Hard News: Standing together
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
and that this isn’t your blog post on rudeness in communications
Oh, it surely is, but lawyers are paid to be nasty to people who aren't their clients. Bit of a key distinction. That woman was being rude above and beyond the call of duty to someone who was complaining about the service received from that woman's business. Someone in a position to say the service received from the business was unacceptable. People don't review the services of lawyers based on being on the receiving end of a lawyer-gram.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Bits of the law look fascinating, other bits
make me want to wear rubber gloves.......as a callow yoof I really enjoyed Misleading Cases - with Roy Dotrice and Alastair Sim as respectively, Albert Haddock and Justice Swallow, from AP Herbert's book Uncommon Law.
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It would seem that Labour and the Greens are not so much standing together as falling apart together if the latest Roy Morgan Poll poll is anything to go by. Gary Morgan comments on their poll
Today’s results show it is time Labour focused more on articulating its policies for the electorate than trying to damage National.
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DexterX, in reply to
And again, when Native Affairs tried to report the story, rather than responding to the concerns, the trust got an injunction to stop them going to air. (This actually backfired hugely, because people associated with the trust had to swear revealing affidavits that the judge ruled could be used by Native Affairs in its reports.)
Funny as - the collision of stupidity that often occurs when people attempt to subvert/hide the truth of a matter. Doubly so when engaging lawyers to do so.
For ’tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard. And ’t shall go hard,
But I will delve one yard below their mines,
And blow them at the moon. Oh, ’tis most sweet
When in one line two crafts directly meet. -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
It would seem that Labour and the Greens are not so much standing together as falling apart together if the latest Roy Morgan Poll poll is anything to go by. Gary Morgan comments on their poll
I sometimes wonder if Cunliffe & Norman should tank the 2014 election...
Forbes: 12 Reasons Why New Zealand's Economic Bubble Will End In Disaster
And if the Tiwai Point smelter doesn't survive the next electoral term, Mayor Shadbolt will be able to blame Key & Co.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
if the Tiwai Point smelter doesn’t survive the next electoral term
Rio Tinto have just won the 2013 Roger Award...
It won the 2011 Roger Award and was runner up in 2012, 2009 and 08. One 2013 nomination said simply and in its entirety: “Blackmailing country”. So, 2013 saw more of the same from the biggest recipient of corporate welfare – the Bluff smelter is the biggest bludger in the country. The 2011 Roger Award Judges’ Report concluded that the company has a 50 year history of “suborning, blackmailing and conning successive New Zealand governments into paying massive subsidies on the smelter’s electricity; dodging tax, and running a brilliantly effective PR machine to present a friendly, socially responsible and thoroughly greenwashed face to the media and the public”. The 2012 Judges’ Report is more succinct: “…it has us by the balls and has continued to squeeze ever since. It is corporate welfarism, but somehow doesn’t attract the same vindictiveness as the sickness beneficiary”.
...here’s the concluding paragraph from the 2013 Judges’ Report, incorporating the Financial Analysis: “Cheap electricity, research and development grants, ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme) profiteering, a $30 million cash gift from the Prime Minister on behalf of the long-suffering New Zealand public, apparently very little income tax actually paid, especially since the restructuring, and now Rio Tinto is leaving it to the Government to clean up the mess the smelter will leave behind. The Roger Award is in deserving hands”.and as an aside to the 'Smokefree Coalition' - I'll hopefully assume they are being 'arch' when they spit the dummy in their Press Release that Imperial Tobacco didn't win the Roger Award for 2013 - but they might have mentioned who did win, just to keep the message going, after all Imperial Tobacco's nomination ensured they were in the public eye as a transnational transgressor - when action groups don't support each other big business wins!
criss cross...
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
criss cross…
Did someone mention Oravida? I was just nosying around this morning thinking about donations and foundthis old article
It wasn't $56,600.00 in donations from Oravida to the National Party , more like $406,600.00.What the theme seems to be is "change the Name many times", get many Ministers.Shi even seems to have changed his name. It truly stinks.IMO. -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Rio Tinto have just won the 2013 Roger Award…
and here’s a picture I prepared earlier….
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