You must have seen the same maps and reports I saw back in the late 1970s that were with the old SAC (State Advances Corporation) and the old CWB (Chch Water Board). The offending developers were Enterprise Homes and Maugers - but they're no longer around ...
Despite the obfuscation from the Army COS and English, as the comments and interviewed lawyer make clear, it will only take one complaint and NZ SAS are in deep shit. While they might get away with saying a mishap with a gunship's cannon caused most of the...
Yeah - could be - a typical Murdockism.
If there is one truism from the last 10 elections. it is this - NZ elections are decided in Auckland simply because of their population. This poll confirms the trends in recent national polls - that the Nats have lost the confidence of JAFFAs and with it ...
I'm going to stick my neck out here and probably cop a lot of flak from the regulars. I think the UK is quite capable of moving troops into Gib and supporting them with Naval and Air assets if - and only if - the proverbial hits the fan and Spain gets a ...
Are you shitting me? There's enough statistics to re-forest NZ proving that if today's average wage was equal to inflation adjusted 1984 figures, the average wage would be $65/hr and the minimum wage would be $33/hr. The has been several TV documentaries -...
Absolutely dead right, mate. I'm looking forward to when all income is mandatorily disclosed and the lowest income level is set as a percentage of the average top ten percent - say one seventh. Only then will all Kiwis feel included and the greedies will ...
I can answer that A. In 1988, I was a TEO arranging block courses for apprentices with another - that's all the block courses for all SI polytechnics for over 100 trades. In 1991, Dr Lockjaw-Smith decided that the "industries and market will train ...
I think fisiani you need to check your stats before offering outrageous opinions like that. Fact 1, Apart from about 3% most UEB people are on the benefit three months or less. Fact 2, apart from about 5% most DPB recipients are there less than three years...
Yeah - it's very much part of the building scene as well. After the Chch earthquake the Nats made a big song and dance about paying $40/hr for tradespeople to do EQR. They then let the main contracts to - guess who - Fletchers - who promptly creamed off $5...
Tell me please - how are we going to stop the 30,000 paid Russian trolls from infiltrating The Standard?
Excellent leg pull - almost had me fooled. Who would have though we'd get April Fool's Day on Daylight Saving ends Day and MVC start up together? Coincidence - serendipity? I suppose next we'll hear that English has done a complete about face and is going ...
As a bit of a follow up to the article, I was one of the Rogernomics victims. In 1984 there were about 67,000 public/state servants of all descriptions, of whom about one fifth almost fit Roger Hall's satirical play (and who the Fairfax led papers misled ...
I initially thought she was one of those journalists and opinion makers who didn't repeat spin without checking, however!! I've been following her columns in the Press on and off for about a decade and she's definitely changed. Her centre-left stance has ...
Complain about it anyway - to the Ombudsman
Yep Taxicab, you're spot on mate. Soper, Wishart, McLeod are in the same boat as Hoskins when it come to Nat propaganda. Anything these people publish is automatically suspect as outright lies or at best well and truly spun. Likewise any cartoon from ...
Polls are polls and as such are merely a snapshot at a particular date and very much dependent on the type of polling and where it was done, The "tell" is in the trend across time and different polls. Mid term polling is usually - but not always - a ...
Hey LPRENT, from the comments above and from what I've read about phishing and scamming/spamming, I'd say you've been spammed with a trogan or something similar. It might pay you to do a quick back-up them lodge a formal complaint yourself reporting ...
Sounds like you might be a candidate for a visit from your descendants Kevin.
I read somewhere recently that Climate Change Deniers are going to cost our children $100 for every $1 unspent, our grand children $1000 and our great-grand children $10,000. There was some sort of breakdown of those figures into direct costs - repairs to ...
sorry
Get a decent PR firm and use their methods against them. Task the professionals with putting a single themed message across and trust them to do so. Just like Lange and Clark did. Have "handlers" who know their business groom our leaders so they say and do...
I find it very interesting that US right-wing talk show hosts label the MSM as liberal left-wing. Why? Because for the last twenty or so years the majority of the MSM worldwide has been owned or controlled by Rupert Murdoch. As we all know now, Murdoch ...
And the lesson to be learned by NZ voters at the up coming election is? And do you really think the poor dumbed down joe average kiwi who's been spoonfed a diet of MSM Murdockism via TVNZ and Fairfax know enough to make an informed decision that's in their...
I think Trump is under siege - his twitter attacks have rebounded on him with ferocity and his ad-libing has made him look stupid. He can't get his cabinet together because the people he's picked are corrupt/idiotic or don't want a bar of him. His ...
Two of the comments here need a lot more discussion. 1. The notion that Lab/Green has bought into the Chicago School of Economics theory lock, stock and barrel and can't see past it for fear of ridicule by the Nats. 2. That the same dumbed down Mr Joe ...
I think there is both a glimmer of hope that some form of equitable tax system might emerge in the detail as well as making sure that everyone - and that means everyone - who resides or trades in NZ will contribute to the upkeep of our society. I hope that...
Wouldn't surprise me - that's how all but 12 of the thousands incarcerated in Guantanamo Prison got there. Most of them were there from either family feud - the victim's great grand father did something to the informant's great grand niece, or debt ...
While I haven't read the book yet, there has been some interesting news come out about this particular raid. It was conducted at night on information received. It was conducted with the assistance of US helicopter gunships and Afghan soldiers. The village ...
Contrary to what Redgenz and SamC have trolled, the precedent of soldiers being accountable for their actions was set in 1945 & 1946 at Nuremberg. There is no such defense as "I was only following orders". That principle is upheld and enshrined in ...
There was a significant body of work done covering political polls,media and influences done in the late 1980s and early 1990s that I saw in the late 90s, but I can't for the life on me remember where. All of what you say here and considerably more besides...
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