Why is it even up for debate? If the republican's have majorities everywhere then surely the shutdown must be because some republican's are voting against their own party. Or am I missing something here?
I think that's more of an indication of how much the media sucks up to whoever is in power - not exactly what we're looking for from our fierce defenders of democracy in the 4th estate :-)
I'm not saying what Lorde should or shouldn't do but if she went there and spoke up during the show in defense of Palestine that would surely be a powerful statement. or I missing something? The Fools comment was stupid though :-)
I've got two daughters who play soccer/football and I can assure everyone that sexist attitudes exist from the top all the way down through coaches to the little boys who play soccer treat girls with dismissive attitudes. To be clear, I'm not criticising ...
Tuppence that is a bizarre comment - No one said Labour is making excuses that the other side did it. The article is in fact pointing out that National seems to have forgotten that they made the exact same offer to Australia that Labour is now making. It's...
I heard this nitwit on the radio in Hamilton a few weeks back. He was trying to say that no one overseas was talking about housing problems so neither should we. He thought the election campaign should instead have focused more on the situation in North ...
Labour always runs a capitalist economy better than the capitalists, there are multiple layers of irony here of course but it's not hard to do because National basically runs a plunderers economy. For evidence I remind people that out of the last 4 ...
Farming is changing, there are fewer and fewer people owning more and more of the land these days, most of the young farmers are either working for them or struggling share milkers being screwed over by landowners. There is huge potential - and more ...
Trump is a crazy as a cut snake but his administration is not imploding, it's being attacked from the outside by the military industrial complex because he wanted to make peace with Russia (so he can do business with them naturally) You can count the ...
The thing that no one is talking about is actually how profondly useless National Standards were at informing us of our child's progress. The reports my teachers wrote when I went to school were ten times as informative. Not that I needed the report anyway...
This article describes how National set up their social media team - members of which are often the first to post. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11510969 We really need someone to archive this before it disappears
All this talk of stable government is nonsense - it's as if people have forgotten about the existence of the entire public service and all the government departments. If they were to fall over we really would be in trouble but otherwise the only people who...
Why do you guys bother talking to BM? It's clear his (surely he's a guy) only reason to be here is to be disruptive. He's either part of the National Party Social media team or someone who's overtly tribal. Either way, baiting people is a pathetic way to ...
Nah, it should be going up - They'll be working overtime to try to get National out of all the holes they'e dug themselves.
I see the Narional Party Social Media Team is on a quick-response setting for this issue. You can judge their success by how much of the comments section is taken up with responses to their baiting
It's a shame he's gone actually, a guy like Todd is pure gold to the opposition!
One of the things that has surprised me about this issue is that Democracy Now! has been pedalling the US government line - something clearly contradicted by this and other reports. The fact that the rest of the western media broadcst the US government ...
It's been fun here in the Waikato with Waikato District Council's CCO Tanlaw becoming so useless and unresponsive that the council ended up giving their contract to other entities - meaning Tanlaw no longer exists. Their roading maintenance work went to a ...
I think I speak for everyone when I say: $475,000!!!!!!!!!!!!
getting away from the need to be liked is an incredible thing, I recommend it to everyone eveywhere.
Thankyou CV. The US is conducting a propaganda war against Russia so I was immediately suspicious of this news item - nice to see some relevant info come up
So here we all are talking about New Zealand First. Perhaps that's all Winston was looking for.
Seriously?
I don't know why you guys bother responding to BM, this opening gambit was particularly silly but even at the best of times s/he has nothing to contribute to a debate
I get what you're trying to say but this bit is just wrong: "...global elites have been inattentive to the issues of wages, incomes, and opportunity for ordinary people." Global elites have been VERY attendant to these issues -- which is why they've all ...
Hone is talking about them being hardly noticeable from the point of view of his constituency. Arguably the most visible Maori MP has been Kelvin Davis but the people he's being trying to help don't even live in New Zealand! To be clear, I think his ...
Really bizarre that you think Hone needs to be more humble. I could go on about the racial implications of your comments but just want to say tht I watched that video (as I said above) and thought he was calm, even handed and humourous.
What are you talking about Hone coming across as thoughtless and offensive? You must have sent me to an interview from a parallel universe because in the video I watched he said it in a very calm matter of fact way. It amazes me how even at a website like ...
I don't think we can emphasise how unprecedented this is. Banks are allowed to be their own regulators these days and have, up to this point, proven to have a never ending appetite. It's like, the Foxes, having been put in charge of the hen house, have ...
It frustrates me so much when I see the phrase "...will cost the country..."in these discussions! The country is not a household, it is an economy and when you spend money into it, it doesn't dissapear forever, in fact, it moves around between people as ...
I don't mean to imply you shouldn't be allowed to post your views - I'm just surprised to see the mainstream take on the situation being published here. Especially when the mainstream view is dominated by US war propaganda.
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