Posts by Katharine Moody
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Polity: Unity, success: Chicken, egg?, in reply to Marc C,
Our two major parties are globalists - following this ideology;
It's really interesting to look for those parties that out rightly deny one or more of those six core claims. They are the real challengers of the status quo.
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Big prayers go out in the hope that it will stop Alex's seizures. And I couldn't agree with you more - I simply cannot imagine what I would have done as his mother - the anguish, stress and frustration would be enormous.
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Speaker: SIBs: The reality of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
And we should join the dots with this;
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1506/S00028/wikileaks-tisa-dump-exposes-nzs-extreme-position.htm
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Financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have created impact investing units within their corporate structure, while Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs have led on investing in social impact bonds.
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/innovations-in-finance-for-social-impact/
And of course we all know how their last collective “innovation” in finance worked out, don’t we?
We are their wet dream of a fertile experimental ground, prepared with grateful assistance from their personally trained minion, John Key. He came (or should I say, was sent) home for a reason.
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Speaker: Look in the Mirror, New Zealand, in reply to Tracey Barnett,
Wage war for 65 million in Iraq? Or bring our quota up to where its been stalled for 28 years now--and wage peace instead..
I know where my $65m would go:
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Alfie,
And the new found 'increase' in attendance is because the National Party local branch membership is being encouraged to support this brand Key/Key branding initiative.
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
How can we have gone from it being considered wrong for a mother to work(and oh! the criticism I got in the eighties!), to it being wrong for her not to, in such a short space of time?
Elizabeth Warren (ex-Harvard, now a US Senator) did some fantastic quantitative research on this subject of the trend to two-income households and the coming collapse of the middle class. A long lecture but well worth it;
I worked as a young mother through the eighties too - but my husband didn't, as we felt the same, that someone had to be home to raise the children. All his mates envied him big time .. but could never appreciate that he had the harder job of the two of us.
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to wendyf,
Yes and yes. But they are such general questions and of course there are more qualified explanations. The Stats and IRD websites are your friends wrt detail.
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Just starting to look at the CTU report. This is of interest;
Treasury, Reserve Bank and other bank economists have commented that the current high net immigration is holding down wages. Treasury’s forecast is for net immigration to peak this year at 56,000 and fall gradually to 12,000 in 2018 and 2019. While they forecast continuing relatively strong employment growth this coming year at 42,000 (year to March 2016), it is significantly less than the past year (68,000) and half the year before (82,000). Unemployment is forecast to fall to 4.5 percent by 2018 (Treasury thinks anything less would cause inflation), but even their forecast for the year to March 2015 at 5.6 percent was lower than the actual 5.8 percent. The moves (see below) to increase the work requirements and intensify the work tests for beneficiaries will also add to downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on unemployment.
That's a forecast for a massive reduction in net immigration. Wonder what their basis is for such a forecast. Perhaps they think common sense will prevail?
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Easy way to make a submission - great initiative by Generation Zero;
Spread the word :-).