So a rich guy notices, that one's attitude to money is influenced by how much or little of it one has. If you have nothing then money is purely a means of getting the necessary for survival. If you have enough you might think about saving for retirement. ...
It seems to be "a plague on all of their houses" People may not be enamoured of the government, but not many could bother to turn out to vote against them. Based on this result I think next year's election is wide open. More bad economic news will probably...
Unfortunately, Labour seem to be backing down unnecessarily over things. They don't seem to realise that the media is the enemy. Jackson called them out, and Adern made him apologize. It isn't going to satisfy them.
So Luxon thinks that unlimited immigration will fix our (perceived) employment problem. If the problem is that we have too few people to service our current population, then increasing the population will make it worse.
Most Farmers do NOT agree with Groundswell. But they won't say it in public. How many farmers will be out opposing the protests?
The farmers' groups have played exactly the same game as always. When presented with the knowledge that something will happen they engage and negotiate to get the minimum change possible. At the same time they continue to undermine even that in the hope ...
Wasn't there supposed to be a report into National caucus bullying after the JLR affair? Did that ever get released?
The ETS was an adequate answer 30 years ago if it had been allowed to work properly. But too many free credits were given out and the fraudulent overseas credits were allowed until recently, so it was not effective in reducing emissions. The same has been ...
"If the burial of every mother were more like this, the world would stand upright." Instead the world would grind to a halt. Millions of mothers die worldwide every day. We can't have millions queued up to visit each of them. I don't have anything against ...
What a load of drivel. China cannot compete with the US, but nor does it need to. Why do you think that it is a zero sum game? China is going through a painful transition. It's growth rate was unsustainable. China's leadership is attempting to a transition...
...and we can expect a cabinet reshuffle next year along with list rankings to protect the talent that might otherwise be at risk. Expect the most promising of this terms' new crop to get a nod.
"Also this week, the party that came out hard against the government for massive growth in coal use wasn’t the Greens, but ACT with Seymour noting:" ACT are not complaining about us burning coal, they are only complaining that we are not digging up enough ...
To add to the confusion, MPS come from a variety of backgrounds with the only defining characteristic being a huge Ego. Some have experience of dealing with staff and some don't. Some are empathetic employers and some aren't. Some are just plain arseholes....
The "reasonable" people in the protests were all (to some extent) radicalised so you can't tell who was the NAZI, and who was just in the same room. The documentary made the point of interviewing one (very reasonable seeming woman) and then showing footage...
We are still building car-dependent houses that lock us into increasing emissions regardless of people's wishes to do something to lower them. Behaviour wont change until infrastructure does.
I am off to the Cooks next week to support their economy. I am not expecting that my tourist dollars will actually result in many jobs for the locals, and I expect that tourism will be having many negative effects on the environment and wealth distribution...
The narrative is about the government of Sri Lanka wanting to to go green. In reality it was the government refusing to use foreign reserves to pay for chemicals. Going green is not just about stopping using chemicals and the Green party is not advocating ...
A you tube series worth watching. The problems referenced apply to NZ as well, and explain why most of the infrastructure devleopment we are putting in to fix the housing crisis is unsustainable. Introduction to Strong Towns & Financially Insolvent ...
There is nothing balanced in that article. I have given up on expecting balance from Bryce Edwards. He might have valid points but he obscures them by sprinkling in words like "controversially pushing through Parliament". Any "platform" run by Sean ...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300637193/new-zealand-can-we-fix-it-not-unless-politicians-grow-up Nice to see a media site pointing out the obvious that we have to do things differently. They even point the finger at media commentators, although they ...
The problem with immigration is that the immigrants require services, and that requires more labour. Instead we need more training and higher productivity. Successive governments have created an environment where there is not incentive to raise ...
Except the deer are never well enough thinned out, and they destroy the baby trees so that when there is a storm and the big trees fall over the gap doesn't get replaced. Keeping the deer (for hunting and eating) reduces the options for poisoning for other...
The media hob knobs with the rich [I have removed your surname, I assume, from your user name because you may have typed it in error - Incognito]
I know. Russiagate was a hoax though
It is a good speech as far as it goes. But she avoided criticising her hosts for the same things that she lambasts Russia and China. The US still has Guantanamo Bay, Turkey is still in Syria. There are numerous other examples.
I always wonder why ACT didn't use their time in power to stop school zoning in Epsom.
It is hard for someone like that to get heard, but it is great television. Interviews like that will increase viewership, and he should be on every channel. It is why Boris works (as a brand), because he is outrageous and entertaining.
How to help people facing poverty? This is a good read about scientific studies. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01679-y
How about number of new homes being built - in spite of material and labour shortages? https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/annual-number-of-new-homes-consented-up-20-percent
Fuck off! The USA & UK are not worse than China or Russia. China may be slightly better than USA as they don't want the whole world, they only want half of it. But they still want it! Russia under Putin is clearly expansionist, and oppressive to its ...
Enough straw men there for a huge bonfire. Caricatures might sell newspapers, but they don't make the basis for a serious discussion. Is democracy really that much under threat? Is the Ardern government really so incompetent? Have there not always been ...
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