THe whole dotcom saga gets more interesting. TV 3 just said that he has a copy of Mein Kampf in his collection......
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THe whole dotcom saga gets more interesting. TV 3 just said that he has a copy of Mein Kampf in his collection......
So Dotcom is now yet again planning to coat tail on somebody elses work (Hone Harawhira´s in this case) to get HIS people into our Parliament for his own personal purposes. This is how he has made his fortune, by freeloading of other people´s hard work (artists). His life since his teens seems to have been about bending abd breaking any rules possible and he seems to have spent a large part of his life running away and hiding from various authorities and jurisdictions.
He talks loftily about freedom, but is the first to run to the courts to gag his former employees, many of whom have been paid less than the minimum wage according to reports, if they´ve been paid at all.
To even consider putting up one list for two "parties" that have no common policies whatsoever (1 has NO policies)and intend to work separately as 2 parties in Parliament after the election, is nothing short of blatantly defrauding our very silly and already stretched MMP system.
I hope the NZ voting public sees through these antics and throws out Harawhira and ensures Dotcom doesn´t get anywhere near Parliament.
He sure as hell can´t do it on his own and is therefore thinking about the easiest way to bend the rules.
The sooner he is deported, the better for NZ.
I haven´t often found myself in agreement with Sue Bradford but on this issue she has spoken a lot of sense and shown considerable integrity. Full marks to her for staying firmly with her unquestionable conviction.
Mana have spoken and Humpty dumpty is not in the equation any more. He needs to be removed from the political arena and given an ultimatum - go back to Germany where you come from or on to USA where you deserve to be. You add nothing to NZ apart from some easy copy for reporters.
Fair enough Craic.
Saw this item, it looks scary: Treasury suggesting to the govt that selling off schools etc, would be one way of getting some cash in.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11226941
This is the sort of idea that started us on the NZ Experiment in 1984. Those changes, all added up, heavily modified the social fabric of NZ.
Far smarter would be the govt of the day sitting down and at least working on a plan for us to be better niche exporters. There are many ways they could help encourage that.
The homogenised school system here is not universal. There is room for variation and, dare I say it, commercialism, in education. My grandson who is nine has just passed the entrance exams for a couple of London schools. They charge 100 pounds just to sit the exam. For every 200 applicants fifteen will pass and of those, eight or nine will be accepted. He is nine years old and cannot start at either of the colleges 'till he is eleven. Then his parents must find the equivalent of $10,000 per term, school fees. The schools concerned are Hampton and St Pauls. I have stories of his fathers crap treatment in the NZ education system.
MVT
Well regarding Marilyn Waring I would make the following observation. She was selected as a National candidate at the age of 23 which was extraordinary, especially in the 1970s. She impressed Rob Muldoon enough to appoint her to be, at the age of 26, Chairperson of the Public Expenditure committee in 1978. They of course had a parting of the way with her declared support pf Nuclear Free Legislation in 1983, thus leading to the loss of the 1984 election. Barry Gustaffson in his history of the National Party rated her very highly.
Anyway just my opinion, a share enthusiast who also has a history degree.
My father was at the meeting where she gained the National Party nomination. It was an eyopener apparently.
But I think MVT might know Marilyn Waring quite well. Even if all she did was to hasten the departure of Rob Muldoon, that might have been worth her stint in office. Changes came thick and fast after the next election, but NZ's economy didn't really respond for several years. It looked good, but didn't fire. p.s. I'm reading 'The NZ Experiment' at the moment..
Export receipts are up: almost all due to 26% increases in dairy products, meat and wood. So this is a measure of how far our economy has progressed in the bright future - major receipts are still from dessicated cow's milk, the flesh of farm-raised animals, and the unprocessed logs from our plantation forests.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11227781
I find it hard to understand why this and other topics die on fridays. Are the intelligeensia totally absorbed with the weekend? For my lot a decision to unite in NZ for Xmas is the big distraction. Chistmas. We have accommodate and amuse seven adults and three children. sixty years of marriage is cheaper but it has its challenges
Craic, guess I was busy, but I did try to get an argument going in my last post. Too obvious? :)
Sounds like you'll have a great Christmas event.
Matthew Hooten started off a great article with all the cronyism National has been involved in, and then tried to pin the same sort of activity on Labour. Not correct.
http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/labour-...view-bd-153751
I think what happened was that the sawmill said they would invest $120mill in their own plant, if Labour got in and brought through the policy on timber fabrication being more widely used in buildings. So that's smart policy, designed to add value to our timber industry, and it's also opening up added value exports. It's not 'picking winners' either, something which National has done unashamedly. But National have also chopped out smaller local businesses that are not on their radar, from participating in large contracts.
For example, Novopay is an ongoing festering sore. Apparently NZ's Datacom have been asked on numerous occasions to ensure they have a backup plan in case Novopay needs to be dropped. There might be a lot of staff in education, but how many permutations in wage paypackets can there be? The programming team must be too large, they are not linking up their code properly, is all I can think would cause the ongoing errors. Surely one person could have written the main core of the program. Or they could have used Excel! A lot of the wasted millions have gone offshore on this project. And it went offshore because surely this firm knew more than NZ firms?