One of my takeaways is that the CoC talent pool is frightenly shallow. The other is that Seymour and Peter’s will look weak if they don’t handle their ministers similarly.
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/rapture An oldie, but a goodie.
https://youtu.be/MTCqXlDjx18?feature=shared Our current policy so reminds me of this.
In reply to Ianmac at 3. Check the number of cats in your neighbourhood. As much as I love them, they are killing machines. Especially for small birds. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/04/calls-for-national-cat-act-after-entire-population-of...
An interesting idea. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/4/16/it-is-time-for-a-democratic-world-order Can’t see it happening. The USA is still a powerful player. Definitely not as long as NZ1 run our foreign policy.
Oh to be a “consultant “ in Wellington. Given the precedent with Joyce, you’ll be able to charge $1000’s a day. And have at least 3 years work.
I thought Ike had the freeway network built to assist the movement of troops.
So, sucking up to Putin is good foreign policy?
Apropos of nothing at all. I love Calvin and Hobbes, and Doonesbury. But the best cartoonist at the moment is, without doubt, First Dog on the Moon. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/15/is-everything-really-getting-worse-or-is-it-...
The 8 O’Clock?
I don’t think you can take religion out of it. The combination of Judaism, and Christianity is toxic enough. Add in the Shia v Sunni schism, and whole Jew v Muslim issue, and it will take a Solomon to unravel it.
Trying to unravel this lot would be almost impossible. It starts with the Old Testament, throw in the great Schism, add the Ottoman Empire, the meddling of the British Empire, the USA thinking they are an Empire, and Putin trying to create a mythical state...
An argument could be made that the real aggressor in the Middle East is Iran. Iran became an Islamic Republic in 1979. Subsequently Israel sees Iran as an existential threat to its very existence. This is made more explicit by Iran’s backing of its proxies...
When is the National party policy on anything going to be enacted? They have outsourced economic policy to Act, and foreign policy to NZ1. Are they just the driver, while the hoods in the back bark orders?
To take our minds of the Middle East. Some proof that a UBI does work. https://academicminute.org/2014/06/jane-costello-duke-university-sharing-the-wealth/ “The numbers carry a clear message: we can choose to pay less now or pay more later. Our tax dollars...
What I’m learning from this CoC is when Labour/Green/TPM get back in power just go for it. Make sure policy is in place, and ram it through.
I suspect you’re right, Anne. It was beginning to happen under the unitary plan. Now kicked to the curb by the CoC.
This could work so well in Auckland. But the pearl clutching in some of our wealthier suburbs will kill it. Our local politicians don’t have the courage to force it through. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2024/apr/06/why-has-15-minute-city-taken-off-...
Victory for Labour (VFL) Half goes to the party, half to your electorate.
Interesting. Quite the opposite to what our CoC believes. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/04/the-doomsters-were-wrong-about-the-minimum-wage-theyre-wrong-about-labours-new-deal-for-workers-too?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other ”Confounding the ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/513455/senior-us-diplomat-suggests-aukus-will-deter-any-china-moves-against-taiwan ”The United States Deputy Secretary of State has made an unusual linkage between the AUKUS security pact and deterring any Chinese move ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/513413/loosening-building-products-red-tape-good-first-step-industry FFS how naive do they think we are? Fletchers are going to lower house prices, or bank the difference? Exactly the same as the landlords rort. Chinese...
A long form article looking at who, after Putin. https://tinyurl.com/yc78sj8w ”It is true that the most influential people of this regime, Vladimir Putin and Yuri Kovalchuk, are still adherents of the old system based on cynicism and hedonism, while ...
This looks like a plan that could work here. If only budgets weren’t being cut! https://tinyurl.com/yfdy57zx ”There is one strategy, however, that has not yet been given much attention by policy makers: upgrading current teachers’ maths and statistics ...
Most commercial real estate owners are in for rental income, rather than capital gain.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350204033/great-business-employee-divide-doesnt-exist-across-tasman ”However, New Plymouth restaurateur Dicky Chatta said he would be “screwed” if all his employees had overtime rates, night rates and weekend rates. Chatta,...
Nationalise the whole ECE sector.
The threat of M Bovis making a comeback should make any dairy farmers blood run cold. With MPI gutted who’s going to help control it. WTF Is Andrew Hoggard thinking??
One of the many things the left can do is talk. Until policy is decided we can talk in general terms. We need to talk about fairness. Whether it’s decency, equality, a fair go, giving everyone a fair suck of the sav, it doesn’t matter. What must be ...
Economics 101, charge what the market can bear. Not cost plus So why do supposedly economically literate MPs in the CoC think rents will come down? No self respecting landlord in their right mind will pass on savings.
Let’s hope MBovis doesn’t make a comeback.
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