Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 8:21 pm, March 3rd, 2024 - 32 comments
Categories: AUKUS, australian politics, China, defence, don brash, helen clark, jobs, Judith Collins, Pacific, Peace, tech industry, Ukraine, winston peters
Tags:
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.
It's a classic National tactic. When you win power you claim that things are worse than you ever imagined to justify breaking your election promises. Seen it every time National have ever come to power since 1975.
I always thought that Labour did incredibly badly selling the Affordable waters programme to the public. They should have published a balance sheet showing the difference in what people could be paying between their scheme and the NATZ alternative and then...
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 9:28 pm, February 17th, 2024 - 38 comments
Categories: AUKUS, australian politics, China, defence, Diplomacy, Pacific, Peace, us politics
Tags:
Testifying to the Defence Select Committee last week, Air Marshal Short said Australia was "reshaping" its Defence Force for "a singular threat from a singular direction." This was described as being an oblique reference to China. AM Short went on to say:…
The sad reality is that a whole heap of stupid Kiwis would rather have water sold off to white foreign suits than have those stirring Maoris have a say over what happens to it. That is, of course, until the water meters start going in and the bills start ...
"Gender critical feminists have always been right wing.."? I don't think many here would agree with you.
But they probably won't do a better job of it. I can see it now. The left will want to add something about "debt slavery" and the right will immediately veto that. After all, National doesn't agree with Labour's laws on loan sharks and is set to repeal ...
Yes and National's proposals to replace the RMA don't sound very democratic either, if what I was listening to on RNZ nights yesterday is accurate. Sounds like they will be able to pick and choose which developments and projects go ahead first at ...
Did I not hear Trump saying on television a couple of nights ago that Europe "deserved" to be attacked by Russia? I might not have heard it in context but it certainly filled with me dread. What kind of nutjob are the Americans supporting for re-election?
One sad sight to see is ageing leftish historians/writers move increasingly to the right as they progress in life. Chris Trotter is one shining example. Wrote some very good material on the development of left wing and trade union movements in New Zealand ...
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:39 pm, February 13th, 2024 - 103 comments
Categories: act, climate change, community democracy, Conservation, democracy under attack, democratic participation, global warming, journalism, labour, Left, Propaganda, taxpayers union, thinktank, us politics
Tags:
Attacking leftists attempts to expose the Atlas Network of right-wing think tanks, Chris Trotter offers this gem “Morally speaking, is taking money from oil companies really all that distinguishable from giving money to oil companies every time we fill up…
"Consultants?????" Didn't the NACTZ make a big thing about the Labour government's use of consultants? We will kick out the consultants, save lotsa money, they told us. Not practising what they preach, I see. Oh well, I suppose all the rules change when ...
It is worse than that. Fleming established the Maxim Institute in 2001, and was it's CEO from 2005 - 2013. During 2004 as director, he spoke to media and compared same-sex civil unions to incest and polygamy. He was the General Manager of The Parenting ...
It would be great to have a strong third contender of the calibre of a young Bernie Sanders or Ralph Nader, but it's wishful thinking. Americans would vote in Lucifer as president if he told them what they wanted to hear and believe.
the US is not a democracy, it's a gerontocratic, oligarchic plutocracy.
Recent Comments