CMT. No privacy, mindless drill, the soldier's mess, standing around for hours waiting to be ordered to do something, exercises that turned to custard within hours, "domino effect" brainwashing, no doors on the toilets and showers, masturbation a major ...
An accurate means of assessing disability is preferable to a fair means because an accurate assessment will be more predictive of outcome, based as it is on research findings. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20482853 Fairness by comparison is too ...
"For locals we need to have alternatives to, property as an investment". NZX companies are an alternative and include Kiwi business success stories like Pacific Edge Biotechnology, Mainfreight and Xero. I don't have data on this but anecdotally investors ...
There's a Muslim students association and a Maori one and possibly other race or religion based associations. https://www.facebook.com/uoamsa/ http://www.ntm.maori.nz/ The European language and culture based associations like Alliance Francaise and Goethe ...
Closed Shop workplaces with union and employer negotiated wage rates and a compulsory arbitration court. Progressive Income Tax with top rate 70% for incomes above the median annual cost of living. Inheritance Tax. A tax on the capital value of family ...
"Risk Management". If you swim in the river you have a one in 20 chance of getting infected. If you thought you had a one in five chance of an amazing outdoors experience in Clean Green New Zealand for whatever social medium you display on you might risk ...
Townie voters don't swim in rivers so don't give a shit.
"a system they don't see as being for their benefit". It isn't for their benefit. The non-voter demographic he writes about is an increasing part of the population. A real threat to the high living standards enjoyed by WJ and his family. I'd be shitting my...
NZ hosted centuries of slavery before Pakeha arrived if Edward Tregear is a reliable source. http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-TreRace-t1-body-d9-d2.html
Religiously speaking he believes the Catechism of the Catholic Church, including forgiveness of sins. http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/credo.htm
You could always report it and see what happens. https://www.crimestoppers-nz.org/
Hone's a sell out alright. "I'm not for pushing Pakeha into the sea" http://e-tangata.co.nz/news/hone-harawira-im-not-for-pushing-pakeha And his dad was nominated for Northern Maori as far back as 1943, predating Titewhai, so a long family history of ...
Discontent and divisiveness are not their only strengths. He plays his race card effectively too. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10569951
The US might, as you write, be seen as the indispensable nation within the West but I struggle to think of any significant contribution to human knowledge by US educated and acculturated people. Also the US is isolated geographically from the historical ...
Tell that to the decile 10 couples and singles whose children have left home. Some will have inherited the right to occupy their three bedroom plus house directly or as beneficiaries of a private trust. Nicki Rauti is in a similar position as a beneficiary...
Risk of sexual assault in intimate partner violence is reduced by women contacting police or applying for a protection order. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18569465
By "women's issues" I guess you mean the violence and repression by men towards women. Jackson's sort of bloke right ? The missing Labour voter.
As I read it she's disagreeing with Jackson's history of contempt for women and I admire her for speaking out. Use Jackson to help win the September election ? How's that going to work with Willie stinking of Roast Busters and a knife to the heart attitude...
Looks to me like Little decided WJ on board was worth the upset. Good on Poto Williams. I know a bit about Jackson. Keeps his distance when he can get away with it and all over you when it suits him. Uses maori creds to his and his family's advantage. ...
... would need to have first hand evidence of their motives before...
"thinking" he was pro-Tour might be personal reticence. "His personal reticence could have something to do with the unwelcome media attention he received last year when gay website GayNZ.com alleged in an article that one of his teenaged sons had posted ...
IRD estimated 11,645 foreign trusts in NZ at 1st April 2016, earning the industry about $40 million a year from helping set them up. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/81372690/Can-NZs-foreign-trust-industry-survive-Shewans-fix Lack of capital was ...
Do it by example and improve your physical and mental well being. Some people will notice and be tempted to try it too. Join the trend Gos, you don't have to be too open about if you're shy or a bit scared. You can make a difference.
A New Zealand foreign trust industry ? How about industrial dairy farming and animal slaughter houses, low-end tourism, residential property trading and slave labour by immigrants. I seriously don't care if people use NZ law to protect their wealth if it ...
I don't like to hear about Bob Jones getting so upset and angry. Hopefully it won't be too much for him. A short wick must be hard to live with.
Wellington region bird watching via public transport. http://www.birdingnz.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=6442
About point 5, I meant reducing ads by tighter regulations on where ads can be placed, ad-free media supported by donations and subscriptions, ad-blocking software and so on. Also reduce the presence ads have in our minds by deliberately reducing our ...
What will we need to give up to powerdown and live good and meaningful lives ? Emphasis on what will I need to reduce (rather than give up) is a more acceptable message to me personally and I suspect to other comfortable middle class people. 1. Delay ...
To Gosman at 2. Not everybody wants junk food, but enough people do want it to make providers very wealthy at the same time "screwing over" the health of the consumers, while the health budget (not the junk food providers) foots the bill. http://www.forbes...
To Gosman at 1.1.1.1 Some Indian farmers are poorer because their land has been taken to grow biofuel crops. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/06/20116711756667987.html
To Gosman at 1.1.1.1 It's not only because they make other peoples lives better and/or easier. If that were true rubbish collectors, toilet cleaners, home helpers and care givers (to name a few) would be wealthier.
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