
From NZPA, says it all about the last few days.
Yesterday, Mr Harvey wished Mr Yule well - but then launched a fresh attack, saying urban centres were the powerhouse of the economy but would continue to be denied a voice in local government.
"The country survives on the strength of the cities and what we bring to the economy. Local government believes it is based around a bunch of cow cockies," he said.
"I'd rather have cities than cows. It's always anti-Auckland, it pulls down the competitiveness of New Zealand. It holds New Zealand back. It's a bizarre sort of thinking that the cities need to be punished. "The rural sector has always dominated local government. This is the sector with their roads that no one drives on, and places no one goes to.
"They think a farmer from Hawke's Bay can spend that amount of time profiling local government. That's what they voted for."
Local Government New Zealand is an umbrella organisation for 71 city, district and regional councils, and works as their advocate with central government.
Mr Harvey said he also thought it bizarre that local government now had a president who was "suing the New Zealand Government over its health board. I wouldn't think it's a great start".
is one of a range of avenues available to deal with questions swirling around NZ First funding.
the Auditor General, the Pecuniary Interests Registrar and Speaker were all avenues in which concerns could be pursued.
It makes a fool of the child and sets her up with a social disability and handicap,
Fish and Chips (twins)What do the kids think of it?
Masport and Mower (twins)
Boys:
Yeah Detroit
Spiral Cicada
Kaos
Stallion
Hitler
Girls:
Cinderella Beauty Blossom
Twisty Poi
Sex unknown:
Keenan Got Lucky
I'm in a position that Mr Peters is an honourable member...
>PROC DONATE()
> //open source rocks. no warranty. void where prohibited.
> var depositaccount=$0; //type currency
> WHILE (OG_NOT_CONSUL)
> .. depositaccount = depositaccount + 100K
> .. TRANSFERBALANCE(anyAccount)
> .. DO_NOT_DECLARE()
> ENDWHILE
> CALL INTENSE_MEDIA_SCRUTINY(answer=NO)
> IF answer = yes
> .. IF Country='NZ' THEN
> .. . CALL PM('not my problem')
> .. . CALL SPEAKER('no laws broken, nothing to see here, move along')
> .. . FREE WinstonFirst()
> .. ELSE //any other country in the world
> .. . suspect:=defendant
> .. . status:=guilty
> .. . punishment:=max(long_jail_term('corruption'))
> .. . TOAST(suspect, status, punishment)
> .. . CALL SNAP_ELECTION()
> .. ENDIF
> ENDIF
> IF suspect == 'Liarbour Foreign Minister' and country='NZ' THEN
> .. CALL INSTRUCT_LAWYER('deny all knowledge')
> .. CALL MOUTH_OFF('abuse media')
> .. CALL MOUTH_OFF('threaten to sue)
> .. CALL AFFAIRS_OF_STATE('Condi')
> .. DONATE(startover)
> ELSE
> .. SERVE_TIME()
> .. REPENT()
> .. BREAKLOOP()
> ENDIF
> ENDPROCxx
Flogged from ZenTiger at NZ Conservative and modified without permission...
The unfortunate thing being so close to the finish line, her indoors will not deviate and will elect to go all the way, bugger the consequences.
Winston may have technically not personally received the donation, but as legal views expressed over at KB show, he is caught in the headlights, as he has the personal liability, with all that entails.
Any suggestion that Liarbour is implicated will be brushed aside as is normal practice.
At what point does the GG step in?
It is no accident that as television exposure of politicians increases, active participation of political parties and movements has lessened. In just about every Western country, mass parties have disappeared, party activists no longer exist and the people who even bother to enrol, let alone vote, have dived.
People will pay their fair share but you can’t push that,”
“My judgment at the moment is that there are a lot of people in this country who feel they work hard, they make their contribution and they’re feeling squeezed.
I’ve been very clear with my colleagues that there is no point them writing in saying, ‘Can we have some more money?’ because the reply is already on its way and it’s a very short reply
Taxpayers are at the limit of what they are willing to pay to fund public services,In his gloomiest assessment yet of the state of the British economy, Alistair Darling gave warning that the downturn was far more profound than he had thought and could last for years rather than months.
He revealed that he told Cabinet ministers this week that there would be no more money for schools, hospitals, defence, transport or policing.
The fact of the matter is, global money has become as expensive for NZ banks as it's been in many a year,""...While all and sundry are looking forward to falling interest rates, we are worried that term retail rates might have to go up - and stay there for a good while to come."
It might take a resolution of the global credit crunch, rather than an aggressive campaign of OCR reductions by the RBNZ to materially reduce the cost of raising money on these shores."...So as everyone is wondering whether or not the RBNZ will cut 25 basis points or not at next week's OCR review, we note that even a stream of rate cuts could well be just 'whistling in the wind' in relation to having any material effect on retail interest rates - which are, let's face it, what matter the most," Ebert said.
Most prostitutes choose to enter the sex industry of their own free will, and reports of surges in crime around brothels are an urban myth
Speakers said the brothel would bring crime and drama, was sanctioning a slave-trade in women, and could increase incidences of paedophilia in the town.
Ms Healy disputed these claims, saying the majority of people who use and work in brothels are not nasty or perverted criminals."People are always afraid of what they don't know, and the sex industry keeps itself, for the large part, behind closed doors."
The idea that prostitution is a "slave trade" is ludicrous, she said.
"In New Zealand, the incidence of people being coerced or forced into sex work is very low. For people to say it's about sex slavery and so on, it's wildly, wildly inflammatory."
Though there is an argument women should not sell their bodies for sex, prostitutes argue they should be able to use them how they like, Ms Healy said.
"I realise that women have had to fight for all sorts of rights for the last few centuries. But sex workers say that they want rights too, the right to carry out their work."
No evidence has been found to suggest more crime around brothels, and to suggest a link between a brothel catering for gay men and paedophilia is incredible, she said.
"That's amazing, that they would be drawing those conclusions in this century.
"I think it's going to be challenging opening in a town where there are attitudes like that. But in many, many situations they are coexisting in neighbourhoods without friction."From the Actual Madam of the soon-to-open premises.
Brothel owner Teresa McGregor said she was aware of the meeting, and the town's reaction was unsurprising.
"It's to be expected, I suppose."
The council is bound by the laws of the land and prostitution is legal.And no doubt a few of the would be lynch mob need reminding that this is what happens when you vote for Liarbour.
There are signs New Zealand banking customers are rebelling against ANZ National's proposal to shift hundreds of jobs to India, banking workers' union Finsec says.
There was "a sense of parochialism" among New Zealand banking customers, and anecdotal evidence suggested people were already switching to other banks in protest at ANZ National's move, he said.
"We've had a positive response from customers against this. Customers don't like it. And people will reconsider their banking."
"There is a lot of worry. They like working at the bank. And these are good jobs. They're well paid jobs. Unfortunately, similar jobs outside of the banking sector, in terms of skills they have, probably don't pay as well.
The others in the cartel say they are not doing suchlike etc. For now anyway.The Herald yesterday asked ASB, BNZ and Westpac if they had similar outsourcing proposals in the pipeline.
Soon will be able to light up again in cattle class? No risk, when was the last time a plane fell out of the sky due to a smoker lighting up in cattle class?The national airline reintroduced tobacco sales on board this month, almost 10 years after they were stopped.
Legislation prohibits the packs from being advertised in the shopping catalogue but it is legal to stack them on the duty-free trolley and wheel them through the cabin.
A letter recently sent to Qantas staff by management states: "It's vital that duty free carts are taken out into the economy cabin, with the cigarettes displayed prominently on top."
Perhaps the flying kangaroo should be renamed the cancer kangaroo, such is their insistence on the inflight sale and display of a product that will ultimately kill more than half of long-term users.And they are not the only one at it.
Full service inflight shopping was also offered by Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, British Airways and Virgin AtlanticMakes you almost want to start smoking again.
1. The enemy is qualitatively different than us.
2. The enemy represents some great evil. They are demonic, fascist, fundamentalist, etc. The evilness of the enemy is eternal. They have always been evil and they will always be evil.
3. The enemy has harmed us in the past with impunity.
4. The enemy has plans to harm us again in the future.
5. Unlike the enemy, we are noble and deserving of the good lives that the enemy would deny to us.
6. The enemy is united so we must also be. Those of us who undermine our unity are traitors or agents of the enemy.
7. This is the final battle. If we win we will move on to a bright future free from the threat that the enemy poses.
Here's someone whose never read my blog before....
However if there was the slightest whiff of overdue library books on the part of John Key’s wife’s neighbours tennis partner then she’s be on the warpath, the Slanderard would be wound up to its foaming best.
will have to tell ... exactly what they knew and when they learned it
who knew what, and when, and who did they tell
moral crisis in the heart of the organisation
Where the public perception of moral crisis is, is when clearly ... is thought to be okay at high levels of the organisation
malicious lies
then called back to warn against suggesting in today's article that he had refused to answer questions
he would not offer an explanation till the newspaper explained its motivation in running those stories
You're not going to be pulling these narrow focused conspiracies against us. It's not going to be happening ... Why is your paper engaged in lying?
It is a downright lie to claim by innuendo that any money came to NZ First from Owen Glenn
These are serious allegations and they need to be resolved. The New Zealand public is entitled to answers to the questions
an opportunity to scotch rumours that the number of hours' sleep ... is declining in proportion to ... opinion-poll ratings.
When you've got difficult decisions to make, you've got to be calm and considered. I don't generally lose my temper." ... also insisted ... would not be driven out ... before the next general election. "I'm here to do a job and I'll leave when I finish. I'm not here for the sake of [it].
Describing being Prime Minister as "the best job in the world, ... You can't be deterred by people criticising you ... If you believe in something strongly enough, you get on with it."
It's despicable. I've never been one to condone violence, especially violence against women. In my book it is a no no.
I think the alleged cover-up didn't do him any favours
People deserve a second chance. I've seen Tony, he's absolutely remorseful, he went to counselling to get help.
Given the nature of the claims that have been made, we feel we need more information than may be currently available to us
It is not correct that $35 million 'never makes it outside the Wellington office
The speech was sourced and checked. A lot of the information was sourced from official Government documents, [such as] Sparc's website and their own documents.The only thing Mr Key missed is why does such an organisation exist at all? How does such a bureaucracy contribute to the economy? Sport is an activity which should be funded from our discretionary entertainment/leisure dollars, not the consolidated fund.
to figure out what they can do to turn the polls around
Round about the cauldron go;from Act IV Scene 1 MacbethIn the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
This will be fun to follow."Amongst all his demands for transparency and accountability, it never applies to him.
"He can't answer the most basic questions to do with public money and his own behaviour."
"That's a question I'm not even prepared to contemplate," she said when she was asked about the leadership
Of all the religions, only one causes problems, day in, day out.
If Islam is so great and superior, why did so many muslims move from the Islamic world to countries run by 'Infidels'?
These medieval religious mantras imposed by Islam are becoming increasingly ridiculous.
One does wonder why the kuffa West attracts them so?
All I can say is, you poor fools.This is indeed Labour madness. It has not quite reached New Zealand yet, but we are doing our best.
Three years ago we were behind and we just had to put on our hard hats and work in a very determined way which is what we are doing now. There is a winter to get through. The country is being buffeted by a lot of offshore wind but we have to provide leadership to get through itTime will tell.
suggesting that one arm of the public sector knows what the other is doing is to stretch credulity past breaking point.
Clark yesterday confirmed the Government's long-held position it bears no liability for the leaky homes debacle and would not contribute to the cost.
Gratuitous comments on the eve of the Labour Party funeral are not useful
Electronic monitoring on bail has been going for some time with reasonable success, but we're going to put it on a statutory footing to give it greater clarity