When Life is a Lottery
Make no mistake, housing has become a crisis in New Zealand as this May poll for a TV3/Reid Research Poll highlighted;
Frank Macskasy
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MUST READ: The seductiveness of Trumpism
There was a vacuum left by the political establishment, and Donald Trump shrewdly colonised that space. Trump had created the new “reality” that Buffett warned us about.
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2016 – Ongoing jobless tally and why unemployment statistics will no longer be used
This blogger previously reported how Statistics NZ recently implemented a so-called “revision” which would materially affect how unemployment stats were counted and reported;
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Black Ops from the SIS and FBI?
Two days ago (28 October), FBI Director, James B. Comey, sent a letter to the US Congress disclosing that the Bureau was investigating newly-discovered emails from disgraced former US Congressman, Anthony Weiner.
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EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: Serco, Monitors, and the Corrections Dept cover-up
. . Continued from: Questions over Serco’s “independent” monitors and it’s Contract with the Crown As I wrote over a year…
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Expose: Winston Peters; the 1997 speeches; and neo-liberal tendencies
in a speech made in 1997, when Peters was Treasurer in the National-NZ First Coalition Government, he told the NBR Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Government to Business Forum that he would be pursuing conservative fiscal management; supporting an “open, internationally competitive economy”; lower taxes; and a de-regulated market.
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Do National voters want us to be tenants in our own country?
The latest on housing unaffordability made worse by speculation. It seems our Canadian cuzzies are on the right track;
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Congratulations Dr Smith!!
Who would have thought that after eight years in Opposition, Labour still wields such powerful influence? Who thought it possible to govern from the Opposition benches?
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Special Education Funding – Robbing Peter, Paul, and Mary to pay Tom, Dick, and Harriet
National has come up with many “reforms”, proposals, policies, and ideas that eventually fail, or create unforeseen (or often foreseen; pre-warned; and ignored) problems. On this occasion, the proposal to increase spending for under-fives children with special needs, at the expense of older children, is short-sighted madness that beggars belief.
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MUST READ: TDB Investigation into what is happening in our water
On 7 September, 2008, John Key said that “…we should always measure a Government’s environmental rhetoric against its environmental record.”
Indeed we should.