Have I overlooked it but does anyone here care about the lack of action by the RBNZ and our government at the crazy house price rises raging at the moment, especially in Auckland? I've mentioned the hyper-inflation in the housing market driven by bank ...
IIRR he got an on-line message to send money for a house, purchase to his solicitor, (had paid the deposit so this was the bulk of the price), he did, and found out that it was a hacker conperson. Sounds like he fucked up badly. He should have checked the...
But they were individual errors or frauds not the industrial scale frauds that you get from hacking. Yeah, I think you may be being a little too optimistic there: Check fraud is on the rise. A new survey by the American Bankers Association (ABA) reports ...
The banks should retain bank cheques so that you can transfer the larger amounts in a formal and safe manner. Whatever makes you think that cheques are safe? And there's pretty much no limit to how much you can transfer via other means that are safer. And...
But to not acknowledge that said theory is creating no end of grief for society at large and despite all the evidence presented to them will not admit anything needs changing? Is this a case of their egos not wanting to admit they've stuffed up big time ...
Exactly. Our elected representatives don't do what the people want but what business wants and it inevitably makes it worse for the majority of people.
/Agreed The only way out of it that I see is the inevitable collapse of society brought about by capitalism. Going to kill a lot of people but it might alleviate climate change somewhat.
I remember at the time beneficiaries saying they got a few dollars. What's published is called the headline rate. What's not published is the formulation that determines how much of that headline rate that a person will get. Pretty close to nobody will ...
Rich person = anyone with passive income. Passive income = income that they didn't work for i.e, shareholders and owners of rental property. Paying their fair share is wrong as the government doesn't even need an income. Instead we should be looking at a ...
On the strength of that one announcement alone, global sharemarkets have gone upwardly nuts overnight, and look set to continue. Bludgers looking to bludge on the desperation of everyone else. So we can see the direction that this government is taking ...
I say again – do we need to ditch the banks for transactions or does a banking licence come with service conditions. Yes we do but some people get upset with the idea. This is probably due to decades of being told that government is bad.
St John's shouldn't even be a private organisation.
So, what you're saying is that everyone lost and there's still a bunch of elected dictators in power?
Looks like the reckons of an old RWNJ.
The question, then, is how to put structural integrity back at the heart of democracy. This assumes that the structural integrity was there in the first place which it actually wasn't. If it had been than what the author describes could not have happened....
The only thing that should be done with student loans is that they get written off.
As for transforming our economy; I’d put my bet on radically improving our agricultural and horticultural sector. It’s what we’re good at. Its what we like to think we're good at but the reality is that there's no such thing as radically improving our ...
A universal respect for all human life is one of humanities great ethical advances and we let it slip at our peril. That is actually a major problem as it precludes any respect for all other life which results in farmers that pollute and then complain ...
Keeping a person in prison is even more expensive and deportation is a cheaper option – some caring law-abiding righteous citizens go as far as saying “lock them up and throw away the key”. Not even remotely related. Government spending is not a zero-sum ...
Doesn't fit the description given.
That's good - doesn't address the problem of different laws conflicting with one another. And note, marijuana use is still federally illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._jurisdiction https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020...
A blog that allows two regulars to spew vile hate speech reminiscent of the Reich. Which, of course, is a load of bollocks. The Third Reich set out to eliminate viable populations. Who can't ever have a clear thought, feed themselves, understand anything,...
Good use of modern tools such as Loomio could make our democracy far more participatory than what it is.
We have great celebrations of having more women and Māori in parliament to represent those people and yet, by your own words, its meaningless. Even your comment there contains the contradiction: It's well within identity politics framing to understand that...
And you know, PoC aren't a hive mind, Which is a truth that should put to end the identity politics that keeps popping up in such things as: Women in government Māori in government Gays in government Because representation. But no single person can ...
I did.
Why?
A huge number of people hate their guts. Gun sales will go through the roof. The coming prosecutions of Trump and co will embolden the base. So, you're predicting that the US RWNJs are going to start a civil war?
Of course the USA must try to present a face of a just and authoritive society. They've actually never been that.
Why the Ad hom attack?
Education as a path to overwhelming debt. Capitalism eating itself. And we're heading down the same path of massive debt with no way out unless this government finally starts working from the assumption that capitalism doesn't work. All the drongos ...
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