The police seem happy enough to operate under a do-as-we-please / wet-noodle-from-the-courts-later regime. It's working for them....as far as they are concerned. Certainly no one in the police is on the carpet in the Beehive over any of this. Promotions ...
Woodland's population is 809. The area of the town is 1.3 square miles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland,_North_Carolina It's 21m above sea level....so John Key's clever plan to enhance seal level rise by doing nothing about emissions is on track. In...
NZ farming does have a systemic problem with animal welfare. I've seen the calves in the crates along the roadside. Then there are the "slinkies" - calves aborted late enough that the cow's milk has come in. I've lived in rural areas. There are good ...
I think if you - as in you - attack a group that has a long history of working to eliminate animal cruelty for exposing......um.....animal cruelty, and you, yourself, make no comment on the central issue (animal cruelty)....then there will be people who ...
I suspect this is the NZ version of the "contractors" the US used in Iraq for jobs the US military wasn't allowed to do. If anyone tightens up surveillance laws, the illegal jobs just get outsourced. They also want to set up structures to deal with ...
NZ's biggest step forward would be to get rid of this cheating, duty-shirking government.
The scan in this was "labor market reform". The market only works one way. If workers get an edge and employers need people, do they increase wages and improve conditions to make the jobs more attractive? No. They get the government to dive people to work ...
Yeah....it could go that way (inertia, collapse, chaos). But that doesn't mean we stop trying to prevent it. History has shown that the people who are standing ready with the solution WILL be listened in the moment the great dull beast of wider society ...
The issue is how much? If every shirks their duty to everyone else...then nothing changes. I hate the "cheater" thinking: "What I do doesn't matter, so I'll just cheat". It's corrupt.
A potentially bigger (well...more immediate) issue is bacterial resistance. A gene has now been detected in bacteria in pigs and humans in China that enables bacteria - from E Coli to Listeria - to acquire immunity more easily to anti-biotics, including ...
That would require insight......not a thing the folks on the Right are famous for, unfortunately. Often clever tactically about achieving ends that - strategically - are counterproductive for society in general.
The problem may well be National's own voters. Let's say seal level rise will, in 15-20 years, begin to flood the most low-lying homes frequently enough that they clearly aren't livable in the near future. At that point, the public...including the slow-...
High in the polls = do whatever with impunity One has to wonder when or if their voters will ever care about right vs wrong. Or has NZ - defacto - become a corrupt state.
Though...a market is a bit like an onion in terms of the layers of discretion. The outer layers are things we can do without or find substitutes for. The inner layers are actual needs in all or most circumstances. These are more "inelastic", to toss in an ...
Climate change is a much larger concern than terrorism. It will kill tens of millions. I'm getting annoyed by the terrorism meme being used to strip away civil liberties. What happened in France is terrible....but let's put the numbers in perspective. In ...
National doesn't want any serious current affairs on TV prior the next round of local body and national elections. They have TVNZ completely terrified by yanking the funding noose....and Key's buddy at TV3 is throttling the news department for any purpose ...
There are no surprises here. National ministers don't like facing the fact their ideology produces steaming turds in abundance. But in this case, that SerCo would fail in the name of profit was almost a given. You can't cut staff numbers, pay less and do ...
Why would the Labour Party accept Len Brown as a candidate? If it alienated voters they definitely would NOT do it. That's one of the best things about MMP. You can't put polarising people on your list without paying a high price. Example? The Greens ...
Voter turnout won't have been helped by First Past the Post being used. In both elections (2010 and 2013) more than 50% of all votes cast didn't elect anyone. In 2010 in the Albany Ward, over 80% of votes elected no one. The two elected got less than 10% ...
Voter turnout won't have been helped by First Past the Post being used. In both elections (2010 and 2013) more than 50% of all votes cast didn't elect anyone. In 2010 in the Albany Ward, over 80% of votes elected no one. The two elected got less than 10% ...
What did this arise from?
Infused: Nothing changes if you change nothing. Scoop wants to be more. Making that happen is an act of will by however many people it takes to make it happen. That's a fact.
Infused: Nothing changes if you change nothing. Scoop wants to be more. Making that happen is an act of will by however many pelt it takes to make it happen. That's a fact.
I pledged $1,000. Step up, people. Fauxfax, Granny Herald and Nat-castrated TVNZ aren't going to get any better.
Chooky: So the media decides who you hear and how much.......and then you vote on that basis? Amazing.
Canada can be clever. You pay Bilcon the $300 million......and then never let them do anything in Canada ever again. Like the US does......conjure up a fatuous reason to declare them a terrorist organisation, sequester all their assets for "racketeering" ...
It's a good one except for the couple of occasions the interviewer reveals she hasn't done her homework and plagues him about the Swedish legal issues and "why don't you just walk out of the embassy and face the" Swedish charges? He'd already told her the ...
There are democracies and then there are democracies. If you subscribe to the Tory view that a government is an elected dictatorship....I guess you're correct according to that view. If you subscribe to the view that we elect representatives with whom we ...
No...he's saying this was the reason the government gave us for being in the TPP....and they didn't achieve it. Learning to read with comprehension will aid your understanding enormously.
The good news is that this is the same reason many Americans don't like it either. If they hate the UN as usurping their sovereignty, they should DESPISE the TPP tribunals.
You'd know if you were paying attention. This isn't new. "Con"-fused.
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