https://liberation.typepad.com/liber...-cartoons.html
So every cartoonists in NZ have been body-shaming her by highlighting her toothy grin?
PC gone mad!
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So every cartoonists in NZ have been body-shaming her by highlighting her toothy grin?
PC gone mad!
Even if you were bullied for being whatever (as I was at school) I believe the correct attitude is to harden up, punch the bully back, and get on with life. Snowflakes abounding everywhere. That is life, there will always be nasty people around. We need to teach our kids how to cope with these nasties and fight back rather than try to insulate them.
As per the norm , completely unbalanced, colour wasted on you everything is back and white nothing in between. Give me Jacinda any second of the day over the extreme false trump tactic repetitive lying of Simon and his sad sack prosecuting bottom scraping false negative sentiment prosecuting tactics, any moment of the day. Half the nation prob on antidepressants because they've been naive enough to believe simon dooms trump tactics.
Great in theory but unless you want your bullied kid/grandkid suspended or expelled from preschool/school, it is impractical advice. The bullied kid who retaliates with violence will end up in trouble, and chances are the bully will get away with it.
Regardless, bullying anyone about their physical appearance (most of which is beyond their control) is wrong and adults should never accept, encourage, or validate it. End of story.
Grubby grubby grubby grubby grubby, get a little dirt on yer hands boy, wash that moth out with soap
GRUBBY:t_up:
I’m not justifying anything. I don’t give a **** what you think of Jacinda as a politician. You are free to think what you like.
I am telling you that bullying someone for their physical appearance is unacceptable, no matter who they are.
I despise Trump more than any human being on earth and express it often, in all manner of places, using all kinds of colourful language. But I won’t drag his physical appearance into it because even for someone as despicable as him, that is “hitting below the belt” and people with integrity and some semblance of personal moral compass, know where the line is.
You could get your anti-Jacinda message across perfectly well without crossing that line - if you chose to. But you won’t - because you enjoy winding me up. I can take it. I’m a big girl (with integrity) but I will only take it until I’m bored. Then I’ll go find something better to do :p
Doomed i tell yah were doomed;)
This appeals to a left leaning xenophobe like me.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...cid=spartanntp
Considering the national interest before selling nz assets to the world, could be the pathway towards isolationism and away from globalisation. Uncomfortable for those that believe private individuals will make a better decision than a govt appointed organisation. Good or bad who knows.
l.php 10.4% of Australian water rights are owned by foreigners.
Australian port sold for $7.3 billion to consortium; China fund among ...https://www.reuters.com › article › us-australia-privatisation-ports › australian-port-sol..
How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port - The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com › 2018/06/25 › world › asia › china-sri-lanka-port
This article although old now, always got my back up.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opin...carpet-rollout
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...overnment.html
Why the star dust has well and truly disappeared - an inability to govern and show who's boss.
NZF - tail wagging the dog and we know who is the dog!
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...=6105571803001
Do you also get your information from Mike Hosking, Leighton Smith and talk back radio? Sounds more like an attempt to fill up some time and space rather than news. I guess their job is to keep viewers/listeners engaged. Trying to create news from nothing must be difficult.
Mike Hosking called it early after the election
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rc...RpfqbpisCCm9ue
I don't see Ms Ardern as power hungry, though she pretty much fits most of the other above epithets IMO. I do think she was thrust into a position she was unprepared for, and seemingly wasted her years in opposition doing not much at all.
But there she was in the spotlight and voters loved her. Probably enough still do to give Labour a decent shot at leading the next government. So she has the Labour powerbrokers keeping her front and centre, whether she wants to be there or not. Have to say she doesn't look too happy at times, and makes a hash of too many media interviews. Might be very happy to go back to opposition.
You'd better verify your statement with facts otherwise you'll be the adjective yourself just like the trump like national party whose modus operandi is say something three times and it becomes gospel. Have you really been sucked in, you at least GIVE the impression of an independent thinker.
This is fantastic for NZ and seems to be overlooked by many, i rejoice at it.
"Announcing the move, associate Finance Minister David Parker said the new powers would include:
- Protections for ports, airports and communication infrastructre
- A "call-in" power over sale of strategic assets like military technology firms and defence suppliers
- Extend sustainability and water quality considerations to water bottling investment
- The tests could also apply to "significant media entities"
- Overseas investments in farmland must show substantial benefit to New Zealand
- Lift corporate penalties for non-compliance from $300,000 to $10 million
He said the moves were consistent with global best practice and would apply to all overseas investors, irrespective of where they come from."
At your request, shifting the narrative away from 'body shaming & bullying' of the grubby one as to why she is currently hopelessly lost in a fog of indecisiveness and contradictions - the star dust has been replaced by dirt dust from the u-turns and hypocrisy she has presided over.
The turning point for most was when she lied about her knowledge of the sexual assaults on females by one of her staff - poor thing did not know what to do so decided to lie!
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...lt-victim.html
https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/10/r...er_labour.html
"Since the government was formed, the Overseas Investment Office (OIO) has approved more than $2.3 billion of forestry-related land sales – about 31,000 hectares of it previously in New Zealand hands.
Nearly $5b of sensitive land has changed hands through the OIO since the government was formed."
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All you have to do with this pathetic government is to mutter the magic words - forestry and 1 billion trees - and the door opens to as much land as you want to buy in NZ.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/far...foreign-buyers
Gotto show that they are keeping to one of their promises, see?
To be fair not our only leader who has done u-turns, some of greatest have also succumbed to a change of direction. A quick google search revealed one bad week for a former legend.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=11661479
OK that was my last post on a political thread. It would seem no matter what goes on a negative spin can be put on it. If I recall correctly was it Labour that stopped foreigners buying residential property? not on the same level of square metres as forestry blocks I will admit.
I am sounding like a xenophobic isolationist much like Trump and his supporters in this regard. Confusing.
Thanks for the OIO info Balance. They've basically opened up the floodgates to anyone wanting to buy land as long as they promise to help Shane get his billion trees (maybe even a small donation to the slush fund ?). A lot of it being concerted from productive farmland. Very short sighted. Wasn't it Muldoon who ordered all the vines pulled out in the early days of Marlborough viticulture as he though it was better used for sheep farming (before my time in NZ but do recall hearing that story). What's happening now is of similar stupidity.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...donations-mess
So much for the grubby one promising 'open and transparent' government - no condemnation or comment regarding the serial 'donations' offender NZ First.
More critical to stay in power, principles are dispensable and only to con the electorate.
Not forgetting we are still awaiting the investigation by the serious fraud squad into Nationals behaviour.;)
You are correct they have tightened it up in some areas, such as residential housing. I think that is a good thing and in fact would like to see much stricter conditions, such as making residency conditional on living for the first 5 years away from congested cities and have immigrants with skills required in the regions.
But landsales to overseas investors are at record levels and easy to get OIO approval as long as they promise to plant trees. This is a dumb policy
Because she is the PM and should have said the same as she did when she commented on National’s donations controversy.
After all, she stood on a platform for ‘clean and transparent’ government, right?
But I must be naive, right?
Must be hard for the grubby one when she is at Winston’s beckon and call to stay in power.
Apparently when you have a change of heart and delete a post, you need to replace it with more than just a ;)
Unusually Helen Clark was not decisive when the issue about the Spencer Trust came up but she eventually fired Peters. Some say this hesitation from her and the resulting tainting of the whole of Government, contributed significantly to her losing the following election. I suspect this may be the final nail in the coffin for Jacinda. She is the PM and needs to make decisions. Her Deputy PM is once again under serious allegations of misappropriation of funds. This is becoming a habit of his. Nobody needs to tell me that Winston did not know exactly he was entitled to in pension payments but continued to accept overpayments until the media found out. Says it all really.
I wonder who he will take to court for the latest leak, or rather truth coming out.
Power is intoxicating, Iceman - those who are without principles will do and tolerate anything and anybody to keep it.
Sleeping with a stinking skunk is pleasurable to them.
Some serious leaks from the unhappy at NZF!
Oh dear - drip drip drip - Winnie & the grubby one obviously have no idea that Stuff has heaps more information to tie NZF to the Foundation.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...rst-foundation
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ampaign-engine
"But Stuff reveals that Tauranga-based list MP Clayton Mitchell acted as one of the bagmen for the foundation – which appears to have operated as a political slush fund – financing NZ First's party operations."
"The revelation that Mitchell was one of the bagmen for the NZ First Foundation could derail Peters' assertion that the party and foundation, which received more than $500,000 worth of donations, are not connected."
The more denials, the deeper the hole! :t_up:
It looks like Wellington has to join Washington, Westminster - and Buckingham Palace - in draining the SWAMP.
With the revelations coming out from Stuff and no doubt much more to come, it is hard to see how Winnie and NZF will come back from this. Obviously lots of annoyed people internally and now many donors will be really pissed off. Hopefully we are seeing the end of Winnie and his crony Shane Jones as a political force in NZ
Peters might need to use the slush fund to buy some more buses in preparation for all the people hes going to throw under them.Quote:
"I look after the political wing of the NZ First party, that's an administrative matter," Peters said in Parliament on Tuesday.
"I'm in charge of the political body of NZ First. As for the administrative body....".
Winnie has proven himself a master weasel by wriggling out of similar situations over the years. Maybe he's overdone it this time, but I wouldn't bet on it. I went to one of his campaign meetings once, he spoke nonsense; certainly nothing constructive. I couldn't believe how he had all the old ducks eating out of his hand.
And the end of national as we know it, Thank Dog.An opportunity for them to bring back some ethics and a moral compass even. Cmon serious fraud office have some balls will ya.
Whats a safe address ,ive got a 6 pack of soap to send Its so ingrained thats why 6. Some pumice too for those extra grubby spots.:closed eyes:
Yeah. Is the PM really hopeless when it comes to WP? What's in their conniving document that even she cannot question or ask about this NZF slush fund?
Hows your slush fund , secret spending going?. Who's responsible for that ,YOU. Unbelievable.!
Not only that, but she is resorting to telling bare faced lies to try and cover up for him!
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...nz-first-drama
"Her claim that she and the leader of New Zealand First did not do joint stand-up press conferences was exposed as bogus thanks to 1 NEWS taking the trouble to look through its library files of film clips. It turned out that there was no shortage of examples of Ardern and Peters alongside one another responding to questions posed by journalists. Ardern was relying on nobody bothering to check the veracity of what she had said.
She was caught out. It is not the first time she has deliberately distorted the truth in such fashion in confident expectation that she would get away with such deception."
She still thinks that there's enough star dust in her hair to blind everyone from the truth when she is telling lies?
The inevitable bust-up might be coming very soon.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...winston-peters
But probably Adern will pick up most NZ1st voters at the next election. Not that they deserve to - but don't underestimate the power of Adern's charisma.
What a story this is
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ations-scandal
There are other Foundations.
https://www.nationalfoundation.org.nz/
https://thestandard.org.nz/hypocrites/
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Except he said they don't.
"A high-profile New Zealand lawmaker was accused of racism on Monday after making what he called a “joke” at the expense of Asians as he railed against Chinese investment in the country’s farming sector.
New Zealand First party leader Winston Peters told his campaign launch in Auckland on Sunday that he wanted to tighten restrictions on foreign ownership, telling the audience: “As they say in Beijing, two Wongs don’t make a white.”
Good to see zillions going to be spent on infrastructure things and schools
Latest poll suggests National would romp in in next election if Simon Bridges has the good sense to voluntarily stand down, as did Little, with no fuss. A more popular leader would bury Labour. If Bridges played his cards right he could name his preferred portfolio and be the minister of something rather than the leader of the opposition. He's bright and capable, but just not P.M. material.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117...led-government
Who is the "more popular leader" to replace Bridges? That's the problem.
If the poll has any merit, it's saying that popularist stardust isn't enough to carry the coalition to another election win, certainly not enough for Labour to govern alone (by far). So as MMP always does, it will be about the minor parties share of the votes on election day and who THEY choose to associate with.
MMP sucks, it is not representative of the will of the people. It is a poorly designed fabrication that hands power to the minority parties that then choose whom they will align with and therein form a government. MMP is broken and NZ government is the worse for it.
I dare to disagree. While no system is ideal - MMP offers of the election systems I am aware of pretty much the fairest deal to voters in terms of picking a representative parliament.
If you want to look at election systems which really suck, than look no further than the US or the UK. Both (mainly) FPP systems created monster governments which have nothing to do with the will of the people.
Supplementary member was my choice. MMP gives to much power to parties who have just scrapped over the line. e.g. NZ First. I still shudder when I picture Peters on TV with 5% of the vote advising the nation who he had decided would be the govt.
At least under MMP the parties should sort out the coalition and go to the GG who could make the announcement.
Peters did it in the most arrogant way possible. Puke making. And surely a party should have to gain more than the minimum 5% before demanding the deputy PM role. MMP has room for improvement, although SMP would still be better IMO. Amen.
The Greens are pushing the Marxist notion of Citizen's Assembly. Where 100+ people are randomly selected and formulate policy for the government to implement. Which means of course that you can do away with elections, you just have an administration. Might as well call that administration the Communist Party of the People's Republic of .... (Fill in country name). Scary stuff.
I guess it is the old battle between being fair and being pragmatic ...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=10767632
SM reduces the voice of the minorities and diversity and makes it easier for the arbitrary and / or populist winner of the day to run the next 3 years a quasi-dictatorship. Quite dangerous if you consider that one fake facebook story these days can determine the outcome of an election.
I think I prefer fair, even if it is a bit more tedious ...
I don't know if it is Greens Policy. The article I read said they were central to a seminar held on it recently. The attendees sounded like a who's who of leftie agitators. Moana Jackson's name was mentioned along with Chloe Swarbrick. Google Citizens Assembly. It's breaking out all over. It would seem the 20thC didn't teach us much.
What has it to do with MMP? A Citizen's Assembly is an unelected list of people. Sound Familiar? It would be an easy transition from MMP.
Certainly a few articles about it. Don't think I'll panic yet though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=citi...w=1707&bih=900
Part of our government is developing and pushing for this. They will use the Green/Climate Change narrative to usher it in the back door. The Climate Change ideaology is a perfect fit and smokescreen to push for Marxist reforms. That is not to say that the average person concerned with Climate Change is Marxist. However the hysteria being developed will and is, in my view, being used to push Marxist agendas.
Labour going to stamp out foreigners donating to political parties
Bit of joke really ...so many ways around it
Suppose it’s a matter of being seen to act without making any difference.
Jeez - is this how fake news is made up?
I haven't seen any evidence that this is Greens or governments policy. And really - looking at the idea - it seems to be nothing different than a panel of random people developing some policy which may or may not be adopted by people who are properly elected and authorized to make this decision. I don't know whether this is s a good idea, but it sounds to me quite less serious than e.g. the idea that a panel of twelve un-elected random people is to decide about someone else's freedom and in some countries about her/his life.
They call this panel a "jury" and they do this in many countries (including New Zealand) for ages. While I don't think it is a particular good way to achieve justice - I would not call it 'Marxist'. Do you?
I really think you should worry more about the populist liars (Trump, Johnson, Putin, Erdogan & Co) who actually are dismantling freedom and democracy in their respective countries as we speak instead of building up a "Marxist" strawman.
"Fake News"?
No where did I say it was government or Greens policy. I did say the Greens were promoting the idea at a seminar.
No where did I talk about 12 member juries. A jury has nothing to do with what the Greens are exploring in 100+ member Citizens assemblies who will be unelected policy developers.
Fake News and Strawmen? Your whole post reeks of it.
One of Labour's bedfellows is openly exploring the process of Citizen's Assemblies. It is a Marxist idea and incredibly dangerous to our democracy.
Which part of the above is fakery? Which part is fear mongering? You are continually telling people to open their minds, yet I consider you to be among the more bigoted people on this thread.
Totally closed , imprisioned . Someone free this being ,pop the bubble!
Are you a flying kiwi;)?
I don't think jonu's posts related to Citizens Assembly compute ... (s)he clearly does not know what (s)he is talking about ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_assembly
The citizens assembly actually has its roots in the ancient Greek democracies - and I have not heard about any "marxist"government applying this approach.
Really now BP.
An unelected bunch of people developing policy for the rest of us. Doesn't sound Marxist to you? What need would we have for an elected parliament? You know that thing where we get to scutinise their policies and experience before we vote for them.
A Marxist government runs absolutely on this system. They just go under a different name. As said earlier...The People's Party of ....(insert state).
And by the way, you won't hear anything much from a Marxist government, other than the party line. Which is why I said the Climate Change hysteria is a perfect fit. Don't argue....this is how it is...this is what you need.
Have you not wondered why it is that the Greens are to the Left in politics? Why have they pledged they couldn't govern with National? Why are they not in the middle? Why is the environment a left/right issue? I hope the new Green movement gains some traction this election.
You seem to follow Joseph Goebbels famous advise: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." Trump and Johnson follow the same strategy. All of them are (or in Goebbels case have been) crooks but none of them is Marxist.
Get your facts right.
Oh contrair...I beg to differ. Your stern countenance and bulshyism is however an affront to my delicate sensibilities. Such intolerance of an alternative view is clearly averse to the diversity and inclusiveness that Citizens Assemblies would seek to represent, but perversely, be the very thing they would destroy. That's how Marxism works. And if you don't believe them facts I suggest looking at the history of the Soviet Union and the ongoing travesty that is China.
You seem to be a follower of the USA republican line. Any system even marginally left of centre right must be be brought to it’s knees. Any system which could, even remotely, reduce the promotion of capitalism must be opposed. A policy which has caused nothing but trouble around the world. Keep looking for reds under the bed. You might even find one :)
Ever wondered why climate change deniers seem to favour the right?
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What is a Climate Change Denier? And who invented the term?
I can assure you I am not a fan of the US Republicans. I just find it unnecessary to overlay a Citizens Assembly on top of our electoral system.
Why on earth would we want a random sample of the population formulating policy? For a start polling requires 1000s to be getting a representative sample. 100 or so could easily lead to outliers in any direction. A group of that size could also be easily dominated by a dedicated, capable few. I wonder if the Greens would be so keen if the Citizens Assembly came up with an abortion ban? Or policy to build nuclear power plants to cope with EVs?
Am I the only one getting tired of this "exchange of views"? It seems to have strayed a long way from the title of the thread.
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