Anybody who tries to push a model that Labour=Democrats and National=GOP have a bad understanding of the political landscapes. Republican policies tend to be right of ACT (and whatever Christian party is operatic g today.) Whereas most National MPs would ...
4 weeks is the minimum, not the maximum, and level 4 could be re-imposed any time. Besides we are likely to drop to level 2 after this. And then this thing called tourism. That's not going to restart until mass inoculations have occurred throughout NZ. ...
Having been at the Hawkes Bay Regional Council's meeting where the climate emergency was discussed, I saw this response in action. Cr Alan Dick refused to support the call for climate emergency being recognized because it didn't also include "dangers from ...
The SFO decide not to prosecute Nigel Murray because it's too expensive. Over $30m spent on Kim Dotcom's extradition trials. One of these people actually committed a criminal offense in NZ.
I assume that your comments are meant to be provocative. I assume that you are aware that the government sold own it's interests in the gentailers. As such the ability to direct these companies to do anything is limited. Do you think that is merely ...
I've talked to senior management at some of gentailers on this particular issue. My interpretation of what the are saying is that they don't want have anything change in the current regulatory environment regarding climate change. Their argument is that ...
And from the provinces....., Last weekend I asked 15 people about their perceptions of the budget leak. Answers ranged from "what budget leak," through to "its a storm in a tea cup." Nobody was that concerned by it. I think that the biggest impact of the ...
I'm a little confused. (Not difficult to achieve, nor infrequent in its occurrence.) The ides is typically a day in the middle of the month: often the 13th, though the 15th for March. And Julius Caesar's political career/life came to an abrupt end on this ...
With many politicians willing to describe themselves as technocrats, and then canvass on the basis of their expertise and competence (eg Key and English and Brash), voters are lead to expect that these passionless experts will effortlessly spout data and ...
Talk of a Royal Commission started fairly soon after the terrorist attack. To say it's Simon's idea is over-egging the situation. Seeing that the tide is turned, and started to flow, is a really good time to stand in front of the sea and command it to come...
Ex-colleague of mine was stupid enough to say that Muslims are satan worshippers and deserve to die. Of course he's a fundamentalist Christian, but otherwise would like to see himself as an an ordinary New Zealander. Shouting match ensued.
....deranged? I think terrorist is a better description.
Anybody from the National Party at last night's Enimen concert in Wellington? Did he play Eminemesque or the real thing?
I think the comment about the expected potent life novichoc needs some explanation as surely to be highly toxic bl nerve agent it would breakdown reasonably quickly in rain and sunlight. My guess is that the 4 year figure being raised was in relation to a ...
Strike out the words "becoming a rouge" and acknowledge that post WW2 the USA is acting as any hegemonic power does. The biggest running joke is Current investigation into whether there was Russian interference into the 2016 USA elections. It's as though ...
I am not saying it makes sense from a military perspective. But if you're itching to pull the trigger then Iran makes a safer target. My guess on timing is that it will be just prior to mid term elections. Close enough to carry momentum without getting ...
China and North Korea have a treaty in place covering mutual support in the event one or both is threatened by an external party. Until recently China has had a policy in place of gradually allowing more stringent international prohibitions to be placed ...
No doubt Wayne will rush into print attempting to justify the withholding of Dotcom's information. My guess is that the NZ government's motivation for continuing this saga is to limit itself to Dotcom's financial claims against it should it fail in the ...
I don't get it. If Ms Coloins is correct about people not caring about National Government failing to address housing issues, then why should they now care if this Labour Government does try to address them. Will someone please explain this distinction to ...
Fletchers may have contractual indemnity over the quality (or lack thereof) associated with fixing damaged houses in Christchurch. However, this will not protect Fletchers from claims regarding the quality of the project management services they provided. ...
Having debates occurring on both abortion and euthanasia legislation introduces a nice symmetry. I guess that some people will only need one set of arguments and only have to replace the subject.
My thoughts are the reverse. Pay them less when levels are breached.
9% of global milk production is exported: the rest is consumed within the country of origin. Fonterra (with milk from NZ) accounted for 25% of the total milk production that was exported. That means that of all the milk produced in the world, Fonterra ...
Aren't we at the end of the Government's 100 day period? Who is running a scorecard?
Yay. Radio New Zealand reports that we are on track to having the hottest January on record. Keep burning hydrocarbons. Let's see if we can do it again next year!
Hi Ed, Guy McPearson thesis appears to be: 1. Due to cascading interaction of multiple factors there will be an exponential rate of increase in surface temperature and that this will lead to a collapse of most life forms on the earth. 2. The cascade is ...
Castle your mind to America where if you are the slightest bit critical of the Right then you appear ineligible to undertake so many roles. For example, the FBI, the Mueller investigation and certain agents are thought to be corrupted because two people ...
Do you think that it time for legislation to be enacted that removes the ability of land owners etc to sue the LA's for effects caused to them by sea level rise, storms etc. At the same time new developments have to provide evidence of survivability (to ...
Hi Greg, The point is that as at-risk housing is identified and marked down in value, the people likely to occupy it in the future are the less wealthy, the working class. So your comment about them being national voters is not relevant.
A cousin of mine was raped at knife point in the South of USA by a couple of whites. Am I now meant to think that all white Americans are like that due to their race, nationality, religion? I mean look at the fundamentalist, racist, sexists, class hating ...
How much time and space do we owe the right wing here? Yesterday was another day when I look through Open Mike and just skip past all the sections occupied by by "James" or "BM" or Sryland" or a half dozen others. Previously I would have read through the ...
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