If I had one wish right now it would be that certain people in the Media stand up and be counted tomorrow. Make your voice heard and damn the consequences. There is too much at stake to remain silent. Be a hero.
Trees also help the water cycle through transpiration which reduces drought. As vast areas of Aus are now realising.
Exactly. Wayne is trying to say the increase in Labour's numbers due to the youth vote was only 1%, which quite clearly is unmitigated BS. It would be around 4% based on the increase in turnout. That is one thing the Tories are frightened of, the non ...
I'm sure Nick and Ami could both be cured if someone held them down and administered a full syringe of vexpex in each ear.
Apart from all that Obama was gone and any attempt to overturn Trump's election in favour of Hillary had run out of steam. Mr Key's mission was over.
You aee being disingenuous here and ignoring the fact the point of the OBR is to keep the bank open. And you seem to be ignorant of the fact once a bank is subject to OBR deposits are guaranteed by the government and so rational investors will move their ...
Yeah very good but have you actually thought this through. How are shareholders going to incur a loss unless their shares are transferred. Think about the implications of point 4 and think who owns the shares. Don't just regurgitate some information point ...
Branding goes far further than most people appreciate. Look what people pay for the latest Nike or to breathe a can of nz mountain air. And the freight cost per l would be in the order of 5 cents per l. Hardly a deal breaker. Why don't people recognise the...
Shareholders may lose money but that is not a hair cut. Shareholders win and lose every day. If a company goes bust how does that become shareholders are taking a hair cut to save the company. Furthermore, show me where it says shares will be transferred ...
Check out the open bank resolution rules. In summary, Bill English has ensured depositors will bear the brunt. The banks are safe.
I've never really understood why people are so keen to promote the new build rule as the solution, unless there is a parallel rule that enforces the occupation of those houses, in conjunction with squatter rights to enforce those rules. Sure a new build ...
Until there is international agreement on taxation of multinationals, why not calculate revenue derived in NZ as a percentage of global revenue and apply that pro rata to global profit. This notional profit can then be taxed at local rates. Better than ...
Even if it's between two supposedly "boring" people, the debates will continue to be critical in swaying the votes of the undecideds. It may be that we'll get more substance along with the expected and anticipated one-liners. We live in hope.
It certainly is the most powerful force in the world. And there are far too many vested interests for this to change without most of the world being converted to rubble. Unless the whole pile implodes by itself, in which case most of the world will be ...
Agree. People are quick to forget Keys success is primarily from the number of people who have been made very wealthy from the housing crisis and trades and associated industries are bbooming. And this has now spread well beyond Ak.
In the town where I am people go to the library and look for and apply for jobs online. They are all unemployed. Or should I now say "were" unemployed.
Good comments which I should have read before posting my comment. I would like to add that apart from measuring one part of wellbeing, economics, it also only considers one economic measure, income, while ignoring other more important measures such as ...
This analysis is meaningless. As an economic measure, income is very narrow unless costs, wealth and debt are considered in conjunction. And then of course you have all the non-economic factors. Such studies from economists should be dismissed very smartly...
Shipley (along with John Slater) were the (visible) people responsible for recruiting Mr Key.
The reason will be because the banks are about to implode with the dairy farm land value crash followed by the Auckland property market.
Why wouldn't you sell the Remuera golf course. Why are you advocating subsidising the rich.
I can't agree with that. Transferring the data is not a problem, whether 1 record or 10 billion makes not much difference. And testing the integrity of the data before go live is relatively simple as well. The problem is SAP is a German tier one ERP ...
I haven't read all the comments yet but I think the post from CV is quite brilliant. Maybe people are beginning to understand what nurtures us is not Mr Key but the real world that surrounds us.
The Talleys sum up everything wrong with NZ. Made their wealth by exploiting the environment, plundering fisheries and then given fishing quotas worth tens of millions for nothing, smashing unions while ignoring innovation and adding value to product, and ...
Don't forget all Affco meat products. Hard to differentiate brands of fish and meat but Affco are a large part of meat in the supermarket/Mad butchers. Demand to know which company the fish or meat comes from.
All of the people signing have a gun at their head. Which is exactly the reason we should say bugger off. And it's the reason South Korea and Taiwan are now desperate to join. Anyone that thinks US congress will not ratify this doesn't really understand ...
The good thing about nuclear weapons Hooten is we know what we are going to get and it will be quick and painless for some. With your secretive takeover of humanity, you will sneak in like the low life assassins you are and remove people that are not ...
That's a big part of the problem. Why can't they put in basic accommodation or free campsites for the pickers, with transport to and from the orchards. It could be a wonderful experience for most young kiwis. They charge so much for the accommodation you ...
The Food and Grocery Council scares me quite a lot regarding the TPPA. I am not sure small businesses understand how much this will affect them. The TPPA will give multi nationals the power to destroy small and medium businesses, the lifeblood of our ...
Garner is the worst type of commentator. Pretending he is the new John Campbell is bad enough in itself. But now he is promoting himself as a man of the people, of the north. A pig hunter in boat shoes, a rapist of the oceans, and an all round greedy ...
Wayne, Half of Air NZ's fleet is made up of aircraft manufactured by Bombardier, Aerospatiel and Beechcraft, and almost half of new orders are from those manufacturers. And you will probably say, well yes, but they only fly the regional routes. The fact is...
An Australian solidarity group for West Papua today warned of a fresh “heavy handed” Indonesia crackdown on Papuan villagers with more “arrests and torture”.
Joe Collins of the Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) gave the warning in the wake of the deployment of 30 elite ...
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