I have a feeling that people that rub up against policy-makers don't realize how outrageously they understate the damage caused by substituting short term commercial interests for the public interest. That entry-level worker that gets cheated out of their ...
Yup - and after following the neo-liberal prescription to the letter. Who'd've thunk it? It's almost as is trickle down economics wasn't good for economies after all. But like the Soviet elite, the Rogergnomes cannot admit their failures. They'll stagger ...
I think the tax rate was about 60% when I was growing up. Everything worked. Electricity was cheap. Education was free and real. Public services served. Nothing government has done since has been an improvement - and we are circling the plughole. ...
Democracy is old. Much older than the Greeks. It goes back to the consensus democracies of band cultures. Sometimes only men got to vote. Certainly no-one from outside the polity could. Nevertheless these early democracies were much more genuine than one ...
There is an outfit called Orange Sky that provides showers and laundry facilities for homeless folk. If they're doing it right, funding to expand would be appropriate.
Labour should perhaps put together a set of counter proposals, so that the public can see that talking to TPM is not altogether conspiring to abandon our system of government. Luxon is a bad egg, and Act's whey-faced assassin of joy is worse. Labour is ...
Perhaps he hopes some nostalgic yank will send him a cheque.
Meh - it's a list to ginger up the base and offend everybody else. TPM will promise everything and deliver nothing but increased resentment and unrealistic demands. Then they will pull a Putin and blame everyone but themselves. This is not a path that ...
It's only hugely complicated because govt. doesn't want to do it.
Imagine a world where those who did not could not hang their heads in shame, because robust public processes dealt with them expeditiously.
Meh - NZ is uniquely round-heeled when it comes to pissing away our citizens' franchise - they only need to be here for six months and they get to vote anyway. Something to do with the major parties, knowing they have alienated voters, looking for new ...
Unhappily, NZ's finance ministers have been almost universally lousy. Cullen would be the only one to rate above the international average, and he was no Keynes. The rest have been distinctly sub-par - as is reflected in national productivity and the ...
So a better regulation might cap political advertising spends - then we could mostly ignore the wretched self-aggrandizing numpties.
That's from Utu.
Hitler started off by attacking Russia. You should do a little reading, friend. The invasion of Poland (1 September – 6 October 1939) was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; which marked the ...
What plays well to TPM's base plays poorly to the mass of voters at large. Do you expect Luxon to ignore this productive cleavage? Although there is no doubt that governments have served Maori poorly since colonization, the Treaty rationalizations are not ...
Yeah nah - it's just journalists trying to fill column inches. Sure there is quibbling, and funder fatigue - but with the exception of a handful of troublemakers like Orban, Europe is firmly opposed to Putin. Should Ukraine's offensive conspicuously fail, ...
We had good reason to be optimistic that the signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Trade Partnership would strengthen trade diplomacy. Nonsense - it ruined the hard work that had gone into building a partnership with nations of ...
Emmissions trading of course, is a fraud - greenwashing inaction. Tesla might look on paper like a greenish enterprise, but every carbon credit they earn offsets carbon production elsewhere. The net result of all the subsidies is nothing. And where are the...
Sure, all things are possible in Heaven and earth. But little good will come of Labour, and none whatsoever of the current Gnats. NZ needs something a bit more progressive and forward-looking than Brownlean motion.
Well, at a guess, the same amount we had before Roger Douglas's great leap backward set us on the path to poverty, ignorance, and entrenched political corruption. The last is the kicker. The current government spent $50 million not building a cycle bridge ...
A bi-partisan approach would require a reawakening of social responsibility among the Gnats - this is not to be expected while covert neoliberals remain within Labour, poisoning the well.
The Finns can do it - and it saves money - so, let us hear no more neoliberal excuses. How Finland Found A Solution To Homelessness - YouTube
Were it so our politics would not be a running sore, working people would be able to house themselves as they were before The Great Betrayal, and our country would be looking forward to a new enlightenment instead of putting morons in power and waiting for...
True to a point. Much more ancient and honoured even than monarchy itself, is the value of the truth. When it is uttered, everything less is reduced to meaninglessness. We do not want Charles to intervene with any frequency. But if he chooses his moments ...
It's a little too easy to blame EK for everything - she is an unsympathetic figure at the best of times - the perfect fall-person. When you have Jeanette Fitzsimons expressing uncharacteristic overwhelming anger and disappointment it is fair to say Shaw ...
Not off a sports field - he's still trying to scrub off the stench of the 3 way handshake.
... the case with the execrable Stuart Nash, he was not bound...
Sam Neill might make a decent fist of it - but is probably smart enough to decline.
Charles is as entitled to participate in the political process as anyone else, and frankly, the ministers to whom he wrote were in general so useless they ought to have been grateful for his pointers. 21. Right to democracy Everyone has the right to take ...
I couldn't say with certainty, though she was involved. My impression was mostly based on a brief media appearance - though the issue had surfaced in January of last year. Particularly damaging to Shaw was a revelation of a promise made to Labour without ...
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