As the Democrats in the US are finding out; any methods used against those we oppose will be used doubly against us when they gain the least hint of a majority. Not only used against us but used with hatred and revenge as the driving force. Always must be ...
There have been HUGE debt mountains built on dairy farming ans the money lenders have a vested interest in the "white gold' continuing to flow to allow interest payments continuing. The first thing thta must be addressed is this debt mountain in a way that...
Everyone a little preoccupied this morning? What help is required that can be transported North?
"They need to be smashed before they smash society as we know it" One must be very, very sure that we have the power and ability to "smash" them for if not they will return the favour in spades. Indeed very talk of "smashing" and "reprogramming" or "...
Meanwhile all we have to fix the roads and infrastructure is LOTS of FF - and HEAPS of Bitumen! All imported and all at the end of very long supply chains.
In the US the mortgagee can simply leave the keys in the letterbox for the Bank and walk away with no further obligation but here in NZ the borrower is still "on the hook" for the remaining debt unless full bankruptcy proceedings are done.
Some time ago there was mention of shipping forest residues to India for use in Funeral Pyres as there is a major wood shortage there for that use. I recollect that containers full of one pyre bundles was being investigated pre-Covid. Searching for any ...
Meters are also essential for an individual water use charging system and are being universally installed using "3 Waters renewal budget" being provided by central government. The mechanism for individual water use charges is certainly being put in place. ...
At the moment smaller District Councils are building water services debt and putting some of that money into roading as fast as possible. https://figure.nz/chart/WltFQOK08buwxX0v-0io8Mu16eipQrAI2 All that will be handed over to the Water Services will be ...
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_New_Zealand_general_election 14 Oct 2023 is an early election .... The writs for the 2020 election were returned on 20 November 2020;[9] as a result, the 53rd Parliament must dissolve no later than 20 ...
A lot of Novembers and even Decembers there and some even earlier than October?
Maori will NOT charge non-Maori every time they turn on the tap or flush the toilet. That will probably be left to local Councils who will be contracted to forward Koha to the Water Entities. Why else have the many water meters been installed nation wide? ...
The election is already 'early' 14th October instead of some time later in November. Will that be another of the previous PM's pronouncements that will be flung on the "Great Policy Fire" ???
So Hipkins is not Labour Leader Luxon is not a leader ... The Green Leadership is in flux That leaves Seymour as the Leader?
More likely A Bonfire of the Vanities OR Witch Burning?
Care to list all this "research" you tout? I am a research nut and look as clearly as possible at both sides. There are plenty of refutations in BOTH directions finding exactly that which the researchers set out to find - the result before the research in ...
Then again - quoting that paper has been problematic https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3086324 Abstract In 1996 Australia implemented arguably the most ambitious gun control effort ever attempted, banning all semiauto rifles and shotguns ...
Nope - not twenty. Hell! I wuz there ... just a disparate group of concerned firearms licence holders till 1990 As to Australia coincidence is not causation. The alternate view is that no one has emerged who wants to kill five or more people with a firearm...
"Somebody tell Mayor Brown." Anybody got his email address or text number?
"You really shouldn't need to extract from the seabed. Where do you think that the ferro-manganese + other metals nodules come from? They accrete out of the seawater solution over long periods." The attraction to seabed mining is that much of the ...
A wee look at Scots, Irish and Welsh history can be very instructive.
I have no doubt that those of us who won't have to pay such a tax want as much as possible of it transferred to us via the Government! “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift ...
There is talk of not allowing mineral mining from the seabed too. It just seems perverse to me that the very people crying out for 'decarbonisation' are also trying to legislate the needed extractive industries out of existence. Yep the conversation about ...
So where exactly are the HUGE amount of minerals required for the 'green revolution' and 'sustainable power' and EV's going to come from? This is super Nimby - lets dig up the whole world ... but not here! We will not be allowed to do our bit .... because ...
There is already a 'wealth' tax on that 2M dollar house called Council Rates - the GST portion of which is in part remitted to the Government. 'Wealth' is not liquid money so any tax on such wealth would need to be sourced from income (already taxed) or ...
Yes was what was known as a Hairy Legged Apprentice back then but thanks to completing that and having parents who went though the great depression of the 1930's had it thumped in to me to SAVE - so had enough for a deposit in 1985
Indeed it is a difficult problem because both low income renters and landlords depend upon it to keep the rental market solvent. Once these things get baked in to the money-go-round there is the danger the whole shaky edifice comes apart at the seams if it...
That linked to tax deductible interest payments might get some traction with private investors - though they can be notoriously fickle. Virtually a guaranteed income for ten years. A number have cashed up (sold their housing) and now invest in Commercial ...
This is interesting: https://www.hud.govt.nz/our-work/income-related-rent-subsidy/#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20public%20housing,percent%20of%20their%20net%20income. The majority of public housing tenants pay an income-related rent determined by the ...
Yes there is a tangled web of pipes and cables down there. The process would be under the control of Council and specialist drain layers in the mix of volunteers. There was a real learning curve when the Fibre Optic cables were driven through sewer and ...
Well the ball was a little bit wet and slippery!
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