Deliberately sent herself to one of the least safe, most corrupt countries on earth. As a career move Says she was deployed there by Al Jazeera (would've been by consent, though) Then stayed as the only structure generating any semblance of public safety –...
Both Key & English said they wouldn't increase GST. Key - on the campaign trail in 2008, in answer to a question at a press conference, & English in December 2008. https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/3313887/Public-split-over-Keys-GST-plan They were bloody ...
Ardern ruled out a CGT under her leadership in April 2019. "I genuinely believe there are inequities in our tax system that a capital gains tax in some form could have helped to resolve. That’s an argument Labour has made as a party since 2011. However ...
Seats Labour: 51 National: 41 ACT Party: 14 Green Party: 12 Māori Party: 2 Labour + Greens - 63 National + Act - 55 Greens are in a stronger position to demand more.
Sorry. 🙂
Must remember that about primary colours. 🙂 Good spotting of the silver fern lapel badge. (Had to rack my brains for a few seconds. Blokes don't usually wear brooches.) Poor bloke's gone all out with the patriot display but still got caught with his mask ...
He may not have been wandering around like that. Might just have slipped down for a few seconds when the photo was coincidentally taken. Looks like a poorly-fitting mask. Bad luck for him though. There's now this photo ...
Looks like the mask only uses two primary colours - black & white. That'll be why they're white & not red. Just a 2-colour stylistic representation of our flag's Southern Cross.
Technically NZ's flag has four 5-pointed red stars that are "centred within white stars". Or in layperson's terms our flag has four red stars with white borders. Aussie's flag uses 7-pointed white stars for the Southern Cross, except for the smallest star ...
The Aussie flag shows the 5 stars of the Southern Cross constellation, (& a sixth, larger seven-pointed one under the Union Jack). Luxon's mask shows only four stars of the Southern Cross, as on the NZ flag.
That Daily Blog article is by Chris Trotter, Dennis. Not Bomber. The problem any anti-capitalist party would have in NZ is selling itself as able to successfully deconstruct the current economic structure & successfully manage an economy without capitalism...
Embarrassing. Totally forgot that Turkey's in NATO. Mixed up their being in NATO with their not being in the EU. Should've remembered Erdogan's stoush with Trump over Turkey's purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system that saw them kicked out of the F-...
14 countries with 30 ships and 2,065 personnel from Albania, Belgium, Great Britain, Georgia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, USA, Turkey, and Ukraine took part in the exercise. https://mc.nato.int/media-centre/news/2021/nato-ships-exercised...
The Americans have their own military shorthand phrases. It's not unusual for them to announce they are pulling their forces out of somewhere or sending forces to somewhere. They generally mean troops & warfighting equipment. BTW 2000 people in a military ...
The Black Sea is bordered by 2 NATO countries – Bulgaria and Romania (as well as Russia, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine). So they can argue it's within the NATO defence zone. It does make Russian complaints they're constantly provoked by potential ...
They obviously meant armed forces personnel, not separate defence forces. NATO ships are taking part in Exercise Breeze 2021 in the Black Sea. The Bulgarian-led maritime exercise, which began on 11 July and wraps up on 19 July, involves forces from 14 NATO...
And I find the end of that article also quite telling. None of the above is to say that Russia will not invade Ukraine in the end. As mentioned before, Putin keeps us guessing about his ultimate goal – and that may include annexing Ukraine. But it is worth...
Currently, 368,172 Kiwis are the recipient of a main benefit, 11.7 per cent of the working-age population, whether it be Jobseeker Support, Sole Parent Support or Supported Living. The above figure includes those on Sole Parent Support & Supported Living ...
@ arkie But even if we accept that we must be exploited so we can earn, why isn't more done about the huge amount of actual wage theft? I note that's a report on the situation in the US. Although we see news reports of the same situations occurring here in...
I work for a business, they pay me less than than I earn for the business. There's their profit, exploiting my labour, it's theft. I think that's far too simplistic a statement to be a valid claim. Sure, there are plenty of businesses with owners and ...
Can't hear enough of the bleeped dialogue to know exactly who's saying what to whom after the punch was thrown. Also we have no idea whether there was any exchange between the two before the punch incident from this short video. It was a hard punch to the ...
Yes, I saw that: The Authority has also ordered O’Brien to pay $2000 for her breach of the conflict of interest clause in her contract. This relates to her providing Mediaworks a comment for their press release and taking part in a photoshoot while still ...
Yes - an interesting outcome. Previous reporting from Stuff suggested that the restraint of trade provions in Tova O'Brien's contract would likely be unenforceable: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/127540439/how-enforceable-are-restraints-of-...
I've been surprised to learn there is virtually no archaeological evidence of King David's existence or of his royal city of Jerusalem (just two steles of two other local contemporary people's rulers - whose inscriptions are believed by some to refer to ...
Yeah, I watched a wee bit of Ice Cold Gold episodes about twice. But it doesn't appeal to me as much as the others. Not exactly sure why - maybe because the participants fly in for short periods from the US so it seems a bit plastic. I don't watch it.
I was fascinated to discover some years ago that the terms semite or semitic actually relate to Middle Eastern languages & include not only Jews but Arabs, many of whom when criticising Israel are often accused of being anti-semitic. Semitic adjective ...
Yes, Ch 12 on Freeview is Choice TV. I've been watching the Jade Fever series off & on for a few years now. Also watched a few episodes of Outback Opal Hunters. Both quite interesting for the personal dramas (Jade Fever's about a family-based prospecting/...
Your link above, alwyn, is now the active link to a new article titled: Kiwi 9-year-old flying home for urgent surgery on shattered arm
Man you were lucky getting to see a GP on a Sunday! Ours at the local medical centre are usually booked up for a week or more, prefer to do a telephone consultation if at all possible, & on weekends their IVR system tells you to go to the local Accident & ...
I belatedly googled a couple of queries on whether masks affect breathing & received hit after hit from mostly medical sources saying that tests showed exercising in masks was perfectly fine; that they had no deleterious effect on breathing or gas exchange...
trying to understand a situation and be empathic is one thing. Having lived through a situation or similar and having empathy is another thing. With the latter you know and feel in your soul, and not your brain, what another person has gone through. Hence ...
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