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Written By: Booker - Date published: 3:01 pm, October 8th, 2024
It’s worth noting that IJERPH was delisted from the Web of Science in 2023. That means its contents are no longer indexed in major scientific search engines or databases, and this was done precisely because of irregularities in the journal’s publishing ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:01 pm, September 27th, 2022
Seems like no one has posted this in the Open Mike for the last few days - a piece by Al Jazeera about the Corbyn-era anti-Semitism crisis in the UK's Labour party: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25/what-really-happened-during-labours-anti-semitism- ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 10:21 pm, January 11th, 2022
No actually I think incrementalism is disastrous, and even though Labour ran on the promise of climate change being our nuclear free moment, they haven't been doing enough - with or without the Greens. My main point is that realistically the Greens have ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 10:14 pm, January 11th, 2022
Thanks for the clarification and response Weka.Written By: Booker - Date published: 5:25 pm, January 11th, 2022
This seems to be an ongoing problem for the Greens - and it comes as much from it's own membership and other left commentators as it does from the right. Sometimes it feels like there's no worse enemy for left-wingers than other left-wingers. The media ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:55 pm, January 11th, 2022
Well to say this post is disappointing is an understatement. The Standard is often a refuge of sane, well-done commentary on political and social problems affecting NZ (and sometimes, overseas). This post is like the entry passport to a conspiracy rabbit ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 12:38 pm, April 21st, 2021
Fantastic news. For too long successive governments have kicked the can down the road and done little to address the problems with the DHB model of running healthcare. There’s already been back-end changes like having more centralized accounts departments ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 12:28 pm, March 23rd, 2021
Chris Trotter is more and more taking over from Whale Oil these days. Just ignore him.Written By: Booker - Date published: 8:59 am, December 5th, 2019
handing over the monarchy to Prince Philip Typo in first paragraph. [Bugger I thought I had fixed that. Now corrected thanks - MS]Written By: Booker - Date published: 10:00 am, November 23rd, 2019
" Or Buttigieg’s political wonkery of abolishing the electoral college " To be fair, that system is a complete mess and even John Oliver did a whole segment on how undemocratic it is, and that the democrats absolutely needed to abolish it before the next ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 11:40 am, November 8th, 2019
I’ve always been impressed by James Shaw’s ability to get stuff done. It seems that some Green members would prefer a leader who takes a harder line, makes good radical sound bites and refuses to deal with the dirty opposition. I’m grateful we’ve got ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 10:31 pm, October 8th, 2019
All good points. That voxy story Clive linked to above cracks me up - National just can't drop talking about measly tax cuts and roads. What a broken record.Written By: Booker - Date published: 2:18 pm, October 8th, 2019
Good luck to National trying to spin this one. Labour = good economic management, and they consistently produce the numbers to back that up.Written By: Booker - Date published: 3:41 pm, September 17th, 2019
Who in their right mind would go to Paula Bennett for help with this!? Going to see Little Miss “I’ll leak personal details when it’s to my political advantage” about a sexual assault complaint?Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:30 pm, September 17th, 2019
The minute Paula Bennett strangely turned up as somehow privy to secret information about an internal Labour Party issue I started to worry. Is this another Donghui Liu affair which will turn out to be fabricated? I hope not because there are very real ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 4:55 pm, August 26th, 2019
His comments on regulations crack me up - getting rid of two regulations for every one passed? So soon we’ll end up a society with hardly any regulations? That’ll end well.Written By: Booker - Date published: 3:02 pm, August 26th, 2019
There seems to be a real lack of thoughtful analysis on this in Western media. All it comes down to in most coverage (including this post) is China = bad, West = good. Take this for example: “Hong Kong’s contest of protesters with the Chinese government”. ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 9:11 am, August 8th, 2019
Truly a bizarre post yesterday. I had to check whether it was April 1st. I didn’t get time to respond to Advantage, so I’ll put it here: If you fly internationally, that one flight will be the biggest contributor to carbon you make in the year - more than ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 8:49 pm, July 30th, 2019
It’s okay to say that epidemiological studies have identified lifestyle factors that increase the risk of bowel cancer, but even people without those risk factors can still get cancer. So both points being made in this thread are correct: diet, exercise, ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:14 pm, July 30th, 2019
Good call. This proposal is a train wreck waiting to happen, and I’m genuinely concerned it could end up going ahead. People won’t see past the face value headlines or shallow media coverage, and the idea of “more money for cancer treatment” will sound ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:44 pm, July 29th, 2019
This is classic left-wing hand wringing leading to self-immolation. Honestly, sometimes a left-wingers worst enemy is other left-wingers. So, we’ve had 9 years of flagrant economic mismanagement under National, who would do things like (and this is by no ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 9:26 am, July 25th, 2019
Yeah I just saw Bryce Edwards column too, and was left wondering why we have to endure such superficial “political commentators” in NZ. Completely agree with the assessment here that his language of liberal elites etc is pure Crosby Textor; seems more like ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:33 pm, July 9th, 2019
Just thought I should chip in on the real benefit here: health. As a health researcher it saddens me that the EV discussion is always about climate change. Although environmental impacts are a medium to long term effect of internal combustion engines, they ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:23 pm, July 9th, 2019
Right on cue “industry insiders” and farmers raise complaints: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/393967/clean-car-discount-supply-standard-ignores-consultations-imported-motor-vehicle-associationWritten By: Booker - Date published: 9:37 am, June 25th, 2019
Just stumbled across this website via an ad: https://www.keepourmoneyclean.govt.nz/ John Key government: try to turn NZ into a money laundering hub. Current government: do the opposite.Written By: Booker - Date published: 9:05 am, June 18th, 2019
That seems to be John Key-speak for fraudulently inflated.Written By: Booker - Date published: 10:22 pm, June 12th, 2019
Especially if you went in 2000 times! ;)Written By: Booker - Date published: 11:56 am, June 12th, 2019
Frankly, if you ask most workplaces for a timeline of everyone’s actions on a particular day you’ll get differing accounts. Saying the timelines or explanations don’t agree is evidence of lying or collusion is conspiratorial thinking. People’s accounts ...Written By: Booker - Date published: 1:31 pm, June 1st, 2019
For once, I agree with Simon Bridges! His assessment of Maureen Pugh in that leaked phone conversation was actually spot on ;)Written By: Booker - Date published: 11:52 am, May 31st, 2019
I haven't been proven wrong - a mock-up website, used as a backup and as a sandbox for making web edits, can often use the same indexing system as the live site. I've worked on websites with this same set-up. According the public info, this is how the ...
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