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Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:18 am, February 16th, 2025
Surprisingly, Wayne Brown's statement hit the spot. He said Destiny Church’s actions were “totally unacceptable”. Brown said: “While I respect freedom of speech and the right to peaceful protest, to enter a council library facility that is there for all ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:53 pm, February 15th, 2025
I am sure there is a flock of turkeys in the Public Service who voted for Christmas. Those of us caught in the 90s learnt our lesson then. False smiles and sinking lids and salary increases that meant you worked for less dosh each year.Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:50 pm, February 15th, 2025
Oh, you're so generous.Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:18 pm, February 15th, 2025
As our lives are being harvested for data, and our thoughts are enslaved to the algorithms. Was thinking that the Matrix film was prescient just now, push-mowing the lawn. Snap.Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:41 pm, February 14th, 2025
Here's an interesting research finding in Nature from 2019: "[Our findings] suggest that antidepressant treatment reduces the aversive responses triggered by exposure to the suffering of others. Importantly, this cannot be explained by a general blunting ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:36 pm, February 14th, 2025
Had to look up 'Banderite', as I haven't heard the term before. At wiki: "In propaganda the term has been used by Soviets after 1942 as a pejorative term for Ukrainians, especially western Ukrainians,[10][11] or Ukrainian speakers;[12] under Vladimir Putin ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:16 pm, February 14th, 2025
Oh 'prorogued parliament': kinda like NZ postponed.our elections by 2 years in WW2? And the UK postponed theirs, even local body ones, until 1945?Written By: tWig - Date published: 6:01 pm, February 14th, 2025
Two concerning points I took away from last night's Big Hairy News. First: censorship on SM. The BHN twitter/X site was growing exponentially, to 24k followers, until Dec last year. Then not a nibble from Dec '24. X algorithm shutdown...requested by ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:47 pm, February 14th, 2025
Mexico's President says the US needs to fight fentamyl in the US as well, says The Guardian. 'Sheinbaum called on Washington not just to help crack down on cartels in Mexico, but for the “United States to do its job in the US, to make the arrests that need ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:39 pm, February 14th, 2025
Chinese industry MO as well.Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:23 pm, February 14th, 2025
And even US non-Jew Christian ZionistsWritten By: tWig - Date published: 4:54 pm, February 14th, 2025
I don't disagree with your historical roots for the start of the US christian nationalist right, or that a portion of US catholic bishops strongly disagree with the Pope's views on the oil industry, for example. Catholics are 20% of the US, and only 56% ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 4:29 pm, February 14th, 2025
Interesting choice of 'meatgrinder', where this has been used primarily to describe Russian battle tactics in deploying their troops, not those of the Ukranian military. Untrained and poorly-equipped troops are sent in as a first sacrificial line (eg, as ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 4:09 pm, February 14th, 2025
Again, don't tar all US Catholics with the Trad Catholic brush. The Pope has called overly conservative US catholics out before now.Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:59 pm, February 14th, 2025
Those US TradCatholics you mention do not represent the views of most US Catholics is my point. And the Pope has been highly critical of Trump's deportation policy as inhumane. Vance has been dancing Catholic theology to justify Trump's position, but the ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:33 pm, February 14th, 2025
RNZ The Detail had a bit more of a balanced take on this the other day. 'But the US reputation in the Pacific is already poor, says Ratuva, [head of the Pacific Studies Institute at UCant]. "Biden was able to engage in a significant way... but of course ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:21 pm, February 14th, 2025
Don't blame conservative white US evangelical nationalism on US Catholics, although there are some high-profile Trad Catholic members. "While two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants nationally support Christian nationalism, according to PRRI’s American ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:07 pm, February 14th, 2025
Have to disagree with you about the reliance of Germany on Norstrom. As a country, it has been switching to renewables and decentralised power for decades. In fact, it's continued in swtching off its nuclear power plants, even since Nordstrom was hit. "In ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:52 pm, February 14th, 2025
Surely that is part of Zeleskyy's job description in a democracy?!Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:40 pm, February 14th, 2025
Obama and Trump crippled the litigation arm of the WTO by refusing appointments to the WTO Appellate body. They effectively halted all cases since 2019. The US wanted to defang Appellate Body powers by only allowing a case to move to judgment if both ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:43 am, February 14th, 2025
BHN Pat and Magenta discuss media around the Treaty Principles Bill submissions and comment. Sir Geoffrey Palmer says that the whole process over this bill is backward to Parliamentary process.Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:28 am, February 14th, 2025
Simon Upton, in an excellent piece from the NZ Review of Books (undated) on being a NZer and his sense of NZ identity: "You would need to ask me whether I was a New Zealander of Maori or European (or mixed) descent to get some useful insight into how I ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 9:00 pm, February 13th, 2025
Trump has never thought that Putin was wrong to try to annexe Ukraine. And he has big annexation ideas himself. Putin's plan ran into the snag of China's Winter Olympics. Xi and Putin met a few weeks before, and Xi clearly must have told Putin not to ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:43 pm, February 13th, 2025
Very much in the mould of Boris Johnson's unenacted government policies; but without Johnson's poetic phrasing, the 'sunlit uplands'. I think the term in IT is 'vapourware'.Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:16 am, February 13th, 2025
But at the time, those women were not paid well, or acknowledged properly for their input. As black women, the calculators in the Figures story were discriminated against, until they gained a sympathetic white bossman. Women 'calculators' also created much ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 10:55 pm, February 12th, 2025
Mehdi Hassan in The Guardian identifies the Republican running-down of diversity and equality initiatives as the flimsy mask of white supremicist racism 'DEI is the new N-word. In fact, the Black podcaster Van Lathan argues that DEI is now “worse than the ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:52 pm, February 12th, 2025
The hand of the Wright family 'wishlist' in evidence.Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:50 pm, February 12th, 2025
US Federal biomedical funding freeze. It's now all considered 'discretionary', as opposed to fundamental to national progress. Similar government attitude to research funding position in NZ.Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:33 pm, February 12th, 2025
BHN pat and Spiderhoof deconstruct Luxon's latest tv interview. Start at 60 min. On 'golden shower' visas and his poor polling. Spiderhoof thinks Luxon's been at PM boot camp, because his go-to phrase of the month is now 'green shoots', away from 'what I ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:55 pm, February 12th, 2025
Small, spiteful actions to erase identity. Google removes Black History, Pride and other cultural events from its calendar. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/google-calendar-black-history-pride-month The worst of these Project 2025 ...
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