG is correcting the misinformation spread around with the correct info and facts. She is not engaging in debate or discussion, as far as I can tell.
After Stacey Kirk’s deplorable piece, it feels like a kneejerk reaction to me. Can National not handle facts?
This has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with ideology and demonstrates why politicians are so disdained….sadly logic will make no difference to attitudes so I suspect JAG is wasting her time and Waynes bogus argument will continue to echoed by those so inclined.
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As a momentous, historic weekend in US politics unfolded, analysts and commentators grasped for precedents and comparisons to help explain the significance and power of the choice Joe Biden had made. The 46th president had swept the Democratic party’s primaries but just over 100 days from the election had chosen ...
TL;DR: I’m casting around for new ideas and ways of thinking about Aotearoa’s political economy to find a few solutions to our cascading and self-reinforcing housing, poverty and climate crises.Associate Professor runs an online masters degree in the economics of sustainability at Torrens University in Australia and is organising ...
The Finance and Expenditure Committee has reported back on National's Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill. The bill sets up water for privatisation, and was introduced under urgency, then rammed through select committee with no time even for local councils to make a proper submission. Naturally, national's select committee ...
Some years ago, I bought a book at Dunedin’s Regent Booksale for $1.50. As one does. Vandrad the Viking (1898), by J. Storer Clouston, is an obscure book these days – I cannot find a proper online review – but soon it was sitting on my shelf, gathering dust alongside ...
History is not on the side of the centre-left, when Democratic presidents fall behind in the polls and choose not to run for re-election. On both previous occasions in the past 75 years (Harry Truman in 1952, Lyndon Johnson in 1968) the Democrats proceeded to then lose the White House ...
This is a free articleCoverageThis morning, US President Joe Biden announced his withdrawal from the Presidential race. And that is genuinely newsworthy. Thanks for your service, President Biden, and all the best to you and yours.However, the media in New Zealand, particularly the 1News nightly bulletin, has been breathlessly covering ...
A homeless person’s camp beside a blocked-off slipped damage walkway in Freeman’s Bay: we are chasing our tail on our worsening and inter-related housing, poverty and climate crises. Photo: Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy ...
What has happened to it all?Crazy, some'd sayWhere is the life that I recognise?(Gone away)But I won't cry for yesterdayThere's an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findAnd as I try to make my wayTo the ordinary worldYesterday morning began as many others - what to write about today? I began ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 7:00 am on Monday, July 22 are:Today’s Must Read: Father and son live in a tent, and have done for four years, in a million ...
TL;DR: As of 7:00 am on Monday, July 22, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:US President Joe Biden announced via X this morning he would not stand for a second term.Multinational professional services firm ...
A listing of 32 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, July 14, 2024 thru Sat, July 20, 2024. Story of the week As reflected by preponderance of coverage, our Story of the Week is Project 2025. Until now traveling ...
This weekend, a friend pointed out someone who said they’d like to read my posts, but didn’t want to pay. And my first reaction was sympathy.I’ve already told folks that if they can’t comfortably subscribe, and would like to read, I’d be happy to offer free subscriptions. I don’t want ...
National: The Party of ‘Law and Order’ IntroductionThis weekend, the Government formally kicked off one of their flagship policy programs: a military style boot camp that New Zealand has experimented with over the past 50 years. Cartoon credit: Guy BodyIt’s very popular with the National Party’s Law and Orderimage, ...
Day one of the solo leg of my long journey home begins with my favourite sound: footfalls in an empty street. 5.00 am and it’s already light and already too warm, almost.If I can make the train that leaves Budapest later this hour I could be in Belgrade by nightfall; ...
Do you remember Y2K, the threat that hung over humanity in the closing days of the twentieth century? Horror scenarios of planes falling from the sky, electronic payments failing and ATMs refusing to dispense cash. As for your VCR following instructions and recording your favourite show - forget about it.All ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts being questioned by The Kākā’s Bernard Hickey.TL;DR: My top six things to note around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the week to July 20 were:1. A strategy that fails Zero Carbon Act & Paris targetsThe National-ACT-NZ First Coalition Government finally unveiled ...
Summary:As New Zealand loses at least 12 leaders in the public service space of health, climate, and pharmaceuticals, this month alone, directly in response to the Government’s policies and budget choices, what lies ahead may be darker than it appears. Tui examines some of those departures and draws a long ...
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.Leaving aside the Minister’s metaphor of ‘flooding the market’ I do not see how the ...
As previously noted, my historical fantasy piece, set in the fifth-century Mediterranean, was accepted for a Pirate Horror anthology, only for the anthology to later fall through. But in a good bit of news, it turned out that the story could indeed be re-marketed as sword and sorcery. As of ...
An employee of tobacco company Philip Morris International demonstrates a heated tobacco device. Photo: Getty ImagesTL;DR: The top six things I’ve noted around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy on Friday, July 19 are:At a time when the Coalition Government is cutting spending on health, infrastructure, education, housing ...
TL;DR: My pick of the top six links elsewhere around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day or so to 8:30 am on Friday, July 19 are:Scoop: NZ First Minister Casey Costello orders 50% cut to excise tax on heated tobacco products. The minister has ...
Kia ora, it’s time for another Friday roundup, in which we pull together some of the links and stories that caught our eye this week. Feel free to add more in the comments! Our header image this week shows a foggy day in Auckland town, captured by Patrick Reynolds. ...
TL;DR : Here’s the top six items climate news for Aotearoa this week, as selected by Bernard Hickey and The Kākā’s climate correspondent Cathrine Dyer. A discussion recorded yesterday is in the video above and the audio of that sent onto the podcast feed.The Government released its draft Emissions Reduction ...
Save some money, get rich and old, bring it back to Tobacco Road.Bring that dynamite and a crane, blow it up, start all over again.Roll up. Roll up. Or tailor made, if you prefer...Whether you’re selling ciggies, digging for gold, catching dolphins in your nets, or encouraging folks to flutter ...
Waiting In The Wings:For truly, if Trump is America’s un-assassinated Caesar, then J.D. Vance is America’s Octavian, the Republic’s youthful undertaker – and its first Emperor.DONALD TRUMP’S SELECTION of James D. Vance as his running-mate bodes ill for the American republic. A fervent supporter of Viktor Orban, the “illiberal” prime ...
TL;DR: As of 6:00 am on Friday, July 19, the top six announcements, speeches, reports and research around housing, climate and poverty in Aotearoa’s political economy in the last day are:The PSAannounced the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) had ruled in the PSA’s favour in its case against the Ministry ...
Te Rangi e tu nei (The sky above us) Te Papa e takoto nei (The land beneath us) Tatou katoa te hunga ora (To us all the living) Tena koutou katoa (Greetings) ...
A late change to charter school legislation will cheat educators out of fair pay and negotiating power proving charter schools are just a vehicle to make profit out of our education system. ...
In 2004 te iwi Māori rallied against the Crown’s attempt to confiscate our coastlines and moana with the Foreshore and Seabed Act. This led to the largest hīkoi of a generation and the birth of Te Pāti Māori. 20 years later, history is repeating itself. Today the government has announced ...
It has been five and a half years since the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care was established to investigate the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults within state and faith-based institutions. Yesterday, the final report - Whanaketia through pain and trauma, from darkness to light ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take action off the back of the International Court of Justice ruling on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. ...
On Friday the International Court of Justice reaffirmed what Palestinian’s have been telling us for decades: that the occupation and colonisation of Palestinian lands by Israel is illegal and must end immediately. They also called for reparations for Palestinian’s who have lived under Israeli occupation since it began in 1967. ...
Labour calls on the Government to act after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories is illegal. ...
The 53.7 percent rise in benefit sanctions over the last year is more proof of this Government’s disdain for our communities most in need of support. ...
Aotearoa could be a country where every child grows up feeling safe, loved and with a sense of belonging in their whānau and community. But for some of our children, this is far from reality. Instead, they are trapped in a maze of intergenerational harm that they can’t escape on ...
Te Pāti Māori are calling for David Seymour to resign as Associate Health Minister in response to his call for Pharmac to ignore the Treaty of Waitangi. “This announcement is just another example of the government’s anti-Tiriti, anti-Māori agenda.” Said Co-leader and spokesperson for health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. “Seymour thinks it ...
The soaring price of renting is driving the rise of inflation in this country - with latest figures from Stats NZ showing rents are up 4.8 per cent on average while annual inflation is at 3.3 per cent. ...
National’s Emissions Reduction Plan will take New Zealand further from the economy we need to ensure the next generation has a stable climate and secure livelihoods. ...
Following consultation with named parties and thorough consideration of privacy interests, the Green Party is in a position to release the Executive Summary of the final report from the independent investigation into Darleen Tana. ...
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be asking serious questions of his Minister for Resources Shane Jones now it’s been revealed he misled the public about a dinner with mining companies that he didn’t declare and said wasn’t pre-arranged. ...
Te Pāti Māori have submitted to the Justice Select Committee against the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill. The bill will further entrench racism in our justice system and fails to focus on rehabilitation. “Reinstating Three Strikes will empower a systematically racist system and exacerbate the overrepresentation of Māori in ...
The Transport and Infrastructure Committee is set to make a determination on the Residential Tenancies Amendment (RTA) Bill in the coming weeks. “This legislation will give landlords the power to kick our whānau out onto the street for no reason” said Housing spokesperson, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi. “Their solution to the housing ...
“National’s campaign was about tackling crime and the best they can do is a two-year long Ministerial Advisory Group,” Labour justice spokesperson Duncan Webb said. ...
“There are more examples of charter schools failing their students than there are success stories. The coalition Government is driving to dismantle our public school system and instead promote a privatised, competitive structure that puts profits before kids,” Jan Tinetti said. ...
“This government is choosing to deliberately mislead and withhold information, keeping our people in the dark about this government’s agenda and the future of our mokopuna,” said co-leader and spokesperson for Health, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer. The call comes after the demand from the Chief Ombudsman that Associate Minister of Health, Casey ...
“Today’s climate announcement by Simon Watts makes clear the National Government is simply paying lip service to meeting its climate change targets,” Megan Woods said. ...
National is choosing to make life harder for workers by taking away the rights our communities have fought hard for. Here's how they’re taking workers backwards. ...
Australia, Canada and New Zealand today issued the following statement on the need for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and the risk of expanded conflict between Hizballah and Israel. The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. The human suffering is unacceptable. It cannot continue. We remain unequivocal in our condemnation of ...
Attorney-General Judith Collins today reminded all State and faith-based institutions of their legal obligation to preserve records relevant to the safety and wellbeing of those in its care. “The Abuse in Care Inquiry’s report has found cases where records of the most vulnerable people in State and faith‑based institutions were ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says the Government’s online safety website for children and young people has reached one million page views. “It is great to see so many young people and their families accessing the site Keep It Real Online to learn how to stay safe online, and manage ...
Tēnā tātou katoa, Ngā mihi te rangi, ngā mihi te whenua, ngā mihi ki a koutou, kia ora mai koutou. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and the invitation to speak at this 50th anniversary conference. I acknowledge all those who have gone before us and paved the ...
New Zealand’s payroll providers have successfully prepared to ensure 3.5 million individuals will, from Wednesday next week, be able to keep more of what they earn each pay, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis and Revenue Minister Simon Watts. “The Government's tax policy changes are legally effective from Wednesday. Delivering this tax ...
An experimental vineyard which will help futureproof the wine sector has been opened in Blenheim by Associate Regional Development Minister Mark Patterson. The covered vineyard, based at the New Zealand Wine Centre – Te Pokapū Wāina o Aotearoa, enables controlled environmental conditions. “The research that will be produced at the Experimental ...
The Coalition Government has confirmed the indicative regional breakdown of North Island Weather Event (NIWE) funding for state highway recovery projects funded through Budget 2024, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “Regions in the North Island suffered extensive and devastating damage from Cyclone Gabrielle and the 2023 Auckland Anniversary Floods, and ...
Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “Indonesia is important to New Zealand’s security and economic interests and is our closest South East Asian neighbour,” says Mr Peters, who is currently in Laos to engage with South East Asian partners. ...
He aha te kai a te rangatira? He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the aspirations of Ngāti Maniapoto, Minister for Māori Development Tama Potaka says. “My thanks to Te Nehenehenui Trust – Ngāti Maniapoto for bringing their important kōrero to a ministerial ...
Transport Minister Simeon Brown has thanked outgoing Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority, Janice Fredric, for her service to the board.“I have received Ms Fredric’s resignation from the role of Chair of the Civil Aviation Authority,” Mr Brown says.“On behalf of the Government, I want to thank Ms Fredric for ...
The Government is proposing legislation to overturn a Court of Appeal decision and amend the Marine and Coastal Area Act in order to restore Parliament’s test for Customary Marine Title, Treaty Negotiations Minister Paul Goldsmith says. “Section 58 required an applicant group to prove they have exclusively used and occupied ...
Regulation Minister David Seymour says that opposition parties have united in bad faith, opposing what they claim are ‘dangerous changes’ to the Early Childhood Education sector, despite no changes even being proposed yet. “Issues with affordability and availability of early childhood education, and the complexity of its regulation, has led ...
After receiving more than 740 submissions in the first 20 days, Regulation Minister David Seymour is asking the Ministry for Regulation to extend engagement on the early childhood education regulation review by an extra two weeks. “The level of interest has been very high, and from the conversations I’ve been ...
The Coalition Government is investing $802.9 million into the Wairarapa and Manawatū rail lines as part of a funding agreement with the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA), KiwiRail, and the Greater Wellington and Horizons Regional Councils to deliver more reliable services for commuters in the lower North Island, Transport Minister Simeon ...
Local Government Minister Simeon Brown has announced his intention to appoint a Crown Manager to both Hawke’s Bay Regional and Wairoa District Councils to speed up the delivery of flood protection work in Wairoa."Recent severe weather events in Wairoa this year, combined with damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in 2023 have ...
Mr Speaker, this is a day that many New Zealanders who were abused in State care never thought would come. It’s the day that this Parliament accepts, with deep sorrow and regret, the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. At the heart of this report are the ...
For the first time, the Government is formally acknowledging some children and young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital experienced torture. The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in State and Faith-based Care “Whanaketia – through pain and trauma, from darkness to light,” was tabled in Parliament ...
The Government has acknowledged the nearly 2,400 courageous survivors who shared their experiences during the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Historical Abuse in State and Faith-Based Care. The final report from the largest and most complex public inquiry ever held in New Zealand, the Royal Commission Inquiry “Whanaketia – through ...
With a week to go before hard-working New Zealanders see personal income tax relief for the first time in fourteen years, 513,000 people have used the Budget tax calculator to see how much they will benefit, says Finance Minister Nicola Willis. “Tax relief is long overdue. From next Wednesday, personal income ...
Workplace Relations and Safety Minister Brooke van Velden says a bill that has passed its first reading will improve parental leave settings and give non-biological parents more flexibility as primary carer for their child. The Regulatory Systems Amendment Bill (No3), passed its first reading this morning. “It includes a change ...
Two Bills designed to improve regulation and make it easier to do business have passed their first reading in Parliament, says Economic Development Minister Melissa Lee. The Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill and Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill make key changes to legislation administered by the Ministry ...
New legislation paves the way for greater competition in sectors such as banking and electricity, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly says. “Competitive markets boost productivity, create employment opportunities and lift living standards. To support competition, we need good quality regulation but, unfortunately, a recent OECD report ranked New ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says lotteries for charitable purposes, such as those run by the Heart Foundation, Coastguard NZ, and local hospices, will soon be allowed to operate online permanently. “Under current laws, these fundraising lotteries are only allowed to operate online until October 2024, after which ...
The Coalition Government is accelerating work on the new four-lane expressway between Auckland and Whangārei as part of its Roads of National Significance programme, with an accelerated delivery model to deliver this project faster and more efficiently, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says. “For too long, the lack of resilient transport connections ...
Sir Don McKinnon will travel to Viet Nam this week as a Special Envoy of the Government, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. “It is important that the Government give due recognition to the significant contributions that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made to New Zealand-Viet Nam relations,” Mr ...
Minister of Internal Affairs Brooke van Velden says newly appointed Commissioner, Grant Illingworth KC, will help deliver the report for the first phase of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons, due on 28 November 2024. “I am pleased to announce that Mr Illingworth will commence his appointment as ...
Foreign Minister Winston Peters travels to Laos this week to participate in a series of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)-led Ministerial meetings in Vientiane. “ASEAN plays an important role in supporting a peaceful, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific,” Mr Peters says. “This will be our third visit to ...
Construction of a new mental health facility at Te Nikau Grey Hospital in Greymouth is today one step closer, Mental Health Minister Matt Doocey says. “This $27 million facility shows this Government is delivering on its promise to boost mental health care and improve front line services,” Mr Doocey says. ...
New Zealand is committing nearly $50 million to a package supporting sustainable Pacific fisheries development over the next four years, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announced today. “This support consisting of a range of initiatives demonstrates New Zealand’s commitment to assisting our Pacific partners ...
Associate Education Minister David Seymour says proposed changes to the Education and Training Amendment Bill will ensure charter schools have more flexibility to negotiate employment agreements and are equipped with the right teaching resources. “Cabinet has agreed to progress an amendment which means unions will not be able to initiate ...
In response to serious concerns around oversight, overspend and a significant deterioration in financial outlook, the Board of Health New Zealand will be replaced with a Commissioner, Health Minister Dr Shane Reti announced today. “The previous government’s botched health reforms have created significant financial challenges at Health NZ that, without ...
Minister for Space and Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins will travel to Adelaide tomorrow for space and science engagements, including speaking at the Australian Space Forum. While there she will also have meetings and visits with a focus on space, biotechnology and innovation. “New Zealand has a thriving space ...
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts will travel to China on Saturday to attend the Ministerial on Climate Action meeting held in Wuhan. “Attending the Ministerial on Climate Action is an opportunity to advocate for New Zealand climate priorities and engage with our key partners on climate action,” Mr Watts says. ...
Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is travelling to the Solomon Islands tomorrow for meetings with his counterparts from around the Pacific supporting collective management of the region’s fisheries. The 23rd Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee and the 5th Regional Fisheries Ministers’ Meeting in Honiara from 23 to 26 July ...
The Government today launched the Military Style Academy Pilot at Te Au rere a te Tonga Youth Justice residence in Palmerston North, an important part of the Government’s plan to crackdown on youth crime and getting youth offenders back on track, Minister for Children, Karen Chhour said today. “On the ...
The Government has welcomed news the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) has begun work to replace nine priority bridges across the country to ensure our state highway network remains resilient, reliable, and efficient for road users, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says.“Increasing productivity and economic growth is a key priority for the ...
Acting Prime Minister David Seymour has been in contact throughout the evening with senior officials who have coordinated a whole of government response to the global IT outage and can provide an update. The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has designated the National Emergency Management Agency as the ...
New Zealand and Japan will continue to step up their shared engagement with the Pacific, Foreign Minister Winston Peters says. “New Zealand and Japan have a strong, shared interest in a free, open and stable Pacific Islands region,” Mr Peters says. “We are pleased to be finding more ways ...
New developments in the heart of North Island forestry country will reinvigorate their communities and boost economic development, Regional Development Minister Shane Jones says. Mr Jones visited Kaingaroa and Kawerau in Bay of Plenty today to open a landmark community centre in the former and a new connecting road in ...
President Adeang, fellow Ministers, honourable Diet Member Horii, Ambassadors, distinguished guests. Minasama, konnichiwa, and good afternoon, everyone. Distinguished guests, it’s a pleasure to be here with you today to talk about New Zealand’s foreign policy reset, the reasons for it, the values that underpin it, and how it ...
Last summer when Matairangi burned, Ginny and Tom stood at the window of their lounge, watching kākā shoot skyward from the burning trees. From the distance, they looked to Ginny like pages torn from books and thrown into a bonfire. It was Tom, voice tight, who told her it was ...
Opinion: The Canadian short story writer Alice Munro – winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 – died in May at the age of 92. Her work was about “the damage people inflict on one another in the name of love”, Deborah Treisman wrote in the New Yorker. ...
This month marks two years since the most powerful telescope ever built sent its first pictures back to earth. From its lofty vantage point, beyond the moon in orbit around the sun, the James Webb Space Telescope was tuned to observe the first stars and galaxies being born soon after ...
Comment: After Climate Change Minister Simon Watts’ preview several weeks ago, I had some optimism about the Government’s emissions reduction plan. Now I’ve read the discussion document, that hope has been dashed. How can the Government propose a plan that wants to take New Zealand taxpayers’ hard-earned money, and spend ...
Christopher Luxon: hurdles The little man from National jumps hurdles in his sleep. He’s quite good at it in his dreams and even though the reality doesn’t quite match up you have to give him credit for getting up every morning and crashing into the very first hurdle of the ...
Comment: It was a good two hours into the conversation when Tyrone Marks raised the most basic of questions when I first spoke to him in 2017. “They didn’t explain the things they did to me. They never told me why. And they still haven’t. There’s no explanation for it. ...
Madeleine Chapman rounds out Death Week on The Spinoff with a final recommendation. You can read all of our Death Week coverage here. Nothing forces you to reflect on your life and relationships quite like proximity to death. For those whose nearest and dearest have died, there are reasonably obvious ...
Whitney Greene takes us through her life in television, including the TV character she’d like to plan a funeral for and her cow lung catastrophe on The Traitors NZ. “If the phone rings, I have to answer it,” Whitney Greene from The Traitors NZ warns as we begin our My ...
Maddie Ballard reviews the debut essay collection of Pōneke writer Flora Feltham.In ‘The Raw Material’, the longest essay in Flora Feltham’s dazzling debut collection, the author heads out for a run after hours of weaving and sees the world turn to textile. “Pounding along the Parade, I saw the ...
Andy Christiansen, one half of the experimental rock-pop duo TRiPS, shares the tunes inspiring the band’s perfect weekend and new release. “Good speakers, good food, good music, no distractions”: that’s all you need to enjoy the psychedelic stylings of TRiPS, a new band formed by Fly My Pretties’ Barnaby Weir ...
Celebrating our quadrennial opportunity to become experts in a bunch of sports we never normally watch.The games of the XXXIII Olympiad are upon us. Paris will host this year’s showcase of sporting and athletic prowess, which means some late-night and early-morning viewing for us in Aotearoa.But what sports ...
The photograph is striking and beautiful, but also disturbing – a reminder that my love for John was often entangled in shame.The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand.In the spring of 1980, in Dunedin, shortly before his death, someone took a photograph ...
Get to know Babushka, our latest Dog of the Month. This feature was offered as a reward during our What’s Eating Aotearoa PledgeMe campaign. Thank you to Babu’s humans, Jo and Isabel, for their support. Dog name: Babushka (Babu for short) Age: 2Breed: Border Collie X poodleIf rescued, ...
Pacific Media Watch A Lebanese photojournalist who was severely wounded during an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon carried the Olympic torch in Paris this week in honour of her peers who have been wounded and killed in the field — especially in Gaza and Lebanon. Christina Assi of Agence ...
The first report in a five-part web series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this week.SPECIAL REPORT:By Netani Rika in Majuro Women continue to fight for justice 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the United States caused ...
Christopher Luxon has joined with Australia and Canada's leaders in voicing support for US President Joe Biden's ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The 2022 election brought the “teal wave” into parliament. The next election will test whether teals, who occupy what were Liberal seats, and other independents can maintain their momentum. Joining us on the Podcast ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide Pixavri/Shutterstock A major Federal Court class action has been dismissed this week after Justice Michael Lee ruled there was not enough evidence to prove the weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Plaintiff Kelvin ...
In The Week in Politics: politicians have to decide what to do about child abuse, Health NZ is booked in for major surgery and Darleen Tana returns. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University Mainstream media are surprisingly muted at the prospect of the world’s most powerful nation being led for the first time by a woman – specifically a woman of colour, Vice President Kamala ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Bennett, PhD Student, Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University Last week, a drone delivery company called Wing (owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet) started operating in Melbourne. Some 250,000 residents in parts of the city’s eastern suburbs can now order food from ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Foo, Lecturer, Physiotherapy, Monash University pikselstock/Shutterstock In the next 40 years in Australia, it’s predicted the number of Australians aged 65 and over will more than double, while the number of people aged 85 and over will more than triple. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Grant, Research Associate, Power Institute for Arts and Visual Culture, University of Sydney Jonas Åkerström’s 1790 work, Session of the Accademia dell’Arcadia on August 17 1788.Nationalmuseum/Cecilia Heisser Ever wondered whether you’d have a better chance at winning an Olympic gold ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Jones, Program Lead, Food Governance, George Institute for Global Health wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock On Thursday, Australian and New Zealand food ministers at state, federal and national levels met to thrash out what’s next for health star ratings on packaged foods. Now, after ...
The Abuse in Care report found many Pacific survivors lost their connections to their culture and language, resulting in trauma that has been carried from generation to generation. ...
In the regulatory review, ECC intends to suggest that ERO focus on curriculum delivery reviews rather than the Ministry, because it’s not efficient or effective to have two agencies with radically different approaches climbing over each other. ...
Te Rūnanga Nui o Ngā Kura Kaupapa Māori invites the current government to work in partnership with them to develop a pathway forward, including the development of a parallel pathway and meaningful policy and strategy for Kura Kaupapa Māori ...
If you haven’t started watching yet, Tara Ward begs you to reconsider. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. In the world of New Zealand reality television, we have many gems in our crown. There’s the delicious second season of the Celebrity Treasure ...
A new poem by Fiona Kidman. The clothes of the dead I did not keep my mother’s furry red beret for long nor the stringy scarves that adorned the necks of my aunts, although I have kept tag ends of gold, the rings and trinkets they wore, the brooches no ...
The government’s announcement that it will re-open the foreshore and seabed controversy by changing the rules on recognising centuries-old Māori customary title for a third time goes against the rule of law and New Zealand values,” Mr Tipa says. ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Lioness by Emily Perkins (Bloomsbury, $25) Roarrrr! Perkins’ brilliant, award-winning, Marian-Keyes anointed, darkly funny, long ...
The 2004 Act vested ownership of the foreshore and seabed in the Crown, extinguishing any Māori claims to ownership and causing widespread outrage and protests among Māori communities. ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Antje Deckert, Associate Professor (Criminology), Auckland University of Technology Getty Images Despite the connection between institutional harm and gang membership made clear in this week’s mammoth royal commission abuse-in care report, the government seems unlikely to soften its “get tough on ...
From Lewis Clareburt in the swimming to the start of the rowing – the first seven days of Paris 2024 promise to be big for New Zealand. There are few events that bring the country together quite like an Olympic Games. Nothing quite matches the excitement of getting up in ...
Groundbreaking local science just showed up in the most surprising of places: the season finale of The Kardashians. In the season five finale of The Kardashians last night, several members of the family gathered together in one of their signature empty, cream-coloured rooms to hear test results that had been ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University The Middle East is on the brink of a possibly devastating regional war, with hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah reaching an extremely dangerous level. Washington has engaged in ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Elizabeth Eades, Rheumatologist, Monash University Lupus is an inflammatory autoimmune illness, where the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks itself. Lupus can affect virtually any part of the body, although it most commonly affects the skin, joints and kidneys. The symptoms ...
A law firm that specialises in working with survivors of abuse in State care is disappointed that the Government fails to recognise that its boot camps can be directly compared to previous boot camps from the 1990s and 2000s. ...
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testing
This is how it's done.
The state of Berlin has bought back 670 apartments on the historic Karl-Marx-Allee from a private owner after decades of property privatisation in the German capital.
A 1950s prestige project for socialist East Germany, the grand boulevard that stretches from the city centre to Friedrichshain in the east has been the frontline of a months-long fight over gentrification and rising property prices.
The struggle erupted last November when the property management firm Predac announced its intention to offload 700 apartments on the road to Berlin’s largest property company, Deutsche Wohnen.
Fearing rent increases, tenants organised protest marches and hung banners from their apartments, eventually pushing the city senate to block the sale.
[…]
Berlin’s mayor said the move was indicative of a wider strategy to reacquire housing stock sold to private investors in the 1990s, following rapid rises in rental costs in the city in recent years.
“Berliners should be able to continue to afford living in the city,” said Michael Müller. “That is why it was and continues to be our intention to buy up apartments wherever we can, so that Berlin can regain control of its property market.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/16/berlin-buys-670-flats-on-karl-marx-allee-from-private-owner
Thanks for that link and quotes, joe90. The whole housing issue in Germany is very, very different to that in NZ. Far more people in Germany rent their homes rather than own them, but renting is a very different experience/philosophy etc than in NZ. Renting is far more long term with tenants having to provide far more of the fittings and fixtures while above to make improvements, renovate etc with much greater freedoms. As I understand it rental prices have been much more stable until recently.
Sabine has provided some very good information on this over recent months but don't have time to find links.
A short mention of this buy-back with a different link was also posted by Scott GN at 7 on Open Mike today – https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-17-07-2019/#comment-1637692
Who woulda thunk people marginalised simply because of their identity might let their identity form their politics.
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1150948414466641921
He's dead right, and it applies most of all to the right's nationalist and identitarian groups that sustain Trump in power. Although the left are not immune.
How Hunter S. Thompson Would Cover Donald Trump
https://lithub.com/how-hunter-s-thompson-would-cover-donald-trump/
Yeah. Remember how that turned out?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/16/memo-to-dems-youre-playing-into-trumps-hands-227362
Indeed. Remember what happened to Nixon?
The impeachment decision involved both parties and the trial would have required members from both parties to vote guitly – do you think the current lot will do that?
And Nixon was re-electedwith a landslide.
The main advantage of impeachment inquiries in this instance is to get as much evidence as possible so he goes to jail in or after 2021. The main objective is to win the 2020 election.
https://www.interest.co.nz/business/100754/deputy-prime-minister-winston-peters-highlights-benefits-nz-china-fta-bid-get-us
'Peters acknowledged the US pulling out of what was originally the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying before amendments were made to get the multilateral trade agreement to where it’s at now, “many of us in NZ had similar reservations”.
“Although some were disappointed [by the US]… we understand and respect the right of your administration to make this decision,” Peters said, recognising President Donald Trump’s preference for bilateral agreements.'
YEP
We trade with both China and the US, and while China's economy gradually "slows" to 6.2% GDP growth, the US economy rockets along.
So far we haven't lost our principles in doing so.
Junta sends signal to loyal faction.
https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1151130297548697603
https://twitter.com/alex_mallin/status/1151140338511335424
Sadly, New York's Democratic mayor, Mr Di Blasio, has failed to do anything about his murderous cops either.
Anyone else still struggling to accept the WC Cricket.???? If you are not struggling good on you, seriously.
My beefs are
1. We bowled England out, surely that should have been the end of the game. Gordon Campbell thinks so too. No need for super over etc.
2. While I completely accept umpires make mistakes and that we have to accept that, shouldn't umpires in a world cup be completely au fait with the rules????? None of the three of them seemed to know the rules regarding the knock on on Stokes bat. This cost
NZ a run and therefore the cup. Enquiry please as to why three umpires ignorant of rules.
3. The deciding factor i.e. that number of boundaries scored is ludicrous, arbitrary and totally lacks any understanding of the game. Did they make this up after a few too many drinks??????
I would have completely accepted a loss as I did in 2015, but actually can't accept this as anything but the BC's actually won.
This is very bad for cricket in my humble opinion.
I loved it. Fantastic game. Brilliant result. Best team in the world won.
Shame for NZ the super over rules were in force before the competition began, that runs win, lose or tie games not the amount of wickets lost, and there's ambiguity in the Stokes' extra runs rule as to whether it's from the throw or the moment it hits the bat.
An alternative to boundaries scored would be to have done what they do in some other sports and sorted it through the head to head result in the round robin.
As it is, you'll just have to learn to live with choking twice in the one game.
I’m guessing the second run wasn't completed when he ball hit the bat so no ambiguity there. Perhaps ambiguity on the cross.
The rest of your comment is typically uncharitable from a pom. 👎
The ambiguity to the rule is whether the batsmen cross before the throw or after it hit the bat, in which case, as the guy was diving full stretch for the crease coming back for the second run, it would obviously have been after they'd crossed, so six runs.
Don't care about you calling me an uncharitable pom.
Law 19.8 – overthrow or wilful act of fielder:
If the boundary results from an overthrow or from the wilful act of a fielder, the runs scored shall be:
any runs for penalties awarded to either side;
the allowance for the boundary; and
the runs completed by the batsmen, together with the run in progress if they had already crossed at the instant of the throw or act.
There is some potential for ambiguity in the law, because “act” could be interpreted as the moment the ball deflected off Stokes’ bat.
Ah well. As long as you feel good about England having won in that fashion.
The other thing goes in my little notebook. 😁
I would have preferred a six off the final ball, but in football, I'd take extra time and penalty shoot out, or in rugby union a final minute drop goal, or in netball a final second basket, or a last gasp tiddle in the wink.
Could have gone either way, so you gotta take the smooth with the rough once in a while… And let’s face it, there’s been plenty of rough.
https://the12thman.in/watch-the-proof-that-shows-new-zealand-was-robbed-in-the-final/
I am afraid The Allen I believe this and the umpire quoted more than what you say……………………..But I think the English will be rationalizing their win left right and centre right now. Which is kind of pathetic…………..
I still think if one team is bowled out, the other still has wickets at hand and the runs are equal, that should end the game whatever the rules say. That imo is the most logical way to determine the winner.
Doesn't matter what you think, or me for that matter, the victory was in line with the rules all teams were familiar with and agreed to.
Sadly, your hard done by feelings don't come into it.
But the rule weren't adhered to by the umpires who are there to carry out the rules………….
A victory, but not much of one…….as I say their world cup "victory" will be always be tainted in the eyes of many. Both fans and people who know a lot more about cricket that you and I do.
Anyway, I will stop feeling this way soon. But their will always be a shadow over Englands win.
Tainted in the eyes of the losers, for sure, but it says England on the trophy and always will.
I know I'll always remember our first time with a smile on my dial. Would have preferred beating the Aussies or India though.
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
Dress it how you like, it'll change nothing, but England won the world cup according to the tournament rules. Count back, by 160 runs or 9 wickets, the win is a win. NZ would have taken it at the start of play, no doubt about it.
No point in whinging about it ankey. Won't change a thing, just annoys people.
Seriously? Ok then, at what point does a throw become an overthrow?
It did cost a run but not necessarily the cup. There were still two deliveries to go.
whether awarded 5 or 6 runs it couldn't influence what came next……………
Of course it could. An increased run rate would have been met with a more aggressive approach to the final two deliveries. Obviously.
Well no but Rashid might have leg glanced for 4, or 1, then Stokes might have been more bold had they required 3 from 1.
As it stands he choked, not being able to get 3 from 2 and win it properly…
Yeah, he was awful. The whole country hates him now 😆
England are very proud of their yobbos, I'll give you that.
Stokes reminds me of Tommy Robinson in a way.
Yeah, that's it, he's like a nazi![cheeky cheeky](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.11.3/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/tongue_smile.png)
It was a complicated, rarely used rule in the most important game of cricket for 4 years. Umpires make mistakes too, it's very unfair to put the reason for a loss on a single decision like that in my view.
NZ's mistakes were more egregious, they wasted a review when Guptill was plumb infront meaning Taylor had no reviews left when he had a high lbw later on. Boult went to complete the catch on the boundary and stepped on the rope instead of stopping the six first and saving 4 or 5 runs.
I expect all players to make mistakes and all players did…….I also expect umpires to as well. But it wasn't a mistake the umpires made it was incompetence. Three of them don't appear to know the rules. Did cost us the game.
Maui. Whatever the mistakes at 50 overs both teams scored the same……….But England bowled out………….
England didn't win the game nor did NZ lose the game. England were awarded the cup.
T Allen would believe the take that the international umpire (whose name escapes me) made rather than yours. No one in the ICC has dispute what said international umpire said.
It doesn't matter England were bowled out, it's the number of runs that count. Always has. The scores were tied, so super over. According to the rules of the competition, in a tie, it's a count back to boundaries scored. You lost fair and square. That is an indisputable fact.
Besides that, during the tournament, England beat Australia, India and NZ… Twice. Best team won.
It seems odd that if all your batsmen are out that they get a second chance to bat. There should never have been a super over because there was noone left in the English team to bat.
The rules are the rules and so the English won the cup. That's the way the cookie crumbles in sport.
But I think it is reasonable to say that the rules were unfair and that they should be changed. The rules should be a priori fair to the best of our ability.
Take it up with the ICC, though the rules of super overs are pretty clear in that each team starts afresh with three nominated batsmen and one bowler.
That will be the test. If they do change the rules it will be an admission that this wasn't a legitimate result.
And you can take some comfort in that as you wipe the dribbles of snot from your nose and salty tears from your eyes with your Purex man sized tissues 😆
These things have ceased to trouble me too much in recent years, so I have not shed a tear figuratively or otherwise.
A braying Englishman however…
Braying, just having a laugh, whatever.
Empire complex. It's pretty hard to shake.
You should try harder to get over it.
Empire complex runs through most English people I've met, and it's on the increase with the hard swing to the right in Britain.
You've got it in spades.
Ha, you're on one all right. I've said nothing about empire at all, or even once alluded to it or the notion of superiority, other than to say the best team won the cricket.
Look, you don't have to have an inferiority complex with me. I'm just a working class man from nothing who moved here and now has next to nothing, apart for a sharp mind, quick wit and an ability to draw out shit from arseholes on the internet.
Is ankerawshark an arsehole?
Was your intention to 'draw shit' from him?
Grow up, old bean, your radar is broken.
I'm going to bed. Give you time to stock up on the triple ply. 😆
🙂
If it's not one damn Empire, it's another ….. a bit like history ("If it's not one damn thing it's another")
Unfortunately 'lil 'ole NuZull is still not ready to give them the two finger salute at times
It would be hard to win any more as the 'losing' team as the NZ Black Caps did taking everything into account, in an international showpiece world cup final.
In many ways they hit it out of the park. Congratulations to England also.
I agree, they played their best game and would have been worthy winners on the day.
Oh look. John Key's ANZ has been downgraded because of poor management. I though he was supposed to be a superstar in business!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12250454
Chickens coming home to roost big time.![laugh laugh](https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.11.3/full-all/plugins/smiley/images/teeth_smile.png)
One wonders how long before investors take flight?
Thanks Muttonbird. That cheers me up.
One thing for sure though, The Black Caps are the best guys, best sports (think Roy arguing with the ref, Stokes brawling outside a bar)…………and the winners of everyone's hearts. Englands win will ALWAYS be tainted.
Although Kaine didn't walk for a caught behind for the second game running, so maybe not the best example of sportsmanship.
Well it's not beating someone unconscious outside a pub sort of sportsmanship! I know which one I'd take.
The knobs he smacked who were abusing the gay couple? Won him more fans than he lost, I reckon.
If punching a nazi is okay, it is for dealing to homophobes, too.
I think there's some, how did you put it, ambiguity about that.
I think he's just a bit fighty.
Certainly showed some Dunkirk spirit, that's for sure.
Oh right. Now we're onto the, 'you'd all be speaking German now if it wasn't for us!' 😂
You said he was ‘fighty’, and I agreed. Great rearguard action in the face of adversity. National treasure now. They'll call it the Stokes effect for sure. 😆
Well, it is just a game. He needs to learn to turn it off in public.
Born in Christchurch so that explains a lot!
Although as we learnt on here following mayor Len and his affair, apparently what goes on outside work doesn't affect or influence one's ability to do their day job.
Bizarre equivalence. Drunk, Stokes smashed someones face in and was suspended by his employer for some time. So it did affect his ability to do his job.
Then this:
Yeah, what a hero!
I don't want to marry him or anything, so drag up his past all you like, forget his apologies, and hang him at dawn for all I care.
Won't stop him being a world champion cricketer.
And a Kiwi at that.
With Maori ancestry
Hope you are not intimating that's where his violent behaviour comes from.
Mind you, nothing would surprise me tonight.
Again, you said he was a kiwi, and I said, yeah, and with Maori ancestry.
There's nothing in that apart from what you appear to be wanting to add to it. A bit low, though, playing the race card because NZ lost a game of cricket. Or are you just throwing out some shit in the hope some of it will stick?
Anyway, as you'll know, Stokes was acquitted at trial, so not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things.
I'm at a loss. Why then did you mention he was Maori?
Also, I think you'll find the game was tied. The cup was awarded to England because they scored more of their runs in boundaries.
Stokes is a bad egg. Being a world champion cricketer doesn’t change that.
That's the order the conversation stream went. Why wouldn't I add to your statement he's a kiwi with further information about it? It’s not a secret.
Pretty poor attempt on your behalf to lay a race charge at my door. Knowing that I clearly haven't intended anything of the sort you've alluded to, I will accept your apology and say no more about it.
Righto. That's a pretty thin explanation you'll admit.
I don't 'clearly' know anything about what you were thinking. To be honest, your comments tonight are a departure from what I'd come to expect from you (defending thugs and gloating at unhappy fans) so who knows what was on your mind.
There will be no apology.
It's not an explanation, it's a repeat of the timeline of events of what happened and what was said, and of course there won't be an apology, you think your work is done. Slyly throw a racist smear at me here, question my left wing leanings over there, say I support thugs even though many good sorts on here have argued the case for punching nazis and haters.
Not even close. You'll have to work a lot harder than that to settle your old scores. 🙄
Just havin' a laugh, whatever.
Kane actually is the best example of sportsmanship. I doubt you will find anyone who disputes that. But clearly you have no answer to what I have said about Stokes and Roy…………….
Anyway, I came on line about this as I said I was struggling and I thought it was unfair. All you have wanted to do is rub the awarding of the cup to England in my face. Unkind and uncompassionate. It's obvious that how the end of the game was dealt with leaves questions about the rules and the umpires not knowing the rules leaves questions too.
If it had of been a clear victory to England I would have wished them well as I did to Australia when they won in 2015.
Yeah. The Alien hasn't covered himself with glory here and it was his response to your admission that annoyed me.
Zero compassion and it makes me wonder if he's a leftie at all!
The fervour with which he's gloating betrays an inadequacy somewhere.
I deliberately didn't come on here the morning of the victory and rub anyone's nose in it, and I wouldn't have said a word about the game if you hadn't have posted about the unfairness of it all.
I was pretty classy, I reckon, for one failing Tebbit's cricket test with so much ease.
If you think so The Al1en
I do.
Oh yes. Definitely an asterisk next to that win for ever.
The win can't even be described in normal cricketing terms; by x runs or by x wickets. Even Cricinfo doesn’t mark the result as a win for England.
England won by more boundaries? Why does it matter how many runs were scored through boundaries?
Actually I have been reading on-line commentaries and there are huge numbers of people from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka to name just some countries who are of my view point…………….that's just the fans…..
And actually we didn't lose the game…………England didn't win. They were awarded the cup as a result of the rules.
And yes I can understand that you are happy. Like your fellow countrymen, not much compassion for those of us who are understandably finding it difficult. Oh well………there you go.
That's a good way to look at it. A Claytons win. They had to give it to someone – it might as well be the team the umpires helped up to the finish line.
Also the last ball of our innings, our tall Black Cap batsman had to duck under a bodyline bouncer, couldn't that easily have been a no ball also?
The list goes on lol
Agree 100* Muttonbird…………
Oh yeah, weird.
https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/1150943271566397442
How's those almost human eyes.
https://twitter.com/gavinnaylor/status/1146144452681113601
https://twitter.com/gavinnaylor/status/1147183373888233472
I admire Julie Anne Genter but my admiration has gone up a notch because of her gutsy move to go on the Facebook pages of National MPs to correct the deliberate misinformation around the Government proposal to introduce a Clean Car Discount from 2021.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/114245123/govt-wades-deep-in-nats-territory-to-defend-evs-policy-takes-explaining-is-losing-to-new-level
The ‘neutral’ MSM frames it as “defensive”, thoughtless, “incredibly thin-skinned”, “hyper defensiveness”, “out of touch with voters”, “Genter's social media crusade” and other subtle ways to paint a (negative) picture of the Government handling of the proposed scheme and to suggest a lack of confidence that the scheme will stand on its own merits.
There are hints that they know full well who is on the right side of the facts:
Shame though that none of those positive messages were mentioned in the article except for the screenshot of JAG’s excellent comments on those Facebook pages.
Good on her, I say.
The consultation document can be found at https://transport.cwp.govt.nz/clean-cars/ .
Submissions close on 20 August 2019.
And Phil Twyford was in the Herald correcting the misinformation over the Govt's Transport proposals.
They've been letting the Nats get away with distortions and downright lies for a long time now, so I hope this is a sign they are fighting back.
The PR department needs to work a lot harder on setting the narrative IMO.
Laziness or timidity?
Lack of crafty communication resources among other things. Check out mickey's latest post "Sometimes explaining is not losing". Some good comments.
A modern day politician.
If the media did a better job of calling National's lies out, she wouldn't have to correct the deliberate misinformation.
True, but maybe she’s enjoying it too; I would.
Fake news on faceachebook, who'd of thunk it?
Good for her heading it off at the source. The left parties should make a habit of it in the run up to 2020. Be the headline with their own message. not the subject of someone else.
Nat supporters are very fond of saying "explaining is losing," while never mentioning its corollary: "lying is winning." I guess they wouldn't.
Their lying is assisted by the media. Instead of calling them out, they make headlines of them.
I read Julie Anne Genter's comments on Stuff. I think it is a mistake for a Minister to engage on another party's facebook page. Interesting concept though. Very different to me commenting on The Standard. I am a private citizen, just doing my thing for the interest of it.
I think the big issue on the EV policy will be the $3,000 impost on tradies and rural contractors utes. Though I expect that Winston Peters will fix that by having an exemption if they are primarily used in business. After that there will be no issues with the policy.
Why do you think it is a mistake?
Why do you assume that all utes will have the maximum possible fee under the current proposal?
Tradies and contractors buy their utes on the business, don’t they?
They can still choose to buy a relatively new second-hand import with a max. fee of $1,500.
I reckon the proposal leaves a lot of flexibility to the consumers, don’t you agree?
Relatively new used import utes and vans are actually kinda hard to find.
And off Wayne goes, yes or no to this Mr private citizen.
Do you condone these wilful misrepresentions made by MP's ? Yes or no ?
Sounds n smells like bullshit waynee.
Not sure the Ford Ranger, or VW Ute (the two favoured models on the Shore) are really second hand import vehicles.
Anyway the tradies I know won’t like the govt dictating their vehicle choice. I know that statement is not literally true, but you get the point. They will expect Winston to moderate the policy, at least for vehicles that have a work use. Those who buy new Rangers to tow big boats could be expected to pay.
Gonna answer my question. I'm intrigued as a lawyer what you think as these are taxpayer funded roles.
Tend to agree.. the Ford "Monster Truck" is a necessity on the Shore. The rough unsealed 4WD forestry roads there are impossible to navigate without such a vehicle.
I know that statement is not literally true, but you get the point.
I do. And fuck 'em. Any costs they incur get recovered from their customers, so why should anyone listen to their whingeing?
AND PM a 3k$ cost ove 5 years lifeish of vehicle is in the order $12 per week!!!
(Imagine the whine when fuel goes up 10c litre)
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses. $3,000 is not an irrelevantly small amount of money for them.
It's difficult not to conclude $3000 is an irrelevantly small sum when they go for the top of the line Wildtrak and then further tart it up with stuff that actually reduces functionality like 20" wheels and a big chrome rollbar.
"Your attitude is typical of those in gold plated public service jobs who have zero understanding of the challenges facing small businesses"
I must remember to write that down in my little black book for the next time the gNats are in power and you/your colleagues decide to create another bugger's muddle like MoBIE and stuff it full of short term thinkers
Hasn't Dr Wayne spent his life working in gold plated public service jobs?
Also, maybe to old guys like him is MPs commenting on social media not a good look, but to anyone under 40 (I'm 45 so maybe anyone under 50?) commenting on social media is a pretty acceptable thing to do.
I couldn't possibly comment @ I feel love. I'm hanging out for the Gold Card in the not too distant, but @Wayne's conservatism and ideologically driven comments never seem to amaze me. He kind of reminds me of all those old radio dramas at times (like Doctor! Paul), alongside a few britiss comedy sketches. What a silly silly SILLY old duffer old boy.
You can't describe him as a ponce because that implies those 'He's a gay' connotations. Having read him on all those social media platforms as well as his spray and walk away contributions on here, the best I can come up with is that he's a self-entitled ToryBoy with a supercilious attitude aattached.
I'm sure he's a nice guy and I live in hope. Maybe he's just a 'late developer'.
Meantime I hope 'Mother' – (aka woify), makes him a nice cuppa tea and alerts him to the next media gig he's called on to do.
Edit, btw – he has his rivals – half of them are in that public service with gold-plated benefits he now seems so willing to criticise – even some heading academia (which maybe how he came – nahhhh too cruel)
ABOUT $10 pw over a 5 year life of the vehicle.!!!!!
And your attitude shows why tradies and rural contractors will be looking to Winston Peters rather than the Greens for the fix.
And here it is again: pay lip service to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing environmental damage, while firmly resisting any attempt to actually reduce them. The only people who would describe hobbling environmental policies as "fixing" them are those who believe AGW isn't happening. It would be nice if right-wingers would at least be honest about that when commenting on the subject.
I get the point, which is that when you frame it like that, it evokes a different (emotive) reaction.
I’m still not clear why you think it is a “mistake” to engage on FB. How is this different from engaging on Twitter, for example?
It seems to me that JAG is correcting the misinformation spread around with the correct info and facts. She is not engaging in debate or discussion, as far as I can tell.
After Stacey Kirk’s deplorable piece, it feels like a kneejerk reaction to me. Can National not handle facts?
This has nothing to do with economics and everything to do with ideology and demonstrates why politicians are so disdained….sadly logic will make no difference to attitudes so I suspect JAG is wasting her time and Waynes bogus argument will continue to echoed by those so inclined.
Trump although extreme is not unique