Nice, Wild Katipo.
Hundreds of millions of taxable dollars left NZ shores forever when Key removed the lid on how much money the rich can put into a trust each year. (I recall it was around $23,500.) We will never know how many millions (or billions) are gone forever. It was...
@ red-blooded This is the Roman Empire. We want entertainment. If the people wanted policies, Trump would not have won a single primary.
"Key’s taking most of National’s support with him." Correct. Our elections are personality contests. The first Labour government was clearly defined as the workers versus the capitalists. Today you need a divining rod to tell the difference between Nats ...
"The people’s rage will intensify as economies get worse." 60% of Italian voters just canned their PM via a referendum. Their economy is in tatters.
The enormous financial bubbles are why I would resign right now if I were a politician at any level in any country. The people's rage will intensify as economies get worse. Success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan.
"Climate Wars" by Gwynne Dyer (2008, ISBN 978-0-307-35583-6). I highly recommend this book. Dyer describes six high risk regions where water wars are likely. I was particularly taken by his scenario for India and Pakistan. Pakistan depends completely on ...
@ Ad Recently released Israeli documents from the 1960's show Israel's strategic objectives in the June 1967, Six Day War were to secure the Jordan River for Israel's exclusive use. That's the real reason they took the Golan Heights and the West Bank. "...
I was asked my opinion about the Clinton/Trump election result. They expected me to take sides. I didn't. I said, "The USA is a very divided, angry country. The last time they were this divided they had a civil war." Maybe that's what's coming next. Maybe ...
"Instead of having a bunch of ideological idiot MPs who know nothing about education interfere, why not get out of the way and let teachers try it their way?" Lust for power. Being an MP is a dreadful job (in my personal opinion). The payoff is power. "...
Why won't Tolley apologize? The coming election. With less than a year until the election this is "feel good, be happy" prime time. If it's bad news, bury it, ignore it, deny it . . . anything to make it disappear. Staying in power is a public relations ...
@ lprent Thanks for that ban.
Most people here are treating this as an "us/them" competition. It's not. Everyone needs to know if computerized votes can be hacked, changed, altered, deleted. If they can, the computerization of elections must end immediately. Elections are no longer ...
Hi, Mickey. You are deep into NZ politics so please bookmark this video. Save it for the day when someone proposes internet voting. Thanks
Thanks Anne. I hope people here will watch the 3 minute video above (3.0 above) and recognize that the integrity of democracy is at stake. If computer voting can be hacked so easily, elections are meaningless. Wake up, New Zealand!
Why hasn't anyone commented on the 3 minute video above? The very brief video shows that computerized voting is a fraud. It can be hacked by anyone. This recount is essential. Not for Clinton but for the integrity of voting everywhere. Wake up, New Zealand...
Completely changing the computer vote count for the Washington DC election was a piece of cake for three varsity students. It was a class assignment, completed in 48 hours, and great fun. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SGlH1goPA4
Germany and Japan got reasonably democratic governments because constitutional scholars imposed new governments on them after they were utterly destroyed in WWII. That's the only way the US and UK will ever become reasonably democratic. Defeat in war. I ...
I trust Trump on NOTHING, except to ignore the conflicts of interest and keep making money for himself.
"Labour and National" Is that a single party?
CV, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but NOT their own FACTS. FACT: In 15 days Trump has done u-turns on 15 previous promises. Trump is a compulsive liar. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-flip-flops-president-elect-214478 CV, ...
+ 1 I read it in The Guardian but couldn't find it anyplace in NZ, not even on the Greens website! (It might be there someplace, but it was not headlined.)
I laughed when Brownlee said he had never been approached for more money. For eight years Brownlee, Key, English, & Co. had one message to every department: "Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, cut!" If Geonet had ever asked for a big funding increase, Geonet would ...
Kia ora Takahanga Marae opens its doors to help feed and house the needy. I am sure any Auckland private country club or yacht club would do the same . . . . . Yeah right!
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What will happen in OUR election? Will we have a Bernie Sanders?
@ Henry Filth Truman was elected FDR. LBJ was elected after JFK. Carter, Clinton, and Obama were followed by Republicans so the answer is 40% of the time a democrat president was followed by another democrat. For republicans, the score is 0%. Ike followed ...
Draco, two interesting points: 1. Bill Clinton won the presidency with this simple sentence, "It's the economy, stupid." 2. So much of the American political sound and fury has ZERO economic impact: abortion, gun control, LGBT rights.
The Democrats did not abandon white male voters. BOTH parties abandoned the rust belt cities in favor of the densely populated, wealthy coastal metropolises. I grew up in the kind of small city that would vote overwhelmingly for a Donald Trump. Its major ...
@ Guerilla Surgeon + 1
"There are lessons to be learned here for New Zealand next year." Winston understands, as he demonstrated in Northland. The provinces have been ignored in favor of a neoliberal system that puts obscene untaxed profits into the pockets of the Auckland real ...
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