The bit that gets me is that we know how to stop things getting any worse. And yet… So why do we continue doing what we do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
Lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zagLV7XxfE
Could ignore commenter functionality be implemented? I like to think I’m a commenter in good standing around here, but my participation has declined here because I see shitposting so often.
This is a great retrospective looking at the Hobbit law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7t_g5QObs
Hell, I have a law degree and I assure you, I can be pretty dim. A quick scan over The Standard's archives could tell you that.
The United Nations Human Rights Council provides this graphic outlining chemical weapons attacks between 1 October 2016 and 8 July 2017. 34 of them. Most of them have been identified as government attacks, generally using chlorine. But sarin was used in ...
Well what are you doing here, then? If the US and Russia are at war, go out immediately and get any necessary supplies you need that can’t be produced in NZ. I know it’s 30 years old, but New Zealand After Nuclear War (PDF) is the best guidance available.
You should read Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age by Rebecca Priestly. It’s a history of the use of nuclear science in NZ. There were several investigations into bringing nuclear power here. The Americans even offered a subsidised power station ...
What I don’t get is what would be the problem with CH meeting with CC in a cafe? i.e why the need to lie about whether the meeting was planned or not? I delved into the Cabinet Manual. Radio New Zealand is a Crown Entity. The Manual says under the Crown ...
She's a liability and an example of the Peter principle in action.
Apparently it was at Astoria. So probably half of the public service and the nation's politicians were in the room.
Well it should be chief executives who talk to their ministers, or at the very least when their subordinates do it is with their knowledge of what is discussed and what decisions are made. Especially with state broadcasting when editorial independence is ...
The fairtrade beans are just in their dark Ghana and creamy milk blocks, but they are GM and Palm Oil free acros all products. E Tu represents people in the confectionery industry. They have no posts on their site for Whittakers, but quite a few for ...
And has taken on John Bolton. Interesting how Trump's fans were thinking he would be such a departure from US foreign policy and now he's taking on the most severe hawk from the GWB administration.
It's incredibly heartening to see the Prime Minister write about energy transition planning. I've been interested in the transition towns movement for a while and I think it's a great step for this sort of thing to be on a national policy level.
If they don't think patsy questions are helpful, why don't they just not ask the questions? I see no advantage to ceding them to National, who will simply ask "Does the Minister stand by all their statements" over and over again.
I am unconvinced by your position. I find the parallels to be much more along the lines of the Rainbow Warrior affair rather than a prelude to war. The British PM herself ruled out Article 5 consultations with her NATO allies and British military posture ...
My position last night was that men generally need to sit down and shut up and start listening to what women have to say. Does that position change in this instance now that we've learned that two of the victims were male? I don't want to diminish the ...
Fears of a ‘youthquake’ at this year’s election Interesting phrasing in that newshub piece. If people wanted voter participation, they’d talk in terms of hopes of a youthquake.
Wikipedia offers a short rundown of feminist historiography on the witch trials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_interpretations_of_the_Early_Modern_witch_trials
I googled Nicola Willis, the list MP who will be coming in. Lloyd Burr rates her: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/02/lloyd-burr-national-s-next-leader-might-not-be-an-mp-yet.html
Who's next? Gerry Brownlee and Nick Smith?
#notallwitches
I think once the Greens select their new co-leader they’ll have everything in place to build their support.
It’s amazing how things have turned around in less than a year. And the way things are, I’m not even sure the next National PM is currently sitting in Parliament.
Rumour has it that he was planning his retirement at the 2017 election until Key stepped down as PM. I can’t see him taking National into 2020.
Brilliant news. I wish Jacinda and Clarke all the best.
I too take issue with the Quiverfull movement. Are you saying liberalism has isolated these people? That they didn't feel part of a community? Because I would bet a dollar the parents viewed their church as their community. I think you're obliquely ...
The Greater Wellington Regional Council should expand its living wage commitment beyond direct council employees to its contractors. It should be a condition of its tenders.
RIP Jim Anderton. He was in politics for the right reasons and did a lot of good.
Thanks Weka.
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