You think he's a victim of his incompetence? That angle hadn't occurred to me but I suppose you're right. However I don't blame him for being himself - he can only perform at the level he naturally slots into. [While being a sanctimonious and patronising ...
I'm still mystified why Labour chose not to explain 3 Waters and its (apparent) co-governance rationale. Consequently it became evident that their choice was producing a negative reaction. Since I've often commented here in support of their policy ...
Nope, I just pointed out how he had set himself up sufficiently for readers to jump to that conclusion. The guy must be old enough to take responsibility for what he wrote. If he wanted his vapourings to be taken seriously, he would not have set himself up...
In October an election was held in which the major rightwing party (National) did not reveal its true policy intentions The notion that a political party ought to reveal future intentions seems to be embedded within the psyche of the author. Such moral ...
He cites a triad: the principles are determined on a case-by-case basis. The three Ps – partnership, participation and protection – are the most well-known principles. Together they ensure Māori opportunities to provide input into decision-making and ...
Another explainer: So are the principles different from the Treaty proper? Yes, they are. Despite Te Tiriti o Waitangi being New Zealand’s de facto constitution, we are one of only five nations without a proper written constitution. Because of that, Te ...
Quite so! Imagine being born into a cultural matrix in which history proceeded on the basis of historical misconceptions. Who would take them seriously?? True believers in democracy, that's who. Democracy is a cerebral concept that keeps believers within ...
Here's a helpful summary of what Seymour wants to overthrow: In 1986, the government passed the State-Owned Enterprises Act, which included a provision stating that “nothing in this Act shall permit the Crown to act in a manner that is inconsistent with ...
His wife is Chilean, but he has a dual nature by birth too, that provides an internationalist perspective: Boris Sokratov is a Bulgarian-Māori and has whakapapa to Te Rarawa, Ngāti Haua. He was the producer of the Nutters Club Radio Show. He helped ...
Huh. Mainstreamers fucked up the collective climate response more than 20 years ago, definitively. As for discrimination against women, it depends on how many feel they are victims of that. The potential number is huge, the actual number small, I suspect...
Definitely gonzo, loved the multi-colour graphic showing how tiny the health spend is compared to the biggies - no wonder the hospitals are in perpetual crisis. Kindness?? that in National’s last year of power in 2016/17 it spent $550m on consultants, or ...
Group-think. Even got James under control.
Austerity usually isn't popular but if the IMF estimate is validated by performance - "expected economic contraction estimated by the IMF at 2.8%" - it may succeed.
I agree with your analysis - however their leftist zero-sum thinking re Labour has been self-imposed handicap for so long now it seems unrealistic to expect them to wake up & smell the roses. They could proceed to a convergence with Labour instead if both ...
If there's any obvious flaw in the design of what James produced, it'll be up to our new govt to rectify it...
Play on words often hews to tradition. I was just using her framing. Some users of language prefer contemporary usage but we need not do the binary either/or on language use. Notice that I didn't use the antique verb origin (tink).
James presents a triad to Newsroom: There are three things, he says. There’s the Zero Carbon Act and the institutions that are associated with that, providing an overall framework. There’s the “massive package” of Emissions Trading Scheme reforms, which ...
Diddums? The Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand is lashing out at what he believes are a lack of alternative transport options after his flight out of Wellington was cancelled. Wang Xiaolong said on X China has "high-speed trains" which he was "really ...
Get this, from Hipkins in response to Chloe: She wants to mobilise them to have the first Greens-led Government. "I strongly believe the Greens are the leading left-wing party in Parliament," she said. "I believe radical change, at this point, is necessary...
Hager painted the Nats as hollow men, Trotter paints the Labs same: https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-hollow-party.html Without focus group approval, no policy – not even one promoted by the Finance and Revenue ministers working together – ...
we are being forced to pick a side. That means we do not have an independent foreign policy. Your thesis seems valid on the basis of the precautionary principle, yet is somewhat premature. US playing hegemon is normal geopolitics, China playing wannabe ...
Not just that though. Weka's point hinges on resilience, and folks can't get to it without integrating the natural function of sleep (regeneration of bodily tissues/organs). Sleep is an evolutionary adaption acquired in the extreme distant past - but only ...
This is a pivotal moment in our nation's history and we either seize it or accept a future of separatism and disunity. https://www.hobsonspledge.nz/newsletter Inasmuch as the Treaty provided for continuation of traditional separatism, that divide has been...
Oh goody, a master plan. Been a while since anyone used one of those. Will he reveal it though? In accord with normalcy, no. Normalcy requires constant denial of the existence of conspiracies, hence lack of mention of Atlas in the msm. However he could do ...
So he sees his leader as a kind of cross between amoeba & jellyfish into which a spine may be inserted when necessary. "Yeah, you can print out a plastic spine with 3-D printers now!" However the timing around the insertion will be tricky. The polls must ...
Using the politics of kindness, she carefully refrained from calling Jacinda chief tinker: "We are not a party of tinkering. We are a party of transformation." There was immense frustration in the community "with tinkering when they were promised ...
Not naive! Answers will be speculative however... "We are in the exploration phase because it's not defined as to what is in it or not in it," Luxon said of pillar 2. "And that is something we are interested in learning more about." https://www.newshub.co....
Willie continuously called him Goldie so I deduced it was an ongoing thing, and since they seemed to have quite a benign interaction going could be Maori solidarity is the subtext...
Jackson, Goldsmith.
The censoring of the 80 year old feminist on the GP website that caused me to cease involvement with the party for the second time about 3 years ago, plus the editor's resignation, meaning two women were victimised. We've discussed this previously, I think...
Could be. Just now on AM Lloyd Burr is interviewing Willie & Goldie simultaneously, Willie was on about this govt being tainted by ties to tobacco - quite rightly. Kept jabbing Goldie with that, who grinned his eye-roll a few times in response & kept ...
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