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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Despite the Minister’s denials, MPI’s own report shows some massive illegal dumping of fish going on in our fisheries. Sometimes the entire catches are being dumped.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/environmentsci/exclusive-internal-mpi-reports-reveal-widespread-illegal-dumping-of-fish-2016051817
This is unacceptable.
Nothing Guy will leave no stone unturned in finding and punishing the leaker.
It worked a charm. No one is talking about the Trust funds anymore.
Homelessness is an issue that just makes me upset because there should be no reason to have this situation. And that those who need emergency housing have to pay the money back makes a mockery of the name social service.
And yes, ……….
It had to be such powerful issue to subdue the Trust fraud oops fund news. One has to get involved otherwise the stigma to be one of “them” sticks.
Well done, Parliament public relations team, well done.
Up to the opposition to construct a narrative using the abundant ammunition, the MSM does as told by NACT. It just took CT a few days to decide what they’d use to take the limelight.
A half decent media would have it going on all fronts but we have to rely on a crafty opposition to overcome this…..and there’s the problem right there.
Such as…how come we can give shelter to embezzled, drug dealer, gun runner, stolen money but we can’t give shelter to our most vulnerable families…
Here you go (video)
On Checkpoint tonight the business correspondent said he and others had been beavering away at the Panama Papers but would only release the results once they could show a series of interesting reveals…watch this space
Another day has passed in John Key’s neo-liberal nightmare.
We have become a cruel, ugly and selfish nation under his wretched leadership.
‘New Zealand prison population rising
New Zealand’s prison population continues to reach all-time highs, forcing officials to get creative in juggling the numbers.
The county’s prison muster reached an all-time high of 9436 on April 16.
By last week it had fallen to 9325, still well above the 9000 figure it crossed for the first time in August.
University of Canterbury criminologist Greg Newbold said harsher law and order policies, such as making parole and bail harder to obtain and three-strikes legislation, mean the numbers won’t be heading down anytime soon.
Double-bunking would also affect inmates’ rehabilitative efforts and Dr Newbold knew of one struggling to undertake tertiary study.
“He’s having a hell of a job getting his study done because he’s got a cellmate who wants to play radio or his guitar,” he said.
“If you’ve got an inmate who’s really doing his best to improve himself and getting out of prison a better person, we’re making it hard. We’re putting obstacles in his path.”
If you want to find out more about how this extreme neo-liberal regime is destroying NZ society, click on this link.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11640707
We used to have double bunking in prisons before the ghastly neo-liberal experiment that started in the mid 1980’s.
Was the problem back then the neo-socialist experiment?
A defender of a regime that fails to house its people.
Greedy, selfish and cruel.
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Very tiresome non-value adding comment, Wayne. Shall we at least try and improve how we do things in this country? We used to force left handed kids to write with their right hand before neoliberalism as well, you know. Doesn’t mean that the communists and workers movements were responsible.
Now Wayne, you show your true colours their. In history their have been many inhuman actives lead by the Torys whom continue to be purported by the greedy right so fittingly lead by a billionaire or what have you, but the neo-socialist had only being frugal and following convention being as they were, torn down by the fascists and most conservative religions.
Now are you debating that their is no such thing as neo liberalism, knock you self out, there will be plenty here to help with that.
can you add a link to that please? i would like to send it to someone.
we are having that discussion: should the sign read, Pedestrians give way to cars, or should the sign read, Cars give way to pedestrians, especially if the sign is to be in a busy shopping fringe 🙂
cheers
Sorry. I did add the link but stuffed up the HTML for it and thus it doesn’t show.
Follow the Rules, Bikers
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/18/knowledge-economy-myth-more-universities-degree
suspect the findings apply equally here.
and
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/18/uk-and-eu-urged-to-act-on-chinese-steel-dumping-after-us-hikes-duty-on-imports
is NZ going to have to choose sides in a trade war?
By signing the TPPA we’ve already chosen a side – the US Empire.
each way bet would be my guess…
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1512/S00158/nz-formally-joins-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank.htm
Mossack Fonseca’s 21 #taxhavens
Min. Revenue refuses to broaden Shewan’s tax review to look at the use of trusts and shell companies
Despite them being used by Mossack Fonseca to dodge tax and facilitate corruption
Regarding water:
http://koin.com/2016/05/17/hood-river-county-voters-water-bottling-measure-nestle-05172016/