So true smilin. I think this is a replay of Victorian England all over again. Remember people emigrated away from there to places like our own. Where are we going to disappear to this time back to England???
Rheumatic fever killed my dad. He contracted it as a four year old during the depression and finally took him 70 years later after a lifetime of trouble from the leaky heart valve the disease caused. It makes me so, so angry that this third world disease ...
Anyone seen any reliable polls recently??? Have not seen anything for a while?
Thats so true "I've got mine stuff you" is the major attitude in this country and around the world. It will only take one large event or catastophe to level inequality and destroy that attitude. Could also come about through revolution which has happened ...
No individualism does not work well with society as individualism is the main thread of the free market. Individualism and the free market split society because of greed. Greed is the key and is what is responsible for our housing crisis etc Greed leads to...
Yep we have lots of lunatics in New Zealand supporting FJK and his Natz party... That's the only way they can understand them.
Maybe we will see a repeat of the 1984 snaps election if the polls keep going the way they are going...
I believe they are protecting the banks profits by keeping prices high. higher prices more debt = more profit...
Hey just off topic on the financial implications of the brexit. The markets are looking bad. Heard one commentator say that the Dow will drop to 5500 by July thats way over 50%. The 10 year bonds yield has dropped like a stone. Gold and silver price is ...
Terrible social conscience. But that seems to be the way of NZ these days doesn't it...
Yeah Ian, these super rich are laughing at all of us. They have had the deck stacked in there favour for so long... we need to bring back some egalitarian values in NZ.
It's a two edged sword. On one hand they push the whole work hard culture and on the other they are trying to make it as hard as possible to stay in what they are encouraging. If this was fiction I could understand it but unfortunately it's not... I worry ...
Hey some good coverage on this watch Bomber Bradbury over on the Daily Blog. He did three shows on this on the 'Fifth Estate' was very good.I don't have a link. But if you go to the Daily Blog you can find it easy.
Having just read the brief Stuff article about the assailant it sounds very much like he is a victim too. Of the Quakes, of Government indifference, potentially of squeezed mental health services. I think nothing has angered me more about this government ...
I wish my family had known about the cannabis alternative when our terminally ill loved one was struggling. Even if it was illegal we would have encouraged its substitution for the morphine and other opiatesfamily-member was stuck with and which she ...
The cretins cloning and feeding/and I dont even own a TV (That's all true, that is, even the last bit. God that song takes me back)
It's refreshing to to hear the pope run contrary to the right wing capitalist ideologue agenda. I think the Labour Party should listen to the message Pope Francis brings.
DOC has had the guts ripped out of it over the last few years so this is not a surprise. In the last six months my partner, their current manager, their former manager, and several equally experienced colleagues have resigned from the same North Island ...
We told the school (teacher), we didnt ask. I very much doubt it went to the Principal as both he and the teacher undoubtedly have bigger fish to fry.
I tautoko that, and also note that everyone's mileage will vary on this issue but for working parents who are constantly juggling those competing responsibilities, fitting family time into the mandated and unflexible holiday periods is increasingly ...
He is always punching down, thats the problem. Just like our own Henry and Hoskings, and most of the others we are subjected to on a daily basis.
I second Small Gods, on the opiate of religion and war.
A bit teary on the loo, another touchstone lost. I don't think I would be looking at the world through the same eyes if not for that first encounter with Rincewind and the luggage in the library in Form 3.
Is this 1080 threat has been investigated for four month, how come police only started taking to the anti 1080 campaigners in the last couple of days, as reported this evening on Stuff and the Herald?
Willow-Jean has had her signs up for a couple of weeks ago, all over the show between Whangarei and Kaikohe, havent been further north recently to see what the skinny is elsewhere. Her team was running a bbq in Kawakawa on sunday and she is definitely out ...
It never ceases to amaze me that middle New Zealand is finding itself if exactly the same state as Maori 150 years ago. Perhaps it's a truth too uncomfortable to realize but the 'Chiefs' making decisions for us are if exactly the same mind and spirit as ...
I was asked to come in and do an environemental assessmental for the school buildings in mid Jan just after everyone was getting back from the holidays, with the school due to open about three weeks later, I politely declined to help, for political reasons...
The difference in tone between the Herald and Andrea Vance's reporting is interesting. Collins comes off pretty pissed at Key directly in the latter
You also probably get less innovation and entrepreneurship because you are coming out of Tech or Uni already saddled with debt and staring down the barrell of an enormous mortgage to get onto the property ladder. The Atlantic Monthly recently ran an ...
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I am an NZ based NZ PhD student studying an NZ topic through a highly ranked Aussie university, fully funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award. thanks CER! One of the first crimes against tertiary education this government committed upon taking office ...
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