I see some themes emerging here. Elizabeth Warren and Donald Trump both want to withdraw the U.S. military from the Middle East and - presumably close their bases there - but Warren is not yet distinguishing her platform from that of Trump. Donald Trump - ...
James Mattis, "Mad Dog Mattis", has quit as Donald Trump's military officers criticize his unilateral decision to pull out of Syria. Meanwhile Trump's decision has received a Putin-esque seal of approval from the Kremlin. It is messy and everything, but ...
Winston ratcheted the aid up in the South Pacific because he wanted a stronger New Zealand flavour there. It was not to appease anyone - Beijing, Washington or anyone else. We do not necessarily need to support either super power. Whilst not being one, we ...
Have you worked in the retail or service sectors? I currently work in the service sector and did 7.5 years (6 years part time; 1.5 full)from 2001-2008 in a supermarket. I could tell you a few stories. Think you know? Try working in the sector first.
Hell week is this week for retail and service sector workers. Under appreciated and sometimes not understood, have a thought for the people who ensure you can get your Christmas shopping done. Not all do.
Did that warned thunderstorm earlier this afternoon near Rodney cause any problems? It looked quite big on the Metservice warning graphic a couple of hours ago.
But New Zealand First, a party I used to actively support, donate, campaign and attend meetings for, sold its soul to the devil when it signed the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement and a lot of people including me left or were alienated by it.
Lawyers are concerned that the alleged killer of Grace Millane will walk away on the grounds that he could not be given a fair trial. I get that people are angry and I get that they want justice for Grace. I do too, but I know that it does not happen at ...
Wait, what? New Zealanders voted "with their feet overwhelmingly in favour of no unions"? Says you and your Natbot mates Dan. Says you. Never belonged to a union, but 100% behind anyone who says that workers should be able to have a means to organize and ...
The Puysegur Trench has hosted volcanism in the past. The Solander Islands, southwest of Stewart Island are volcanic in origin. The Puysegur Trench denotes the subduction zone where the Australian Plate goes under the Pacific Plate and would have been the ...
At the start of 2015 if one had said Trump would be President a good many including myself would have laughed out loud. But starting later that year, step by step, not only has he become President, but the barometer for American credibility is in free fall...
The idea that A.C.T. is good to pick up more seats is as finished as the A.C.T. Party itself. David Seymour only holds on to Epsom for the duration of the time National decide not to stand a candidate there themselves and seriously expect that candidate to...
New Zealand I think is tiring of both National and Labour. People have realized both are wedded to the neoliberal model. This is why house prices are sky high, why although Labour is spending a lot of money it also has not made a real swing to the left and...
When Trump first became President I concluded there are seven ways his Presidency could end (and then ranked them on probability - 1 being most likely)): 1) Democrats clean out all three houses in 2020 (1) 2) Some international or domestic incident ...
"Collins: No one cares about National's abject failure over housing" Not now that you are out of office and can't do any more damage. Now they are more interested in determining the full extent of the damage you did manage to do. And in making sure that ...
... natural changes to its system (Glennie J., pers comm.). It uses... their way into water ways (Glennie J., pers comm.). Concentrations of...
N.Z.F. has stuff it wants to do. Denis O'Rourke might be out of Parliament, but if New Zealand First's "Railways of National Importance" programme goes ahead, you can thank him for conceiving the idea as a direct counter to National's "Roads of National ...
I don't think the Greens have suffered terminal damage. There is too much anger on the left spectrum that I think they will be back, but in reduced size. They might get 10 M.P.'s and shed the difference to Labour. Any loss of M.P.'s from National will ...
Coleman might be in the crap and I hope he is over all that has gone on - and not gone on - under his (not very) watchful tenure. The only good thing in the future with Coleman is that he is part of a Government whose hold on power for this Parliamentary ...
You cannot afford to have people trying to undercut the authorities on issuing disaster evacuation orders. Like a fire in a theatre or other building with people in it, the one you get wrong is the one that will kill.
I think the answer to Labours woes is the left-wing of the party need to rise up, take over the leadership and steer it away from the centre that it does not belong to. It is no more a centrist party than National is. The conservative wing of National just...
https://willnewzealandberight.com/2017/07/06/foreign-trusts-flee-new-zealand/ I think it is quite telling that 75% of them have disappeared. Whilst some might have disappeared anyway, perhaps because of authorities taking action elsewhere, to suddenly have...
Watch this space on 23 September 2017...
At the weekend we had the conference of one of the leading proponents of dumbing down New Zealand. It is appropriate then we look at the process of doing so (and National's role in it). https://willnewzealandberight.com/2017/06/26/the-dumbing-down-of-new-...
Or - and just a thought - were subtly pressured into not doing so. If they can try wiretapping, subtly trying to pervert the course of justice is not beyond their ability either. A deft (few) payment/s to shut a few people up. It might be incidents like ...
https://willnewzealandberight.com/2017/06/15/new-zealand-wimps-out-to-israel/ We had no problems telling Israel what we thought of their illegal settlements in 2016. It was a good day to be Kiwi when Resolution 2334 was announced. But now we hear Gerry did...
I hope Corbyn wins because there are huge implications for human rights law and the free world if he loses. https://willnewzealandberight.com/2017/06/08/british-election-has-huge-implications/ Theresa May's idea that human rights law can be negated should ...
I lost much of whatever respect I might have had for this titular system when it was explained to me why Helen Clark got rid of knights and dames. Yesterday I lost the rest. But I was constructive in that I came up with an alternative system: https://...
To have 30 states disagree with Trump is quite something. See B1 of today's "The Press".
https://willnewzealandberight.com/2017/06/02/climate-change-gases-also-attacking-the-oceans/ The gases linked to climate change are also linked to acidification of the oceans and worsening bleaching of coral reefs. Are we go in to address that as well?
The Greens are only contesting 29 of the 71 seats. Certainly not going to be an election winner and it will mean that those in the 42 other electorates are going to miss out on a lot of party recognition.
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