I think the roots of it go back to the 1980s, if not earlier, when the neo-liberal forces of the world - governments and institutes - began a campaign to gain control of the MSM and make the economic theories of Friedman and Hayeck the norm. Part of this ...
"Look good" are the operative words. Everything the NACTZ government does is designed to look good, because their conspiracy theory prop supporters and the shallow MSM lack the intelligence and foresight to delve further from the surface. I've said it many...
When I read Seymour's comments my first thought was: Revenge of the Nerds. Peters' and Seymour's payback to the media who have said and done rotten things to them over their long parliamentary careers. Now you lot will get your comeuppance.
I suppose that when you own a stack of houses and are the representative of an affluent blue ribbon seat like Botany then anything less than a mansion is unliveable. But I bet it is still infinitely better than the places that many people have to live in, ...
I wonder what would have happened if someone had given the assailant a bunch of fives in retaliation for his attack on the victim? I know exactly what would have happened. The police would have gone after the avenger at all cost and ignored the offender. ...
By the way Michael P. I am still waiting for you to validate your claim that the Hurricanes Poua team receive taxpayer funding.
Please give details of the taxpayer funding that they receive. I am interested to know.
Cheers to the Hurricanes Poua rugby team daring to publicly call out the redneck divisive NACTZ government for what they are. They can add one more to their fan list.
ACT certainly has a thing about poor people. It goes all the way back to early Industrial Revolution England era. The rich, who made maximum profits on the backs of paying their workers minimum wages, convinced themselves that if a person was poor, it was ...
To hell with Cayman Islands bank accounts, may as well keep your ill-gotten gains here and save a lot of trouble.
I didn;t know about the "toe the line" either, although as a keen classical historian I knew "decimate". We so often use expressions that we have no idea what they actually mean.
A distracted minister of broadcasting is a real concern - the conspiracy theorist media are already thinking how they can profit by this.
For a balanced view on China, it's worth having a listen to New Zealander David Mahon. He has lived there for nigh on forty years.
That's another Mike Smith - there are lots of us. I agree he has done a brilliant job
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 8:21 pm, March 3rd, 2024 - 32 comments
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US Undersecretary of State Bonnie Jenkins is in Wellington this week with a hard sell for us on a promise of AUKUS Pillar 2 wunderwaffen maybes. The US's real intent is to tie us to their wheel for the next fifty years. We should say tai hoa. China is the…
To add another insight. The rich always like to boast that they get rich through hard work, you know how they always claim towork 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for 40 odd years, yah de yah de yah....... Fact: you don't get rich by ...
Maybe, just maybe John Key is the "John Frum" that people on the Vanuatuan Island of Tanna believe will one day come and lead them to salvation. On second thoughts, nah!
I heard TU's Jordan Williams on a Newstalk ZB news bulletin this morning being uncharacteristically gentlemanly, almost apologetic, about Chris Luxon's faux pas, describing it as "an administrative oversight" or similar words. You can be sure he wouldn't ...
I vaguely remember that in the previous government Labour ministers were roasted by National for claiming allowances in similar circumstances. It appears that all the rules change for National when they are in government.
The NZ MSM just love car crashes, fires and inclement weather aka "weather events ".
Perhaps it is a National thing. I remember that John Key also used it every second sentence. Atlas SOL?
National has nothing against Maoris as long as they are healthy, wealthy and wise, like their own Maori MPs. But if not, then they are consigned to the category of hangers-on and free-loaders. That has always been the case with National, it won't change ...
When I heard that Newshub was closing I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. On the one hand, Newshub often represented a pack of right-wing pricks feeding us dubious quasi-fictional stories that made the rednecks feel good and everyone else feel rotten. ...
It all sounds like an update of Muldoon era "we'll take the bikes off the bikies...., only a lot more darkly sinister. People will look at the small picture, only the gangs getting what they deserve, without looking at the bigger picture of how far ...
Nash was so centrist that National probably would have chosen him for THEIR candidate if he had decided to switch parties. He was long time MP for Napier because National supporters found him acceptable, whilst supporting their party with party votes. ...
ACT should stand for Association of Con-artists and Tax evaders. That would be more accurate.
That kind of explains why Damien O'Connor was uncharacteristically abrupt with reporters wanting to interview him after the final results came out. He was still smarting, understandably. Unfortunately spoilers are an unwelcome reality in politics. They ...
As the old saying goes: Shane Jones is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. But the difference now is that he no longer cares to hide it.
Efeso Collins was one of the biggest factors that brought me back to supporting the Greens. I wanted to be part of his vision for New Zealand.
It's little surprise to me that Seymour and Peters chose to stick the knife in. Both based their election strategies on boorish behaviour and kicking people when they were down so why stop now when they having so much fun? I quite liked Grant Robertson, he...
I noticed on the Taxpayer's Union website that the pitiful 25% for Luxon as preferred PM (which incumbent PM ever gets that low?) was totally ignored while Hipkins was being lambasted for his poor showing.
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