"but which crisis do you expect them to address". I am a realist. I don't expect them to address any of the problems relating to housing. They haven't done anything significant in the first 3 years and I really don't expect to see any real improvement in ...
Any proposed CGT I have seen proposed in New Zealand will exclude the family home from the tax. That will have the effect of increasing rather than decreasing house prices. Look at what has happened in Australia where they have a CGT and a means tested ...
There is quite a nice house in Wellington that is almost always empty. It should be in pretty good condition as they have just spent about $3 million on an upgrade if the rumour mill is to be believed. Usually has one person living there for about 3 nights...
"I would be pleased to campaign extensively for the country’s name to be changed to Aotearoa." Are you going to? Surely it would be the highlight of your political career. It is what our country needs most, isn't it?
I'm not sure whether the Select Committee system we have in our own Parliament is that different.
Well, I admit I did assume that when you commented on the proposed actions of a US Senator you actually understood why the rules of the Senate made what he said a most unlikely event. Next time I won't make any assumptions at all about your knowledge about...
By the way, I omitted one little item I had meant to talk about. The rules of the Senate only allow a Senator to Chair one Committee. Do you really think he would have given up the Chairmanship of Judiciary, which is responsible for the appointment of all ...
I guess that I can only refer you to the reply by Mandy Rice-Davies to the lawyer questioning her in the Ward trial. The question, and the supposed answer about her claimed affair with Lord Astor have been quoted ever since as. "Do you know Lord Astor has ...
Why should Graham be particularly concerned, and why does Ad think he would have become Chairman? He was only the fourth ranked Republican in the 116th Congress and as far as I know Grassley and Crapo, who were ranked above him, are still there. Also just ...
The Senate Budget Committee is not an important one. The real powerhouses in the area are the Appropriations Committee and the Finance Committee. Sanders won't have much influence if the becomes the Budget Chairman. The Senate Committees are split into ...
I really thought that " Is it the incognito who says that it was a purely commercial decision made by the Power Company management" was an accurate paraphrase of " the deal is a commercial deal between the smelter and Meridian".
From your first link we have "Meridian Chief Executive, Neal Barclay says, “We have worked hard to provide solutions that we believe were of lasting value to the Smelter and acceptable to our shareholders." Well I'm a shareholder and I wasn't consulted. I ...
" I find it hard to believe the next generations of aircraft…likely to be as lite-weight as possible..will not need aluminium" That is a very debatable statement Phillip. The fuselage of a 747, the long haul workhorse of the 80's and 90's was primarily ...
You are really going to have to decide who you believe. Is it the incognito who says that it was a purely commercial decision made by the Power Company management, and that the Government had nothing to do with it. Alternatively was it the Government ...
I presume you were replying to Andre. He is the one who was pointing out that in his view the new deal doesn't make any sense if we really want to reduce out carbon emissions. As far as being a commercial deal between the smelter and Meridian, of course it...
"You know, the ‘team of five million’; are you one of us?" "I’m glad to hear that despite your visceral reaction and many reservations, you’re one of us". My, my. That sounds dreadfully like the mad orange man talking to the group of Congresswoman who ...
I assume you will take this up with the Prime Minister and our Minister of Finance. It seems to be a bit too hard for them to understand. Sigh.
" In the first two weeks of 2021, 5,735 people arrived in NZ, and 6,771 people left.". And you call that facilitating international air travel? In the first 2 weeks of 2020 there were about 25,000 people per day going each way by air in and out of New ...
I think you will find that the Government told them to bend over. You aren't really going to tell us that you have forgotten the Labour Party promises just before the election? "Labour would negotiate to extend the life of the Tiwai Point Aluminium smelter...
What are you talking about? McConnell doesn't really have the power to do anything much to any other Republican.
Thank you. I do remember what you said earlier but when the professional bodies start expressing doubts one does start to wonder. I hope that this story about the senior executives of Novavax doesn't mean any more than did the sell down by the CEO of Xero ...
There appears to be a fair old barney going on in the Australian and New Zealand Society for Immunology about what vaccines to use. The Society originally came out with a statement that AstraZeneca introduction should be paused because it does not appear ...
Was their security like that on the Labour Party website when Whaleoil accessed it in 2011? ie non-existent? If that is the case they really do deserve to have the whole lot made public don't they? Just the same way that the Labour Party deserved it? Or am...
Mother Jones says that it would not remove his Secret Service protection. Thar will continue regardless of how he left office. There was apparently a change made in 2013 to the Act. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/if-trump-is-impeached-and-...
It is a long time ago now, so my comment doesn't apply to anyone currently in the Defense Force but this is probably still true of the general attitude of senior staff. I had a friend who was then retired but had been a fairly Senior Officer in the ...
" approximating the worst cuts of actual meat cooked badly." Now that is what I call an enthusiastic product endorsement. I love the review but I think I'll give the product a miss.
Nancy clearly doesn't follow the example of a former US President, Harry Truman. He had a plaque on his desk. It said "The Buck Stops Here". Nancy says, in effect.. The buck stops with one of the people who work for me. It has absolutely nothing to do with...
Robert. Can you please read and think about the comment you claim to be "not sure that's true". It doesn't say why they voted for Trump. It doesn't say they like Trump. It doesn't say they support Trump. All it says is that 70 million of them voted for ...
You say "Not sure that's true". Well the only way you can say that that remark is "not true" is that it is, if anything, an under-statement. From https://www.cfr.org/blog/2020-election-numbers we are told that "Trump won 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent ...
"The next election was a Republican gift because LBJ didn't stand." There has been an enormous amount of debate about why Johnson withdrew. My own belief is that he did not believe he could win, and he was trying to salve his reputation. He had just, ...
The Police you are complaining about, and they were the ones who let the protesters in, were members of the United States Capitol Police. The United States Capitol Police report directly to House and Senate Committees. They don't work for the Executive ...
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