Not only that, they gave less than the nutritionists said. This shocking treatment of fellow human beings is displayed either on "Someone Elses Country" or "In a land of plenty". Both should be on youtube. Meanwhile, the rest of the world thinks "Hunger ...
Now at a time when the world accepts that the neoliberalist ideology hasn't worked... IMHO, neoliberalism is 21st century feudalism. We work in factories and offices instead of the fields.
Go the families!! If there is/was any possibility of re-entering the mine it should be/have been done as soon as possible to do it. We have a Prime Minister's word on that and if you can't trust the word of the Prime Minister in the time of a national ...
Election 2017: big defeat for National. Bill English, Paula Bennett, Stephen Joyce all party seniors and all out of favour. Even if not out of favour, then spent forces. Who next to lead National and rebuild the party? If recent aspirations still apply, it...
"God bless the Nats and their relations, and keep us in our proper stations..."
Knowing this is a Labour stronghold, and a sure win for Ardern (has she been appointed yet?), this could be a good chance to swing party votes away from National, with some cooperation between Labour, Green & NZ1st. With no National candidate to vote for, ...
I thought it must mean that the ministry wasn't monitoring properly or often enough. Just another new, vague term that serves to support the accompanying statement that the ministry, not the minister, is responsible. As in, the ministry took the Minister's...
My wife told me about the Maori Party Christmas song in parliament yesterday. Call me a prude, but I think the homeless families issue is too serious to be a flippant reference in a song like this. If voting for the MP is going to fix the homeless issue, ...
Thinks: "I bet Obama has staff to do this for him. It shoulda been me running the USA"
"Hmm, might as well throw out the hate mail. No point keeping that. I'll just use this Eastlight binder for the mail from my supporters..."
Key came to us from a senior position in the New Yrork Federal Reserve Bank. Anyone who dismisses him as some kind of Essex-boy risk tradr has undrestimated him, IMHO. So, I think there will be people well-pleased with his time as PM, but common, garden ...
Never met Shearer so no comment on him, personally. But, he is a neoliberal and I'm pleased with every small step Labour takes to distance itself from the country's wicked experiments of the 1980s, especially now the world consensus is that neoliberalism ...
"Right, madam, take your time. I want you to walk up and down the line and if you recognise anybody, I want you to point to them, alright?"
English gets his name on the list of NZ Prime Ministers. Then, if he retires at the next election, his super would be calculated at the higher payscale. All he has to do is take the country through the Christmas & New Year season, then the government will ...
maybe this way he can get a gong in one of the two remaining honours lists before the next election, without risking it being another party's decision?
Somewhere in a Parnell restaurant, John & Bronagh Key compare his role as PM vs her lonely nights without his presence... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGXU7268Z50
I thought so too, when I was thinking about what news or catastrophe is about to rear its head. But I thought again and decided he simply might have been waiting until the votes were counted in Roskill.
He hasn't made a movie about himself, has he?
Are you dissing the lot of them, then?
It's called a 'bow-wave'. The medium term forecast is full of promise, but come time to deliver, the medium term will be the short term, and we know how inaccurate those forecasts are. So, while it looked like you could have it all, unfortunately you can't...
BM said Parmar does the pissing... See 2.2.1
All credit to Michael Wood and all the people who got stuck in and made the result what it is. But it can't only be about personalities. With Northland showing how the regions think and Roskill as an indicator for Auckland, surely BM can't be the only one ...
In the US, the left candidate lost because the left felt disenfranchised by the right-leaning of the left candidate and that the right candidate appeared to be speaking out for the common man and dissing the neoliberalism that has been adopted by both ...
Logically, those who gave their party vote to National but felt moved to give their person-vote to Goff should now be 'free' to align the candidate to their political philosophy. And, we are told that a vote for National will give the party itself a ...
when thE people who set the ncea examination questions get it wrong, it's no surprise that pupils have trouble.
So: Treasury can't get things right in 44 days let alone 44 years, and they're constantly wrong. Then: On what basis is Bill English confidently able to start forecasting the idea of tax cuts in 2017 when the figures being quoted make the margins tight? ...
"This Sod's not for turning..." (apologies to the late Dame Thatcher)
Auckland. Move prisoners out to the regions and turn Mt Eden prison into a new parliament building. It's full of heritage and Gothic stately authority. Plus, if Serco continued to run it, there could be compulsory fight clubs between MPs. And, no need to ...
Yeah. A chopper flight over the city and the structural engineer's pronouncement is that Kaikoura is stuffed. I'd already worked that out, and I've never been in a helicopter... Then Brownlee says it will take a long time and billions of dollars to fix - ...
Chloe Swarbrick will be a great companion to Jacinda Ardern and, IMHO, Nikki Kaye; three women who, regardless of political stance, ought to be respected by all for their principled approached to playing the game. Heaven knows, there's little enough of it ...
One lesson I hope we are going to learn: Trump is proposing tax cuts, but the US finance media is saying that there will be lot of debate about that, given that it will create bigger deficits. Nek minute, in 2017, Key & English trot out the hint of tax ...
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