Surely the problem is Israeli extremist? Note I didn't use the phrase 'Jewish extremist' .
I think the stance of New Zealand is/must be, we recognise your stupid error , Israel, because we have done something similar in the past and now we are trying to rectify what we can and it is a mess. Listen to us, people of Israel, your descendants will ...
Actually I think it is the first decent thing McCully has done.
Drowning in acidic mud is so much less fatal than cyanide poisoning. (Irony).
How long was Campbell Live on TV3? Those are the only items you think were not well done, Alwyn? Must have been an excellent show. Other reporters on TV these days seem, from my viewpoint, to make much bigger bloopers three or four times a week, usually by...
Carolyn_nth you state that some key voices within the MSM were most in ?/key's thrall. If you read Saturday's Herald with four pages of Nat party sycophancy you realise that many in the MSM are still in his thrall. Like Muldoon, it will take some years to ...
Please explain how the Democrats import all these illegal aliens. I would expect any organising of populations moving illegally into the USA is well outside the ability of the Democrats. If these illegal aliens are living in the country, then maybe giving ...
In this post-reality world any bribe like John Key's tax cuts can easily be Trumped. Andrew Little just needs to keep saying "No taxes, from day one of a Labour government" When asked how we can afford it, the obvious answer is,"just the same way John Key ...
Taxing the rich doesn't mean we all become poor. In fact if your tax the rich, give it to the poor, then they spend the money immediately and the economy grows - everyone becomes a little wealthier, eventually, even the top tax bracket members of the ...
Well at least Rodney Hyde was happy that a climate change denier was elected president of the United States - see the Sunday Herald. And on the same week reports of the weather over the Arctic Ocean being 20 degrees Celsius warmer than normal for this time...
If the coast is rising 4 m every 150 years, then sea level rise isn't likely to affect the road. Question I want answered - When will Tapuaenuku be higher than Aoraki?
What about the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions? It may be that the pork barrel is not building electric powered transport as quickly as we can, and damn the short term financials. Any CO2 reduction must eventually be an economic saving now the gnats ...
That's not data, its propaganda. Groundhog, we aren't all gullible, you can fool some of the people all the time, but its bloody difficult to fool them with crap.
An equity stake? Sounds like a co-operative to me. Equity means there is some equality in there somewhere. Seen any co-operatives formed lately that involve more than half a dozen people? Only co-op that is working is Fonterra and the management are ...
Fundamentally the middle ground in NZ is leftish. The English settlers who established our political structures and social mores came to New Zealand with a few underlying aims. One was that "Jack was as good as his master". This can be redefined as "Jack ...
Just to change the subject entirely. Anyone noticed the Australian PMs diatribe against renewable power as being the cause of the recent state-wide South Australian power blackout? The fact that there were 80,000 lightning strikes in South Australia that ...
Putin is Trump's mate
Kevin, the answer to your question - Arrogance.. They thought they could shoot down Ukrainian planes without anyone else getting worried about it. They Russians fucked up by shooting down a Malaysian aircraft. The Ukrainians fucked up by not recognising ...
Did the Russians actually give the weapons to anyone or isn't it apparent that regular Russian force "volunteers" were operating their normal equipment in Ukrainian territory as part of the Russian invasion of the Ukraine?
So the US Navy would never shoot down an Iranian Airbus airliner from one of their sophisticated Aegis ships? After all the Aegis ships had better radar than any BUK launch system. The US Navy could never mix the radar signal of an airbus for a MIG fighter...
Unfortunately Rodney believes in the neo-liberal bullshit and any time he runs into logic that shows the error of his ideas, he comes out with the reply that 'this has been disproved'. Such facts as global warming, Keynesian economics or the non-operation ...
jcuknz your comment that the 'poor' are given more than they pay in GST needs substantiating. Lower income persons pay more of their income proportionally than those with above average incomes. GST is a regressive tax. If we want an economy that isn't ...
If no Keas were being killed by possums and stoats then any deaths from 1080 use would be terrible. However we all know that ground living birds such as Keas are at high risk from the mammals introduced by humans into the New Zealand environment. 1080 use ...
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WTF! Life is unfair. You obviously need a job which doesn't have any income. Try being a parent. Income taxes, applied judiciously, can be used by governments to level inequalities. If you have a high paying job the pay rate is not a reflection of your ...
Whatever. All I know is that the Parliament channel was by far the best, happiest and funniest channel on Freeview that night.
And the trees on golf courses are almost always exotics which don't support native birdlife.
What about rash vests?
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If the government legalised marijuana the police would have the time to catch burglars. Our Police - yes they are ours -we pay taxes to keep them in money and cars - spend an inordinate amount of time catching marijuana smokers and sellers. We would also ...
If 'the consumer' is getting better value than he/she would have got with an Electricity Department of government run the same way it was before the Nats chopped it up then sold it off, please explain. Why are my power bills so much higher than that I ...
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