Definitely do not want a 4 year term. No thanks.
We need the government to use it's power against a flagrantly corrupt media serving the political interests of it foreign masters. Where was the trenchant editorial outrage at John Key's lies about the GCSB and a hundred other topics? The housing crisis? ...
I'd prefer a Royal Commission into the affect of foreign ownership on NZ media. We have been very poorly served for decades. I still remember Richard Long converting the The Dominion into an MMP opponent after that newspaper had solidly supported MMP for ...
NZ's tradition of toothless laws around privacy (and civil rights) remains unmolested.
Best. Comment. Ever.
Though in doing so he has effectively removed his entire back catalogue of posts from the Net......which is unfortunate.
They don't lie so much as see what they want to see........ I know a lot of people who will read a thing and inside their head it gets converted into something else.....and they don't even realise they are doing it.
If you're hitting someone, you're in the wrong. It's as simple as that. If you give yourself an excuse for violence, the other guy can and will do the same. This is old news. Amazing some people don't get it.
This isn't a ridiculous practice in every case. Here's the scenario: you're a landlord (HNZ or other) and you have meth-tested your property. It's clean. Then, later, you do an annual meth test in the flat....and it's not clean. So you test it again, more ...
Canada and France and Germany (and most other developed nations) also stood aside and advised the invasion was ill-judged. Italy.....well...they got Berlusconi-ed into it. Nothing better than a populist conservative for best ensuring innocent people suffer...
I think Sanders carrying on is a good strategic move. It creates the conflict the media love to cover...and gives Clinton a chance to look dignified and presidential. Making Sanders he running mate would be an awesome idea. If she doesn't do it, she'll be ...
Switzerland is both a very conservative place and a place with an active, thinking progressive minority. Like most places. They minority is usually a generation ahead of the rest. So I suspect a UBI will become generally normal in about 30 years. Locally, ...
I'm buying a Nissan Leaf in the next few weeks. It will be "good enough". My intention is that I have already bought my last petrol-driven car. Though I mainly use the train and buses.....I have the car for those longer (20km?) regional trips that need to ...
Excellent advice. Headline writers with an agenda (of any kind) often seek to frame the outcome before the actual outcome is known. We're mugs if we fall for it.
Labour can't really blame Corbyn for election results in Scotland. At best, previous Labour leaders (Looking at you, Mr B-Liar) could be blamed for laying the foundations for the a decade of rapid SNP growth. Elsewhere......if Labour shows any growth at ...
The strategy of blaming the victims works very well for the government and its employer cronies. Why change, as long as they are high in the polls?
The strategy of blaming the victims works very well for the government and its employer cronies. Why change, as long as they are high in the polls?
The strategy of blaming the victims works very well for the government and its employees cronies. Why change, as long as they are high in the polls?
Replace Kim Hill?
She was doing morning and night. With Ap-Paul-ling Henry. No wonder she wants a break. Might be a family or health issue in the mix somewhere, too. She needs more time for something else if it isn't a new job.
John Key made NZ a tax haven....intentionally and knowingly. Deal with that, Chairman.
No. Keep GST. It's the only tax many of these people pay. Not earning an income isn't avoiding tax. It's avoiding an income. The greens have no problem with law-abiding, ethical private businesses. No wonder so many businesses don't like the Greens. They ...
The laws may well be just fine for those countries we have tax treaties with. What the Panama Papers seem to have uncovered is that the countries we do NOT have tax treaties with form a defacto web of tax havens. Key keeps talking around this issue.
All that "too expensive" regulation and compliance looks like value for money after wasting a few billion on dubious construction materials (never mind the cowboy shonky building work that is at least a part of almost everything built in any case). ...
This government has destroyed NZ public broadcasting. I didn't vote for any of it......but suffer anyway thanks to those who did.
This is possible because the government-lead coup at ECAN.
Social credit have been talking about a UBI for almost a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit
Vern Small highlighted the issue very well. If labour says it, then it's wrong and if John Key says it, it must be right. Vern Small isn't going to contest that reality. Instead, he wants to impose it on the Labour Party.
That's a very clear an simple example of the difference between cronycrats and real leaders.
I don't think so. No one wants to fight a WW III. All the propaganda in the world won't work and is more likely to see the people calling for more war be rejected rather than embraced.
The banksters and weapons makers don't want a President they don't collectively own.
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