Apparently Cameron Brewer is thinking of standing. I'd rate him lower than Banks. Brewer is a shameless National Party hack. He was "elected" unopposed in Orakei Ward (single Councillor ward). Had I known there was NO ONE standing against him in the last ...
Fair enough. It's hard sometimes to see through the piles of baggage some people bring to this. I've run into a fair number of advocates of the "all men are rapists" meme over the years....and the natural response to such behaviour is to swim the other way...
I agree. (with the quote from the Guardian about the judicial process being corrupted). Similarly...here in NZ we tend not to deport people who commit crimes here if they are going back to a country where they will face the death penalty. Though we ...
I don't think there is any constructive way to engage the competing priorities and sensitivities in this case. Some people look at Assange and see a man who was set up / ensnared / entrapped. Others look at him and see - in absolute terms only - a rapist (...
Ideally, there would be a banking alternative to the corrupt US at the centre....but there isn't. Our government is happy about that. They did this to Wikileaks, too, but very soon alternative methods of channeling money to Wikileaks opened up. People ...
You're probably right.
Looking at the 2014 election results, it looks like people in Christchurch were happy to vote for Labour in the local seats....but a lot of those people gave their party votes to National. Which makes little sense, really.....as National is the party ...
Brownlee is a thug. End. Of. Story. I can't vote for a party that lets him do more than empty the waste bins after a knees-up.
Then go war against the US. Their drone campaign has arguably killed just as many innocent people as IS. Wedding after wedding has been converted into exploding meat bags.
To those who think you can shoot your way out of this problem...please read some history. This a mental problem with economic roots. You can't shoot it. Every time we go to war against this, it gets bigger. Are you paying any attention at all?
Concentration of media ownership is THE underlying issue in much of NZ politics. Once we got MMP and they couldn't limit the effective franchise through lack of choice at the ballot box, they shifted strategy to ensure lack of effective choice via the ...
In my 50-odd years I've become more or less convinced that about 90% of the population would rather fight than think. The other 10% either run the place or try to hold to account those who do. if the 90% don't care and it comes to a vote.....then Jeb Bush ...
Labour's OK. It's foreign-owned, Nat-loving corporate media who have the problem. Too few media owners...and none of them Kiwis.
My immediate issue with Banks is his myopia with respect to his own corrupt electoral practices. He knew where the money was coming from and didn't declare it. He also tried to weasel out of being responsible by saying he'd signed a return that he hadn't ...
Apparently comments at a local venue on the North Shore were firmly on the side of "Banskie" who - after all - is nice to animals. The take-away appears to be: Never underestimate the ignorant sentimentality of a modern voter whose views are, at best, ...
I had no expectation that the (Multi-) National 1% Party (NZ Branch) would return an agreement that was good for NZ. Instead, i would expect it to advantage foreign corporate rights over the rights of Kiwis. Looks like we're headed that way. But I do ...
This reason (and others) is why tend to refer to National as the "Multi-National Party" or - more recently - the "Multi-National 1% Party (NZ Branch)". If they can screw over a million Kiwis for the benefit of a foreign corporation....whatever it goes ...
Agreed. It's a problem all large cities face. Clearly, there is both a need and a demand for intensification. More people in a given area. Aging Kiwis who grew up on quarter acre sections or on farms might not like that much, the hundreds of thousands who ...
It's a bit more complicated than that. The houses they are building in Auckland are typically way out on the fringes. HUGE commutes to get to work. The Ellerslie-Panmure and Greenlane East motorway monsters will choke the cars for an hour / day minimum. ...
Google+ won't let me post the link to this page, but will let me post the link to NRT. Is this how it is supposed to be? I haven't seen a situation before where I am actually PREVENTED from posting due to the link I've included.
I've never expected National to look after the people of NZ. They are, after all, the "Multi-National 1% Party (NZ)". This is easily seen by simply looking at what they DO....and who benefits. It certainly isn't the people of NZ.
My experience has been that Kiwis have been ahead of Americans - generally - on cell phone adoption. We only pay for outgoing calls and txts. Canadians and Americans pay for incoming and outgoing calls and txts. We pay one rate for the whole country. They ...
I opened my ballot, marked it, and drove it to the nearest post office immediately upon receipt. In other words, I made it a priority and got it done within 20 minutes of receipt.
National are firm in their belief that government can't run the economy properly. They are failing to understand that THEY can't do it properly. Labour was doing a pretty good job under Helen Clark.
You must have missed it. It was there.
For the 30 years I've been paying attention Natonal's policies in office are always about creating a pool of unemployed to act as a brake on wage rises and to provide leverage for breaking unions and generally reducing wages and conditions of people who ...
tc: TVNZ is what it is *because* National tore up the public service charter, shut down TVNZ 7 and demanded excessive dividends. It's the oldest play in the book: wreck the thing....then say it's no good. It's what conservatives do to public assets. I'm ...
It's hardly a conspiracy. They're doing it brazenly in the open. They don't care how corrupt they look.
Agree totally. I was scratching my head watching that segment...and the smug wee piece of the other guy at Parliament. Maybe they are trying to 'balance' Campbell Live's trenchent criticism of the (right wing) government by being nice to the (right-wing, ...
My goodness, didn't TV3's evening news have a woody for Shane Jones on Monday night, though! They barely said a word about Cunliffe or Robertson. Maybe tomorrow night will focus on another candidate for the labour leadership. But if you only watch TV news ...
Maybe a Kickstarter Fund to kick off a private prosecution of the GCSB..... Those guys in Toronto were able to raise over C$200,000 to *attempt* buy a video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine. (But Mayor Ford allegedly paid the crack video guy more ...
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