I’ve been giving some thought to what effect a ubi would have had on my lifestyle a few years ago when I owned a small block of land and worked as a casual shepherd/rural roustabout.
It would deffinatly have made it a more comfortable way of living as in sheepnbeef farming there is 3 months of flat out a couple of months ether side that are steady then the winter is a struggle to get casual work.
This scenario would also fit with shearers , possum hunters and orchard workers .
So I think a ubi could possible revitalize rural nz.
Nobody else is paying for it. In fact, the UBI would have to become the monetary injection that the economy needs to function. The fact is that the government already does this through the complex and occult banking system. Doing it through a UBI just makes it transparent that the government is funding the entire economy.
If you can’t see how more money entering the economy will benefit you and your extended family even if most of you are PAYE employees, you aren’t using enough imagination.
You seem to be imaging a world where employees get pay rises.
We’ve already seen that rises in productivity have not flowed through to workers pay packets for the past 30 years, why are you imagining it’s suddenly going to start happening now?
structural change to the economy Lanth. Massive structural change of which a NZ UBI of ~$115pw will play its role. Another one will be that of a guaranteed job. Another one will be private sector worker co-ops. Another one will be worker directors on every company board.
Right, so when you were saying that the UBI would put money into employees pockets, what you actually meant is the UBI + a whole suite of other unspecified policies would put money into employees pockets.
I think you can see why it was confusing, when you talk about A but really mean A + B + C + D + E.
Hey Lanth I’ve had enough of these discussions with you today.
I’m also sick of two percenters who are too comfortable with the status quo while the other 98% of us try to make some headway through the emerging crises.
bwaghorn
That sounds a good idea in the case you put. In the days when work was to be found seasonal workers could go from one job when it finished for the season to another, being in work most of the time, and able to maintain their families the whole year. Now with the economy shrunken and skewed, apparently this can’t be done. The worker wealth generators have been stripped of their opportunities to be self-supporting and a sufficient UBI would sustain them between seasons.
It may also reduce acc claims , as I used to know a shearer who get a” back injury “a few weeks before the end of main shear more than once.
And I knew him well enough to know his back was fine.
Here is a much shorter and succinct article about the Swiss Universal Basic Income vote from a Swiss perspective.
“The campaigners failed to present a convincing funding scheme for their proposal. But they managed to launch a broad debate about an unconditional basic income,” says senior political scientist Claude Longchamp.”
My opinion: Yes, economic inequality is at intolerable levels. Yes, modern welfare systems have failed. No, you can’t go off half-cocked with radical proposals that have not been thought through. In NZ, turning over such vast power to elected dictators is insane. The Swiss have binding citizen initiated referendums to control their parliamentarians. Here they fuck us over and we are powerless to stop them.
NZ political reform must precede UBI. What a nightmare to have UBI under Prime Minister Judith Collins, PM Stephen Joyce, or PM Paula Bennett!
I was thinking about news headlines from the future. Try this one on.
“Newly elected PM Joyce, Collins, or Bennett has just announced changes to reduce the cost of UBI. To stop people cheating by collecting the UBI from multiple addresses, the UBI will only be paid to people who can prove they own their own home. Everyone else will require an implanted microchip to collect.”
“Serco has promised they can insert and monitor the chips painlessly.”
“The Nats coalition partner, NZ First, has also demanded the UBI will only be paid to NZ citizens, not people with Permanent Resident Visas.”
Many of the passeurs? and no doubt their families were captured, tortured, shot, sent to concentration camps. They were so brave they were so committed to doing their bit against a foul system, they were heroes. And now they aren’t even mentioned in our rituals of remembrance. But they did what they could and laid their lives on the line. When things get desperate, more determination is required. At present just keeping on with trying to better policies and practices requires determination.
I think we must remember that we can’t hope for great advances, but to get a number of small ones can make much difference. We can only keep trying. I do think that the people in charge here and of the world have become foul and uncaring. The reason for this is being unveiled by various studies and research on human behaviour that is being quoted on TS. We will find a way to lessen this and perhaps eventually stop it, and end this cold war against the people. There is no magic bullet, only incremental changes can still make a huge difference. When we have very little, like nothing, a small amount of help and betterment is 100% improvement.
Meanwhile, In Finland….
The preliminary report published at the end of March concluded that a full UBI would be ‘quite expensive’, and recommended a ‘consolidation of the current system of basic economic security into a partial basic income’, on the grounds it would ‘consolidate many of the existing benefits offering basic economic security, while earnings-related benefits would remain largely unaffected’
As I pointed out some time ago, The Finnish Govt. is actively seeking to reduce Govt. spending, and so it is no surprise that the reports recommendations would appear to achieve that aim….
‘According to Roope Mokka, the founder of the Nordic thinktank Demos Helsinki, the Finnish experiment, which will take place in 2017, is likely to involve a maximum of 180,000 Finns being paid a basic income of €500 to €700 a month – considerably less than the average Finnish income of €2,700.
Given that Finland’s welfare state is comparable to that of other Scandinavian economies, introducing a universal basic income model similar to that used in Kela’s experiment would involve shrinking the country’s social security spending, which currently stands at about 31% of GDP.
Your italicised quote does not match your link, and seems to have come from a Guardian article from late last week rather than being anything that you “pointed out”.
And that sort of false claim to rare skills typifies your prosaic RWNJ master/mistress of the universe……not unlike
that superbly macho
former All Black captain
‘Johnno’ Key……having regard to the composition of the latest
honours list.
Anyone running a book on the prospects of the “unknown visitor” (think Nelson Mandela memorial in SA) jetting
off with Prince Max in
RNZ Air Force One to
gatecrash officiations in Louisville KY ? Must call
David Slack. He would
know.
Superb article.
I think she understates the deliberate level of political bias in the media. There is the click bait ratings aspect, but there is also the placement of National party yes men in key positions. Henry, Hosking, Griffin come to mind.
It feels like we are living in a one party state, where the Dear Leaders’ propagandists tell us over and over again that we live in a paradise.
Esp loved this bit “Even on RNZ’s Checkpoint with John Campbell, the honourable host who erected a shame wall for the relentless no show of politicians on Campbell Live, has to engage in obsequious Uriah Heepisms to effusively thank any politician so very, very much voicing his deep appreciation for their taking the time to grant him with their presence. The implied sarcasm isn’t lost on some as journalists have been reduced to being terrible grateful for any rare sighting of a politician.”
I am waiting for him to bring back the cardboard cutouts seated with him as he chats with the absent pollies. Yes, he does subtle sarcasm very subtle indeed.
It’s poor Campbell’s insurance against a second crucifixion. I do wish Bowron would lay off HDP-A’s cocktail party grimace though. The ‘work’ she endured to achieve such risibleness did not come cheap !
Thanks Paul (3). Again you have made a good point, as most of your posts do. Keep them coming.
God Almighty, what has this country come down to when a bloody parrot might hold information to a murder, is considered important news, considering what else is going on in NZ??!!
Thanks msm, the standards of which, are really dredging the sewers now!
Paul (3.1.1) and here’s another thought provoking, stimulating news item from NZH this morning, while far too many Kiwi families doing it hard are being totally ignored by most msm networks …
Yes, Jane Bowron’s article is an excellent piece of journalism. Now that is news. Not the crap being dished up by msm to divert our attention away from the stinking sh*t hole NZ has become!
mary a
Well I think that parrot, if it can give info on a murder, is an important witness and should be caged if it is inclined to be flighty till it is worn out from its long squawks. I have heard of stool pigeons but a perspicacious parrot is definitely novel and news.
Those who are at a loose end today should check this out. I only stumbled across this over the weekend. (If you have lightbox) Mr. Robot . Especialy if you can elate to the occupy Wall Street a few years ago.
Co staring a Mr C.Slater. ….No not that one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)
Mr. Robot has received widespread acclaim from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 98% with an average score of 8.3 out of 10 based on 55 reviews.[69] It set a record on Rotten Tomatoes as the only show to earn perfect episode scores for an entire season since the site began tracking television episodes.[70] The site’s consensus reads: “Mr. Robot is a suspenseful cyber-thriller with timely stories and an intriguing, provocative premise.”[69] On Metacritic, the first season scored 79 out of 100 based on 23 reviews, indicating “generally favorable reviews”….
Mr. Robot made several critics’ list for the best TV shows of 2015. Three critics, Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone, and the staff of TV Guide, named it the best show of the year. The series also placed second on the list from three other critics, and was named among of the best of the year from four other critics
Agree. Watched the first couple of episodes and really enjoyed them. Had to stop when the content became a bit too x-rated for the youngest, but will get around to the rest when they are not watching.
Loved Mr Robot, the lead guy is so…odd. Just watching something new called Cleverman, Australian weirdo sci-fi TV series that takes a swipe at racism & asylum seekers. Looks really interesting so far. Also nice to hear other accents other than english/american.
The genesis of Cleverman came five years ago on one of those afternoons, playing dress-ups with my son. We were playing Ninja Turtles, and in that moment I suddenly wished we had something cultural – something Aboriginal – that he could cling to with as much excitement as he did with this.
My son’s mother and I are both light-skinned Aboriginal people who strongly embrace our Aboriginality. Why does the colour of our skin matter to this story? Because growing up, I constantly had to fight for my Aboriginality. I was presented with casual racism on a regular basis. I remember being handed a plastic cup while everyone was given glasses, in the home of someone I thought was my friend. Later that night, I walked out of that house as the other kids spouted hate of “petrol-sniffing” Aboriginal people.
I liked Mr Robot too, in part because of the oddball nature of the lead, and because it portrays an aspect of modern counter-culture in an intelligent way.
But just a fantasy – one that glorifies schizophrenia, and pretends that some dude with a keyboard can effectively hand out free lotto tickets to everyone.
The meat-world people who try to undo the world of banking or of large government control are roasted alive.
There’s more real hope in maleficent states undoing the parts of the banking world that act against them.
It’s not ‘just’ a fantasy, it’s fantasy/SF. Whose purposes are many but rarely are intended to be ‘real’ in the way you imply. I’m pretty sure you understand the value of a good story Ad, so why the downer?
Brilliant show. Just onto the final episode now… the series has been captivating. Love the oddity of the lead… makes everything more real. And they way he’s written puts the audience is in his head and part of him… can’t help but share his emotions.
Everyone should take note of this guy I heard this morning. “They are just mad.”
This man speaking on RadioNZ has thought his way through our present world economic debacle, and is able to explain it in words we can understand. Talks about, explains, uber and such.
Colonial Viper has probably read it, Draco T Bastard would say ‘What have I been telling you all this time’, Robert Guyton would say ‘I and my compatriots are now developing what Rushkoff sees as the major way forward for forward-thinking people.’
Media theorist, professor, and graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff’s been in love with the internet since its cyberpunk beginnings.
He is speaking at the Open Science, Open Source? conference in NZ in August.
(Remember what our Bruce Jesson wrote decades ago. (The intense effort he put in challenging and winning against the neo lib steamroller probably led to his death.)
Only their Purpose is Mad by Bruce Jesson – maorinews.com
maorinews.com/writings/books/jesson.htm
Book Review: “Only Their Purpose is Mad, The Money Men Take Over NZ”
by Bruce Jesson, Dunmore, Palmerston North, 1999. The book opens with a clear …)
09:05 How to fix the digital economy: Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff book Media theorist, professor, and graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff’s been in love with the internet since its cyberpunk beginnings.
But in his latest book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, he explains how the digital economy failed to live up to its promise – and how we could still fix it. MIT named him the world’s sixth most influential thinker, and he has written more than a dozen bestselling books – and made several documentaries – about media, technology, and culture.
He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens in New York, and is speaking at the Open Source Open Society conference in New Zealand in August. Talk to him on Twitter.
If a guy like Rushkoff can start a world-changing movement like Karl Marx did, you’ll know he’s opened the world to something fresh.
He hasn’t, and won’t.
Jeez mate you sound a bit dour this morning. Hope the day picks up. Watched the whole 4 series of house of cards the other daze – made me feel like ‘what can we do’ then I realised we do what we do and that is what we can and should do.
Watching House of Cards just makes me want to have a shower.
I liked The Wire better because it was very, very close to reality; the good guys were pricks and didn’t last long, the douches were rewarded, bureaucratic inertia was rewarded and patrolled, and the justice and democratic systems only just worked.
Plus the linking of newer-world black dominated drug dealing systems to old-world unionized seaports was reasonably fresh. Liked that one.
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I note a continuing theme from you of put downs for new ideas, new methods to help the nation to a better system. Your latest is just another. Presenting new ideas for changing our present conditions? You haven’t and you won’t.
Further – a summary of that piece on Dick Smith ‘purchase’.
How to buy a business of $115 million using only $10 million of your own money.
Further – Anchorage purchased Dick Smith for a total of $20 million and year later put it up in the stock market for half a Billion. Oldest trick in the book is to write the inventory down to close to nothing, and then sell the inventory for whatever, and that is all profit.
That is the sort of quality financial dealing that our present National government uses in transactions in this country. and overseas. National has borrowed heavily overseas to keep running the country, We are to be exploited by the buccaneers who see themselves as bold businessmen, doughty corporate raiders, pirates who can make and move money without getting their hands around actual working tools, actual dirt (if they can help it).
An acquaintance used to run the NZ Rail signals workshop in the Hutt, then Fay and Richwhite bought it, sold the entire inventory of spares ( about 7-10 years supply ) for every switching and crossing etc in the country on the premise that, “We can buy it when we need it, more efficent than holding stock ”
In the next six months they spent all the money released buying needed parts back.
F and R needed the cash to actually buy the railways.
The Cleverset Guys in the Room!.
Adrian
Hollow laugh. That’s the way these cowboys run business. Poor NZ, all our good work to build a country, and our nation’s life blood being sucked out of us by a bunch of house plant pests. No wonder we’re suffering from die back!
Fay and Richwhite – you wouldn’t make up those names for a satirical piece.
Also just to add a bit to Dick Smith story – Anchorage in short time after the Dick Smith takeover/purchase got two industry awards for being so clever. Hah.
dv thanks for link will save it up for afternoon tea reading.
All politicians lie. Key has told no more than did Helen Clark. The difference between Key and Little is that Key is personally successful and politically competent. Little is a political failure (based on the state of Labours polling, finances and membership) and his CV is barren.
Really? I’ll put BLiP’s list up. How about you put up a list of all Clark’s lies? Because from what I can see in this thread you are just spouting a bunch of rancid ideology that tries to attack something you don’t like. You make lots of rapid assertions, few actual arguments, and bugger all back up.
You can’t logically tell a lie about a future event, otherwise anyone who changed their mind would be telling a lie. That eliminates a huge number from the list.
Most of the rest are desperate distortions, most don’t even have references so they can be checked.
I’ve not seriously bothered to try, because I know the response I’ll get. So I just roll my eyes whenever I see it linked to.
To be fair, there are a few things in there that are lies, or promises that he blatantly broke, such as not increasing GST. But for the rest of them there is sufficient reasonable doubt that calling them lies is silly.
Ok, so is your assessment that the majority are true and backed up with evidence? I had a look at some, and some are obviously true and evidence based. Some look true to me but the links don’t back up the claim (or are too lengthy to find out).
“Say goodbye to higher taxes…”, for example, is a meaningless slogan from the National Party. A lie, absolutely (to the extent that meaningless slogans are of any import). Authored by the Prime Minister? Not so much.
maninthemiddle.
You say “prove”.
What do you mean, exactly.
No one can do what you ask until you define what it is you mean.
Is it, “provide news reports of the trial that showed … “?
You are being too vague. No wonder no one bothered to play your game.
Outside of a legal decision, what proof would you accept?
Support with evidence. You know, not just quote some instance where Key changed his mind (as Clark did) or events prevented him carrying out his wishes (eg Pike River), but give an example, with supporting evidence, where he knowingly made a “false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive”. Anything else simply fails the sniff test, and is nothing more than Key Derangement Syndrome. Key’s a politician. They ALL lie. You must be able to find one.
Evidence from whom? BliP? A journalist? A judge?
You have to be specific as I notice you’ve rejected evidence of the sort I’ve listed. What form of evidence do you require? Not opinion, surely? Something official, perhaps. Just need to know the level of evidence you are demanding.
I have just posted on item #2 on his list. How much digging have you done on the list? Enough to know that Blip’s support for item #2 is a post by Nicky Hager? That Nicky Hager’s post provides no supporting material for the comments he alleges Key made?
My point is simply this; you and others are swallowing these claims without even a cursory amount of fact checking.
You’re not demanding, I hope, that commenters here have to supply legal rulings to prove Key has told a lie, are you? That’d be…ridiculous. You reject non-legal forms of evidence, so I’m wondering what exactly it is you want. If you are in fact requiring only legal tried evidence, then surely that makes your crusade a sham?
What I’m really trying to ascertain is how much digging you have done before accusing the PM of lying. During the Clark premiership I saw this same phenomena from the right…a deranged obsession with somehow trying to make out Clark was the anti-Christ. Blip’s list of alleged ‘lies’ is the same. I’m sure some of the items on the list are verifiable. The ones I’ve checked so far are utter bs.
I’ll make this easy. I’ll post examples of examples of Clark’s lies. Real lies, about stuff she knew about, not about future events about which she changed her mind.
Lie # 1.
“After months of confusion over the Glenn donations, it turns out Clark has known much more than she has been letting on. The famously candid prime minister has been caught out being economical with the truth.”
“Court papers released yesterday revealed that the Prime Minister told the Sunday Star-Times she believed Mr Doone had made a remark which might have meant a rookie constable did not breath-test Ms Johnstone, now Mrs Doone.
The four words “That won’t be necessary”, which Helen Clark confirmed she understood Mr Doone said to Constable Brett Main, who was holding a breath-test sniffer device, are pivotal.
I’m not running out,just not running foul of the moderators. But you don’t have 433, in fact no-ones yet taken up my challenge to evidence even 1!
[lprent: If someone else makes an unsubstantiated assertion you may request that they provide links. When however to make an unsubstantiated assertion or an assertion with links that show you are an idiot (from the reactions of other commentators) and then to demand that other refute it with evidence isn’t going to work.
Demanding people to engage with you, as well as showing a certain degree of self obsession that draws interesting ideas about what you do in your spare time, also may draw the attention of unkind moderators like me. If you are lucky, I’ll merely ban you for misbehaviour.
But if I have time and have grumpiness to work off, I may choose to savage you with the attention (that you so obviously desire) of evidence and opinion about you and your ideas. I’ve been on the nets for more than 30 years, am rather over educated, have a lot of work and political experience, and have a certain expertise in administering ‘educational’ experiences to fools on the net.
I’m unlikely to be kind or unconstrained. The attention I tend to give is more sadistic. So I’d be careful about what you ask for.
Yes, they have. All the entries on Blip’s list are sourced. You disagree with some of the entries, and we’ve already covered that.
Your basic problem here is the contempt you’ve earned. Few can be bothered to engage with you on anything other than a superficial level, because you bring nothing to the table other than rote-learned zombie-sock-puppet drivel.
That’s the truth, whether you like it or not. Parrots like you come and go.
All? Really? Take #2. The ‘source’ is a blog by Nicky Hager. Not good enough. In it Hager refers to comments to the media by Key that he does not source. Not good enough. And that’s just # 2 on the list.
Actually I’m not demanding anything. I’m calling bs on Blip’s list. If people continue to reference it without being able to actually defend the claims with something substantial, it is perfectly reasonable to challenge them. PS Your threats are rather pathetic. If you wish to critique my views, then do so. If all you have is a desire to play the man, as your last sentence suggests, then you’re sad and in need of help.
Well, you are demanding proof, maninthemiddle, over and over you pressed commenters here to provide proof. If you can’t tell us clearly what you’d accept, people are going to realise that you are gaming them and then they’ll treat you with disdain – oh, hang on…
No, I’m calling for accountability for claiming someone is a liar.
For example item #30 “the Pike River Mine was consented to under a Labour Government” isn’t even untrue, let alone a lie.
“On 12 March 2004, Minister of Conservation Chris Carter approved the access arrangement for Pike River Coal Ltd. The arrangement included four 1.5-metre (4.9 ft)-wide emergency escape shafts within the boundaries of Paparoa National Park and a requirement for Pike River Coal Ltd to spend NZ$70,000 annually on conservation projects”
I was keen to uncover the mechanism behind maninthemiddles crusade here. I asked what he need/meant by “proof”, as he’d used the word in his challenges here on TS. He seems, in response, to have been “less than truthful”, as evidenced by the two quotes below. Fair call, mitm?
maninthemiddle said: 7 June 2016 at 11:44 am
“Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged.”
maninthemiddle
Are you stuck between a rock and a hard place? Sounds like you are the maninthemuddle. I notice your pseudo cropping up. Are you having a little holiday from real work where you are expected to produce factual results and think we are going to provide you with some idle amusement? Your worship of our leader seems to be around that he has a lot of money. A Lotto winner would achieve a similar prominence then? What business did Key run to make his?
John Key rips people off for a living. He is a derivatives trader and he sets up tax havens. key was never a business owner, he was an employee at large American financial institutions, and by all accounts, he still is.
I don’t worship any human. I follow politics. I admire Key for what he has done for this country, and yet criticise him frequently for missed opportunities to implement more free market policy.
“The NZ First leader is disparaging of a memorandum of understanding his fellow opposition parties have signed – aimed at toppling National – and won’t yet say if he will team up to share power.
The MOU would expire on election night, he told Q+A today.
“The idea that you would go out there with a pre-arrangement on a deck of cards you’ve never read, we simply can’t see how that works.
“I can’t understand why Labour did this because it’s from a position of weakness, the only beneficiaries will be the Greens.””
I’m delighted to be able to burst your bubble. It’s a single poll. You can ascertain my feelings about individual poll results by reading my previous comments. In summation: trends are important, data points not so much.
You are such a liar Maninthemiddle. I guess like John key, lies are all you have, because you cannot defend the indefensible corrupt PM and his National government of destruction.
Okay, so based on that logic, whenever a politician campaigns for re-election by saying they’re going to do this, or that, or something else, and the voting public elect them based on that articulated policy platform, it’s then okay for the politician in question to do none of those things. Because… you know, they just changed their mind.
If this is your justification for the endless stream of horse shit that routinely erupts from Key’s diseased maw, then politicians may as well say nothing at all. Ever. Because, really, what are their words worth?
“Because… you know, they just changed their mind.”
You simply don’t understand this discussion. It is about lying. By definition you cannot lie about a future event. If you want to argue you can, then you need to condemn Labour for decades of broken promises, including many by Helen Clark. It;s just silly.
Yeah… nah. I’m pretty sure I understand the discussion, but it’s nice of you to imply I’m some slack-jawed yokel oblivious to “grown up concepts” like lying. That’s never happened before.
If I tell my boss that I will have a report on his desk by 6:00am the following morning, and come 6:00am, there’s no report to be found. I lied. I said I would do something, and I didn’t do it. Now, there might be mitigating circumstances, but a lie, is a lie, is a lie.
And just so you know, I’ll condemn any party of any persuasion for telling lies. I might view John Key with the same fondness I’d reserve for testicular cancer, but I like to think I don’t play favourites when it comes to basic honesty.
Lie: “a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.”
That’s John key!!! He fits that definition perfectly. After all the lies John key has told, no one with a sound mind, should believe one word that comes out of that compulsive liar’s mouth. No one has told more lies than John key. No one.
You’re sounding desperate Maninthemiddle. No one has to argue John key’s lies, it’s public record, even recently Key patently lied about the Salvation Army and the homeless. It’s not the “far left” that think John key is a ogre and a failure, everyone knows it, he’s shown that himself.
You make a claim and then don’t have to support it? Not in the real world. Making a statement and changing your mind isn’t lying. Signing a painting you didn’t paint is. Lying about what a Police Commissioner allegedly said is. Lying over the Glenn affair is. Shall I continue?
Yes continue. Is that all you have got Maninthemiddle? You made claims and haven’t supported it, you said Helen Clark lied more than John key, so how about putting your money where your mouth is, and prove it, because as it stands now, posts with supporting evidence has proven you wrong.
“Maninthemiddle”……like the cream in the sponge……more rancid daily. But never mind. Former All Black captain
macho Johnno Key is
sooooo rich. All that
matters……munters !
Leftie I have asked for a single lie by John Key to be verified. None have been. I have posted lies by Helen Clark that are verified by independent sources. I will post more if you really want.
John key’s lies are a matter of public record Maninthemiddle, you are being ridiculous , you cannot defend the indefensible liar that is John key. Its as Draco T Bastard said @ 7.5.3.1
“No, you’re still claiming all the proof provided isn’t proof. In other words, you’re lying to protect your leader just like an authoritarian will do.”
Give one example. I have with Helen Clark, and subject my claims to scrutiny. (PS I’m trying to find the link to when Clark told that New Zealanders weren’t been spied on under her leadership. We know that was a lie…can you help?)
You have hundreds of examples of lies that John key has told to scrutinize Maninthemiddle, I even put up some videos for you, why don’t you scrutinize the lists etc and prove that none are lies then? And while you are at it scrutinize the lies that John key, who has been PM now for 8 years, has told about spying and mass surveillance.
“You have hundreds of examples of lies that John key has told to scrutinize ”
No, you have referred to a list of claims. So far only one person has taken up my challenge to debate them individually and I showed them up for what they are…total bs.
Your two You Tube posts have had the audio removed. Did you even check?
Oh and if you think opinion pieces from TS or TDB are of any value as evidence, I have abridge to sell you.
if you think you showed anyone other than yourself up for what they are, you’re a moron.
Hang on – Dunning-kruger personified, ego inversely proportional to extreme (almost unique) incompetence… I’ve argued with you before when you were under another handle, surely.
He decieves though, doesn’t he. Repeatedly. Over and over. The Great Deciever. Some say, “Bullshitter”. Maninthemiddle admires him for that, defends his behaviour and employs some of his methods as a form of adoration.
maninthemiddle is providing us with a valuable opportunity to refine our position on the Prime Minister. He is showing us how calling the PM a “liar” is less than effective. It can be challenged simply by saying, “prove it”, shoving all responsibility to the person making the claim. Far better and more effective it would be to play their game and use words that can’t be countered so easily. One could say, the Prime Minister deceives by forgetting, speaking ambiguously; he can’t recall, says he misspoke, changes his mind, has others speak for him, redirects, walks away from questions, doesn’t turn up at all for interviews, chooses pet media etc. In other words, when Key’s flunkies reduce the argument to single instances, they are redirecting attention from the general picture that has developed over the time of Key’s PM-ship, of deceptivenes and untrustworthiness. Maninthemiddle has, unintentionally I expect, given us the opportunity to reposition. The question then is, does anyone else care about that sort of behaviour? I think people are more likely to rationally consider the other descriptions of the Prime Ministers strategy, as “liar” seems a step too far for most people – our PM, a liar? That’s a bit harsh…isn’t it?
He is showing us how calling the PM a “liar” is less than effective. It can be challenged simply by saying, “prove it”
And we have done. Time and time again. It doesn’t matter how much proof we have as the RWNJs, like maninthemiddle , just won’t accept it. The Authoritarian types will always defend their leader no matter what atrocious actions they’ve done and we see that in maninthemiddle.
But maybe, just maybe, we can get the rest of NZ to see the truth by showing that proof time and time again.
By “less than effective”, Draco, I meant, not effective. We must be effective. Our/your “proof” doesn’t dent the defenses. Change tack, become effective. Sheesh! He’s telling you something useful. Adapt. Change. Become effective. Succeed.
I’m not sure that the distinction between “deceives” and “lies” is large enough to change the narrative.
Sure, tory trools might like to dance on the head of a pin, but it seems to me that you’re looking for a tactic that will change the perception of the general population. Basing it on the semantic slipperiness of a blogtroll who’s simply looking to spread alarm and despondancy is bashing a square peg in a round hole.
I think the best tack for the opposition is what they’ve started with the MoU: the nact distinction in the last couple of elections has revolved around party cohesion vs a disjointed opposition, and their trollines seem to still be focussed on that. Match them on that, and they’ll go with the party who’s leader doesn’t pull hair.
No, it is those trying to accuse Key of lying yet defending Clark that are ‘dancing on the head of a pin’. For example, a significant number of examples Blip’s list are statements made about future events (which by definition cannot be lies, but…). That being the case, you would have to agree with this, no doubt…
“I don’t usually post You Tube stuff here but this one is a gem of a home video. From Gyon Espiner from TV One news from last year.
Ms Clark says in similar words that, she would never like to see good parents live in fear of someone knocking on their door should they correct their child by giving them a wee smack.
That to pass a law, such as the anti smacking law, would be “defying human nature”, and Labour just would never do such a thing.
She in fact was caught out lying, again, but this time it was on video!”
S59 repeal is nowhere near as bad as that. It just means that when parents bash their kids with 2×4 they don’t have a defense in court.
But more to the point, making statements about future events is a lie when those “future events” are your actions and you make no effort to follow through on them.
But even if we were to grant your “anti-smacking” bullshit, that’s… 431 remaining.
In your linked clip she said that she didn’t want to see anyone who lightly smacks a child dragged before a court.
That’s one of the big reasons that police discretion was explicitly included in the law change:
To avoid doubt, it is affirmed that the Police have the discretion not to prosecute complaints against a parent of a child or person in the place of a parent of a child in relation to an offence involving the use of force against a child, where the offence is considered to be so inconsequential that there is no public interest in proceeding with a prosecution.
ISTR that’s a softening of the blanket repeal some people were after.
Your allegation of lying is incorrect.
Back to I think 432 more lies told by key than by clark.
“But for many of the families of those who died, and the New Zealand union movement, there’s no closure. Many who lost loved ones feel betrayed by the government of John Key, who committed to “getting the boys out”.
Again you are in denial, Key did say prior to the 2008 general election he would donate his salary or part of if he were to be elected PM. Even in your link, the Sunday News proclaimed ” PM : I’ll Pay PM’s Salary To charity.” John key lied, his mate Sean Plunket posted “the oft claimed fact that john key gives most of, or all of his salary to charity has no basis in fact. Urban myth!!!”
Put out there by John key himself as an election pr lie.
Thanks for engaging. At last! And now I will show you up.
1. A statement about the future cannot be a lie.
2. Your Australian reference is paywalled, so cannot be checked. You need to do better. Plus, see 1. above.
3. A reference from TS that is an opinion piece and NOT from the families, is not evidence. In fact it shows what dishonesty sits behind your claims that Key lied.
4. Again you lie. Key never said he would give all his salary to charity. And you have no idea whether he gives any or all.
That’s right. It could be your best intention to do that, you may even be planning to. But your failure to do so would not make you a liar unless it could be proven you qualified under the definition I have previously given, that is:
“a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.”
That’s right. It could be your best intention to do that, you may even be planning to.
Ah, but I wasn’t. See? It was a statement about the future that was a lie.
But your failure to do so would not make you a liar unless it could be proven you qualified[…]
No. Firstly, it’s not whether it’s “proven” to others. If you make a commitment with no intention of following through, you’re a liar. If you say something will happen because it’s politically expedient to say it at that time, and you don’t know or care whether it happens or not, you’re intending to deceive people by providing an assurance that it will happen.
And lastly, I said that I’d fuck your mother tomorrow, but I don’t know who you are. Anyone I have sex with tomorrow might actually be your mother, whether I know it or not. In the eventuality that I do have sex with someone who turns out to be your mother, even though I had no intention of having sex with your mother, am I a liar?
“It was a statement about the future that was a lie.”
But if I’m accusing you of lying, the onus of proof is on me, not you. If you accuse John Key of lying about future events, the onus of proof is on you. Personally I have no idea what you were thinking. Based on some of your opinions, you may well have been telling the truth.
I am very tempted to answer your final question, but as you have shot yourself in the foot, I’l leave you to contemplate it for a moment.
The last one was a rehash of a Gettier problem, but whatever. If you know the answers to some essential philosophical questions, you can make six or seven figures on the lecture circuit of the top universities in the world.
But to recap: lies can be told about future events.
Now, proving someone is lying can be a tall order, but when key said in the House (where he is supposed to tell only the truth) he got fletcher’s phone number from directory services, then had to correct his answer in the House to say he didn’t remember who got fletcher’s number or how… one of those statements was an outright lie, because it directly contradicts the other. He either remembered getting the number, or he made a statement about what he did when he did not know what he did.
similarly, his statements about pike river (thoroughly linked to in the TS post you disparaged) logically contradicted each other.
“he got fletcher’s phone number from directory services, then had to correct his answer in the House to say he didn’t remember who got fletcher’s number or how… ”
Not necessarily. One could be a mistaken recollection. Or both. A lie involve’s deliberate intent. Did Helen Clark deliberately intend to claim she painted that painting? Of course not. Yet on the same basis you seem to think Key is the devil incarnate, I could make a case Clark set out to deceive.
Not necessarily. One could be a mistaken recollection. Or both. A lie involve’s deliberate intent. Did Helen Clark deliberately intend to claim she painted that painting? Of course not. Yet on the same basis you seem to think Key is the devil incarnate, I could make a case Clark set out to deceive.
What a load of bollocks. Your defense against the allegation of lying is that Key is afflicted with false recollections of actually doing something? How is that better for a PM than being a goddamn liar? As for the painting thing, even at the absolute worst case where she signs the thing while laughing “ahahahaha everybody will believe I painted this!!! ahahahaha!!!” it’s a fucking charity painting not delivered under any higher obligation to tell the truth – unlike in the House or as a public interest obligation into how government operates.
Deception isn’t binary. Some lies are worse than others. And when you combine the seriousness of key’s untruths with their frequency, he’s not the devil but he is a lying piece of shit.
Like John key and the National government you support Maninthemiddle, you have failed, and the only person you have shown up, is yourself. You just cannot admit or face the fact that John key is a liar and a deceiver. John key has deliberately lied with the intent to deceive the NZ public since he entered NZ politics. And as PM, John key is the most bold faced, habitual and sociopathic compulsive liar this country has ever seen. No one lies more than John key. No one.
“John key has deliberately lied with the intent to deceive the NZ public since he entered NZ politics.”
And yet, despite your rant, you give not one single example that you can actually prove. What I have successfully proven is that you suffer from Key Derangement Syndrome. I recommend prompt assistance.
It’s not a rant, it’s fact with numerous examples to support it. And bullshit Maninthemiddle, all you have proven is that you are an unadulterated John key sycophant and apologist, who cannot admit or face the fact that John key lies.
The problem is that the fact of his lies aren’t getting out there. All we really see is the MSM kowtowing to Key and National and ignoring the fact that he lies rather than calling him up on it.
So, those proofs will work – as long as we get them out there. A weekly mailer would be good but we need some way to fund it.
I disagree. If you play his/their game; reacting in that way, “Liar! Liar!”, they will succeed. They are succeeding now. Change tack. A more subtle approach is needed. What will resonate with people. “He’s not being honest” is much more likely to settle into the consciousness than, “He’s a liar” QED.
If they don’t care, move on. How else might you achieve what you want to achieve? I believe “they” will react to a different approach. “Lies” is blocked. “Not really being honest with us” has legs. So does, “evasive”, ” deceptive” and “playing us for fools” .
I want to achieve key gone and the gnats too. Calling him a liar or some euphemism of that won’t work – the people that should care, don’t. Imo getting him to lose his cool, speak off the cuff and the good push at the moment to show he is out of touch, doesn’t care, is quite a good strategy.
“Your defense against the allegation of lying is that Key is afflicted with false recollections of actually doing something? ”
You’re missing the point completely, hence your ill tempered rant.
People forget things all the time. Your illustration was about how Key got someone’s phone number. That is easily forgotten. But that isn’t my point. Whether or not someone is lying can be argued based on bias. You are doing precisely that. You’re arguing Key lied because his recollection failed. I could equally argued Clark set out to deceive by signing a painting (something only the painter should do) she didn’t paint.
Hi, maninthemiddle – I’m keen for you to clarify what exactly you mean by “proof”. What proof of Key’s lying would you accept? A ruling by a judge? Hard to answer your challenge if you haven’t made clear what you require.
Thanks.
People forget things all the time. Your illustration was about how Key got someone’s phone number. That is easily forgotten. But that isn’t my point. Whether or not someone is lying can be argued based on bias. You are doing precisely that. You’re arguing Key lied because his recollection failed.
I’m not saying he’s lying because Key forgot something and, upon reflection of consulting with his office, corrected the non-answer.
He claimed to know something, he gave a specific answer to a question saying he did something, and then had to “correct” himself and say he didn’t remember whether it was him that did it or how it was even done!
People forget things all the time. What they don’t do is suddenly remember that they’ve forgotten something and that their previous, precise claim of how they did it was incorrect.
That’s why I’m saying that in this specific instance he lied. I’m sure he has also told the truth on occasion – booking a taxi, for example. But in this instance he told an outright lie.
As far as I understand what you’re saying, I agree with you Robert – the machine gun approach is far better than the single bullet thang if you want to be sure of hitting the target.
Bill – but we’re not shooting, we’re presenting a reasoned view. One approach is violent and foreign to us, the other is our bread and butter.
Let’s do it our way.
Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged. Shouting even louder, or repeating claims a la Joseph Goebbels doesn’t cut it.
maninthemiddle – no it isn’t. NZers can make that claim as often as they like, they don’t have to answer to you at all, it’s pretty arrogant of you to believe they do. It’s called ‘opinion’. These people believe Key is a liar. Suck it up. Who are you, his Moral Guardian? You’re doing a terrible job with your man. People believe he’s Very Lacking in that area. Must do better, maninthemiddle.
I don;t care what people ‘believe’. You may believe in the flying spaghetti monster for all I care. But calling someone a ‘liar’ isn’t an opinion, it is a truth claim. You can hide if you wish, but not bing prepared to have your claims tested is both narrow minded and intellectually dishonest.
It’s not a question of what I agree with, it’s a question of whether we should be open to accountability for claims we make. I’m still waiting for someone to put up one alleged ‘lie’ that they can actually support with any integrity. Like Lanthanide, I’m sure Key is not squeeky clean, no politicians are, but Blip’s list is a joke that clearly no-one here has seen fit to challenge. That isn’t very encouraging.
just checking, maninthemiddle, if you are asking me to back up claims that Key’s a liar, when I’m saying something other than that…
Aside from that, you are talking nonsense. Statements made by commenters here are more often than not, their opinions. For example, you state; “I don’t care what “people” believe”. Are you expecting us to believe that? prove it!
Once you’ve done that (it may take some time and effort – tricky little things to prove, facts) you might like to have a go at an easy one (@12:04)
“maninthemiddle – do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?”
I was responding to this comment by you with respect to accusations Key has told lies:
“It can be challenged simply by saying, “prove it”, shoving all responsibility to the person making the claim. ”
My point is simply that anyone making such a claim rightly has a responsibility to support such a claim. A list of 433 alleged lies, when even a cursory reading shows it is nothing more than the rantings of a deranged blogger, carries with it the responsibility to defend such claims.
On the rest of your comments in that same post, I actually agree with you. Using different language would be far more effective. And of all politicians, far more accurate.
maninthemiddle – oddly enough, I support your efforts to dissuade people from citing “Blips List”, as I believe it’s not an effective approach and those who use it are too easily tripped up by the likes of you. They don’t have to “prove it” as you claim, but declaring that they do is enough to muffle the effect they hoped citing Blip might have. It’s the same with, “liar!”. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter, as its use is easily blocked – it takes very little effort to demand proof and providing such takes a lot of work. Those who use misdirection, deception and untruthfulness know and rely on this to do what they do. You are playing your role in that process, but at the same time offering a chance to transcend the practice. I hope people here will respond by sharpening-up. You’ve made a good point, I reckon but I have to say, you’re a very poor absorber of other views. Single-minded, you are.
“Your “cursory” reading didn’t stop you cherry picking the weaker examples. ”
So you acknowledge there are ‘weaker’ ones. That’s a good start. Progress would be for you to ‘cherry pick’ a ‘stronger’ one and provide some evidence.
So far the “lies” you’ve attributed to Clark can be counted on one hand. Of someone who had experienced severe frostbite.
Anyhoo, how about when key told parliament that his office got his buddy’s mobile number from directory services? He had to take that one back in the House.
hi again, just trying to catch up with you, mitm.
What is your definition of “proof” please. We have to know what it is you require. Sorry to pester, but my other appeals have gone unanswered.
In response to ” do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?” you’ve said, “of all politicians, far more accurate” – yes?
Can you somehow ease my feeling that you’re using weasel-words here – “accurate”?
Would you indulge me and expand on your brief response, making reference, if you would, on why you avoided using the word “truth” “truthful” or “truthfulness”.
Thanks
“On the rest of your comments in that same post, I actually agree with you. Using different language would be far more effective. And of all politicians, far more accurate.”
My use of the word ‘accurate’ was directed at politicians (“of all politicians…), not what politicians say. To paraphrase, it is far more accurate to describe much of what politicians say in the context of your post of 2.38pm June 6th, specifically “deceives by forgetting, speaking ambiguously; he can’t recall, says he misspoke, changes his mind, has others speak for him, redirects, walks away from questions, doesn’t turn up at all for interviews, chooses pet media etc.”. I’m not sure you can justify all of those accusations with the current PM, although many applied the the previous one. Continuing to claim Key has lied 433 times is just silly, and the pubic turned off ages ago.
“Much of what politicians say”
I see. You’re holding fast to the “they all do it” position. I don’t accept that claim nor do I respect respect that view. Let’s cut to the chase, maninthemiddle – please answer my respectfully-put question:
” do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?”
I’ve presented it to you at least 3 times now – what’s with your avoidance? Did you not notice the question? I’m very keen to read your view on this matter.
By the by, this cluster of claims from you;
” I’m not sure you can justify all of those accusations with the current PM, although many applied the the previous one. Continuing to claim Key has lied 433 times is just silly, and the pubic turned off ages ago.” really does come across as weasely. I was enjoying a period of lucidity from you for a while there but that’s a regression into trolling, maninthemiddle. Try to keep the level of your comments up a bit please. In the meantime, please respond to my straight-forward question and if you would, answer it in a straight-forward way (not weasely).
I did. All politicians lie. John Key is a politician. Helen Clark was a politician. Some lie by commission, some by omission. I don’t trust any of them. That you don’t seem to like this stance is no concern of mine. Your apparent naivety, however, is.
Hell, I mentioned more instances of key’s lying when I was just having fun than the number of lies you invented for Clark when you were trying to argue equivalence between between the two of them.
I didn’t even know it was a competition. I was just laughing at you defending such a prodigious liar.
“Apart from Blip, who has sourced every single one of the entries on the list. ”
I’m challenging anyone to engage on the items. Ad you give far too much credit to the author. The list is mostly bs. Meanwhile, Key’s popularity remains unrivalled. No-one believes your hatred.
It’s not. And you obviously haven’t been keeping up. Clark can be accused of all sorts of skulduggery if you want to be as obsessive about her as you seem to be about Key. It’s an illness, once inflicted upon National supporters about Clark, now inflicted upon the ever diminishing left.
Good try McFlock, but both are accurate. Clark lied, on the same basis you apply to Key. And that is my point. Your list is the work of an obsessive. Just as were the attacks on Clark.
Not my list, but if it keeps blip happy, good for them.
See, the problem is that both your s59 and law&order allegations are actually lies by you, for the reasons I put up earlier. In one, you lie about what Clark said, in the other you ignore an entire act of parliament that went towards addressing the point and demonstrated not just an intent to follow through but actual action that followed through.
If you are the person with whom I argued a while ago (before their ban), this is the bit where you simply double-down and commit to assertions that have already been shown to be false.
1. I’m not the person you debated with before.
2. You haven’t shown anything I’ve claimed to be false. Clark said “”As you know I do not support a ban on smacking. I am opposed to that because I think it defies human nature. No one wants to see a stressed and harassed parent who in exasperation lightly smacks a child dragged before the court.”” Then she voted for a bill that banned smacking (“Bradford acknowledges that it would not be legal to smack a child under her bill.”)http://tvnz.co.nz/content/1024326/2591764.xhtml. By the standards you are applying to John Key, Clark lied.
You see, McFlock, you are arguing support for a list of alleged lies by Key that cannot stand up to scrutiny if you apply the same standards to Clark. I’ve made my point, well and truly. If you can’t see that, you need to take a long look at yourself.
1: so there’s more than one of you guys? What happened, did immigrationNZ accidentally class “punchdrunk NFL player” as a priority employment group?
2:
Clark said “”As you know I do not support a ban on smacking. I am opposed to that because I think it defies human nature. No one wants to see a stressed and harassed parent who in exasperation lightly smacks a child dragged before the court.”” Then she voted for a bill that banned smacking
A bill that leaves police the discretion to decide that smack was so light (“so inconsequential”) that it was not in the public interest to be “dragged before the court”.
when the original version of the bill came out of the ballot, it was a straight repeal of section 59. That’s what Clark didn’t support in 2006. And she didn’t vote for that in 2007.
“A bill that leaves police the discretion to decide that smack was so light (“so inconsequential”) that it was not in the public interest to be “dragged before the court”.”
Ah, but that’s exactly what HAS happened.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11359923
“Police reviews show that police investigated 143 alleged cases of “smacking” and 435 allegations of minor acts of physical discipline, such as slapping and hitting children, in the first five years of the new law up to June 2012. Eight cases of smacking and 47 alleged minor acts of physical discipline were prosecuted. ”
Minor, but obviously not so inconsequential as to not be in the public interest.
the most severe penalty reported was 200 hours of community service for a father who was drinking at the time, struck his son across the back of the head with an open hand causing him to fall forward and start crying, and then pulled him backwards and told him to go to sleep.
If anything, that’s the sort of thing it’s there for.
I have a lot of respect for Mai Chen, but lawyers are like water quality scientists: you can pay them to argue whatever you want. And Family First did just that, it seems…
They were “minor” offences.
Were they “light smacks”?
One was hitting a kid on the head while drinking. Another was smacking a kid with a belt.
To parse it in the way you love, they need to be both “light” and “smacks”. Using implements or holding him down with your foot aren’t smacks. A hard smack is not a “light smack”.
The family first-paid legal opinion mentioned a number of cases:
DC v R: the determination of “lightly” smacking was only in the legal opinion, not in any of the quotes from the judgement, simply because the penalty was relatively light;
Police v Graham Macdonald Young: same as above – nowhere was the judge quoted as describing the slap as “light”;
Mason v R: punching and pulling hair;
H v R: hitting with a belt.
So, no parents “dragged before the courts” over a light slap.
Well, Ianmac is essentially right, it wasn’t really about Helen Clark though, was it? it was about a donation to the NZ First party, and since you like being so selective Maninthemiddle,
“Helen Clark said the question of donations to New Zealand First was on the front page of the paper when she and Mr Glenn were at Auckland University to open its new business school in February.
“Mr Glenn on that occasion said to me pretty much what he said to the Privileges Committee,” the Prime Minister said this morning.
“As you would expect, the first thing that I did was go away and ring Mr Peters, and Mr Peters has consistently maintained that he never made that phone call to Mr Glenn,” she said, referring to the solicitation of the donation.
“So, there’s always been a conflict of evidence.”
Helen Clark said that at every time the issue had arisen, she had rung Mr Peters and asked for his word.”
“On Thursday Clark was caught out coming periliously close to breaching one of her own golden rules, which are the distilled wisdom of surviving 27 years of politics. She revealed to a gobsmacked media that Labour’s sugar daddy Owen Glenn told her as early as February that he had given $100,000 to Winston Peters.
After months of confusion over the Glenn donations, it turns out Clark has known much more than she has been letting on. The famously candid prime minister has been caught out being economical with the truth.”
You brought up the Owen Glen donation to NZ First, essentially that had nothing to do with Helen Clark, who just got dragged into it. Your quote from National biased Stuff, never said Helen Clark lied.
“As you would expect, the first thing that I did was go away and ring Mr Peters, and Mr Peters has consistently maintained that he never made that phone call to Mr Glenn,” she said, referring to the solicitation of the donation.
“So, there’s always been a conflict of evidence.”
Helen Clark said that at every time the issue had arisen, she had rung Mr Peters and asked for his word.”
“On Thursday Clark was caught out coming periliously close to breaching one of her own golden rules, which are the distilled wisdom of surviving 27 years of politics. She revealed to a gobsmacked media that Labour’s sugar daddy Owen Glenn told her as early as February that he had given $100,000 to Winston Peters.
After months of confusion over the Glenn donations, it turns out Clark has known much more than she has been letting on. The famously candid prime minister has been caught out being economical with the truth.”
But it still didn’t say she patently lied like John Key does Maninthemiddle. I think you are deliberately missing the point.
“As you would expect, the first thing that I did was go away and ring Mr Peters, and Mr Peters has consistently maintained that he never made that phone call to Mr Glenn,” she said, referring to the solicitation of the donation.
“So, there’s always been a conflict of evidence.”
Helen Clark said that at every time the issue had arisen, she had rung Mr Peters and asked for his word.”
When wingnut trash have their faces dragged through their Daddy’s perfidy, do you ever experience a little bit of personal responsibility, or does the facile squealing that Labour did it too drown out any vestige of ethics you never had in the first place?
Please don’t answer that: I’m not interested in your weasel excuses, because I think the best response to “your” “opinion” is contempt.
Winston was the Leader of NZF and not a member of the Labour Party. He was not answerable to the PM except as the Foreign Minister. Supposing the Act Party did something naughty. Would Key be held to account?
Draco. Please. It’s not only right wing nut jobs that lie. Every human knows this. John Key tells the truth on many occasions. People can see this. Helen Clark, being human, clearly told some lies as history records. Let’s get smarter about this.
You;re simply repeating yourself without addressing the question. There is a list of 433 alleged lies told by Key. Pick one and let’s discuss it. In my view the vast majority of items on the list can be dispensed with in a nanosecond, others may have some merit with some contortion, and finally there are bound to some that could reasonably be argued. But that ‘some’ will be no more than I can post (and have begun to) for Helen Clark.
Why Maninthemiddle? John key’s lies over the years are public record. Why don’t you go through the 2 lists that have been posted recounting hundreds of lies John key has told and give substantiated evidence that each one is not a lie then.
Suppose he’s got to rebuild his reputation some how. The idea of converting / refitting / rebuild the old High School has been kicked about for a while. Devil will very much be in the detail of how it’s done and by whom. Ngai Tahu will have first say and that shouldn’t be a bad thing, they have a very good reputation around town as developers.
I’m prepared to have an open mind on that. When Nick Smith was in town he started off by saying that Queenstown’s housing problem was all the council’s fault because they hadn’t “opened up enough land” and talking commissioners. Council and others had to do a lot of work to convince him that wasn’t the problem, there’s around 10000 consented but unbuilt sites. The hold up is shit like this between developers http://www.scene.co.nz/appeals-stall-huge-development/328482a1.page
That’s just one of many ongoing bunfights and fell out when Smith was in town.
Barclay’s efforts in Queenstown probably won’t help him much, we don’t vote up here, turnout’s pathetic. And a lot of the people he’ll help aren’t eligible to vote.
The real work is down south where 90% of the votes are.
You might be right. Or it could be part of a wider rehab plan, including reassuring Queenstown business and powerholders that Barclay is competent, useful, and on side. There’s more to National’s needs than votes.
Not quite sure how that fits with having an incompetent housing minister like Smith.
As government increasingly defers to the interests of those who now bankroll political campaigns — not just in a handful of states, but nationwide — union influence has dwindled, deep poverty has soared, and the middle class has collapsed.
The war on poverty has thus been enveloped and surpassed by a different war — the war for corporations.
So in NZ we have:
SkyCity
Rio Tinto
Serco
and others
against cuts to education, health, beneficiaries being thrown off benefits, and more.
As always… the final sentence sums it up in a nutshell and we are seeing it all right here in New Zealand.
It is these corporations, non-human entities in no need of food or clothing, that deserve our scorn for the extent to which they depend on taxpayers for their continued growth — the same taxpayers that, as a result of corporate greed and government duplicity, are forced to endure the consequences of a system that is, as economist Joseph Stiglitz has put it, “of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%.”
Thanks for that Draco. I have passed that on to several people, The more people
who are aware of this, the better. You will not see that mentioned in the Herald or by the likes Henry
Worst in 27 years and points to a failing of policy. The current lot’s penny-pinching, small government approach is notching up some records for all the wrong reasons.
The point isn’t that these accidents were caused by a greater focus on revenue-gathering activities, but that they divert funding from the things that offer the biggest improvements in road safety: infrastructure and vehicle development (ie better roads and safer cars).
It is a bit unfair to blame the Police for not building better roads, mind…
Yeah, which is why we (NZ) have stringent checks on people before they get a P endorsement for their license which allows them to carry passengers. An endorsement that Uber no longer requires before someone signs up to become a driver.
Uber needs to be banned as it really is the quintessential exploitation model. Someone else getting rich on the work of many others while those doing the work can barely survive.
Banning has been one way to go. Regulating (“practical, balanced and minimalist” way) is another option. My daughter, currently on secondment, sent me these from ‘The Republic’ about a couple of months ago:
Uber is now recognised globally whereas the local version won’t be which would make it a lot harder for a new local version to succeed. The same thing is true for TradeMe and the attempts at producing competition for it.
I thought you were all for locally developed technology options. The argument you presented in your comment here would seem to apply to all your calls for going NZ made for most technology products and services.
Actually, one point I’ve always considered if NZ started our own fabrication of ICs was that we’d produce Intel and AMD chips here under license. That there’d be capacity for NZ developed chips as well would be the boost to the local tech industry which is why I think it needs to be government that produces the fabrication plants.
Why would Intel and AMD want to produce chips in NZ?
Can we do it cheaper, faster, better than anyone else? Do we have a track record or reputation to prove we are worthy of building their CPUs, which are some of the most sophisticated in the world?
Can we do it cheaper, faster, better than anyone else?
Probably – if we developed the tech well enough. And we can certainly do that. Hell, photo-lithography, the process used to produce CPUS, is a tech that’s over 200 years old.
The big question is: Why the hell haven’t we been developing it over the last 40+ years?
Photo-lithography is one step in a very long series of steps required to manufacture a CPU.
There was about 300 steps last time I looked. Most involved coating the photo resistor on the chips, dousing the plate with an ion beam and then washing the photo resistor off.
Rinse and repeat.
Also why the hell would you go for an x86 style chip if NZ were going to manufacture its own?
Compatibility.
PS you’d also have to do that illegally as neither AMD nor Intel will license anything newer than an x486 for general computing use
You mean my Intel Corei7 chip really doesn’t say ‘Made in Malaysia’ on it?
DTB, oh I hadn’t understood, you want NZ to manufacture CPUs for Intel like Malaysia does?
BTW, as it seems you are not clear on the logistics chain for Intel CPU manufacturing, an Intel facility in Malaysia is used to assemble the CPUs. No x86 licensing is involved there. You are right however that there is no Intel fab there.
The silicon wafers themselves are fabricated at an Intel fab elsewhere, as per that wiki list you linked to, and shipped to Malaysia for finishing.
EDIT I agree with you that NZ should manufacture its own CPUs, but I would stay far far away from x86 chips and proprietary MS bloatware. Licensing multi use ARM designs which can be fabbed on a well understood and low risk 90nm process or similar is the way to go.
EDIT I agree with you that NZ should manufacture its own CPUs, but I would stay far far away from x86 chips and proprietary MS bloatware.
You do understand that Linux also runs on x86 don’t you?
And so does MacOSX (Although I tend to think of that as worse than Windows)
And many other OSes.
The silicon wafers themselves are fabricated at an Intel fab elsewhere, as per that wiki list you linked to, and shipped to Malaysia for finishing.
So, according to you, they fab the chips in one place and then ship the highly fragile, can’t be exposed to the open air, wafers halfway around the world to be assembled in Malaysia?
Yeah, pull the other one – it’s got bells on.
Licensing multi use ARM designs which can be fabbed on a well understood and low risk 90nm process or similar is the way to go.
Or we could, you know, develop our own. Or license ARM. And, no, ARM isn’t staying on 90nm either.
I was pointing out the difficulty of local brand competing with a global brand. The person coming in from the USA with the Uber app on their phone probably isn’t going to even look for a local app to do the same thing.
Now, I happen to think that your model suggestion is a far better model than that of Uber but it needs to be a local/global thing where there’s still a single app but it connects to the local taxi cooperative rather the local drivers working for a global conglomerate.
Concerning John Key and you commenters on TS who are getting caught up in the sticky spider’s web of maninthemiddle what do you think you are doing? You could be thinking and discussing something that we can change, working out how, or learning something new. Instead you are filling the thread with a lot of dickery-doo about whether the word is lies or not. I have counted 50+ from the start of 7 which was put by mitm himself. It has totally dominated time and page space.
Call it shiftiness, call it prevarication, look up the thesaurus and choose some other elegant or arcane words instead of lies. ‘A rose by any other name will smell as sweet’ as the saying goes. Have a caption competition to choose a code word for Key’s mumbles! Mitm just stirs you up and you waste your good time and spoil the value of the blog for others. And look incompetent time-wasters. And make TS a laughing stock by RWs.
True that, greywarshark. It’s like those one armed bandit machines at the old carnivals – another shilling, another pull on the arm and you might just get that plastic kewpie doll…
Robert Guyton
Ah the good old days when if you kept trying you might get that plastic kewpie doll.
Now the whole game is totally rigged so the item magically moves away as you aim for it and you never will get a doll, or another chance. You pay to get into the fairground to look at other people enjoying the activities which you can’t afford to join in, and next time the fair comes round, won’t even have the entry fee.
Robert Guyton
This through from Avaaz. Are they going to be able to make an impact. It sounds like a good try.
“Looking to where we were in the beginning of this year and where we are now, Avaaz is indisputably the driving force of the fight for glyphosate discontinuance.”
Pavel Poc, Vice-Chair of the EU Parliament’s Environment Committee, and key leader of the glyphosate fight
This is far from over. But it’s an utter game-changer for countries like Germany, France and Italy to challenge the basis of Monsanto’s entire business model.
Avaaz delivers glyphosate petition at the EU parliament
Avaaz petition delivered to European Parliament
We haven’t been knee-jerk anti-pesticide. Our campaign calls for a suspension until independent science determines the safety of glyphosate. We’ll keep fighting, but if the EU allows 18 months for a new scientific process to weigh in, and we can ensure that process is truly independent, we could win this!!
We can also use the next 18 months to focus scrutiny on the global environmental impact of the Monsanto model, which is turning the surface of our planet into strange, toxic “biodeserts” where only one genetically modified Monsanto crop can grow.
Like with climate change and the Paris agreement, Avaaz has mobilised people on this issue at an unprecedented scale – we’ve taken the fight against Monsanto to a whole new level, and now it’s up to all of us, over the next 18 months, to win it.
First big oil, now Monsanto. We are taking on the dragons of our world. But if we stick together, and choose to believe and act, we can do anything.
With hope and determination,
Ricken, Alice, Bert, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
Thanks, greywarshark – yes, I’m following that development with great interest, as are my fellow councillors through the emails I’m kindly providing for them 🙂
Glyphosate use on NZ farms is alarmingly high, as is its use by city and district councils. I’m strongly opposed to its use.
I’ve re-read LP’s post to me, and frankly his personal threat is disturbing and rather pathetic, so I’m going to finish on this topic with this. It makes the point very well.
But maninthemiddle – please don’t go just yet! Could you at least provide me with some honest feedback to my most recent comment to you? It’d only be polite, given the time I gave to you in engaging with you. Here’s that comment again:
8 June 2016 at 3:05 pm
I was keen to uncover the mechanism behind maninthemiddles crusade here. I asked what he need/meant by “proof”, as he’d used the word in his challenges here on TS. He seems, in response, to have been “less than truthful”, as evidenced by the two quotes below. Fair call, mitm?
maninthemiddle said: 7 June 2016 at 11:44 am
“Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged.”
Awww! Maninthemiddle’s done a runner. How disappointing, I’ll miss him so. He was doing okay, keeping everyone distracted with his arrogant demands for attention and proof but that all fell apart under pressure and he revealed himself to be, let’s be kind here, less than truthful. I hope he returns. I’ve something I’d like to ask him.
What threat are you referring to Maninthemiddle? I haven’t read any responses containing any threats, and putting up a link to a right wing blog site won’t help your failure to prove your point either. It is not a claim that John key has told countless lies and continues to lie and deceive, it’s fact, and everyone knows it, including right wingers like you.
You have replied to others, why are you refusing to respond and address Robert’s questions?
Read LPrents comment. A cowardly, empty and bankrupt threat from behind a moderators cloak. Obviously I’ve hit a tender spot with my comments about Blip’s list.
“If it’s cowardly, empty and bankrupt, why did you find it disturbing?”
You mean you don’t find ‘cowardly, empty and bankrupt’ behaviour ‘worrying’ (the meaning of disturbing)?
“Anyway, you were actually getting somewhere with #30. I guess thats back to 431 lies…”
Well then I was batting 1 from 1. And I’m leaving it there.
The thing is, it’s not a “cowardly, empty and bankrupt threat from behind a moderators cloak” though. Lprent has been upfront and has confronted you about your trolling behaviour. Again, putting up a link to a right wing blog site won’t help your failure to prove your point either.
Actually he never mentioned trolling. He took exception to my holding people accountable for labelling someone a liar, obviously a sensitive issue for him.
His remarks were cowardly, because he moderates and therefore can skew the debate his way.
They were empty, because he has no intention of carrying them out (even if he could!)
Finally they were bankrupt, because they were of no use whatsoever.
His comments went beyond rational dialogue into personal threats. If you find that acceptable, then that’s sad.
As to the ‘right wing blog’, how do you feel about Blip’s use of left wing blogsites to support his list? Are you going to exercise consistency or hypocrisy?
“I may choose to savage you with the attention (that you so obviously desire) of evidence and opinion about you and your ideas. I’ve been on the nets for more than 30 years, am rather over educated, have a lot of work and political experience, and have a certain expertise in administering ‘educational’ experiences to fools on the net. I’m unlikely to be kind or unconstrained. The attention I tend to give is more sadistic. So I’d be careful about what you ask for.”
Paranoid. Egotistical. Sadistic. But keep defending him if you like.
“8 June 2016 at 3:05 pm
I was keen to uncover the mechanism behind maninthemiddles crusade here. I asked what he need/meant by “proof”, as he’d used the word in his challenges here on TS. He seems, in response, to have been “less than truthful”, as evidenced by the two quotes below. Fair call, mitm?
maninthemiddle said: 7 June 2016 at 11:44 am
“Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged.”
maninthemiddle said: 8 June 2016 at 2:39 pm
“Actually I’m not demanding anything””
Seems all clear to me. BTW, I answered your question about ‘proof’ earlier. As you seem not to have understood, I’ll rephrase. By proof I men verifiable evidence. Not opinion posts on TDB or TS, which I have seen used to support the contentions. Not blogs by Nicky Hager. Actual quotes, with references, by Key, followed by convincing evidence Key actually knew he was lying. That’s the standard. Nothing less will do. I can’t find a single item on Blip’s list that comes close.
Oh, and as a parting shot, the left started this ‘narrative’ attacking Key before he was even elected. Have a read of this little piece. It even appears to have coined the phrase ‘Dirty Politics’. Seems Key Derangement Syndrome began much earlier than I thought.
Thanks for getting back, maninthemiddle. Here’s my question to you. I’m keen to get a response from you about what seems to be contradictory statements you made earlier. You were pursuing the issue of truthfulness, but seemed to be untruthful in what you said. I have the evidence you said was so important in such situations; your claim that you didn’t ask for proof alongside of examples of your…asking for for proof. I wonder if you might address this conflict and assure readers that you weren’t being…dishonest. We, the readers and I, need that assurance in order to treat any of your statements as worthwhile, rather than…dishonest.
‘k?
I said Lprent confronted you on your trolling behaviour, that was my take on it, I never said Lprent said it. Lprent didn’t skew the debate and neither where his remarks empty and bankrupt, you certainly took exception to them, so again you are wrong. People could easily say your comments go beyond rational dialogue, and maybe you have a persecution complex issue if you think it was a personal threat when it wasn’t.
Well, right wing blog sites that support John key are not going to promote and publish full lists of John key’s lies, that are public record, are they? it stands to reason that Blip and others who have made lists of John key’s lies are going to have them published on left wing blog sites. I think that was a really stupid question you have asked. I see that you are still avoiding Robert’s questions, and I thought you said you were finished with this topic comments ago. You appear to want to carry it on, so why not answer Robert’s questions?
If LP wanted to confront me and accuse me of trolling, he should have done so. But if you read his ugly piece of intolerance you’ll find he didn’t. Not once. It is you who have introduced that.
How you can construe comments such as “I may choose to savage you”, ” and have a certain expertise in administering ‘educational’ experiences to fools on the net”, “I’m unlikely to be kind or unconstrained.”, “The attention I tend to give is more sadistic.” and “So I’d be careful about what you ask for” as anything other than personal I’ll leave up to your conscience. Why he would think I’d be impressed by his “30years on the net” and his bloated opinion of his intelligence is beyond me.
As to Roberts comments, I have answered them. Above. I said I wouldn’t carry on with this topic, and I’m not. However I will defend my opinions on LP’s vanity and irrationality. It is obvious I touched a nerve.
[lprent: Not really, I’m very short of time due to work. Normally I’d just do a moderator warning like this when I’m ‘noticing; someone as a moderator. However I was reading on my cellphone and the editing is a pain.
But clearly the point didn’t get through, so I clearly need to reinforce it with some arbitrary moderator behaviour. It really pays to listen to moderators giving warnings about comment behaviour even if they are routinely as nasty as I prefer to be.
But since the warning wasn’t in the normal format and I have the dishes to do so there is no time to broaden the point, so I will generously reduce the usual emphasis by half. Banned two weeks. ]
Bloody can’t help yourselves. You have got to go on needling, demanding, keeping going the trolling behaviour.of mitm. I think some of you aren’t serious about discussing and learning ways to deal with the future. You just want to play in a sandpit that a dog or cat has done something smelly in.
Goodbye for now. The comments are trite and trivial.
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The Herald reports that WINZ debt has reached the staggering total of $2.4 billion, with the usual racism and sexism in who owes and how much they pay: Anti-poverty groups say the poorest Kiwis are caught in a debt trap as the total amount of money owed to the ...
There was a poll last week which asked if now was the right time for a tax cut. Which is quite an odd thing to ask really, don’t you think?We’ve got to pay back the money used to keep paying people and stop businesses going under during the pandemic. Our ...
The Treasury released its budget economic forecasts. What do they say about the economy over the next four months?Brian Easton writes – Let me begin me with an irritation. One post-budget headline was ‘Treasury optimistic over recession risk in Budget 2023‘. Treasury being optimistic is almost an ...
As a politician swallowing a rat under a very public spotlight, Chris Bishop gave a spirited and relatively smooth account of himself yesterday. File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāTL;DR: Chris Bishop has detailed National’s new housing policy for Election 2023 that confirms a National Government would not force councils ...
After signalling it a week ago, yesterday National launched their new housing policy which abandons their support for the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) that they had worked with the government to deliver back in 2021 and shifts the focus to more sprawl. Overall there are three key areas National ...
The audacity of National’s “u-turn” over housing intensification is an extraordinary slap in the face for Chris Bishop and Nicola Willis. If it does nothing else, it raises questions about their political judgement, not for the first time.. Some in the Caucus have still not forgiven them for their ...
Today, Te Pāti Māori announce Takuta Ferris will contest the Te Tai Tonga seat at this year’s General Election. “Takura ran for the Te Tai Tonga seat for Te Pāti Māori in 2020. It takes tremendous courage and commitment to put your hand up for another round in the ring ...
Focussed immigration has always been essential to our future, but New Zealanders need to be aware of the immediate dire situation our government is putting us in with a predicted record of one hundred thousand new immigrants moving to New Zealand in this year alone. That means we will have ...
Today, President of Te Pāti Māori, John Tamihere has confirmed that Heather Te-Au Skipworth will stand for Te Pāti Māori in the Tukituki electorate this election. ...
During New Zealand First coalition negotiations our policy was to train and resource 1800 new frontline police. We secured this coalition policy win to ensure our streets had a police force that could tackle crime - after years of neglect. Remember those previous nine years of neglect saw a ‘tag ...
Katie Kenny from Stuff published an article today with a lazy attempt at so-called ‘fact checking’ my recent comments on the World Health Organisation’s concerning new regulations being developed. What is most surprising is that throughout this entire ‘fact checking’ process, Kenny never once rang me asking for my side ...
The National Party has released another confused and rushed policy that will only further worsen the inequality that is driven by unaffordable housing. ...
Welcome to sunny and calm Wellington, which I know those of you who are visiting would of course expect to be the case. It’s been a busy week since we put forward the 2023 Budget. Labour MPs have been out across the motu giving the good oil on the Budget. ...
Kia orana, Talofa lava, Mālo e lelei, Taloha ni, Fakaalofa lahi atu, Noa’ia e mauri, Ni sa bula vinaka, Kia ora, Tena Koutou Katoa. Labour Party President Jill Day, Prime Minister Hipkins, Party faithful, delegates and comrades, whānau and friends, it’s a privilege to be here today. I begin my ...
One of my kaumātua up North stood before the Waitangi Tribunal and said: ‘He aha kē ahau, te tangata kore hara i mua i te Atua, e tu nei kia whakawaatia e koe, te tangata tāhae, te tangata hara, te tangata kore tikanga?Ko koe kē te tika, kia tū ...
New Zealanders will be highly concerned that the World Health Organisation proposes to effectively take control of independent decision making away from sovereign countries and place control with the Director General. W.H.O International Health Regulations on future outbreaks of disease aim to give the Director General extraordinary and wide-sweeping powers. ...
The Green Party is calling on the Government to take responsibility for reducing inflation by taxing wealth instead of leaving RBNZ to continue hiking the Official Cash Rate. ...
The Green Party has released its list of candidates for the 2023 election. With a mix of familiar faces, fresh new talent, and strong tangata whenua voices, this exceptional group of candidates are ready to set the direction of the next Government. ...
Thank you for your invitation to be here, after yesterday's budget, and for the opportunity to talk with you. In the economic and social turmoil following the arrival of COVID 19 in New Zealand many concerns emerged. How would we keep our economy going and maintain our exports which are ...
At the heart of Budget 2023 is a cost of living package, designed to ease the pressure on New Zealanders in the face of global inflation and the challenges of rebuilding from extreme weather events. It provides practical cost of living relief across some of the core expenses facing Kiwis ...
A long standing Green Party policy has been extended yet again in this year’s Budget. This will deliver warmer homes for thousands of people, lower power bills, and cut climate pollution. ...
The Green Party is fully on board with free bus and train travel for under 12s and half price travel for under 25s - next stop, free travel for all under 18s, students, and apprentices. ...
Earlier this week, the Prime Minister announced a billion dollar flood and cyclone recovery package as part of Budget 2023. This is about doing the basics - repairing and rebuilding what has been damaged and making smart investments, including $100 million of protection funding to ensure future events don’t cause ...
The Defence Ministers of New Zealand and Japan have signed a statement of intent for closer defence cooperation between the two Pacific regional partners. Andrew Little and H. E. Yasukazu Hamada met to sign the ‘Statement of Intent on Defence Cooperation in Maritime Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and ...
New Zealand’s most recent defence assessment identified climate change and geostrategic competition as the two greatest security challenges to our place in the South Pacific. To the first issue, partners engaging and re-engaging with Pacific Island Countries are finding that climate change is a security and existential threat in our ...
The government is continuing to support rangatahi in providing more funding into Maori Trades training and new He Poutama Rangatahi programmes across Aotearoa. “We’re backing 30 new by Māori for Māori Kaupapa employment and training programmes, which will help iwi into sustainable employment or progress within their chosen careers” says ...
Murihiku Marae was officially reopened today, setting a gold standard in sustainable building practices as well as social outcomes for the people of Waihōpai Invercargill, Regional Development Minister Kiri Allan says. “The marae has been a central hub for this community since the 1980’s. With the support of $9.65 million ...
The first major public housing development in Whangārei for decades has reached completion, with 37 new homes opened in the suburb of Maunu today. The project on Tapatahi Crescent and Puriri Park Road, consists of 15 one-bedroom, 4 two-bedroom, 7 three-bedroom, 8 four-bedroom and 3 five-bedroom homes, as well as ...
Trade and Export Growth Minister Damen O’Connor will depart tomorrow for London to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Trade Ministers’ Meeting and then to Paris to vice-chair the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting. “My travel to the United Kingdom is well-timed, with the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (UK FTA) ...
The Fuel Industry (Improving Fuel Resilience) Amendment Bill would: boost New Zealand’s fuel supply resilience and economic security enable the minimum stockholding obligation regulations to be adapted as the energy and transport environment evolves. “Last November, I announced a six-point plan to improve the resiliency of our fuel supply from ...
The Government is making sure those on low incomes will no longer have to wait five weeks to get the minimum weekly rate of ACC, and improving the data collected to make the system fairer, Minister for ACC Peeni Henare said today. The Accident Compensation (Access Reporting and Other Matters) ...
A compulsory code of conduct will ensure school board members are crystal clear on their responsibilities and expected standard of behaviour, Minister of Education Jan Tinetti said. It’s the first time a compulsory code of conduct has been published for state and state-integrated school boards and comes into effect on ...
Tena koutou katoa and thank you, Mayor Nadine Taylor, for your welcome to Marlborough. Thanks also Doug Saunders-Loder and all of you for inviting me to your annual conference. As you might know, I’m quite new to this job – and I’m particularly pleased that the first organisation I’m giving a ...
The Government will enter into a funding arrangement with councils in cyclone and flood affected regions to support them to offer a voluntary buyout for owners of Category 3 designated residential properties. It will also co-fund work needed to protect Category 2 designated properties. “From the beginning of this process ...
The Government has announced changes to strengthen requirements in venues with pokie (gambling) machines will come into effect from 15 June. “Pokies are one of the most harmful forms of gambling. They can have a detrimental impact on individuals, their friends, whānau and communities,” Internal Affairs Minister Barbara Edmonds said. ...
The total Police workforce is now the largest it has ever been. Police constabulary stands at 10,700 officers – an increase of 21% since 2017 Māori officers have increased 40%, Pasifika 83%, Asian 157%, Women 61% Every district has got more Police under this Government The Government has delivered on ...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Nanaia Mahuta met with Korea President Yoon, as well as Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna, during her recent visit to Korea. “It was an honour to represent Aotearoa New Zealand at the first Korea – Pacific Leaders’ Summit. We discussed Pacific ambitions under the ...
The Government’s Research and Development Tax Incentive has supported more than $2 billion of New Zealand business innovation – an increase of around $1 billion in less than nine months. "Research and innovation are essential in helping us meet the biggest challenges and seize opportunities facing New Zealand. It’s fantastic ...
The next ‘giant leap’ in New Zealand’s space journey has been taken today with the launch of the National Space Policy, Economic Development Minister Barbara Edmonds announced. “Our space sector is growing rapidly. Each year New Zealand is becoming a more and more attractive place for launches, manufacturing space-related technology ...
A new Year 7-13 designated character wharekura will be built in Pāpāmoa, Associate Minister of Education Kelvin Davis has announced. The wharekura will focus on science, mathematics and creative technologies while connecting ākonga to the whakapapa of the area. The decision follows an application by the Ngā Pōtiki ā Tamapahore ...
Protecting the environment by establishing a stronger, more consistent system for freedom camping Supporting councils to better manage freedom camping in their region and reduce the financial and social impacts on communities Ensuring that self-contained vehicle owners have time to prepare for the new system The Self-Contained Motor Vehicle ...
A new law passed last night could see up to 25 percent of Family Court judges’ workload freed up in order to reduce delays, Minister of Justice Kiri Allan said. The Family Court (Family Court Associates) Legislation Bill will establish a new role known as the Family Court Associate. The ...
New Zealand businesses will begin reaping the rewards of our gold-standard free trade agreement with the United Kingdom (UK FTA) from today. “The New Zealand UK FTA enters into force from today, and is one of the seven new or upgraded Free Trade Agreements negotiated by Labour to date,” Prime ...
The Government will reform outdated surrogacy laws to improve the experiences of children, surrogates, and the growing number of families formed through surrogacy, by adopting Labour MP Tāmati Coffey’s Member’s Bill as a Government Bill, Minister Kiri Allan has announced. “Surrogacy has become an established method of forming a family ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little departs for Singapore tomorrow to attend the 20th annual Shangri-La Dialogue for Defence Ministers from the Indo-Pacific region. “Shangri-La brings together many countries to speak frankly and express views about defence issues that could affect us all,” Andrew Little said. “New Zealand is a long-standing participant ...
Research, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall and the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang met in Wellington today and affirmed the two countries’ long-standing science relationship. Minister Wang was in New Zealand for the 6th New Zealand-China Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation. Following ...
5 percent uplift clearer and simpler to navigate Domestic productions can access more funding sources 20 percent rebate confirmed for post-production, digital and visual effects Qualifying expenditure for post-production, digital and visual effects rebate dropped to $250,000 to encourage more smaller productions The Government is making it easier for the ...
Deputy Prime Minister and Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs (Pacific Region) Carmel Sepuloni will represent New Zealand at Samoa’s 61st Anniversary of Independence commemorations in Apia. “Aotearoa New Zealand is pleased to share in this significant occasion, alongside other invited Pacific leaders, and congratulates Samoa on the milestone of 61 ...
The Government is continuing to support retailers with additional funding for the highly popular Fog Cannon Subsidy Scheme, Police and Small Business Minister Ginny Andersen announced today. “The Government is committed to improving retailers’ safety,” Ginny Andersen said. “I’ve seen first-hand the difference fog cannons are making. Not only do ...
The Government has received the first independent review of the Intelligence and Security Act 2017, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says. The review, considered by the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, was presented to the House of Representatives today. “Ensuring the safety and security of New Zealanders is of the utmost ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has expressed condolences on behalf of New Zealand to the Kingdom of Tonga following the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili. “New Zealand sends it’s heartfelt condolences to the people of Tonga, and to His Majesty King Tupou VI at this time ...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has expressed condolences on behalf of New Zealand to the Kingdom of Tonga following the death of Her Royal Highness Princess Mele Siu’ilikutapu Kalaniuvalu Fotofili. “New Zealand sends it’s heartfelt condolences to the people of Tonga, and to His Majesty King Tupou VI at this time ...
Defence Minister Andrew Little and Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta have today announced the extension of the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) deployment to Solomon Islands, as part of the regionally-led Solomon Islands International Assistance Force (SIAF). “Aotearoa New Zealand has a long history of working alongside the Royal Solomon ...
Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta will travel to the Republic of Korea today to attend the Korea–Pacific Leaders’ Summit in Seoul and Busan. “Korea is an important partner for Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region. I am eager for the opportunity to meet and discuss issues that matter to our ...
Trade and Export Growth Minister Damien O’Connor joined ministerial representatives at a meeting in Detroit, USA today to announce substantial conclusion of negotiations of a new regional supply chains agreement among 14 Indo-Pacific countries. The Supply Chains agreement is one of four pillars being negotiated within the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework ...
Our most spoken Pacific language is taking centre stage this week with Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa – Samoa Language Week kicking off around the country. “Understanding and using the Samoan language across our nation is vital to its survival,” Barbara Edmonds said. “The Samoan population in New Zealand are ...
Over 90 per cent of New Zealanders are expected to receive this year’s nationwide test of the Emergency Mobile Alert system tonight between 6-7pm. “Emergency Mobile Alert is a tool that can alert people when their life, health, or property, is in danger,” Kieran McAnulty said. “The annual nationwide test ...
ENGLISH: Whakatōhea and the Crown sign Deed of Settlement A Deed of Settlement has been signed between Whakatōhea and the Crown, 183 years to the day since Whakatōhea rangatira signed the Treaty of Waitangi, Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little has announced. Whakatōhea is an iwi based in ...
Elizabeth Longworth has been appointed as the Chair of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, Associate Minister of Education Jo Luxton announced today. UNESCO is the United Nations agency responsible for promoting cooperative action among member states in the areas of education, science, culture, social science (including peace and ...
Tourism and hospitality employer accreditation scheme to recognise quality employers Better education and career opportunities in tourism Cultural competency to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces Innovation and technology acceleration to drive satisfying, skilled jobs Strengthening our tourism workers and supporting them into good career pathways, pay and working conditions ...
Tourism and hospitality employer accreditation scheme to recognise quality employers Better education and career opportunities in tourism Cultural competency to create more diverse and inclusive workplaces Innovation and technology acceleration to drive satisfying, skilled jobs Strengthening our tourism workers and supporting them into good career pathways, pay and working conditions ...
Greater access to primary care, including 193 more front line clinical staff More hauora services and increased mental health support Boost for maternity and early years programmes Funding for cancers, HIV and longer term conditions Greater access to primary care, improved maternity care and mental health support are ...
Greater access to primary care, including 193 more front line clinical staff More hauora services and increased mental health support Boost for maternity and early years programmes Funding for cancers, HIV and longer term conditions Greater access to primary care, improved maternity care and mental health support are ...
Act’s plan to cut red tape and regulation was not a snappy soundbite policy, but while party faithfuls may need to re-read the fine print on what David Seymour announced today, they left the annual conference feeling confident ahead of this year’s election A sold-out party conference this year for Act left ...
Commenting on ACT’s ‘Policing Red Tape and Regulation’ policy announcement, Taxpayers’ Union Campaigns Manager, Callum Purves, said: “Red tape and regulation are some of the biggest hand brakes on New Zealand’s prosperity. They make it more ...
Real Change Now, SkyCity Theatre, 4 June 2023 Introduction Thank you, and what a show! Is it too late to call it ‘ACT’s got talent?’ It’s just as well, ACT’s talent is as real as the problems New Zealand faces. Simon Court is a civil engineer. ...
New Minister and Ministry of Regulation to police red tape and hold Ministers and departments accountable Regulatory Standards Bill to require regulation meets good lawmaking principles Strong enforcement mechanisms to police new and existing regulations ...
This proposed ministry would be given the powers to evaluate new regulatory proposals, review red tape and change laws to remove surplus regulation. ...
Over 600 people crammed into the SkyCity Theatre today to demand real change as ACT MPs and candidates outlined a fresh vision for New Zealand. “The size of this crowd, and the enthusiasm they showed for ACT’s people and policies, shows that ...
Today, Te Pāti Māori announce Takuta Ferris will contest the Te Tai Tonga seat at this year’s General Election. “Takura ran for the Te Tai Tonga seat for Te Pāti Māori in 2020. It takes tremendous courage and commitment to put your hand ...
Claire Mabey reviews Josie Shapiro’s debut novel Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts, winner of the inaugural Allen & Unwin Fiction Prize.The aggressive misogyny of the early 2000s is the skeezy world in which Josie Shapiro’s quietly magnetic character, Mickey Bloom, comes of age. As a reader of the ...
Jack Santa Barbara asks if we've created a 'doomsday machine' by bringing artificial intelligence to a growth economy Comment: If you have the sense the world is fraying at the edges and things are getting worse faster than they are getting better, you wouldn’t be alone. Various scholars and organisations have ...
How political parties have influenced our desire to own our own homes, says Professor Sebastian KohlOpinion: In the late 20th Century, in most countries and even cities in the world, the majority of residents were homeowners. Some 20 years later that picture has shifted considerably, leading many to question whether ...
Bard Billot on the barbarian BrownLast one out, turn off the lights Some months had passed Since Alaric the Brown had stormed the gates Of the Mighty Cosmopolis of Auk, Burning and Thrashing and Laying Waste. Now Alaric wandered his vast estates As the passion and ...
If I moved through the world with pulsing red lines across my body, would that allow others to see the reality of my pain? The Sunday Essay is made possible thanks to the support of Creative New Zealand. Original illustrations by Ned Wenlock.I sit on a grey plastic chair, ...
From body horror to beige homeware, Alex Casey counts all the ways The Kardashians makes for a joyless watch in 2023.Watch enough seasons of reality TV and you will start to see parallels with the real seasons. In summer, where anything feels possible and everyone is merrily bashing around ...
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says he did not forward councillors a string of abusive emails that called them "dip shits", saying they were sent by staff "in a fit of excitement". ...
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News reporter New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins faced a grilling by University of Otago students during his trip to Ōtepoti yesterday. Students, staff and community members have been fighting against the university’s request for staff to consider redundancies in a bid to save $60 million. ...
RNZ Pacific Transparency International Papua New Guinea has welcomed the conviction of lawyer Paul Paraka as the police confirm they are widening the investigation into the fraud case. The NGO admits the depths of Paraka’s activities, revealed by the case, are very worrying. Paraka, who had operated his own eponymous ...
Government and the tech sector are considering principles for an AI strategy, but there seems little urgency from ministers and no sign of action before the election. ...
Government and the tech sector are considering principles for an AI strategy, but there seems little urgency from ministers and no sign of action before the election. ...
Susan Wardell’s first picture book is nominated in two categories at this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults. She tells Claire Mabey about the genesis of the book, and what she thinks of the state of children’s publishing in Aotearoa. Claire Mabey: What was the inspiration ...
In June 1997, a new reality TV juggernaut arrived on New Zealand screens. Tara Ward and Alex Casey look back on a quarter-century of Treasure Island mayhem. Twenty-six years ago this month, we watched 12 fresh-faced New Zealanders arrive on a Fijian beach with nothing but their hopes and dreams ...
Governments around the world are searching for how to fix housing affordability, but the solutions will have to be local and community based, writes Nicole Gurran of the University of SydneyOpinion: From Sydney to San Francisco, the housing affordability crisis is affecting communities across the world. Younger generations priced out of ...
A lack of female football stars in the media didn't stop Claudia Bunge on her journey to the top; now the Football Fern hopes a new campaign helps girls see what they can become The first time Claudia Bunge watched a women’s football game, it featured some of the Football Ferns she now ...
Councillors still weighing up their options before next week’s budget vote say there has been insufficient information, communication and time to assess the consequences of a full selldown of airport shares Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is famous for his straight to the bone style of communication, but Thursday’s budget announcement ...
Love, Instagram, and a new bed, from a dazzling new short story collection Alice had wanted a heart-shaped bed since she was sixteen, which was when she had started wanting most of the things she wanted now. She had imagined she would meet some Lolita-loving, Sugar Daddy type who ...
Every day, pets are being removed from domestic violence situations around the country. Alex Casey talks to one of the workers on the front line. This story contains discussion of domestic violence and emotional abuse, please take care.Alice Hayward has never been busier. As a caseworker for Pet Refuge, ...
As the country contends with a cost-of-living permacrisis and an election year, is it too much to ask that our politicians don’t spend a week playing petty games?It would be fitting to reflect on this week in politics by simply dropping this gif and, as with Succession itself, calling ...
As part of a weekly showcase of future leaders and inspirational young New Zealanders from the Hyundai Pinnacle Programme, Jennifer Palmer wants to know how we can treat neurodegenerative diseases more effectively | Content Partnership When Jennifer Palmer was growing up, her nickname was Chatterbox. “I’d always be saying, ‘Why? ...
This is The Detail's Long Read – one in-depth story read by us every weekend. This week, we're diving into the back catalogues. It's The Preppers Next Door by Tom Doig, published in New Zealand Geographic magazine's November/December 2022 issue. You can read the full article, with accompanying photos by Cameron James McLaren, here. When Tom Doig ...
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage pilot, Philip Mehrtens, held by Papuan liberation fighters and appealed to them to “keep Philip safe”. Jim Aubrey, a human rights activist who has campaigned ...
RNZ Pacific Members of Fijian communities in Auckland and Wellington are eager to meet Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka next week when he arrives on his first official state visit to Aotearoa New Zealand. Rabuka and wife Sulueti are expected to arrive in Auckland on Monday before meeting with the local ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told a regional security forum that dialogue is a vital “guardrail” in dealing with China, and praised US President Joe Biden’s effort to establish “reliable and open” US-China channels of ...
Flood-ravaged West Aucklanders are rejoicing after the government announced it will offer buyout options to people whose land is too risky to rebuild on. ...
Wayne Brown has sent councillors copies of insulting emails from the public, including one that called them "dip shits", while the deputy mayor says the mayor is not making the budget process easier. ...
The National Party wildly underestimated how popular its leader would be when he visited New Plymouth on Friday and had to turn people away at the door. Political editor Jo Moir found a patch of wall to lean against as Christopher Luxon got all sorts of questions and advice, not ...
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka The University of the South Pacific will be receiving additional funding from the Fiji government in the 2023-2024 national budget, says Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Professor Biman Prasad. Speaking at a public consultation in Lautoka this week, he said the additional funding ...
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby The National Court has ordered the Papua New Guinea government to disclose the full details of the gold refinery deal it entered into with a Singapore-based company, National Gold Corporation. The court ordered Prime Minister James Marape (first defendant), Planning Minister Renbo Paita (second ...
Asia Pacific Report A new edition of the Okinawan Journal of Island Studies features social justice island activism, including a case study of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Pacific Media Centre, in what the editors say brings a sense of “urgency” in the field of diversity, equity, and inclusion in scholarship. In ...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Preliminary findings of a yet-to-be released Transparency International survey has found sextortion — demanding sexual favours in return for public services — is a major issue in parts of the Pacific. Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia and Solomon Islands have higher ...
RNZ News New Zealand’s Media Freedom Council has called Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s exclusion of some media outlets from his budget speech today “unacceptable”. In an appearance at Auckland Transport’s Viaduct headquarters, Brown took time out of pitching his plan to sell the city’s holdings in Auckland Airport to complain ...
There are parallels between Indonesia’s Aceh where anAustralian surfer faced a flogging, and West Papua where a New Zealand pilot may be facing death. Both provinces have fought brutalguerrilla wars for independence. One has been settled through foreign peacekeepers. The other still rages as outsiders fear intervention.By Duncan ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tina Hinton, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, University of Sydney Shutterstock The latest health trend on TikTok has been dubbed “nature’s own Ozempic”. It’s the herbal preparation berberine. Influencers have been enthusiastically claiming its success in helping them lose weight, ...
The Government has announced new regulations to ensure venues and gambling societies uphold their responsibilities to prevent problem gambling and gambling harm. These regulations will apply to pubs, clubs and TAB NZ venues and will come into effect ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dean Aszkielowicz, Lecturer, Murdoch University On Thursday, Justice Anthony Besanko of the Federal Court dismissed defamation proceedings brought by former Special Air Service soldier Ben Roberts-Smith against several Australian news outlets. The court found that reporting by Nick McKenzie, Chris Masters ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock The world missed the boat with social media. It fuelled misinformation, fake news, and polarisation. We saw the harms too late, once they had already started to have a ...
The parliamentary petition calling for a national food strategy launched on the 1st of June and will remain open for signatures for eight weeks. The call is led by Eat New Zealand, Freedom Farms and Veterinarians for Animal Welfare Aotearoa (VAWA). ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock While plants can’t walk, they can certainly travel. Some species have travelled vast distances over millennia, moving by different and varied modes. Some ...
Duncan Greive is joined by The Spinoff staff writer Shanti Mathias and The Bulletin editor Anna Rawhiti-Connell to discuss the Safer Online Services and Media Platforms document, and its implications for the future of digital media. For a very special episode of The Fold, Duncan Greive analyses the Safer Online ...
Yes, they’re phenomenally expensive at the moment. But if you manage to track down a bargain or are keen on a splurge, there’s plenty of ways to make the kūmara worth it. As a child, there was no doubt in my mind: kūmara was the world’s best vegetable. This belief ...
Yes, they’re phenomenally expensive at the moment. But if you manage to track down a bargain or are keen on a splurge, there’s plenty of ways to make the kūmara worth it. As a child, there was no doubt in my mind: kūmara was the world’s best vegetable. This belief ...
Wayne Brown called most of his councillors ‘financially illiterate’ during a press conference yesterday morning. He then went back to the office and sent them emails from constituents who called them ‘dip shits’.Auckland mayor Wayne Brown spent a good portion of Thursday morning berating his councillors. In a 9.30am press ...
Wayne Brown called most of his councillors ‘financially illiterate’ during a press conference yesterday morning. He then went back to the office and sent them emails from constituents who called them ‘dip shits’.Auckland mayor Wayne Brown spent a good portion of Thursday morning berating his councillors. In an 8.30am press ...
Budget 2023’s promise of significant additional ECE funding has the potential to help many centres avoid financial unviability and hardship, as long as the current 20-hours conditions are kept, prompting the Early Childhood Council to withdraw its ...
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 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Chatto & Windus, $37)Let’s get quizzical: ...
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 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Chatto & Windus, $37)Let’s get quizzical: ...
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care is being challenged in court by two of the institutions it is investigating Two churches have filed applications for a judicial review of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, arguing that they don't bear responsibility for care of ...
* This is an excerpt from Rec Room. Sign up for regular Friday dispatches here. It’s a long weekend for most, so you might be keen to try out some new shows. Whatever you do, don’t start with HBO’s Succession successor The Idol (Neon). Billed as an over-sexed journey into ...
* This is an excerpt from Rec Room. Sign up for regular Friday dispatches here. It’s a long weekend for most, so you might be keen to try out some new shows. Whatever you do, don’t start with HBO’s Succession successor The Idol (Neon). Billed as an over-sexed journey into ...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Browne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock When a driver and a pedestrian approach a T-intersection, who has to give way? In newly published research we tested over 1,000 road users’ knowledge ...
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Switzerland heavily votes down the UBI proposal. But this debate will continue, as below:
http://qz.com/699739/why-switzerlands-universal-basic-income-referendum-matters-even-though-failed/
I’ve been giving some thought to what effect a ubi would have had on my lifestyle a few years ago when I owned a small block of land and worked as a casual shepherd/rural roustabout.
It would deffinatly have made it a more comfortable way of living as in sheepnbeef farming there is 3 months of flat out a couple of months ether side that are steady then the winter is a struggle to get casual work.
This scenario would also fit with shearers , possum hunters and orchard workers .
So I think a ubi could possible revitalize rural nz.
I’ve heard arguments that a UBI would be good for farmers/agricultural workers too. Makes a lot of sense.
It’s always good when someone else pays for it.
that only makes sense if you see your fellow citizens as ‘other’.
Nobody else is paying for it. In fact, the UBI would have to become the monetary injection that the economy needs to function. The fact is that the government already does this through the complex and occult banking system. Doing it through a UBI just makes it transparent that the government is funding the entire economy.
It’s the framing that makes it unpopular.
How but this? Instead of stimulus for banks to lend, ubi for the people to spend.
I think it essentially sums up the difference between austerity and stimulus.
Yes which is why the RWNJs always focus on it costing and ignore that it would actually be funding.
well, the “framing” and the fact that the math is still largely based on hand-waving.
Which is why things like the Finnish experiment are important: it replaces the hand-waving with hard data.
This money will quickly end up in the pockets of business owners, retailers and land lords. Why do you see that as being a problem?
So not employees, then.
*Shrug*
If you can’t see how more money entering the economy will benefit you and your extended family even if most of you are PAYE employees, you aren’t using enough imagination.
You seem to be imaging a world where employees get pay rises.
We’ve already seen that rises in productivity have not flowed through to workers pay packets for the past 30 years, why are you imagining it’s suddenly going to start happening now?
structural change to the economy Lanth. Massive structural change of which a NZ UBI of ~$115pw will play its role. Another one will be that of a guaranteed job. Another one will be private sector worker co-ops. Another one will be worker directors on every company board.
Shall I keep going.
Right, so when you were saying that the UBI would put money into employees pockets, what you actually meant is the UBI + a whole suite of other unspecified policies would put money into employees pockets.
I think you can see why it was confusing, when you talk about A but really mean A + B + C + D + E.
Hey Lanth I’ve had enough of these discussions with you today.
I’m also sick of two percenters who are too comfortable with the status quo while the other 98% of us try to make some headway through the emerging crises.
bwaghorn
That sounds a good idea in the case you put. In the days when work was to be found seasonal workers could go from one job when it finished for the season to another, being in work most of the time, and able to maintain their families the whole year. Now with the economy shrunken and skewed, apparently this can’t be done. The worker wealth generators have been stripped of their opportunities to be self-supporting and a sufficient UBI would sustain them between seasons.
It may also reduce acc claims , as I used to know a shearer who get a” back injury “a few weeks before the end of main shear more than once.
And I knew him well enough to know his back was fine.
Here is a much shorter and succinct article about the Swiss Universal Basic Income vote from a Swiss perspective.
“The campaigners failed to present a convincing funding scheme for their proposal. But they managed to launch a broad debate about an unconditional basic income,” says senior political scientist Claude Longchamp.”
http://www.swissinfo.ch/directdemocracy/vote-june-6_basic-income-plan-awaits-voters-verdict/42200378
My opinion: Yes, economic inequality is at intolerable levels. Yes, modern welfare systems have failed. No, you can’t go off half-cocked with radical proposals that have not been thought through. In NZ, turning over such vast power to elected dictators is insane. The Swiss have binding citizen initiated referendums to control their parliamentarians. Here they fuck us over and we are powerless to stop them.
NZ political reform must precede UBI. What a nightmare to have UBI under Prime Minister Judith Collins, PM Stephen Joyce, or PM Paula Bennett!
Amakiwi
+100
Thanks, Greywarshark.
I was thinking about news headlines from the future. Try this one on.
“Newly elected PM Joyce, Collins, or Bennett has just announced changes to reduce the cost of UBI. To stop people cheating by collecting the UBI from multiple addresses, the UBI will only be paid to people who can prove they own their own home. Everyone else will require an implanted microchip to collect.”
“Serco has promised they can insert and monitor the chips painlessly.”
“The Nats coalition partner, NZ First, has also demanded the UBI will only be paid to NZ citizens, not people with Permanent Resident Visas.”
Amakiwi
+1
We can but try. though.
I have just been looking at the story of the escapees in WW2 who were led over high mountain passes in southern France to Spain where they also had to elude the authorities who would send them to concentration camps. I think that about 5,000 people were saved after a rigorous trek. They hold a commemorative numbers of walks there n July each year and now with better conditions it still takes four days.
http://www.seniorwomen.com/news/index.php/the-freedom-trail-world-war-ii-escape-route-over-the-pyrenees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unN9W0NqU2w
Many of the passeurs? and no doubt their families were captured, tortured, shot, sent to concentration camps. They were so brave they were so committed to doing their bit against a foul system, they were heroes. And now they aren’t even mentioned in our rituals of remembrance. But they did what they could and laid their lives on the line. When things get desperate, more determination is required. At present just keeping on with trying to better policies and practices requires determination.
I think we must remember that we can’t hope for great advances, but to get a number of small ones can make much difference. We can only keep trying. I do think that the people in charge here and of the world have become foul and uncaring. The reason for this is being unveiled by various studies and research on human behaviour that is being quoted on TS. We will find a way to lessen this and perhaps eventually stop it, and end this cold war against the people. There is no magic bullet, only incremental changes can still make a huge difference. When we have very little, like nothing, a small amount of help and betterment is 100% improvement.
Yes, we need to become a democracy rather than the elected dictatorship that we are now.
The vote was:
23% For
77% Against
77% of the people didn’t want to have to fund a permanent vacation for the 23%?
Meanwhile, In Finland….
The preliminary report published at the end of March concluded that a full UBI would be ‘quite expensive’, and recommended a ‘consolidation of the current system of basic economic security into a partial basic income’, on the grounds it would ‘consolidate many of the existing benefits offering basic economic security, while earnings-related benefits would remain largely unaffected’
As I pointed out some time ago, The Finnish Govt. is actively seeking to reduce Govt. spending, and so it is no surprise that the reports recommendations would appear to achieve that aim….
‘According to Roope Mokka, the founder of the Nordic thinktank Demos Helsinki, the Finnish experiment, which will take place in 2017, is likely to involve a maximum of 180,000 Finns being paid a basic income of €500 to €700 a month – considerably less than the average Finnish income of €2,700.
Given that Finland’s welfare state is comparable to that of other Scandinavian economies, introducing a universal basic income model similar to that used in Kela’s experiment would involve shrinking the country’s social security spending, which currently stands at about 31% of GDP.
Your italicised quote does not match your link, and seems to have come from a Guardian article from late last week rather than being anything that you “pointed out”.
And that sort of false claim to rare skills typifies your prosaic RWNJ master/mistress of the universe……not unlike
that superbly macho
former All Black captain
‘Johnno’ Key……having regard to the composition of the latest
honours list.
Anyone running a book on the prospects of the “unknown visitor” (think Nelson Mandela memorial in SA) jetting
off with Prince Max in
RNZ Air Force One to
gatecrash officiations in Louisville KY ? Must call
David Slack. He would
know.
Yes the quote was reported in The Guardian….so?
Don’t you have anything to actually say about it?
Or the Finnish report on UBI?
Not to a dog like you ! You’d only come back with masturbatory protestations of love for Dear Leader.
I’ll be interested to see the results of the experiment.
But your plagiarism is there for all to see, fucko.
Masturbatory dog? Fucko?
Good to see you boys doing your bit to raise the level of debate around here.
Pretty much everything is higher than plagiarism.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/80766241/jane-bowron-whatever-happened-to-interviewing-politicians
I can imagine this fine reporter will be buying her own drinks at the next get together.
Yes! A great column worth a read. How long before she too gets Campbellized?
Superb article.
I think she understates the deliberate level of political bias in the media. There is the click bait ratings aspect, but there is also the placement of National party yes men in key positions. Henry, Hosking, Griffin come to mind.
It feels like we are living in a one party state, where the Dear Leaders’ propagandists tell us over and over again that we live in a paradise.
Wow indeed, no holds barred there!
Esp loved this bit “Even on RNZ’s Checkpoint with John Campbell, the honourable host who erected a shame wall for the relentless no show of politicians on Campbell Live, has to engage in obsequious Uriah Heepisms to effusively thank any politician so very, very much voicing his deep appreciation for their taking the time to grant him with their presence. The implied sarcasm isn’t lost on some as journalists have been reduced to being terrible grateful for any rare sighting of a politician.”
Hadn’t realised that it was with sarcasm that John thanks the politicians. Aha!
Yea, I don’t think it was. He thanks everyone profusely.
Jane nailed it. Fiji does it too or not as subtle as the National grip. What to do about it?
Keep calling it out in public forums and hope the next government backs a free press.
The video clips in Jane’s story are defaulted on my computer. Anyone else?
I am waiting for him to bring back the cardboard cutouts seated with him as he chats with the absent pollies. Yes, he does subtle sarcasm very subtle indeed.
It’s poor Campbell’s insurance against a second crucifixion. I do wish Bowron would lay off HDP-A’s cocktail party grimace though. The ‘work’ she endured to achieve such risibleness did not come cheap !
Switched from Firefox to Chrome. OK.
Climate change now having significant impacts, inequality soaring, homelessness at record rates and the Herald thinks this is news.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11651328
Thanks Paul (3). Again you have made a good point, as most of your posts do. Keep them coming.
God Almighty, what has this country come down to when a bloody parrot might hold information to a murder, is considered important news, considering what else is going on in NZ??!!
Thanks msm, the standards of which, are really dredging the sewers now!
Anything to keep people from questioning what’s happening to the country and the world.
Jane Bowron’s article referred to by b waghorn at 2 is good.
Paul (3.1.1) and here’s another thought provoking, stimulating news item from NZH this morning, while far too many Kiwi families doing it hard are being totally ignored by most msm networks …
http://spy.nzherald.co.nz/spy-news/is-this-max-keys-new-girl/
Yes, Jane Bowron’s article is an excellent piece of journalism. Now that is news. Not the crap being dished up by msm to divert our attention away from the stinking sh*t hole NZ has become!
mary a
Well I think that parrot, if it can give info on a murder, is an important witness and should be caged if it is inclined to be flighty till it is worn out from its long squawks. I have heard of stool pigeons but a perspicacious parrot is definitely novel and news.
And here is another one Paul (3). Headlines on Stuff this morning …
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/80772197/monkey-in-india-robs-jewellery-store-in-broad-daylight
Give me strength!!
Yup, heaps of examples of how corrupt the media has become.
Topping the Herald’s online news at the moment.
‘Bar stool thrown at robbers.’
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11651024
Clearly a more important issue than the disappearing ice in the Arctic.
Or the homeless of New Zealand.
The media is complicit in the crimes being undertaken against the poor and against the planet.
They will be held accountable.
Those who are at a loose end today should check this out. I only stumbled across this over the weekend. (If you have lightbox) Mr. Robot . Especialy if you can elate to the occupy Wall Street a few years ago.
Co staring a Mr C.Slater. ….No not that one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_(TV_series)
Mr. Robot has received widespread acclaim from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a rating of 98% with an average score of 8.3 out of 10 based on 55 reviews.[69] It set a record on Rotten Tomatoes as the only show to earn perfect episode scores for an entire season since the site began tracking television episodes.[70] The site’s consensus reads: “Mr. Robot is a suspenseful cyber-thriller with timely stories and an intriguing, provocative premise.”[69] On Metacritic, the first season scored 79 out of 100 based on 23 reviews, indicating “generally favorable reviews”….
Mr. Robot made several critics’ list for the best TV shows of 2015. Three critics, Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone, and the staff of TV Guide, named it the best show of the year. The series also placed second on the list from three other critics, and was named among of the best of the year from four other critics
Agree. Watched the first couple of episodes and really enjoyed them. Had to stop when the content became a bit too x-rated for the youngest, but will get around to the rest when they are not watching.
The Wire.
The best drama series ever.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIvu1yg3bU
Loved Mr Robot, the lead guy is so…odd. Just watching something new called Cleverman, Australian weirdo sci-fi TV series that takes a swipe at racism & asylum seekers. Looks really interesting so far. Also nice to hear other accents other than english/american.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleverman
Ryan Griffen, the creator, writes:
The genesis of Cleverman came five years ago on one of those afternoons, playing dress-ups with my son. We were playing Ninja Turtles, and in that moment I suddenly wished we had something cultural – something Aboriginal – that he could cling to with as much excitement as he did with this.
My son’s mother and I are both light-skinned Aboriginal people who strongly embrace our Aboriginality. Why does the colour of our skin matter to this story? Because growing up, I constantly had to fight for my Aboriginality. I was presented with casual racism on a regular basis. I remember being handed a plastic cup while everyone was given glasses, in the home of someone I thought was my friend. Later that night, I walked out of that house as the other kids spouted hate of “petrol-sniffing” Aboriginal people.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/27/i-created-cleverman-for-my-son-because-we-need-more-aboriginal-superheroes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9DlMDEIHx0
Loving it – looking forward to watching that!!!
Me too.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/cleverman/255754/cleverman-review-spoiler-free
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/may/16/cleverman-first-look-review-wickedly-exciting-aboriginal-superhero-story
I liked Mr Robot too, in part because of the oddball nature of the lead, and because it portrays an aspect of modern counter-culture in an intelligent way.
It’s a good fantasy.
Well written and a nice Robin Hood renewal.
But just a fantasy – one that glorifies schizophrenia, and pretends that some dude with a keyboard can effectively hand out free lotto tickets to everyone.
The meat-world people who try to undo the world of banking or of large government control are roasted alive.
There’s more real hope in maleficent states undoing the parts of the banking world that act against them.
It’s not ‘just’ a fantasy, it’s fantasy/SF. Whose purposes are many but rarely are intended to be ‘real’ in the way you imply. I’m pretty sure you understand the value of a good story Ad, so why the downer?
Brilliant show. Just onto the final episode now… the series has been captivating. Love the oddity of the lead… makes everything more real. And they way he’s written puts the audience is in his head and part of him… can’t help but share his emotions.
Everyone should take note of this guy I heard this morning. “They are just mad.”
This man speaking on RadioNZ has thought his way through our present world economic debacle, and is able to explain it in words we can understand. Talks about, explains, uber and such.
Colonial Viper has probably read it, Draco T Bastard would say ‘What have I been telling you all this time’, Robert Guyton would say ‘I and my compatriots are now developing what Rushkoff sees as the major way forward for forward-thinking people.’
Media theorist, professor, and graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff’s been in love with the internet since its cyberpunk beginnings.
He is speaking at the Open Science, Open Source? conference in NZ in August.
(Remember what our Bruce Jesson wrote decades ago. (The intense effort he put in challenging and winning against the neo lib steamroller probably led to his death.)
Only their Purpose is Mad by Bruce Jesson – maorinews.com
maorinews.com/writings/books/jesson.htm
Book Review: “Only Their Purpose is Mad, The Money Men Take Over NZ”
by Bruce Jesson, Dunmore, Palmerston North, 1999. The book opens with a clear …)
09:05 How to fix the digital economy: Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff book
Media theorist, professor, and graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff’s been in love with the internet since its cyberpunk beginnings.
But in his latest book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, he explains how the digital economy failed to live up to its promise – and how we could still fix it. MIT named him the world’s sixth most influential thinker, and he has written more than a dozen bestselling books – and made several documentaries – about media, technology, and culture.
He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens in New York, and is speaking at the Open Source Open Society conference in New Zealand in August. Talk to him on Twitter.
And here’s an interesting study of Dick Smith by a crowd called foragerfunds which
calls itself Bristlemouth. Sounds spiky. Note the dramatic title! Sounds like a good read.
https://foragerfunds.com/bristlemouth/dick-smith-is-the-greatest-private-equity-heist-of-all-time/
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If a guy like Rushkoff can start a world-changing movement like Karl Marx did, you’ll know he’s opened the world to something fresh.
He hasn’t, and won’t.
Jeez mate you sound a bit dour this morning. Hope the day picks up. Watched the whole 4 series of house of cards the other daze – made me feel like ‘what can we do’ then I realised we do what we do and that is what we can and should do.
Watching House of Cards just makes me want to have a shower.
I liked The Wire better because it was very, very close to reality; the good guys were pricks and didn’t last long, the douches were rewarded, bureaucratic inertia was rewarded and patrolled, and the justice and democratic systems only just worked.
Plus the linking of newer-world black dominated drug dealing systems to old-world unionized seaports was reasonably fresh. Liked that one.
Ad
I note a continuing theme from you of put downs for new ideas, new methods to help the nation to a better system. Your latest is just another. Presenting new ideas for changing our present conditions? You haven’t and you won’t.
Critiques can cope with critics.
You can’t.
Further – a summary of that piece on Dick Smith ‘purchase’.
How to buy a business of $115 million using only $10 million of your own money.
Further – Anchorage purchased Dick Smith for a total of $20 million and year later put it up in the stock market for half a Billion. Oldest trick in the book is to write the inventory down to close to nothing, and then sell the inventory for whatever, and that is all profit.
That is the sort of quality financial dealing that our present National government uses in transactions in this country. and overseas. National has borrowed heavily overseas to keep running the country, We are to be exploited by the buccaneers who see themselves as bold businessmen, doughty corporate raiders, pirates who can make and move money without getting their hands around actual working tools, actual dirt (if they can help it).
Have you read this grey?
http://www.interest.co.nz/news/81928/icon-sachs-whatever-fennas-finance-bank-account-anz-napier-branch-conspiracy-theorist
And Interest.co had another piece as well describing a finacial money go round in NZ
Here is the audio for Dr Rushkoff.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/player/201803432
An acquaintance used to run the NZ Rail signals workshop in the Hutt, then Fay and Richwhite bought it, sold the entire inventory of spares ( about 7-10 years supply ) for every switching and crossing etc in the country on the premise that, “We can buy it when we need it, more efficent than holding stock ”
In the next six months they spent all the money released buying needed parts back.
F and R needed the cash to actually buy the railways.
The Cleverset Guys in the Room!.
Adrian
Hollow laugh. That’s the way these cowboys run business. Poor NZ, all our good work to build a country, and our nation’s life blood being sucked out of us by a bunch of house plant pests. No wonder we’re suffering from die back!
Fay and Richwhite – you wouldn’t make up those names for a satirical piece.
Also just to add a bit to Dick Smith story – Anchorage in short time after the Dick Smith takeover/purchase got two industry awards for being so clever. Hah.
dv thanks for link will save it up for afternoon tea reading.
All politicians lie. Key has told no more than did Helen Clark. The difference between Key and Little is that Key is personally successful and politically competent. Little is a political failure (based on the state of Labours polling, finances and membership) and his CV is barren.
“Key has told no more than did Helen Clark.”
Really? I’ll put BLiP’s list up. How about you put up a list of all Clark’s lies? Because from what I can see in this thread you are just spouting a bunch of rancid ideology that tries to attack something you don’t like. You make lots of rapid assertions, few actual arguments, and bugger all back up.
http://thestandard.org.nz/the-great-big-list-of-john-keys-big-fat-lies-updated/
To add, here’s another list recently put up on The Daily Blog a few days ago.
435 lies by John Key
<a href="http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/
Are you serious?
You can’t logically tell a lie about a future event, otherwise anyone who changed their mind would be telling a lie. That eliminates a huge number from the list.
Most of the rest are desperate distortions, most don’t even have references so they can be checked.
Honestly do you even check the stuff you post?
Yip, that’s why I find Blip’s list of “lies” pretty unconvincing.
Based on the reaction to my comments, am I right in suggesting they’ve never been challenged before?
I’ve not seriously bothered to try, because I know the response I’ll get. So I just roll my eyes whenever I see it linked to.
To be fair, there are a few things in there that are lies, or promises that he blatantly broke, such as not increasing GST. But for the rest of them there is sufficient reasonable doubt that calling them lies is silly.
+1
The list is diminished by its weaker entries. There are still more than enough slam-dunks to win the match.
Can either of you please give examples of the problematic ones? If the list islargely inaccurate it should be easy enough to demonstrate.
It isn’t “largely inaccurate”. The weak examples are thin on the ground. They provide ammunition for wingnut trash.
Ok, so is your assessment that the majority are true and backed up with evidence? I had a look at some, and some are obviously true and evidence based. Some look true to me but the links don’t back up the claim (or are too lengthy to find out).
“Say goodbye to higher taxes…”, for example, is a meaningless slogan from the National Party. A lie, absolutely (to the extent that meaningless slogans are of any import). Authored by the Prime Minister? Not so much.
maninthemiddle.
You say “prove”.
What do you mean, exactly.
No one can do what you ask until you define what it is you mean.
Is it, “provide news reports of the trial that showed … “?
You are being too vague. No wonder no one bothered to play your game.
Outside of a legal decision, what proof would you accept?
Support with evidence. You know, not just quote some instance where Key changed his mind (as Clark did) or events prevented him carrying out his wishes (eg Pike River), but give an example, with supporting evidence, where he knowingly made a “false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive”. Anything else simply fails the sniff test, and is nothing more than Key Derangement Syndrome. Key’s a politician. They ALL lie. You must be able to find one.
Evidence from whom? BliP? A journalist? A judge?
You have to be specific as I notice you’ve rejected evidence of the sort I’ve listed. What form of evidence do you require? Not opinion, surely? Something official, perhaps. Just need to know the level of evidence you are demanding.
I have just posted on item #2 on his list. How much digging have you done on the list? Enough to know that Blip’s support for item #2 is a post by Nicky Hager? That Nicky Hager’s post provides no supporting material for the comments he alleges Key made?
My point is simply this; you and others are swallowing these claims without even a cursory amount of fact checking.
You’re not demanding, I hope, that commenters here have to supply legal rulings to prove Key has told a lie, are you? That’d be…ridiculous. You reject non-legal forms of evidence, so I’m wondering what exactly it is you want. If you are in fact requiring only legal tried evidence, then surely that makes your crusade a sham?
What I’m really trying to ascertain is how much digging you have done before accusing the PM of lying. During the Clark premiership I saw this same phenomena from the right…a deranged obsession with somehow trying to make out Clark was the anti-Christ. Blip’s list of alleged ‘lies’ is the same. I’m sure some of the items on the list are verifiable. The ones I’ve checked so far are utter bs.
I’ll make this easy. I’ll post examples of examples of Clark’s lies. Real lies, about stuff she knew about, not about future events about which she changed her mind.
Lie # 1.
“After months of confusion over the Glenn donations, it turns out Clark has known much more than she has been letting on. The famously candid prime minister has been caught out being economical with the truth.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/decision-08/605227/Helen-Clarks-serious-blunder
Lie #2
http://sirhumphreys.blogspot.co.nz/2005/05/doonegate-constable-mains-brief-of.html
Destroying a mans career in the process.
“Court papers released yesterday revealed that the Prime Minister told the Sunday Star-Times she believed Mr Doone had made a remark which might have meant a rookie constable did not breath-test Ms Johnstone, now Mrs Doone.
The four words “That won’t be necessary”, which Helen Clark confirmed she understood Mr Doone said to Constable Brett Main, who was holding a breath-test sniffer device, are pivotal.
Mr Doone has always denied he said that and the newspaper later apologised, saying it accepted the comment was not made.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10122718
433 to go. Keep it up. Signing a painting, you jerks love that one.
432…
Thanks for reminding me…although I’ve got plenty so I may not use that one.
“plenty”? lol
You’ve still got Key telling 431 more lies than Clark, and you’re already running out.
I’m not running out,just not running foul of the moderators. But you don’t have 433, in fact no-ones yet taken up my challenge to evidence even 1!
[lprent: If someone else makes an unsubstantiated assertion you may request that they provide links. When however to make an unsubstantiated assertion or an assertion with links that show you are an idiot (from the reactions of other commentators) and then to demand that other refute it with evidence isn’t going to work.
Demanding people to engage with you, as well as showing a certain degree of self obsession that draws interesting ideas about what you do in your spare time, also may draw the attention of unkind moderators like me. If you are lucky, I’ll merely ban you for misbehaviour.
But if I have time and have grumpiness to work off, I may choose to savage you with the attention (that you so obviously desire) of evidence and opinion about you and your ideas. I’ve been on the nets for more than 30 years, am rather over educated, have a lot of work and political experience, and have a certain expertise in administering ‘educational’ experiences to fools on the net.
I’m unlikely to be kind or unconstrained. The attention I tend to give is more sadistic. So I’d be careful about what you ask for.
Yes, they have. All the entries on Blip’s list are sourced. You disagree with some of the entries, and we’ve already covered that.
Your basic problem here is the contempt you’ve earned. Few can be bothered to engage with you on anything other than a superficial level, because you bring nothing to the table other than rote-learned zombie-sock-puppet drivel.
That’s the truth, whether you like it or not. Parrots like you come and go.
All? Really? Take #2. The ‘source’ is a blog by Nicky Hager. Not good enough. In it Hager refers to comments to the media by Key that he does not source. Not good enough. And that’s just # 2 on the list.
Actually I’m not demanding anything. I’m calling bs on Blip’s list. If people continue to reference it without being able to actually defend the claims with something substantial, it is perfectly reasonable to challenge them. PS Your threats are rather pathetic. If you wish to critique my views, then do so. If all you have is a desire to play the man, as your last sentence suggests, then you’re sad and in need of help.
Well, you are demanding proof, maninthemiddle, over and over you pressed commenters here to provide proof. If you can’t tell us clearly what you’d accept, people are going to realise that you are gaming them and then they’ll treat you with disdain – oh, hang on…
No, I’m calling for accountability for claiming someone is a liar.
For example item #30 “the Pike River Mine was consented to under a Labour Government” isn’t even untrue, let alone a lie.
“On 12 March 2004, Minister of Conservation Chris Carter approved the access arrangement for Pike River Coal Ltd. The arrangement included four 1.5-metre (4.9 ft)-wide emergency escape shafts within the boundaries of Paparoa National Park and a requirement for Pike River Coal Ltd to spend NZ$70,000 annually on conservation projects”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_River_Mine
I was keen to uncover the mechanism behind maninthemiddles crusade here. I asked what he need/meant by “proof”, as he’d used the word in his challenges here on TS. He seems, in response, to have been “less than truthful”, as evidenced by the two quotes below. Fair call, mitm?
maninthemiddle said: 7 June 2016 at 11:44 am
“Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged.”
maninthemiddle said: 8 June 2016 at 2:39 pm
“Actually I’m not demanding anything”
maninthemiddle
Are you stuck between a rock and a hard place? Sounds like you are the maninthemuddle. I notice your pseudo cropping up. Are you having a little holiday from real work where you are expected to produce factual results and think we are going to provide you with some idle amusement? Your worship of our leader seems to be around that he has a lot of money. A Lotto winner would achieve a similar prominence then? What business did Key run to make his?
John Key rips people off for a living. He is a derivatives trader and he sets up tax havens. key was never a business owner, he was an employee at large American financial institutions, and by all accounts, he still is.
I don’t worship any human. I follow politics. I admire Key for what he has done for this country, and yet criticise him frequently for missed opportunities to implement more free market policy.
What do you think of Rand, maninthemiddle? Many people of your ilk worship Rand. Are you a Randian?
No. I support her free market ideology to a degree, but I reject many of her other beliefs, including the broader ideas behind objectivism.
maninthemiddle – do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?
maninthemiddle does not offer genuine views. His pap is trolling at its most basic. Nothing to respond to there.
Even worse, it’s boring. My bad for encouraging it.
It was bound to happen. Maninthemiddle is feeling nervous and desperate. It’s not looking good for Key and National.
You need to check the polls, leftie.
I checked them: they show the opposition with a majority over the “government”.
What opposition? If you’re including NZF you’re delusional.
Yawn. You’re an asshole, thanks for the reminder.
“The NZ First leader is disparaging of a memorandum of understanding his fellow opposition parties have signed – aimed at toppling National – and won’t yet say if he will team up to share power.
The MOU would expire on election night, he told Q+A today.
“The idea that you would go out there with a pre-arrangement on a deck of cards you’ve never read, we simply can’t see how that works.
“I can’t understand why Labour did this because it’s from a position of weakness, the only beneficiaries will be the Greens.””
http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/winston-peters-cold-on-greens-labour-alliance-2016060514#axzz4ArtFU96h
My bold.
I’m sorry, I got it wrong: you’re an illiterate asshole.
Those weren’t Peter’s words, they were the journalists, so I’ll be more generous. You’re just illiterate.
Oh OAB…how are you feeling about the latest poll? Based on your logic, after the MoA National are up and ‘the opposition’ are down 2.4%!!
I’m delighted to be able to burst your bubble. It’s a single poll. You can ascertain my feelings about individual poll results by reading my previous comments. In summation: trends are important, data points not so much.
Yes, we can agree on that.
Yes, Lol and he’s even struggling with that !!
You are such a liar Maninthemiddle. I guess like John key, lies are all you have, because you cannot defend the indefensible corrupt PM and his National government of destruction.
Lie: “a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.”
Now go away and explain how each of those 435 statements are lies.
Okay, so based on that logic, whenever a politician campaigns for re-election by saying they’re going to do this, or that, or something else, and the voting public elect them based on that articulated policy platform, it’s then okay for the politician in question to do none of those things. Because… you know, they just changed their mind.
If this is your justification for the endless stream of horse shit that routinely erupts from Key’s diseased maw, then politicians may as well say nothing at all. Ever. Because, really, what are their words worth?
“Because… you know, they just changed their mind.”
You simply don’t understand this discussion. It is about lying. By definition you cannot lie about a future event. If you want to argue you can, then you need to condemn Labour for decades of broken promises, including many by Helen Clark. It;s just silly.
Yeah… nah. I’m pretty sure I understand the discussion, but it’s nice of you to imply I’m some slack-jawed yokel oblivious to “grown up concepts” like lying. That’s never happened before.
If I tell my boss that I will have a report on his desk by 6:00am the following morning, and come 6:00am, there’s no report to be found. I lied. I said I would do something, and I didn’t do it. Now, there might be mitigating circumstances, but a lie, is a lie, is a lie.
And just so you know, I’ll condemn any party of any persuasion for telling lies. I might view John Key with the same fondness I’d reserve for testicular cancer, but I like to think I don’t play favourites when it comes to basic honesty.
Lie: “a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.”
That’s John key!!! He fits that definition perfectly. After all the lies John key has told, no one with a sound mind, should believe one word that comes out of that compulsive liar’s mouth. No one has told more lies than John key. No one.
“He fits that definition perfectly. ”
Provide one example that fits that definition.
Already have, plus hundreds more.
mitm thinks you promised to do whatever it takes, and we know how important that obligation is…
rofl
You’re sounding desperate Maninthemiddle. No one has to argue John key’s lies, it’s public record, even recently Key patently lied about the Salvation Army and the homeless. It’s not the “far left” that think John key is a ogre and a failure, everyone knows it, he’s shown that himself.
You make a claim and then don’t have to support it? Not in the real world. Making a statement and changing your mind isn’t lying. Signing a painting you didn’t paint is. Lying about what a Police Commissioner allegedly said is. Lying over the Glenn affair is. Shall I continue?
Yes continue. Is that all you have got Maninthemiddle? You made claims and haven’t supported it, you said Helen Clark lied more than John key, so how about putting your money where your mouth is, and prove it, because as it stands now, posts with supporting evidence has proven you wrong.
“Maninthemiddle”……like the cream in the sponge……more rancid daily. But never mind. Former All Black captain
macho Johnno Key is
sooooo rich. All that
matters……munters !
Leftie I have asked for a single lie by John Key to be verified. None have been. I have posted lies by Helen Clark that are verified by independent sources. I will post more if you really want.
Why bother with one single lie Maninthemiddle? I posted a list of hundreds, so did Weka, and all verified as lies. rofl you have posted 2 nothings !!!
Give one example. With independent verification. There must be some, so it cant be that hard.
John key’s lies are a matter of public record Maninthemiddle, you are being ridiculous , you cannot defend the indefensible liar that is John key. Its as Draco T Bastard said @ 7.5.3.1
“No, you’re still claiming all the proof provided isn’t proof. In other words, you’re lying to protect your leader just like an authoritarian will do.”
Give one example. I have with Helen Clark, and subject my claims to scrutiny. (PS I’m trying to find the link to when Clark told that New Zealanders weren’t been spied on under her leadership. We know that was a lie…can you help?)
Ahhhhh…here it is:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10510031/No-spying-under-Labour-Cunliffe
You have hundreds of examples of lies that John key has told to scrutinize Maninthemiddle, I even put up some videos for you, why don’t you scrutinize the lists etc and prove that none are lies then? And while you are at it scrutinize the lies that John key, who has been PM now for 8 years, has told about spying and mass surveillance.
<a href="http://thestandard.org.nz/key-withdraws-promise-to-resign/
“You have hundreds of examples of lies that John key has told to scrutinize ”
No, you have referred to a list of claims. So far only one person has taken up my challenge to debate them individually and I showed them up for what they are…total bs.
Your two You Tube posts have had the audio removed. Did you even check?
Oh and if you think opinion pieces from TS or TDB are of any value as evidence, I have abridge to sell you.
links pls
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-06062016/#comment-1185286
lol
if you think you showed anyone other than yourself up for what they are, you’re a moron.
Hang on – Dunning-kruger personified, ego inversely proportional to extreme (almost unique) incompetence… I’ve argued with you before when you were under another handle, surely.
He decieves though, doesn’t he. Repeatedly. Over and over. The Great Deciever. Some say, “Bullshitter”. Maninthemiddle admires him for that, defends his behaviour and employs some of his methods as a form of adoration.
Not impressed.
So when an assurance is made, we shouldn’t take it on ‘blind’ trust?
maninthemiddle is providing us with a valuable opportunity to refine our position on the Prime Minister. He is showing us how calling the PM a “liar” is less than effective. It can be challenged simply by saying, “prove it”, shoving all responsibility to the person making the claim. Far better and more effective it would be to play their game and use words that can’t be countered so easily. One could say, the Prime Minister deceives by forgetting, speaking ambiguously; he can’t recall, says he misspoke, changes his mind, has others speak for him, redirects, walks away from questions, doesn’t turn up at all for interviews, chooses pet media etc. In other words, when Key’s flunkies reduce the argument to single instances, they are redirecting attention from the general picture that has developed over the time of Key’s PM-ship, of deceptivenes and untrustworthiness. Maninthemiddle has, unintentionally I expect, given us the opportunity to reposition. The question then is, does anyone else care about that sort of behaviour? I think people are more likely to rationally consider the other descriptions of the Prime Ministers strategy, as “liar” seems a step too far for most people – our PM, a liar? That’s a bit harsh…isn’t it?
now, now, there’s a 50/50 chance that the pm will go offshore if we start calling him names, rather than continuing his production here.
And we have done. Time and time again. It doesn’t matter how much proof we have as the RWNJs, like maninthemiddle , just won’t accept it. The Authoritarian types will always defend their leader no matter what atrocious actions they’ve done and we see that in maninthemiddle.
But maybe, just maybe, we can get the rest of NZ to see the truth by showing that proof time and time again.
lol – that’s another bit of information that won’t be in the telephone directory.
By “less than effective”, Draco, I meant, not effective. We must be effective. Our/your “proof” doesn’t dent the defenses. Change tack, become effective. Sheesh! He’s telling you something useful. Adapt. Change. Become effective. Succeed.
I’m not sure that the distinction between “deceives” and “lies” is large enough to change the narrative.
Sure, tory trools might like to dance on the head of a pin, but it seems to me that you’re looking for a tactic that will change the perception of the general population. Basing it on the semantic slipperiness of a blogtroll who’s simply looking to spread alarm and despondancy is bashing a square peg in a round hole.
I think the best tack for the opposition is what they’ve started with the MoU: the nact distinction in the last couple of elections has revolved around party cohesion vs a disjointed opposition, and their trollines seem to still be focussed on that. Match them on that, and they’ll go with the party who’s leader doesn’t pull hair.
No, it is those trying to accuse Key of lying yet defending Clark that are ‘dancing on the head of a pin’. For example, a significant number of examples Blip’s list are statements made about future events (which by definition cannot be lies, but…). That being the case, you would have to agree with this, no doubt…
“I don’t usually post You Tube stuff here but this one is a gem of a home video. From Gyon Espiner from TV One news from last year.
Ms Clark says in similar words that, she would never like to see good parents live in fear of someone knocking on their door should they correct their child by giving them a wee smack.
That to pass a law, such as the anti smacking law, would be “defying human nature”, and Labour just would never do such a thing.
She in fact was caught out lying, again, but this time it was on video!”
http://darrenrickard.blogspot.co.nz/2008/07/param-namemovie-value.html
Oh, bollocks.
S59 repeal is nowhere near as bad as that. It just means that when parents bash their kids with 2×4 they don’t have a defense in court.
But more to the point, making statements about future events is a lie when those “future events” are your actions and you make no effort to follow through on them.
But even if we were to grant your “anti-smacking” bullshit, that’s… 431 remaining.
Like Helen Clark said, that’s pathetic Maninthemiddle.
Here’s some videos of John key’s lies.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUHAuwEe_Q
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf69eV2uiyE
McFlock Clark said she would not vote to repeal section 59. She lied.
Nope.
In your linked clip she said that she didn’t want to see anyone who lightly smacks a child dragged before a court.
That’s one of the big reasons that police discretion was explicitly included in the law change:
ISTR that’s a softening of the blanket repeal some people were after.
Your allegation of lying is incorrect.
Back to I think 432 more lies told by key than by clark.
“…making statements about future events is a lie when those “future events” are your actions and you make no effort to follow through on them.”
Example?
And seriously if you’re going to include unkept promise, you’ll have to keep your head down for the wet stuff flying from Helen Clarks tenure.
Example 1: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0810/S00142/labours-broken-promise-no-7-on-law-and-order.htm
Well, the Pike River families certainly feel betrayed.
And he won’t release his tax returns so we can tell if he actually gives his pm salary to charity.
Lol, as for your link, if an opponent’s press release says they’re doing nothing “except for”, then they’ve done something.
Try harder.
“Well, the Pike River families certainly feel betrayed.”
Says who?
And he won’t release his tax returns so we can tell if he actually gives his pm salary to charity.
He never said he would give all his salary to charity. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/573560/Key-pledges-PMs-salary-to-charity
Do you not fact check anything??
Do you fact check anything Maninthemiddle.
“But for many of the families of those who died, and the New Zealand union movement, there’s no closure. Many who lost loved ones feel betrayed by the government of John Key, who committed to “getting the boys out”.
<a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/sealing-off-new-zealands-pike-river-coal-mine-tragedy/news-story/a5c62bfa75260f3d465876fe4d657234
<a href="http://thestandard.org.nz/nrt-betrayal-at-pike-river/
Again you are in denial, Key did say prior to the 2008 general election he would donate his salary or part of if he were to be elected PM. Even in your link, the Sunday News proclaimed ” PM : I’ll Pay PM’s Salary To charity.” John key lied, his mate Sean Plunket posted “the oft claimed fact that john key gives most of, or all of his salary to charity has no basis in fact. Urban myth!!!”
Put out there by John key himself as an election pr lie.
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SeanPlunketRadioLive/posts/818434368208109
Onto another John key lie…
<a href="http://thestandard.org.nz/key-lied-the-smoking-gun/
lol
It seems mitm’s “challenge” has been repeatedly accepted, faced, and overcome, even if he was too stupid ro read long lists.
Thanks for engaging. At last! And now I will show you up.
1. A statement about the future cannot be a lie.
2. Your Australian reference is paywalled, so cannot be checked. You need to do better. Plus, see 1. above.
3. A reference from TS that is an opinion piece and NOT from the families, is not evidence. In fact it shows what dishonesty sits behind your claims that Key lied.
4. Again you lie. Key never said he would give all his salary to charity. And you have no idea whether he gives any or all.
There. You tried, and failed.
Tomorrow I am going to fuck your mother.
And according to you, that cannot be a lie.
“Tomorrow I am going to fuck your mother.
And according to you, that cannot be a lie.”
That’s right. It could be your best intention to do that, you may even be planning to. But your failure to do so would not make you a liar unless it could be proven you qualified under the definition I have previously given, that is:
“a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.”
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/lie
Ah, but I wasn’t. See? It was a statement about the future that was a lie.
No. Firstly, it’s not whether it’s “proven” to others. If you make a commitment with no intention of following through, you’re a liar. If you say something will happen because it’s politically expedient to say it at that time, and you don’t know or care whether it happens or not, you’re intending to deceive people by providing an assurance that it will happen.
And lastly, I said that I’d fuck your mother tomorrow, but I don’t know who you are. Anyone I have sex with tomorrow might actually be your mother, whether I know it or not. In the eventuality that I do have sex with someone who turns out to be your mother, even though I had no intention of having sex with your mother, am I a liar?
“It was a statement about the future that was a lie.”
But if I’m accusing you of lying, the onus of proof is on me, not you. If you accuse John Key of lying about future events, the onus of proof is on you. Personally I have no idea what you were thinking. Based on some of your opinions, you may well have been telling the truth.
I am very tempted to answer your final question, but as you have shot yourself in the foot, I’l leave you to contemplate it for a moment.
The last one was a rehash of a Gettier problem, but whatever. If you know the answers to some essential philosophical questions, you can make six or seven figures on the lecture circuit of the top universities in the world.
But to recap: lies can be told about future events.
Now, proving someone is lying can be a tall order, but when key said in the House (where he is supposed to tell only the truth) he got fletcher’s phone number from directory services, then had to correct his answer in the House to say he didn’t remember who got fletcher’s number or how… one of those statements was an outright lie, because it directly contradicts the other. He either remembered getting the number, or he made a statement about what he did when he did not know what he did.
similarly, his statements about pike river (thoroughly linked to in the TS post you disparaged) logically contradicted each other.
“he got fletcher’s phone number from directory services, then had to correct his answer in the House to say he didn’t remember who got fletcher’s number or how… ”
Not necessarily. One could be a mistaken recollection. Or both. A lie involve’s deliberate intent. Did Helen Clark deliberately intend to claim she painted that painting? Of course not. Yet on the same basis you seem to think Key is the devil incarnate, I could make a case Clark set out to deceive.
What a load of bollocks. Your defense against the allegation of lying is that Key is afflicted with false recollections of actually doing something? How is that better for a PM than being a goddamn liar? As for the painting thing, even at the absolute worst case where she signs the thing while laughing “ahahahaha everybody will believe I painted this!!! ahahahaha!!!” it’s a fucking charity painting not delivered under any higher obligation to tell the truth – unlike in the House or as a public interest obligation into how government operates.
Deception isn’t binary. Some lies are worse than others. And when you combine the seriousness of key’s untruths with their frequency, he’s not the devil but he is a lying piece of shit.
Like John key and the National government you support Maninthemiddle, you have failed, and the only person you have shown up, is yourself. You just cannot admit or face the fact that John key is a liar and a deceiver. John key has deliberately lied with the intent to deceive the NZ public since he entered NZ politics. And as PM, John key is the most bold faced, habitual and sociopathic compulsive liar this country has ever seen. No one lies more than John key. No one.
“John key has deliberately lied with the intent to deceive the NZ public since he entered NZ politics.”
And yet, despite your rant, you give not one single example that you can actually prove. What I have successfully proven is that you suffer from Key Derangement Syndrome. I recommend prompt assistance.
It’s not a rant, it’s fact with numerous examples to support it. And bullshit Maninthemiddle, all you have proven is that you are an unadulterated John key sycophant and apologist, who cannot admit or face the fact that John key lies.
The problem is that the fact of his lies aren’t getting out there. All we really see is the MSM kowtowing to Key and National and ignoring the fact that he lies rather than calling him up on it.
So, those proofs will work – as long as we get them out there. A weekly mailer would be good but we need some way to fund it.
I disagree. If you play his/their game; reacting in that way, “Liar! Liar!”, they will succeed. They are succeeding now. Change tack. A more subtle approach is needed. What will resonate with people. “He’s not being honest” is much more likely to settle into the consciousness than, “He’s a liar” QED.
I think everyone knows that key lies – his supporters don’t care, the media don’t care, overseas tthey don’t care… THAT is the issue.
If they don’t care, move on. How else might you achieve what you want to achieve? I believe “they” will react to a different approach. “Lies” is blocked. “Not really being honest with us” has legs. So does, “evasive”, ” deceptive” and “playing us for fools” .
I want to achieve key gone and the gnats too. Calling him a liar or some euphemism of that won’t work – the people that should care, don’t. Imo getting him to lose his cool, speak off the cuff and the good push at the moment to show he is out of touch, doesn’t care, is quite a good strategy.
mm that’s always how I’ve imagined it happening.
Yup, needle.
“Your defense against the allegation of lying is that Key is afflicted with false recollections of actually doing something? ”
You’re missing the point completely, hence your ill tempered rant.
People forget things all the time. Your illustration was about how Key got someone’s phone number. That is easily forgotten. But that isn’t my point. Whether or not someone is lying can be argued based on bias. You are doing precisely that. You’re arguing Key lied because his recollection failed. I could equally argued Clark set out to deceive by signing a painting (something only the painter should do) she didn’t paint.
Hi, maninthemiddle – I’m keen for you to clarify what exactly you mean by “proof”. What proof of Key’s lying would you accept? A ruling by a judge? Hard to answer your challenge if you haven’t made clear what you require.
Thanks.
I’m not saying he’s lying because Key forgot something and, upon reflection of consulting with his office, corrected the non-answer.
He claimed to know something, he gave a specific answer to a question saying he did something, and then had to “correct” himself and say he didn’t remember whether it was him that did it or how it was even done!
People forget things all the time. What they don’t do is suddenly remember that they’ve forgotten something and that their previous, precise claim of how they did it was incorrect.
That’s why I’m saying that in this specific instance he lied. I’m sure he has also told the truth on occasion – booking a taxi, for example. But in this instance he told an outright lie.
Bad analogy coming up and apologies in advance.
As far as I understand what you’re saying, I agree with you Robert – the machine gun approach is far better than the single bullet thang if you want to be sure of hitting the target.
Bill – but we’re not shooting, we’re presenting a reasoned view. One approach is violent and foreign to us, the other is our bread and butter.
Let’s do it our way.
Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged. Shouting even louder, or repeating claims a la Joseph Goebbels doesn’t cut it.
maninthemiddle – no it isn’t. NZers can make that claim as often as they like, they don’t have to answer to you at all, it’s pretty arrogant of you to believe they do. It’s called ‘opinion’. These people believe Key is a liar. Suck it up. Who are you, his Moral Guardian? You’re doing a terrible job with your man. People believe he’s Very Lacking in that area. Must do better, maninthemiddle.
I don;t care what people ‘believe’. You may believe in the flying spaghetti monster for all I care. But calling someone a ‘liar’ isn’t an opinion, it is a truth claim. You can hide if you wish, but not bing prepared to have your claims tested is both narrow minded and intellectually dishonest.
You found some entries on Blip’s list that you don’t agree with, so you are pretending you can discount the whole lot. So far, so authoritarian.
It’s not a question of what I agree with, it’s a question of whether we should be open to accountability for claims we make. I’m still waiting for someone to put up one alleged ‘lie’ that they can actually support with any integrity. Like Lanthanide, I’m sure Key is not squeeky clean, no politicians are, but Blip’s list is a joke that clearly no-one here has seen fit to challenge. That isn’t very encouraging.
You are lying Maninthemiddle.
just checking, maninthemiddle, if you are asking me to back up claims that Key’s a liar, when I’m saying something other than that…
Aside from that, you are talking nonsense. Statements made by commenters here are more often than not, their opinions. For example, you state; “I don’t care what “people” believe”. Are you expecting us to believe that? prove it!
Once you’ve done that (it may take some time and effort – tricky little things to prove, facts) you might like to have a go at an easy one (@12:04)
“maninthemiddle – do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?”
I was responding to this comment by you with respect to accusations Key has told lies:
“It can be challenged simply by saying, “prove it”, shoving all responsibility to the person making the claim. ”
My point is simply that anyone making such a claim rightly has a responsibility to support such a claim. A list of 433 alleged lies, when even a cursory reading shows it is nothing more than the rantings of a deranged blogger, carries with it the responsibility to defend such claims.
On the rest of your comments in that same post, I actually agree with you. Using different language would be far more effective. And of all politicians, far more accurate.
maninthemiddle – oddly enough, I support your efforts to dissuade people from citing “Blips List”, as I believe it’s not an effective approach and those who use it are too easily tripped up by the likes of you. They don’t have to “prove it” as you claim, but declaring that they do is enough to muffle the effect they hoped citing Blip might have. It’s the same with, “liar!”. Whether it’s true or not doesn’t matter, as its use is easily blocked – it takes very little effort to demand proof and providing such takes a lot of work. Those who use misdirection, deception and untruthfulness know and rely on this to do what they do. You are playing your role in that process, but at the same time offering a chance to transcend the practice. I hope people here will respond by sharpening-up. You’ve made a good point, I reckon but I have to say, you’re a very poor absorber of other views. Single-minded, you are.
All 433 eh. Your “cursory” reading didn’t stop you cherry picking the weaker examples. Perhaps you’re too dishonest to judge the matter reliably.
“You’ve made a good point, I reckon but I have to say, you’re a very poor absorber of other views. ”
Hi Robert…I value the critique, Thanks.
“Your “cursory” reading didn’t stop you cherry picking the weaker examples. ”
So you acknowledge there are ‘weaker’ ones. That’s a good start. Progress would be for you to ‘cherry pick’ a ‘stronger’ one and provide some evidence.
Why don’t you provide evidence to show that John Key’s lies are not lies Maninthemiddle?
lol
So far the “lies” you’ve attributed to Clark can be counted on one hand. Of someone who had experienced severe frostbite.
Anyhoo, how about when key told parliament that his office got his buddy’s mobile number from directory services? He had to take that one back in the House.
hi again, just trying to catch up with you, mitm.
What is your definition of “proof” please. We have to know what it is you require. Sorry to pester, but my other appeals have gone unanswered.
We should take nothing on ‘blind trust’ from any politician.
rofl that’s rich coming from you, you should follow your own advice then Maninthemiddle.
maninthemiddle
In response to ” do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?” you’ve said, “of all politicians, far more accurate” – yes?
Can you somehow ease my feeling that you’re using weasel-words here – “accurate”?
Would you indulge me and expand on your brief response, making reference, if you would, on why you avoided using the word “truth” “truthful” or “truthfulness”.
Thanks
Hi Robert…can you please provide a reference for my comment you quote (thread, date, time). I just want to read the context before respondng.
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-06062016/#comment-1184732
@1:16 pm
Thanks. Here’s my full quote:
“On the rest of your comments in that same post, I actually agree with you. Using different language would be far more effective. And of all politicians, far more accurate.”
My use of the word ‘accurate’ was directed at politicians (“of all politicians…), not what politicians say. To paraphrase, it is far more accurate to describe much of what politicians say in the context of your post of 2.38pm June 6th, specifically “deceives by forgetting, speaking ambiguously; he can’t recall, says he misspoke, changes his mind, has others speak for him, redirects, walks away from questions, doesn’t turn up at all for interviews, chooses pet media etc.”. I’m not sure you can justify all of those accusations with the current PM, although many applied the the previous one. Continuing to claim Key has lied 433 times is just silly, and the pubic turned off ages ago.
“Much of what politicians say”
I see. You’re holding fast to the “they all do it” position. I don’t accept that claim nor do I respect respect that view. Let’s cut to the chase, maninthemiddle – please answer my respectfully-put question:
” do you believe Mr Key has been truthful in all that he has said and done as Prime Minister?”
I’ve presented it to you at least 3 times now – what’s with your avoidance? Did you not notice the question? I’m very keen to read your view on this matter.
By the by, this cluster of claims from you;
” I’m not sure you can justify all of those accusations with the current PM, although many applied the the previous one. Continuing to claim Key has lied 433 times is just silly, and the pubic turned off ages ago.” really does come across as weasely. I was enjoying a period of lucidity from you for a while there but that’s a regression into trolling, maninthemiddle. Try to keep the level of your comments up a bit please. In the meantime, please respond to my straight-forward question and if you would, answer it in a straight-forward way (not weasely).
“please respond to my straight-forward question”
I did. All politicians lie. John Key is a politician. Helen Clark was a politician. Some lie by commission, some by omission. I don’t trust any of them. That you don’t seem to like this stance is no concern of mine. Your apparent naivety, however, is.
You just don’t want to admit John Key lies Maninthemiddle.
Good question Robert, the response, if any, will be interesting. Maninthemiddle doesn’t seem to know what he writes.
I try to remember that, but it’s in the same place as my 50,000 kiwirail shares – or was it 100,000?
Touche’ Mcflock !!
…or “what speed were we going at when I needed to get that rugby match” says Helen Clark as she puts her drivers under the bus.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10340035
so by matching the clark car thing with the kiwirail share thing, are you acknowledging that this was an explicit lie by key?
No, I’m pointing out the silliness of your argument.
🙄
You just stick with that line, buddy.
Still counting the fingers on the hand of a frostbite amputee.
Key’s at 432.
Not a single person has taken up my challenge. Not one.
Apart from Blip, who has sourced every single one of the entries on the list. Lying just confirms that you’re an asshole.
Hell, I mentioned more instances of key’s lying when I was just having fun than the number of lies you invented for Clark when you were trying to argue equivalence between between the two of them.
I didn’t even know it was a competition. I was just laughing at you defending such a prodigious liar.
“Apart from Blip, who has sourced every single one of the entries on the list. ”
I’m challenging anyone to engage on the items. Ad you give far too much credit to the author. The list is mostly bs. Meanwhile, Key’s popularity remains unrivalled. No-one believes your hatred.
“I didn’t even know it was a competition. ”
It’s not. And you obviously haven’t been keeping up. Clark can be accused of all sorts of skulduggery if you want to be as obsessive about her as you seem to be about Key. It’s an illness, once inflicted upon National supporters about Clark, now inflicted upon the ever diminishing left.
Well, obviously not, because at least two accusations in your tiny list were outright lies on your part: s59 and the law&order.
Forget Key: at this rate you’re lying more than Clark did.
Good try McFlock, but both are accurate. Clark lied, on the same basis you apply to Key. And that is my point. Your list is the work of an obsessive. Just as were the attacks on Clark.
Not my list, but if it keeps blip happy, good for them.
See, the problem is that both your s59 and law&order allegations are actually lies by you, for the reasons I put up earlier. In one, you lie about what Clark said, in the other you ignore an entire act of parliament that went towards addressing the point and demonstrated not just an intent to follow through but actual action that followed through.
If you are the person with whom I argued a while ago (before their ban), this is the bit where you simply double-down and commit to assertions that have already been shown to be false.
1. I’m not the person you debated with before.
2. You haven’t shown anything I’ve claimed to be false. Clark said “”As you know I do not support a ban on smacking. I am opposed to that because I think it defies human nature. No one wants to see a stressed and harassed parent who in exasperation lightly smacks a child dragged before the court.”” Then she voted for a bill that banned smacking (“Bradford acknowledges that it would not be legal to smack a child under her bill.”)http://tvnz.co.nz/content/1024326/2591764.xhtml. By the standards you are applying to John Key, Clark lied.
You see, McFlock, you are arguing support for a list of alleged lies by Key that cannot stand up to scrutiny if you apply the same standards to Clark. I’ve made my point, well and truly. If you can’t see that, you need to take a long look at yourself.
1: so there’s more than one of you guys? What happened, did immigrationNZ accidentally class “punchdrunk NFL player” as a priority employment group?
2:
A bill that leaves police the discretion to decide that smack was so light (“so inconsequential”) that it was not in the public interest to be “dragged before the court”.
when the original version of the bill came out of the ballot, it was a straight repeal of section 59. That’s what Clark didn’t support in 2006. And she didn’t vote for that in 2007.
“A bill that leaves police the discretion to decide that smack was so light (“so inconsequential”) that it was not in the public interest to be “dragged before the court”.”
Ah, but that’s exactly what HAS happened.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11359923
“Police reviews show that police investigated 143 alleged cases of “smacking” and 435 allegations of minor acts of physical discipline, such as slapping and hitting children, in the first five years of the new law up to June 2012. Eight cases of smacking and 47 alleged minor acts of physical discipline were prosecuted. ”
Quote…minor acts of discipline.
Minor, but obviously not so inconsequential as to not be in the public interest.
If anything, that’s the sort of thing it’s there for.
I have a lot of respect for Mai Chen, but lawyers are like water quality scientists: you can pay them to argue whatever you want. And Family First did just that, it seems…
They were minor. Precisely the sorts of acts Helen Clark said she opposed. And then voted for.
Not “light” enough for the police officers who decided it was in the public interest to prosecute, though.
Almost 90% of those investigations were not prosecuted.
10% were deemed serious enough, if “minor” compared to a kid with broken limbs, to be in the public interest to prosecute.
That’s the best Family First’s paid guns (and you) could come up with.
Almost 400 parents were not prosecuted. That’s the discretion that wasn’t in Bradford’s original bill.
“Not “light” enough for the police officers who decided it was in the public interest to prosecute, though.”
EXACTLY. Which again shows Clark deceived the public. Changed her mind. Lied. Parents were prosecuted for MINOR acts.
“Not a single person has taken up my challenge. Not one.”
I see you haven’t taken up my challenge, which was to provide a long list of Clark’s supposed lies. Did you get past two yet?
Please refer to my post at the foot of this thread.
According to what criteria?
They were “minor” offences.
Were they “light smacks”?
One was hitting a kid on the head while drinking. Another was smacking a kid with a belt.
To parse it in the way you love, they need to be both “light” and “smacks”. Using implements or holding him down with your foot aren’t smacks. A hard smack is not a “light smack”.
The family first-paid legal opinion mentioned a number of cases:
DC v R: the determination of “lightly” smacking was only in the legal opinion, not in any of the quotes from the judgement, simply because the penalty was relatively light;
Police v Graham Macdonald Young: same as above – nowhere was the judge quoted as describing the slap as “light”;
Mason v R: punching and pulling hair;
H v R: hitting with a belt.
So, no parents “dragged before the courts” over a light slap.
The Glenn affair is nothing to do with Helen Clark.
Seriously?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529970
And check my earlier link.
Well, Ianmac is essentially right, it wasn’t really about Helen Clark though, was it? it was about a donation to the NZ First party, and since you like being so selective Maninthemiddle,
“Helen Clark said the question of donations to New Zealand First was on the front page of the paper when she and Mr Glenn were at Auckland University to open its new business school in February.
“Mr Glenn on that occasion said to me pretty much what he said to the Privileges Committee,” the Prime Minister said this morning.
“As you would expect, the first thing that I did was go away and ring Mr Peters, and Mr Peters has consistently maintained that he never made that phone call to Mr Glenn,” she said, referring to the solicitation of the donation.
“So, there’s always been a conflict of evidence.”
Helen Clark said that at every time the issue had arisen, she had rung Mr Peters and asked for his word.”
<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529498
You can see why Winston Peter’s will never support John key and his National government.
Yes it was about Helen Clark, because the issue we are debating is lying:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/vote-08/news/features-28605/644704/Helen-Clarks-serious-blunder
“On Thursday Clark was caught out coming periliously close to breaching one of her own golden rules, which are the distilled wisdom of surviving 27 years of politics. She revealed to a gobsmacked media that Labour’s sugar daddy Owen Glenn told her as early as February that he had given $100,000 to Winston Peters.
After months of confusion over the Glenn donations, it turns out Clark has known much more than she has been letting on. The famously candid prime minister has been caught out being economical with the truth.”
You brought up the Owen Glen donation to NZ First, essentially that had nothing to do with Helen Clark, who just got dragged into it. Your quote from National biased Stuff, never said Helen Clark lied.
“As you would expect, the first thing that I did was go away and ring Mr Peters, and Mr Peters has consistently maintained that he never made that phone call to Mr Glenn,” she said, referring to the solicitation of the donation.
“So, there’s always been a conflict of evidence.”
Helen Clark said that at every time the issue had arisen, she had rung Mr Peters and asked for his word.”
<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529498
You’re missingthe point.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/vote-08/news/features-28605/644704/Helen-Clarks-serious-blunder
“On Thursday Clark was caught out coming periliously close to breaching one of her own golden rules, which are the distilled wisdom of surviving 27 years of politics. She revealed to a gobsmacked media that Labour’s sugar daddy Owen Glenn told her as early as February that he had given $100,000 to Winston Peters.
After months of confusion over the Glenn donations, it turns out Clark has known much more than she has been letting on. The famously candid prime minister has been caught out being economical with the truth.”
But it still didn’t say she patently lied like John Key does Maninthemiddle. I think you are deliberately missing the point.
“As you would expect, the first thing that I did was go away and ring Mr Peters, and Mr Peters has consistently maintained that he never made that phone call to Mr Glenn,” she said, referring to the solicitation of the donation.
“So, there’s always been a conflict of evidence.”
Helen Clark said that at every time the issue had arisen, she had rung Mr Peters and asked for his word.”
<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10529498
“But it still didn’t say she patently lied like John Key does Maninthemiddle.”
What does “caught out being economical with the truth” mean?
When wingnut trash have their faces dragged through their Daddy’s perfidy, do you ever experience a little bit of personal responsibility, or does the facile squealing that Labour did it too drown out any vestige of ethics you never had in the first place?
Please don’t answer that: I’m not interested in your weasel excuses, because I think the best response to “your” “opinion” is contempt.
Winston was the Leader of NZF and not a member of the Labour Party. He was not answerable to the PM except as the Foreign Minister. Supposing the Act Party did something naughty. Would Key be held to account?
I’m not interested in what Winston did. Read the background or catch up.
Ianmac has made a relevant point Maninthemiddle, you just don’t want to admit that John key lies.
Nope. Only the RWNJs of any party.
Nope. John Key does nothing but lie. Helen actually told the truth which is probably what got her voted out at the end. People preferred John Keys lies to the truth.
In fact, that entire screed of yours was a lie.
Key is in fact a useless politician, and Crosby Textor aren’t much better.
Our political system doesn’t work on lies because they are weak.
“The truth that’s told with bad intent will beat the worse lie you can invent.”
Key comes across as juvenile as well as incompetent – cannot face his failures – demonstrably unfit to lead.
Draco. Please. It’s not only right wing nut jobs that lie. Every human knows this. John Key tells the truth on many occasions. People can see this. Helen Clark, being human, clearly told some lies as history records. Let’s get smarter about this.
Still waiting for a single verified example of an actual lie. It amuses me no-one, despite all the hysteria, is prepared to actually put up.
No, you’re still claiming all the proof provided isn’t proof. In other words, you’re lying to protect your leader just like an authoritarian will do.
+1 Draco T Bastard. Exactly.
You;re simply repeating yourself without addressing the question. There is a list of 433 alleged lies told by Key. Pick one and let’s discuss it. In my view the vast majority of items on the list can be dispensed with in a nanosecond, others may have some merit with some contortion, and finally there are bound to some that could reasonably be argued. But that ‘some’ will be no more than I can post (and have begun to) for Helen Clark.
Here’s a few more of Clark’s lies, this time about the pledge card:
‘spending is allocated to parties to promote their policies’.
“She also claims that declaring the spending illegal is ‘changing the rules after the event’.”
Interview with Paul Holmes on Newstalk ZB 7 August 2006.
http://libertarianz.org.nz/clarks-pledge-card-lies/
You desperate and still haven’t proved your point Maninthemiddle.
Why Maninthemiddle? John key’s lies over the years are public record. Why don’t you go through the 2 lists that have been posted recounting hundreds of lies John key has told and give substantiated evidence that each one is not a lie then.
I have, or at least I’ve tried. They are the ramblings of desperate and sad people with a Key obsession.
And there it is: the tactic of asserting mental illness in your betters is commonly associated with Joseph Stalin.
Hey trash, please explain why people shouldn’t spit on you in the street.
Who said anything about mental illness?
Matthew Hooton. Polly wanna cracker?
Ae you saying Helen Clark was RWNJ??
You are most certainly a RWNJ Maninthemiddle.
Todd Barclay, the newly pragmatic, kind of left sounding MP for Clutha Southland…
http://www.scene.co.nz/todd-barclay-act-now-to-fix-housing-shortage/328772a1.page
Suppose he’s got to rebuild his reputation some how. The idea of converting / refitting / rebuild the old High School has been kicked about for a while. Devil will very much be in the detail of how it’s done and by whom. Ngai Tahu will have first say and that shouldn’t be a bad thing, they have a very good reputation around town as developers.
“Suppose he’s got to rebuild his reputation some how.”
Or someone does 😉 That looks like a pretty slick piece of behind the scenes engineered rehab to me.
I’m prepared to have an open mind on that. When Nick Smith was in town he started off by saying that Queenstown’s housing problem was all the council’s fault because they hadn’t “opened up enough land” and talking commissioners. Council and others had to do a lot of work to convince him that wasn’t the problem, there’s around 10000 consented but unbuilt sites. The hold up is shit like this between developers http://www.scene.co.nz/appeals-stall-huge-development/328482a1.page
That’s just one of many ongoing bunfights and fell out when Smith was in town.
Barclay’s efforts in Queenstown probably won’t help him much, we don’t vote up here, turnout’s pathetic. And a lot of the people he’ll help aren’t eligible to vote.
The real work is down south where 90% of the votes are.
You might be right. Or it could be part of a wider rehab plan, including reassuring Queenstown business and powerholders that Barclay is competent, useful, and on side. There’s more to National’s needs than votes.
Not quite sure how that fits with having an incompetent housing minister like Smith.
Some very good news.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/80731755/great-barrier-islands-glenfern-sanctuary-is-aucklands-newest-regional-park
To Pay for Subsidies to Massive Corporations, States Are Waging War on Poor Families
So in NZ we have:
SkyCity
Rio Tinto
Serco
and others
against cuts to education, health, beneficiaries being thrown off benefits, and more.
As always… the final sentence sums it up in a nutshell and we are seeing it all right here in New Zealand.
Thanks for that Draco. I have passed that on to several people, The more people
who are aware of this, the better. You will not see that mentioned in the Herald or by the likes Henry
Imagine if Brock Turner were not a wealthy, clean-cut Stanford boy….
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/06/father-stanford-university-student-brock-turner-sexual-assault-statement
Tragic weekend on the roads.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11651647
Can’t help but think nothing has been learnt by the police and resources continue to be allocated wrongly.
They cut the speed tolerance in order to gather more revenue and they cut the blood alcohol level as a scare tactic and the road toll climbs.
It’s what happens when you have a revenue gathering policy and under investment in infrastructure in the face of ballooning immigration.
Worst in 27 years and points to a failing of policy. The current lot’s penny-pinching, small government approach is notching up some records for all the wrong reasons.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/80772601/queens-birthday-road-toll-rises-to-seven
Can’t see anything in there that indicates that the accidents were caused by the cut to blood alcohol or the tighter tolerance of speeding.
Do you have any research to indicate that you’re not talking out your arse?
The point isn’t that these accidents were caused by a greater focus on revenue-gathering activities, but that they divert funding from the things that offer the biggest improvements in road safety: infrastructure and vehicle development (ie better roads and safer cars).
It is a bit unfair to blame the Police for not building better roads, mind…
Yeah, I don’t think that’s a valid point either. After all, we do need to get the dangerous drivers off of the road.
And they’re not revenue gathering either – if nobody broke the law then there wouldn’t be any revenue gathered now would there.
Interesting. David Farrar’s favourite ever idea with squiggles on, Uber, is found to be forcing it’s drivers to break the law and to work for $8/hour.
This is typical of Farrar’s type. Load all the risk on those at the bottom. After all, they can take it or leave it?
Can’t they?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80698018/unhappy-uber-drivers-abandon-company-after-price-changes
More star studded behaviour from David Farrar’s friends.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80787370/uber-driver-harasses-two-gay-female-passengers-in-melbourne
This is what happens when you deregulate for the sake of a few dollars.
And there are traditional taxi drivers that have assaulted passengers, too.
Yeah, which is why we (NZ) have stringent checks on people before they get a P endorsement for their license which allows them to carry passengers. An endorsement that Uber no longer requires before someone signs up to become a driver.
“is found to be forcing it’s drivers to break the law and to work for $8/hour.”
It’s not ‘forcing’ it’s drivers to break the law, and it’s not ‘forcing’ them to work for ‘$8/hour’.
True, it’s not forcing them but it is encouraging them to, Especially the bit about not requiring the proper licenses.
Uber needs to be banned as it really is the quintessential exploitation model. Someone else getting rich on the work of many others while those doing the work can barely survive.
Banning has been one way to go. Regulating (“practical, balanced and minimalist” way) is another option. My daughter, currently on secondment, sent me these from ‘The Republic’ about a couple of months ago:
https://www.gov.sg/news/content/today-online-grab-uber-drivers-to-be-licensed-under-new-regime
http://mothership.sg/2016/04/uber-grab-drivers-will-soon-need-to-have-a-special-licence-heres-what-that-means-to-you/
I’d go for banning of Uber because it’s not about empowering the taxi drivers themselves but about making the shareholders rich.
Uber has recently dropped, again, the rate that it is paying Kiwi drivers.
A co-op Kiwi Uber system would be easy to create and provide more value to Kiwi drivers. (while still undercutting traditional taxi drivers…)
Uber is now recognised globally whereas the local version won’t be which would make it a lot harder for a new local version to succeed. The same thing is true for TradeMe and the attempts at producing competition for it.
I thought you were all for locally developed technology options. The argument you presented in your comment here would seem to apply to all your calls for going NZ made for most technology products and services.
Yes, bit ironic coming from Draco ‘we can compete with Intel’ T Bastard.
Actually, one point I’ve always considered if NZ started our own fabrication of ICs was that we’d produce Intel and AMD chips here under license. That there’d be capacity for NZ developed chips as well would be the boost to the local tech industry which is why I think it needs to be government that produces the fabrication plants.
Why would Intel and AMD want to produce chips in NZ?
Can we do it cheaper, faster, better than anyone else? Do we have a track record or reputation to prove we are worthy of building their CPUs, which are some of the most sophisticated in the world?
Probably – if we developed the tech well enough. And we can certainly do that. Hell, photo-lithography, the process used to produce CPUS, is a tech that’s over 200 years old.
The big question is: Why the hell haven’t we been developing it over the last 40+ years?
Photo-lithography is one step in a very long series of steps required to manufacture a CPU.
Also why the hell would you go for an x86 style chip if NZ were going to manufacture its own?
PS you’d also have to do that illegally as neither AMD nor Intel will license anything newer than an x486 for general computing use
There was about 300 steps last time I looked. Most involved coating the photo resistor on the chips, dousing the plate with an ion beam and then washing the photo resistor off.
Rinse and repeat.
Compatibility.
You mean my Intel Corei7 chip really doesn’t say ‘Made in Malaysia’ on it?
And, no, Intel doesn’t appear to own a fabrication plant in Malaysia.
DTB, oh I hadn’t understood, you want NZ to manufacture CPUs for Intel like Malaysia does?
BTW, as it seems you are not clear on the logistics chain for Intel CPU manufacturing, an Intel facility in Malaysia is used to assemble the CPUs. No x86 licensing is involved there. You are right however that there is no Intel fab there.
The silicon wafers themselves are fabricated at an Intel fab elsewhere, as per that wiki list you linked to, and shipped to Malaysia for finishing.
EDIT I agree with you that NZ should manufacture its own CPUs, but I would stay far far away from x86 chips and proprietary MS bloatware. Licensing multi use ARM designs which can be fabbed on a well understood and low risk 90nm process or similar is the way to go.
You do understand that Linux also runs on x86 don’t you?
And so does MacOSX (Although I tend to think of that as worse than Windows)
And many other OSes.
So, according to you, they fab the chips in one place and then ship the highly fragile, can’t be exposed to the open air, wafers halfway around the world to be assembled in Malaysia?
Yeah, pull the other one – it’s got bells on.
Or we could, you know, develop our own. Or license ARM. And, no, ARM isn’t staying on 90nm either.
And WTF are you so enamoured of wasting time developing 90nm processes?
As I’ve told you before. They use more power to achieve less. Note the size to the number of transistors. All that extra mass is what makes the 90nm cost more to run.
I was pointing out the difficulty of local brand competing with a global brand. The person coming in from the USA with the Uber app on their phone probably isn’t going to even look for a local app to do the same thing.
Now, I happen to think that your model suggestion is a far better model than that of Uber but it needs to be a local/global thing where there’s still a single app but it connects to the local taxi cooperative rather the local drivers working for a global conglomerate.
Concerning John Key and you commenters on TS who are getting caught up in the sticky spider’s web of maninthemiddle what do you think you are doing? You could be thinking and discussing something that we can change, working out how, or learning something new. Instead you are filling the thread with a lot of dickery-doo about whether the word is lies or not. I have counted 50+ from the start of 7 which was put by mitm himself. It has totally dominated time and page space.
Call it shiftiness, call it prevarication, look up the thesaurus and choose some other elegant or arcane words instead of lies. ‘A rose by any other name will smell as sweet’ as the saying goes. Have a caption competition to choose a code word for Key’s mumbles! Mitm just stirs you up and you waste your good time and spoil the value of the blog for others. And look incompetent time-wasters. And make TS a laughing stock by RWs.
True that, greywarshark. It’s like those one armed bandit machines at the old carnivals – another shilling, another pull on the arm and you might just get that plastic kewpie doll…
Robert Guyton
Ah the good old days when if you kept trying you might get that plastic kewpie doll.
Now the whole game is totally rigged so the item magically moves away as you aim for it and you never will get a doll, or another chance. You pay to get into the fairground to look at other people enjoying the activities which you can’t afford to join in, and next time the fair comes round, won’t even have the entry fee.
Robert Guyton
This through from Avaaz. Are they going to be able to make an impact. It sounds like a good try.
“Looking to where we were in the beginning of this year and where we are now, Avaaz is indisputably the driving force of the fight for glyphosate discontinuance.”
Pavel Poc, Vice-Chair of the EU Parliament’s Environment Committee, and key leader of the glyphosate fight
This is far from over. But it’s an utter game-changer for countries like Germany, France and Italy to challenge the basis of Monsanto’s entire business model.
Avaaz delivers glyphosate petition at the EU parliament
Avaaz petition delivered to European Parliament
We haven’t been knee-jerk anti-pesticide. Our campaign calls for a suspension until independent science determines the safety of glyphosate. We’ll keep fighting, but if the EU allows 18 months for a new scientific process to weigh in, and we can ensure that process is truly independent, we could win this!!
We can also use the next 18 months to focus scrutiny on the global environmental impact of the Monsanto model, which is turning the surface of our planet into strange, toxic “biodeserts” where only one genetically modified Monsanto crop can grow.
Like with climate change and the Paris agreement, Avaaz has mobilised people on this issue at an unprecedented scale – we’ve taken the fight against Monsanto to a whole new level, and now it’s up to all of us, over the next 18 months, to win it.
First big oil, now Monsanto. We are taking on the dragons of our world. But if we stick together, and choose to believe and act, we can do anything.
With hope and determination,
Ricken, Alice, Bert, Pascal and the whole Avaaz team
Thanks, greywarshark – yes, I’m following that development with great interest, as are my fellow councillors through the emails I’m kindly providing for them 🙂
Glyphosate use on NZ farms is alarmingly high, as is its use by city and district councils. I’m strongly opposed to its use.
I’ve re-read LP’s post to me, and frankly his personal threat is disturbing and rather pathetic, so I’m going to finish on this topic with this. It makes the point very well.
https://yournz.org/2015/02/22/blip-and-the-list-of-keys-lies/
You can continue to claim Key has told millions of porkies if you want, but no-one’s buying it outside the Key Deranged left.
But maninthemiddle – please don’t go just yet! Could you at least provide me with some honest feedback to my most recent comment to you? It’d only be polite, given the time I gave to you in engaging with you. Here’s that comment again:
8 June 2016 at 3:05 pm
I was keen to uncover the mechanism behind maninthemiddles crusade here. I asked what he need/meant by “proof”, as he’d used the word in his challenges here on TS. He seems, in response, to have been “less than truthful”, as evidenced by the two quotes below. Fair call, mitm?
maninthemiddle said: 7 June 2016 at 11:44 am
“Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged.”
maninthemiddle said: 8 June 2016 at 2:39 pm
“Actually I’m not demanding anything”
Awww! Maninthemiddle’s done a runner. How disappointing, I’ll miss him so. He was doing okay, keeping everyone distracted with his arrogant demands for attention and proof but that all fell apart under pressure and he revealed himself to be, let’s be kind here, less than truthful. I hope he returns. I’ve something I’d like to ask him.
Don’t worry mate I’m sure he’ll be back in one guise or another
+1 Robert.
What threat are you referring to Maninthemiddle? I haven’t read any responses containing any threats, and putting up a link to a right wing blog site won’t help your failure to prove your point either. It is not a claim that John key has told countless lies and continues to lie and deceive, it’s fact, and everyone knows it, including right wingers like you.
You have replied to others, why are you refusing to respond and address Robert’s questions?
http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-06062016/#comment-1184911
Read LPrents comment. A cowardly, empty and bankrupt threat from behind a moderators cloak. Obviously I’ve hit a tender spot with my comments about Blip’s list.
PS here’s a good read.
https://yournz.org/2016/02/15/blips-lies/
If it’s cowardly, empty and bankrupt, why did you find it disturbing?
Anyway, you were actually getting somewhere with #30.
I guess thats back to 431 lies…
“If it’s cowardly, empty and bankrupt, why did you find it disturbing?”
You mean you don’t find ‘cowardly, empty and bankrupt’ behaviour ‘worrying’ (the meaning of disturbing)?
“Anyway, you were actually getting somewhere with #30. I guess thats back to 431 lies…”
Well then I was batting 1 from 1. And I’m leaving it there.
No, you were getting nowhere, so lets leave it there.
The thing is, it’s not a “cowardly, empty and bankrupt threat from behind a moderators cloak” though. Lprent has been upfront and has confronted you about your trolling behaviour. Again, putting up a link to a right wing blog site won’t help your failure to prove your point either.
Actually he never mentioned trolling. He took exception to my holding people accountable for labelling someone a liar, obviously a sensitive issue for him.
His remarks were cowardly, because he moderates and therefore can skew the debate his way.
They were empty, because he has no intention of carrying them out (even if he could!)
Finally they were bankrupt, because they were of no use whatsoever.
His comments went beyond rational dialogue into personal threats. If you find that acceptable, then that’s sad.
As to the ‘right wing blog’, how do you feel about Blip’s use of left wing blogsites to support his list? Are you going to exercise consistency or hypocrisy?
“I may choose to savage you with the attention (that you so obviously desire) of evidence and opinion about you and your ideas. I’ve been on the nets for more than 30 years, am rather over educated, have a lot of work and political experience, and have a certain expertise in administering ‘educational’ experiences to fools on the net. I’m unlikely to be kind or unconstrained. The attention I tend to give is more sadistic. So I’d be careful about what you ask for.”
Paranoid. Egotistical. Sadistic. But keep defending him if you like.
maninthemiddle – 8 June 2016 at 3:23 pm
Looking forward to your response with eager anticipation.
Sincerely
Robert
Sure, I’ll engage.
“8 June 2016 at 3:05 pm
I was keen to uncover the mechanism behind maninthemiddles crusade here. I asked what he need/meant by “proof”, as he’d used the word in his challenges here on TS. He seems, in response, to have been “less than truthful”, as evidenced by the two quotes below. Fair call, mitm?
maninthemiddle said: 7 June 2016 at 11:44 am
“Robert if you accuse someone of lying, it is up to you to prove it when challenged.”
maninthemiddle said: 8 June 2016 at 2:39 pm
“Actually I’m not demanding anything””
Seems all clear to me. BTW, I answered your question about ‘proof’ earlier. As you seem not to have understood, I’ll rephrase. By proof I men verifiable evidence. Not opinion posts on TDB or TS, which I have seen used to support the contentions. Not blogs by Nicky Hager. Actual quotes, with references, by Key, followed by convincing evidence Key actually knew he was lying. That’s the standard. Nothing less will do. I can’t find a single item on Blip’s list that comes close.
Oh, and as a parting shot, the left started this ‘narrative’ attacking Key before he was even elected. Have a read of this little piece. It even appears to have coined the phrase ‘Dirty Politics’. Seems Key Derangement Syndrome began much earlier than I thought.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/decision-08/637261/Dirty-politics-and-the-world-wide-web
Thanks for getting back, maninthemiddle. Here’s my question to you. I’m keen to get a response from you about what seems to be contradictory statements you made earlier. You were pursuing the issue of truthfulness, but seemed to be untruthful in what you said. I have the evidence you said was so important in such situations; your claim that you didn’t ask for proof alongside of examples of your…asking for for proof. I wonder if you might address this conflict and assure readers that you weren’t being…dishonest. We, the readers and I, need that assurance in order to treat any of your statements as worthwhile, rather than…dishonest.
‘k?
Back from my ban…
I didn’t say I didn’t ASK for proof. I said I didn’t DEMAND proof.
You seem to have conflated to two.
Grow up, silly man.
You have described yourself Maninthemiddle. Get over yourself. You are being an overtly sensitive drama queen.
I said Lprent confronted you on your trolling behaviour, that was my take on it, I never said Lprent said it. Lprent didn’t skew the debate and neither where his remarks empty and bankrupt, you certainly took exception to them, so again you are wrong. People could easily say your comments go beyond rational dialogue, and maybe you have a persecution complex issue if you think it was a personal threat when it wasn’t.
Well, right wing blog sites that support John key are not going to promote and publish full lists of John key’s lies, that are public record, are they? it stands to reason that Blip and others who have made lists of John key’s lies are going to have them published on left wing blog sites. I think that was a really stupid question you have asked. I see that you are still avoiding Robert’s questions, and I thought you said you were finished with this topic comments ago. You appear to want to carry it on, so why not answer Robert’s questions?
If LP wanted to confront me and accuse me of trolling, he should have done so. But if you read his ugly piece of intolerance you’ll find he didn’t. Not once. It is you who have introduced that.
How you can construe comments such as “I may choose to savage you”, ” and have a certain expertise in administering ‘educational’ experiences to fools on the net”, “I’m unlikely to be kind or unconstrained.”, “The attention I tend to give is more sadistic.” and “So I’d be careful about what you ask for” as anything other than personal I’ll leave up to your conscience. Why he would think I’d be impressed by his “30years on the net” and his bloated opinion of his intelligence is beyond me.
As to Roberts comments, I have answered them. Above. I said I wouldn’t carry on with this topic, and I’m not. However I will defend my opinions on LP’s vanity and irrationality. It is obvious I touched a nerve.
[lprent: Not really, I’m very short of time due to work. Normally I’d just do a moderator warning like this when I’m ‘noticing; someone as a moderator. However I was reading on my cellphone and the editing is a pain.
But clearly the point didn’t get through, so I clearly need to reinforce it with some arbitrary moderator behaviour. It really pays to listen to moderators giving warnings about comment behaviour even if they are routinely as nasty as I prefer to be.
But since the warning wasn’t in the normal format and I have the dishes to do so there is no time to broaden the point, so I will generously reduce the usual emphasis by half. Banned two weeks. ]
Bloody can’t help yourselves. You have got to go on needling, demanding, keeping going the trolling behaviour.of mitm. I think some of you aren’t serious about discussing and learning ways to deal with the future. You just want to play in a sandpit that a dog or cat has done something smelly in.
Goodbye for now. The comments are trite and trivial.