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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 31, 2006 It is a pity that David Parker has already resigned as Energy Minister as he could have gone over the looming power crisis that he staked his future on not occuring.
Yet less than a month after his assurances we have the experts saying ;
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I agree with their final assessment, “We might get by with unusually heavy rain, but that is a $660 million gamble. The time is close for action, not crossed fingers”.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 31, 2006 In what can only be described as bizarre, Christchurch Mayor Gary Moore has supposedly “forced” a pledge of loyalty from his councillors in support of embattled Chief Executive Lesley McTurk.
No sooner he had done, were calls from some that the “pledge” had been obtained under duress.
The Cheif Executive is under pressure with some saying there is a higher than should be turnover of staff at the council.
Apparently Moore is pissy because questions are being asked where the information could only have come from councillors.
Now here is my point. Councillors are elected by the ratepayers to administer policy in the city. Chief Executives are employed by the council to enact the policy. If a councillor thinks that there are some performance issues then quite rightly they should be asking the hard question, not lineing up in blind loyalty behind what the mayor thinks.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 31, 2006 A prominent astonomer has basically called Sky TV on their bullshit excuse for loss of coverage from the Optus B1 satellite.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 31, 2006 Earlier in the year we covered the Maori representation farce that the Manukau City Council was going through trying to establish special race based Maori seats. They didn’t quite get there, but they decided instead to establish a Maori, for what, we’ve yet to find out. Not only was this committee fundamentally undemocratic in itself, but it only just scrapped through on the Mayor’s casting vote. Democracy seems to have taken another fatal blow last night at the Manukau City Council when the Council decided to only allow those Maori who are on the Maori electoral roll to be appointed to the committee. The reason for the exclusion? Apparently you can only be a real Maori if you choose to be on the Maori roll. This effectively says to the 13,500 Maori decendents who choose to be on the general roll that they are not really Maori. They’ve probably made this choose because they recognise the discriminatory way in which race-based policies are used. And guess how many votes it passed by?? Yep – just the casting vote. It seems democracy is very selective in Manukau City. - Controversial issues are passed without majority approval. Its about time Howick and Pakuranga broke away and joined Auckland City! Popularity: 1% [?]
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 30, 2006 Remember the election…surely you do? Clark and Cullen repeatedly saying that tax cuts were unaffordable, they only benefit the rich and that to fund them National was saying that they would trim waste from the Public Sector that didn’t exist.
You remember now?
Well how is this for waste in the Public Sector ?
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 30, 2006 Chris Carter fresh from his ill informed decision on Whangamata marina is also now sitting on a decision whether Solid Energy can get at $400 million worth of coal.
So why is the Conservation minister deciding this? Well because there is a population of friggin snails living on top of the coal , and his approval is needed if the plan to move the snails will be successful.
Oh for fucks sake they are friggin snails, get the bulldozers moving and damn the stupid invertebrates.
New Zealand is fast becoming a farce under this government. For fucks sake if this was any other country the decision would be “Snails, what snails, I don’t see any snails”.
If I was any major corporation in new Zealand and discovered snails on my asset, I would shut up and lay the slug slam.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 29, 2006 A woman drove 7km’s today unaware that a kitten was holding on for dear life near the fuel tank.
She only noticed when she stopped and heard meowing coming from the underside of the car.
Bizarrely the Fire Service was called in to use air bags to rescue the stupid feline.
I would have thought a bullet or bat was more useful.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 29, 2006 Philip “El Jefe” Field reckons he is in the clear , and I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if he was “cleared”.
Chances are good for him, he is a Labour Party member, one of Helen’s pets and he helped rort the electorate in South Auckland that gave Labour the election.
Yep I would say chances are extremely good that he will be “cleared”.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 29, 2006 A few days ago, the National Party in Epsom was contacted by ACT’s new board member for Auckland.
The purpose of the call was to challenge Richard Worth to a debate with Rodney Hide on campus regarding the drinking age limits (Epsom MPs only at the debate). Apparently the response was that Worth was happy to debate Hide on Campus, but only if drug liberalisation was also discussed, and the media were invited. The ACT official didn’t think this was relevant, but Worth’s spokesman was quite insistent that the two issues were linked together, and anyway, the issue would be of interest to Epsom people and the media because of Hide’s public contradictions on the subject. The two rang off with Worth’s response for the debate being made clear. Within 3 minutes of being given Worth’s reply, ACT’s man rang back and said the debate was off with Richard and ACT would find another MP for Rodney to debate with. It’s not often that someone chickens out of their own debate challenge! Popularity: 1% [?] Comments off
Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 29, 2006 Barry Soper opines at NewsTalkZB .
Classic stuff. Popularity: 1% [?]
Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 28, 2006 The government is doing exceedingly well .
Along with forging painting, speeding blissfully unaware throught he countryside, rorting election expenses, bashing protestors, lying to Parliament, falsifying documents, running imigration scams they can now add tanking a booming economy.
The latest Westpac Consumer survey is out and shows consumer confidence at a five and half year low.
And Westpac reckons worse is to come.
Funny how everyone else except the History Teacher can see the writing on the wall.
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 28, 2006 Yes, you read the headline correctly, in figures today New Zealand is indeed in the top-half of the OECD in figures recently released. Indeed not just the top-half but in fact second place with only Ireland in front of us.
Now for the bad news.
The figures are for for the number of tertiary-educated people who have moved overseas. New Zealand has 24.4 per cent of its New Zealand-born tertiary-educated population living in other OECD countries.
Is this the top-half of the OECD that Labour envisaged?
But wait theres more “top-half” figures Labour can justifiably be proud of;
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Submitted by : Whaleoil on Mar 28, 2006 Philip “el Jefe” Field has intimated that he wants his job back if cleared by the long overdue inquiry.
Given this governments record of declaring prima facie evidence of crimes as being cleared this is entirely likely.
The Herald bizarrely also says the report that we have all been waiting on for six months is “due for release soon”.
If Field and Parker are restored to the ministry then without a doubt we will not be living in a “corruption free” country.
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