They other thing that bands them together is worshipping money and those that have a lot of it. Socially they might have different policies but economically perhaps not.
Let's be honest labour with the let's open up fully in April isn't ideal either. The opportunity for new variants is still quite high and ditto for breakthrough infections even with boosters which to be honest are better deployed in the developing world ...
People who think vaccine is my Jesus Nobody thinks that.
I'd subtract New Zealand for a start. Dumb name, meaningless drivel, ain't worth a dime. Absolute nonsense. Much like the people of New York, or New Orleans, or various other 'New' name locations, New Zealanders have established a cultural presence and ...
Camilla has only been here twice, so it would be very odd to have her as the wife of our head of state... And while next in line, William, and wife Kate were “a nice couple”, they had little connection to Aotearoa. The QE2 cruise ship visited New Zealand ...
Yeah, they're not the same thing... I don't own my neighbours house, so I couldn't be party to a change of ownership of it, regardless of the consideration paid over. I don't understand the point you're trying to make?
ASB was a regional savings bank that first opened its doors in 1847 and operated for 140 years before it was sold to CBA.
nothing stops the govt from using it [Kiwibank] to offer an alternative to pillaging Ozzie banks except the political will to do so. Kiwibank was never structured to be a genuine competitor to the big-4 banks. On one hand it simply doesn't have the ...
WTF are you talking about? All 4 major banks in NZ are locally incorporated subsidiaries of their australian parents. Meaning (among other things) they are required to hold capital in the NZ business, be governed by an NZ-based board and management team, ...
a state-created private asset which allows its owners to extract profit from everyone else. State-created monopolies for money are held by central banks and treasuries that have the sole right to issue physical currency in their jurisdiction. On the other ...
So, why have I bothered to write all of that down? Because, at the heart of it, money creation is a phenomenon of accounting, not banking. Any time you enter into an agreement with another person where one of you will owe the other some value to be paid at...
No, that's not what I'm arguing. And please bear with me while I try to explain this in as plain-English a way as possible... there are a lot of different facets to what money is and how it comes to be, and it's important they're understood in debates ...
Rather, they create loans from thin air by entering a deposit in a borrower's account matched to a loan asset in their own accounts. The majority of money in circulation is created this way This comes up literally every time banks are mentioned here, or on...
No tax is paid by these big 4 in NZ. Totally false. ANZ haven't released their full disclosure statement for the year to September 2021 yet, but in the six months to March 2021: $1,309m pre tax profit, $362m income tax expense. That comes to a tax rate of ...
I was already one (1 :) ) wine deep into my Friday evening and feeling punchy. The second sentence was therefore deliberately snarky. But I stand by the fact that if a person is willing to so boldly assert a a global or absolute conclusion based off a ...
SCEG say that trans inclusion is not compatible with sport that is fair for women... once (F/O) is on the table, (TI) isn’t a serious option. The problem as I see it with Pike's position is that it focuses on fairness for women/female athletes without ...
... a player who was born female, played as a female, and chose to identify as a male from the age of around 14. My view on this is that someone who is born a biological male should not be allowed to play football in female competitions. End of. So, in ...
Civilians, especially on the left, display open contempt for military people, based on prejudice and ignorance. Your claim is largely nonsense. The contempt is not for military personnel - it's contempt for those who use the military and 'freedom' as lazy ...
Yeah, I too am skeptical of claims that the US is on the verge of decline, rapid or otherwise. I think we forget that the US has spent the last 50 or so years being the undisputed single global superpower, which is extraordinarily rare and potentially ...
Use of WMDs may not have ended WWII in the Pacific, but it's undeniable that they did give US and Soviet decision makers (and the global public at large) sufficient understanding of the consequences of their use, that neither side used their enormous ...
Remember when John Key went on Letterman for the 'Top 10' and everyone universally agreed that it was really dumb? Congratulations, your list has out-dumbed John Key's.
[The US] has "provided the security and framework for global trade" There has never been a time in all of recorded human history where the probability of you or I or any other member of the human race being a casualty of warfare has been lower than it is ...
I would not be quite so bold as to forecast the price of commodities that far out, and from that propose whether they are worth returning to earth. The price of the commodity is not the relevant point here. What's important is that it will never be cheaper...
Crimea, Chechnya, and Tibet enter the chat But seriously, it's a bit dull and not especially useful to go down this road. Superpowers have sought to influence the domestic affairs of outside nations/entities to their own benefit for as long as organised ...
Haha, no. https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/business/intellectual-property/copyright/copyright-protection-in-new-zealand/ Artistic works: Graphical works such as paintings, drawings, plans and maps, irrespective or artistic "quality" or ...
... his recent two week trip to China. Danny discusses what he learned... Two weeks.
I am 100% certain your daily life is simply not sufficiently interesting or intentionally creative enough to be declared an artistic work, as defined in s2 "artistic work" of the Copyright Act... so any complaint made on that basis would be laughed out of ...
Both Republicans and Democrats are gaining the political gumption to have a go at it. They just need to get over themselves and figure their common ground on it. The word 'just' is doing so much heavy lifting in your last sentence that it could power Elon ...
If a woman accidentally exposes a nipple on their Instagram post, that can get them temporarily or permanently blocked from the site. But, of course, we can all agree that is a far worse 'crime' than, say, calling all Mexican immigrants rapists, or ...
banning Donald Trump is one of the biggest moves against free speech and the modern definition of its limits that the world has seen I love the irony of your very first sentence containing a mash-up of Trumpian 'greatest hits' - bombastic overblowing of ...
... if people were only motivated by money, why were people playing for the All Blacks at all during the amateur era, when they could easily switch to rugby league? An absolute fuck-ton of players switched from union to league in the 90's! Ridge, Ellis and...
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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