I admire their courage & wish them all success: RT:10,000 Workers Are on Strike in Support of Hong Kong’s Protests

The beginning of a shift in New Zealand-China relations or a bold new breed of Government fashionista?

If New Zealand…

Next to Denial. It looks similar to but has fewer migrants than Flux, which is, course, constant.

In Shanghai?

But yes 50 states. I…

;- )

The 50 states are:
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan…

A few things to be worked out first. Back at the height of the Pauline Hanson phenomenon there was a proposal that a referendum be held on whether Queensland should secede from the Commonwealth, with all Australians getting to vote on the…

Compulsory voting is still an alternative to the “politics is not for me” million non- votes ,because it is about them. Big time.

Does the US have 50 or 52 states?

Online voting – I'd like…

About 200 workers found out they would lose their jobs as the fishing company announced it would close the Woolston plant on December 18.

Thanks John.

"Eating well" is largely defined by each culture as eating the…

Around the world my friend, around the world.
TV3 went and spoiled it by giving…

We did the same thing in London with some BBC folk back in '87. Our little group of like-minded folk was expecting a change, but…

That’s the filter now, that’s why Blair made an arrangement with Murdoch so many yeras ago. Labour need a media darling leader and a media arrangement.

Grant has learnt from one of the best HC. He could try . He will be villified by the likes of Kiwibog and Slimes one and the conservatives and the…

Yep. I still shout at 3 tho. Campbelll in my opinion proves he has mana. I think he tried “gotcha” once and that didn’t turn out well or at least well respected by me. Thing is the Campbell crew get out and check out what the peeps…

On another note re the Greens .
Garth Morgan is proposing a Blue Green Party

Time for Labour to decline and a wider Green party or…

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/some-acting-experience-advantage-not-required-ck-162882#comments

Snap! We continued to record One News for a while for that very reason.…

Probably more a question for an accountant, but my speedy googling suggests this is a well defined term. Technical Insolvency basically means you can't pay your bills, even if your assets exceed your liabilities. Once your liabilities exceed your assets, you're…

Exactly so. There's a good piece in The Guardian about this.

Poor people don't plan long-term. We'll just get our hearts broken…

Exactly. And the evidence of that was spouted from every registrar in every emergency room around the country – as well as from other experts. So why would any government not just ban them from…

We go the other way — 3 News followed by Campbell.

I've worked in news…

That OIA was released on the first…

Yes, it's different but at least she is working towards trying to figure it out. National are the true Con.
Maybe it helps to have experienced people that steal from you,or having known a compulsive liar all of his life. Con Artists and I'd suggest…

I always prefer the echo chamber
for building resonance,
to, say, the Star Chamber
which isolates and insulates
to no good end.

I cope by reassuring myself that I am stardust
and may…

I don’t know. Does it?

This letter doesn’t do it for me quite the same way as Sofie’s comment when I read it. I can accept people choosing all that stuff given in the letter, even though I…

Never gonna happen. Chch folk are far too complacent. Blue is the new beige, donchano!

ETA. The stench of Brownlee is in your water. Yuk yuk yuk.

an excellent letter in today’s Press
also echoes your thoughts (and mine):

New Zealand what have you done?
You have chosen inequality, an unjust economy where the wealthy indulge their greed, while…

So far.

Because until 'WYSIWYG' becomes the norm, they all look like Trojan Horses...

For me it's nothing to do with the process, it's the blatant corruption…

Or, to float a completely cray-cray idea, they actually voted for the candidate they thought would have been the best Member of Parliament out…

It's more a case of those who voted for the Ohariu Labour & Green candidates either not grasping tactical voting, or being blindly tribalistic in their voting. Same goes for Epsom. This…

Colin Craig counts as centre-Rightish in my view.

WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

I suspect there’s a fairly close correlation with demographics. Checking out the Herald’s compilation for Ohariu, there definitely seems to be a marked difference in preference depending on which booths you…

You might not have realised that his son (James Dunne), now a partner with Chen Palmer, was the lead lawyer lobbying his Dad on behalf of the synthetic cannabis importers;

http://www.chenpalmer.com/people/james-dunne/

However according to Peter – they never discussed it;

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9985816/Dunne-legal-high-conflict-examined

How…

The leftward rotation of the Labour electorates is very noticeable. Great graph.

There was his f....d up Psychoactive Substances Bill.
It was only after Campbell Live ran story after…

Good thing it didn’t come out before the election. I have it on reliable authority that telling people stuff before they vote amounts to some kind of…

Sometimes that seat has been crucial to the formation of government. Millionaires can buy…

We purposefully watch One News and then flick over to Campbell Live at 7pm ON THE DOT. It's our way of 'digitally signalling' to TVNZ what a crap show they have in that time slot.…

Sign up for updates from them. Also worth checking out (same young folks organising it) is Action Station;

http://www.actionstation.org.nz/

Again, sign up for updates from them. And tell your friends!!!!!

Well that's the very reason Winston gave as to why Key might call him. Winston said he wouldn't be bribed – he was there…

riding the beams into town
#localproduct

International…

The Nats took an overwhelming majority of…

Yes ok. Spoil it if it works for you e.g Fuk John Key :)

If compulsory voting is adopted, there surely should be a 'no vote' option also.

No. Key is part slime part crusher. Anything is possible

No, in New Zealand, everything is reconciled and accounted for – just about every piece of paper or plastic used in the election, in fact. After the preliminary count,…

http://www.rockenrol.me/

There's a great organisation called RockEnrol lead by young voters who are recommending compulsory voting coupled with a 'no confidence' option.…

what is that?

Maybe they are waiting for our "rockstar" Economy to overdose.

"Dad just died!"
"Oh dear, do you you need me to contact a funeral director?"
"No, a real estate agent, we…

I hear a drugby player got so pissed, he missed a flight to somewhere foreign where they fancies their chances against the.... what was their name again??
That’ll keep peoples talking for a good long while

Yes, hence Mark Taslov having a hissy fit all over the place. What has been what I consider major corruption in this country has been swiped out of discussion to say how…

And all our angsting about what precisely was so terrible about Labour and the Greens seems to be completely ignoring this aspect of things. I'm sure that Labour did, in fact, suck in many respects, but what did we just spend…

and there's your problem

At times, uncounted ballots would be placed on tables that had yes or no signs attached before being sorted, she said. And piles that didn’t reach round numbers of 50 or…

None of the proposals saw anything as vulgar as a vote at any regional conferences, which meant that a lot of…

Incidentally, a policy also suggested by the UK Conservative Party, which is concerned about its lack of women MPs.

So, when this came up, Labour was about 1 female MP away from that anyway. Also, the "man ban" slam was coined to describe allowing Labour Electorate Committees to choose to have a female only shortlist if they wanted. If they wanted.…

you'd think (if you do)

Here you go.

the yes campaign itself had intervened on Twitter on Thursday night to reassure voters that there was nothing awry with the Dundee footage.

So any double votes would be detected at that stage, and any attempts at personation would inevitably result in double votes (where the…

That's magnanimous. I wouldn't have been.

PS, peeps: the John Oliver clip is from Last Week Tonight, not the Daily Show.

Also, I don't know what the process in the UK is but that sort of counting "fraud" would be difficult to achieve here as all results…

Oh but I have more important than yours. Such a dedicated follower of fashion is our Johnny
I'd rather puke with Johnny Rotten.

My son in the UK just sent me this link which shows some pretty blatant vote manipulation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbJif7vISQg#t=181

Which may…

Things are probably tighter these days, but returning to sender with ‘gone interstate’ scrawled on the envelope used to do the trick :)

Australia being one of them – I copped a $55 fine for not voting in the local council elections the other year....

Slightly off topic but there seems to be a whole lot coming out of Scotland about voting irregularities ( fraud, vote counting oddities, deceased people voting etc.. who knows ).
I dread to think that this could happen here.

Thanks Emma

It is a pity that in NZ, that for many reasons, almost 1/4 of the…

Thing is, voting ID laws always disenfranchise people, and disproportionately those people are poor and brown. That's…

Keep in mind the 19th century requirements were also framed around…

There's also serious penalties for impersonating an elector for the purposes of committing electoral fraud, and there are mechanisms in place to detect said fraud which is incredibly rare.

Do you think people who don't have ID shouldn't be able to vote?

Aside from what Emma said, the issue’s also not limited to abuse. Any occasion when a…

Suits you, sir!

;- )

Huh. And the main reason it went up in Port Hills would be the boundary changes, which were designed to do exactly that.

– Entertainment Tonight
– Guardian
– MusicFeeds AU
– Daily Hate Mail
– Bloomberg
– NME
– Deutsche Welle
– ABC US
– LA Times
– Rolling Stone
– BuzzFeed

"enamie of enenem"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nwnZYX4tB4

Well that’s a big question, I think Jack got it about right back on page 7:

The tax cuts they did were financed on our nations credit card. The modest tax hikes suggested are needed to…

Electorates where National's vote went up:
"Hutt South" "Port Hills"

Electorates where Labour's vote went up:
...

Electorates where Green's vote went up:
"Helensville" "Mt Albert" "Mt Roskill"…

There's the real Y2K bug!
it still bugs me...

;- )

Maybe, as a defensible New Zealand ‘moderate’ she just thought the guy was a Foreign Prick.

They can be the worst.

And from a serving cop, no less, who you'd expect to maintain the law instead of breaking it.

I had a choice . The way of the bard was open – but . . . . what to say?
A good enough reason to get some dirt under one's nails, and one does get…

And in all fairness to you Farmer Green, you have made it your life’s work to contribute in a tangible way to these other pressing issues our planet faces, unlike countless others who couldn’t give an actual fuck about democracy or civil…

Abbie Hoffman (no relation) told Judge Hoffman “you are a ‘shande fur de Goyim’ [disgrace in front of the gentiles]. You would have served Hitler better.”

I remember. Thanks FG.

When targets come this cheap, call me the dartboard. Along with all our other immigrants. As is your right, you can stay…

But you’re not going to paint a friggin’ target on your forehead . Are you?…

You’d be wrong there.…

party and electorate vote 2011 and 2014

Parent folder has the R scripts.

Hear! Hear!

I get it here, I’m sure Chris must too, it’s easy to dismiss as benign but its deepset, and ok, fair enough, education in China is skewed, there is no…

It's ok Chris, the Election is over so the odd threadjack should be fine or I'll eat me hat. Yes racism and xenophobia is all over NZ. I guess it helps to be brown to know what it feels like…

Sacha called it; post-modern. musical interactivity at its…

As with any eulogy, it’s not the words that matter so much as the sentiment itself, and as with any…

Given that GCHQ engages in manipulating online polls I think there is a real danger that it can escalate to tweaking an election just a bit to keep certain parties…