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Comment: Democracy in Dire Straits
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:43 pm, June 21st, 2024
The last Govt. attempted to entrench 3 (10) Waters and made a hash of it. https://www.national.org.nz/mahuta_was_working_on_entrenchment_for_weeks [a nice link to the National Party!] The present Govt. may well have learnt that lesson and have a more ...Comment: Open mike 18/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:59 am, June 19th, 2024
shot while standing up, he went through a large amount of ammunition and his primary interest appeared to be firing and changing magazines quickly All unremarkable behaviour at a Service Rifle competition club and indeed many other ranges and clubs. Three ...Comment: Open mike 18/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:51 am, June 19th, 2024
There is much more to it than that article. Try reading this where it is covered far more fully in the Royal Commission enquiry: https://christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz/the-report/part-6-what-public-sector-agencies-knew-about-the-terrorist/bruce- ...Comment: Haere ra He Wake Eke Noa
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 4:24 pm, June 15th, 2024
Thanks for the verbose revelations of your thought process and position. The way you leap to the "rebellion" conclusion is instructive. Farmers do seem to be not well thought of! More to be revealed yet?Comment: Haere ra He Wake Eke Noa
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 1:27 pm, June 15th, 2024
Where on earth did you come up with "rebellion" ? It is all much more subtle than that. From ACT this morning: "ACT understands that when rural communities are free to flourish, we're all better off. The war on farmers is over. We're winding back the red ...Comment: Haere ra He Wake Eke Noa
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 4:32 am, June 15th, 2024
It behooves us to remember that farmers surround cities and towns; control food supplies; control the sources of water (which they can pollute at will); have a strangle-hold on transport links ( all inter city roads track through farm areas) and with their ...Comment: Open mike 13/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:41 pm, June 13th, 2024
Top quality child care, schools , Healthcare, food in schools,and abundant affordable housing Lots of multi-millionares to be made providing those if there is enough "Top quality" leading to fat profits!Comment: Open mike 12/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:19 pm, June 12th, 2024
or we're heading for a Jo Cox situation More likely to a situation where right wing protectors begin to deal to the attackers - with "extreme prejudice" - perhaps?Comment: Open mike 12/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:07 pm, June 12th, 2024
Why would you ever trust an NZ farmer about a damn thing? ... and we wonder why farmers have a near genocidal distrust of the left? Eat the food they produce; live off the imports bought with the foreign exchange they bring in and tax the shit out of them ...Comment: Fast-Track to Fast-Fail
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 9:04 pm, June 9th, 2024
Did it not occur to her they were the result of cheaper, inferior material being used to repair the roads under the previous National Govt? The rot set in after the Refinery was closed and substandard imports could not be rectified locally. Don't think ...Comment: March for Nature
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 4:43 pm, June 8th, 2024
A third of the population and 23 days occupation of Parliament grounds was ignored by ALL politicians. A peaceful march in Auckland will just be ignored too. Only losing elections has consequences. But the CoC are setting out to destroy the Maori Party - ...Comment: Lies Damn Lies and Police Statistics
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 2:53 pm, June 6th, 2024
The Auckland Police will all be at the Marae searching for Census forms soon - that will put paid to the foot patrols.Comment: Open mike 05/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 9:43 am, June 5th, 2024
They left out landlords ? The landlords are all Boomers?Comment: Budget Smudgeit
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:41 am, June 5th, 2024
"Ignorant shilling" Recently involved with cancer treatment and provision of cancer drugs. Do you think this is not going to happen here? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/i-was-offered-assisted-dying-over-cancer-treatment-broken-canadian-healthcare- ...Comment: Budget Smudgeit
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:16 am, June 2nd, 2024
Paula is my trusted advisor - rang me at 2am and promised a $100 KFC voucher if I printed that .... Don't be silly!Comment: Budget Smudgeit
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 2:42 am, June 2nd, 2024
The cancer drugs are extremely expensive and may just be too much on a per patient basis. They do not seem to be curative but rather palliative. Scuttlebutt is that Pharmac may be playing hardball with the suppliers and trying to get prices reduced ...Comment: Budget Smudgeit
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:57 pm, June 1st, 2024
Prescription co-payments will return from July 15, Finance Minister Nicola Willis told media gathered at Parliament. So the money is not yet available - perhaps why it will take time to be available for purchase of cancer drugs?Comment: Open mike 01/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:23 pm, June 1st, 2024
Busboys and Poets (Vegan restaurant) plus Faculty/Staff at this university: Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. ... and this is to be taken seriously?Comment: Open mike 01/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 2:28 pm, June 1st, 2024
For a "campaign of extermination" a death toll of 35,000 (reported by Al jazzera) out of 2.5 million in an area bombed flat over months it is a bit of a failure. Not quite up to the level of the Holocaust ... Have read the S.A. charges - made by a country ...Comment: Open mike 01/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 1:26 pm, June 1st, 2024
Watching too much Al jaseeera News - that term has been bandied about constantly there. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/14/this-is-genocideComment: Open mike 01/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 1:12 pm, June 1st, 2024
Yep - a hostage rescue mission not a "genocide"Comment: The QE2 covenant, the Mining Company and the donation to NZ First
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 1:08 pm, June 1st, 2024
Not me who hints that such tiny amounts can 'buy' favours from Shane Jones ... Hey! Even Nicola Willis fronted up with $1.2 BILLION! (and the previous incumbent $1.5 Billion ...)Comment: The QE2 covenant, the Mining Company and the donation to NZ First
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:32 pm, June 1st, 2024
If anyone thinks favours from Shane Jones can be 'bought' for $5,000 then front up with double the money and ask him to refuse the 'fast track' consent .....Comment: Open mike 01/06/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:27 pm, June 1st, 2024
“The Israeli government made a conscious and deliberate decision to sacrifice the hostages,” This has always been so as The Government there has long had the policy that giving in to the demands of hostage takers can only encourage future hostage takers. ...Comment: Budget Smudgeit
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:43 am, June 1st, 2024
Perhaps I should have put the // sarc tag at the end. Just using the 'colectivist' mantra of "Greatest good for greatest number" (which has been said to me by both Left ans Right politicians from time to time) Governments are formed to make hard choices - ...Comment: Open mike 31/05/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:33 am, June 1st, 2024
Just "mandate" trippple jabs for them to attend at all? RSV/Flu/Covid 19 Won't stop spread or stop them contracting but will "reduce the severity" !!! After all - "Safe and Effective"Comment: What does the Government have against Māori wards?
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:23 am, June 1st, 2024
The other effect of Maori Wards (which are global - i.e. whole of Council area) is that those who can opt for voting in the Maori Ward (only those in the whole Council area that are on the Maori Electoral Roll (for National Elections) are LOCKED out of a ...Comment: Budget Smudgeit
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 1:49 pm, May 31st, 2024
There is nothing to 'give' - the Government is TAKING less from tax payers only ... not everybody.Comment: Open mike 31/05/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 12:10 pm, May 31st, 2024
About 29 cents of that $2.15 will go back to the Govt. with the GST component on the purchase .... so Mrs Willis will be please too! .... so really only getting $1.86 in "tax relief" .. and that is not counting the tax on the profit made by the Supermarket ...Comment: Open mike 30/05/2024
Written By: Maurice - Date published: 11:40 pm, May 30th, 2024
So how much do you feel the tax should be? TEN times as much 800,000 @ 22% - $176,000 [$624,000 left] TWENTY times as much 800,000 @ 44% - $352,000 [$448,000 left] At what level do you think they would bugger off and pay no tax at all?
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