Browsing in a shop today, overheard a conversation between shopkeeper and customer that started off describing being in hospital with lung issues. The story finshed with 'of course that covid's engineered, the vaccine causes disease, and anyway all the ...
The landlord used to hold the bond. In days of high inflation the bond was a tidy earner for them. All sorts of excuses not to pay back the bond to tenants, and they had you over a barrel.
Hipkins was also head boy at his Hutt Valley College. Where's the equivalent article about Luxon's youth? Perhaps because he was an uncharismatic non-entity at school?
..'refuse repairs', sorry, not arrears
Please don't suggest the Residential Tenancies Act be scrapped. Of course the money will be invested, because the cost of running Tenancy Service mediation and bond administration comes from that fund. I imagine excess goes into the general tax pool. ...
The Guardian reports that Keir Starmer’s decision not to scrap the two-child benefit cap if UK Labour wins power 'has exposed deep splits within the party, as he faces mounting calls to rethink the policy.' This cap, crafted by the Conservatives, 'prevents...
The very-much-there White House press secretary used the word 'vile' in answer to a question about JFK jnr's claims during her daily press briefing. Unless she has a direct interface to AI, unlikely that this was AI generated. Remember that Trump gave up ...
For Friends of JFK jnr, Guardian live: his claims that Covid-19 was engineered to be less harmful to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese are described as 'vile' by the White House.
France is happy to run national debt at 90-100% of GDP. It has been doing so for decades to prop up its excellent healthcare and aged care sectors, with retirement at 60y. Personal tax runs at ~40%.
Toxic wokeism, unhealthy cultural trends, virtue signalling. Dennis Frank, you're seasoning your comments with meaningless rw catchphrases again. I'm guessing you are a casualty of the meaningless rw culture war against phantoms...Head injury?
In 6 months time we'll be saying, we told ya so. If this NACT government comes in, there won't be the sinking lid approach while things degrade (Key's strategy). NACT will be a government of big change and public sector cuts, because of the ideological ...
Since forever.
A named public servant?
The reason for the Black Budget was a big drop off in NZ's overseas income in that year, due to big dips in the price of wool and meat. Which meant NZ government had an unexpected large deficit. Which meant more taxes from somewhere to cover overseas ...
Maybe it's because of genuine fear of letting an Opposition in power ready to dismantle the country for harvesting by the rich.
Batchelor is an evangelical preacher, and claims to have been given 80 reasons by his god why most christians do not actively evangelise. (From LinkdIn profile). His self-published book and his Treaty lectures include some of his evangelical material.
Many of us can no longer see twitter. Weka encourages commenters to add the tweet to TS comments.
Deloittes now also implicated in corrupt practices, not just Price Waterhouse Cooper, in Australian government consultancy scandal.
debunking conspiracies aotearoa hosts spiderhoof's tiktok of National's debt blowout on the back of election promises in their last government. View The debt... tiktok.
MSNBC interviews Drescher in more detail Two examples of AI used to steal from performers, in comments under this video: Background actors who came in for a multi-day shoot did some scenes on day one, and were 3D-scanned. They were then dismissed and paid ...
Fran Drescher, Actors Guild negotiator with entertainment bosses, rallies union members in strike action. Guardian article and Drescher's speech Drescher says this is a crossroads for many workers, not just actors and screenwriters. She describes the ...
Yr link just goes to google sign-in page.
You and Grannie completely missing the point of judges and a justice system there. What would it look like if your court of public opinion set judicial sentences on the basis of a social media story, or a done-once-over-lightly Herald article, as you are ...
Dennis Frank, sounds a little like Switzerland's semi-direct democracy 'Switzerland features a system of government not seen in any other nation: direct representation, sometimes called half-direct democracy (this may be arguable, because theoretically, ...
Pfft. People come and people go. Not everyone gets on with their birth family, or suits the temperament of their birth culture. Some are ambitious and see better chances for themselves elsewhere. Not much point in trying to get the leavers to stay. However...
The NZ ETS was not develped de novo in a vacuum. I'd say, look to trends and political pressures internationally at the time - and at which consulting firms pushed the government towards this option.
If you want to understand how a social media political marketing campign works: Guardian Australia deconstructs how the No campaign organises its Facebook ads on The Voice referendum. And see how cheap it is - under the $100k mark.
In that case, if that 17 yo grabbed and squeezed the custodian's balls for 10 seconds, then, no damage or crime either. Fair's fair.
Name the subsidies, please. Film-making is the only one I can think of with overt subsidies.
KJT, fabulous exposé on NZ's rentier capitalism. Thanks for putting that link up. All explained in a nutshell.
Love the grab-bag of RW slogans I see you sprinkle into your comments. Struggling with what idea you're trying to communicate with the slogan 'virtue signalling' here. What do you actually mean to say?
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