Daily review 07/03/2022

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  1. Ad 1
    7 March 2022 at 6:10 pm

    Looking forward to the infected Luxon showing how much of a model citizen he is.

    This infected person was declaiming all yesterday to Auckland's business elite.

    One Team One Dream, people. One Team One Dream.

    The State of the Nation is: sick.

    • Hongi Ika 1.1
      7 March 2022 at 6:58 pm

      All going to bed last night dreaming about their tax cuts and where they will spend their money ?

    • ghostwhowalksnz 1.2
      7 March 2022 at 8:14 pm

      Dont forget 'The Reset' which means nothing in his or nationals past is open to discussion.

    • ghostwhowalksnz 2.1
      7 March 2022 at 8:17 pm

      Its impossible to tell what are Ukrainian or Russian soldiers , ( most Ukrainians can speak Russian too) even most of Ukraines military equipment is the same as Russia.

      But go ahead if you want to drink heavily at the fount of war hysteria
      AS we all know social media is is soooo reliable

      • Anne 2.1.1
        7 March 2022 at 9:41 pm

        Fount of war hysteria? I merely posted it as it struck me as interesting. You call that hysteria? Hate to think what you might call actual hysteria. Screaming heebie jeebies perhaps.

        For your info., it was on the Herald site. Granny might be conservative but they don't usually print junk stuff emanating from some obscure corner of social media.

      • ozaki 2.1.2
        8 March 2022 at 8:14 am

        Most Ukrainians can speak Russian, but with an accent.

  3. joe90 3
    7 March 2022 at 7:03 pm

    The rest of the Orthodox world has called for an end to the war and the encyclical read today in North American Orthodox Churches laid the blame on Poots.

    But the gays.

    /

    https://twitter.com/mjluxmoore/status/1500473613828464641

    ISTANBUL, Feb 27 (Reuters) – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide and based in Istanbul, called for an end to war in Ukraine on Sunday.

    "We address another plea to end the war now. To immediately stop any act of violence, anything that spreads pain and death." Bartholomew said in a statement.

    Bartholomew also called the war abominable and voiced solidarity and support with Ukrainian church, which was granted independence from Moscow, and "seriously suffering" Ukrainian people in his statement.

    In 2019, Bartholomew granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, making it independent, in a historic split strongly opposed by Russia.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/christian-orthodox-spiritual-leader-calls-end-ukraine-war-2022-02-27/

    March 6, 2022

    Unto the Most Reverend and Right Reverend Hierarchs, Pious Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, Presidents and Members of Parish Councils, Honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Members of Leadership 100, the Day and Afternoon Schools, Philoptochos Societies, the Youth, Greek Orthodox Organizations, and the entirety of the Christ-named Plenitude of the Holy Archdiocese of America.

    Πάντες δὲ ὑμεῖς ἀδελφοί ἐστε. (κατὰ Ματθαῖον 23:8)

    All of you are brothers and sisters. (Matthew 23:8)

    My Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

    We find ourselves in deep pain and sorrow of soul over the horror that has ensued from the invasion of Ukraine. I do not say, “Russia,” because many thousands of the Russian People are protesting this unprovoked and unreasonable attack at risk to their own lives and freedom. This attack must be squarely set upon the shoulders of Vladimir Putin, who is risking global peace for his own selfish political agenda.

    https://www.goarch.org/-/archiepiscopal-encyclical-invasion-ukraine

    • Hongi Ika 3.1
      7 March 2022 at 7:46 pm

      These guys are on another planet or am I out of touch with what is going on in the world.

    • ghostwhowalksnz 3.2
      7 March 2022 at 8:12 pm

      The 'supreme' patriarch in Istanbul opposed the Invasion

      'This attack must be squarely set upon the shoulders of Vladimir Putin, who is risking global peace for his own selfish political agenda.'

    • DB Brown 3.3
      7 March 2022 at 8:29 pm

      But that's the gayest hat I've ever seen.

    • SPC 3.4
      7 March 2022 at 8:38 pm

      The Russian Orthodox Church was founded upon the baptism of Vladimir the Great (after whom the current president is named) — an act that was probably one of political expediency for a marriage alliance with the Byzantine emperor.

      Whatever his reasons, the mass baptism of Vladimir’s subjects followed, and a close relationship between the rulers and the Church began. Through the fluctuations in the fortunes of Vladimir’s successors, the Church and the government remained intertwined,

      After its initial stance of resistance to communist oppression, the Russian Orthodox Church as an institution ultimately survived communist rule through tense acquiescence, with its senior ranks deeply infiltrated by the security state, and opponents driven out. It was in this form that the Church emerged in the 1990s.

      The Church has done its bit to earn this privileged position, by sanctifying state policy and Putin himself. In 2012, just before Putin’s re-election to the presidency, the patriarch described his rule as a “miracle of God,” and compared the complaints of his opponents to “ear-piercing shrieks.” Priests who fail to toe the party line are defrocked or demoted.

      https://www.arabnews.com/node/1504786

      I guess as a state institution they have access to ear piercing sound weapons for attacking gay activists, liberal human rights NGO workers and other domestic critics of the faith ….

    • Ad 3.5
      7 March 2022 at 8:43 pm

      The Ukraine Orthodox Church broke communion with the Russian Orthodox Church in October 2018. It was approved by the Constantinople Patriarchate.

      As a result of the split, the Russian Orthodox Church lost much of its territory, believers and, crucially, its spiritual and symbolic authority over Ukraine.

      Both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill made strong statements condemning the schism.

      They’d been together for 300 years.

      I think Jesus would have called down hell on Kirill and Putin both.

    • Psycho Milt 3.6
      7 March 2022 at 9:18 pm

      Always the gays with these guys. There's some serious psychological problem playing out there.

  4. Johnr 4
    7 March 2022 at 7:12 pm

    It is unclear to me ( not an uncommon occurrence) but is the Russion embargo legislation specific to this conflict, or, is it transferable to other rogue states at a later date.

    I would be really pleased if it was transferable. Then we citizens could apply pressure to the govt of the day to apply it.

    The Palestinian genocide comes to mind

    • Hongi Ika 4.1
      7 March 2022 at 7:21 pm

      Agree +100%

    • Nic the NZer 4.2
      7 March 2022 at 7:27 pm

      Its targeting named individuals. A lot of people who are representatives in the Russian Douma, I think they needed to vote for the invasion policies to be named.

  5. joe90 5
    7 March 2022 at 7:15 pm

    Shorter: Russian forces are going to target the reactor.

    https://twitter.com/mfa_russia/status/1500610297463291909

  6. SPC 6
    7 March 2022 at 9:07 pm

    A 21st C review of de Tocquevilles 19th C forecast of the emergence of a 20th C future where Russia and America would be the significant players.

    The review notes that India and China were the significant economies before the 19th C.

    And notes a connection between religion and population growth/relative power.

    https://eppc.org/publication/tocquevilles-comparison-of-america-and-russia-updated/

    • Ad 7.1
      7 March 2022 at 9:57 pm

      Robertson better have a tax cut ready.

      He's now in a similar poll+budget+election cycle position to Minister Cullen in 2007.

      Ardern is now a polling millstone and Roberston needs to show he can lighten the ship.

      • SPC 7.1.1
        7 March 2022 at 10:17 pm

        No it's a reprise of 2005 – then Cullen offered WFF tax credits vs their across the board tax cuts and won via South Auckland.

        This time it's about major demands on government capacity – public housing/public health/water infrastructure investment etc vs tax cuts for private consumers.

        Polling is for now akin to a third term though.

  8. Joe90 8
    7 March 2022 at 9:29 pm

    And someone left it at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware?

    https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1500595585858129920

  9. SPC 9
    7 March 2022 at 9:45 pm

    It's not good news for those who lost their sense of smell when getting COVID, hopefully it's not the same if infected with the Omicron variant.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-omicron-outbreak-even-mild-infection-may-be-bad-for-our-brains/K7SYX2DPAUR6IKNNZKOAKR46KQ/

  10. pat 10
    7 March 2022 at 10:40 pm

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/oligarch-money-is-embedded-in-london-beware-the-big-talk-of-a-crackdown

    "We all know the answer. As all this played out, estate agents, private schools and luxury goods retailers made hay. Shamefully, lawyers took huge fees to go after investigative journalists who were set on revealing the worst aspects of what was going on. Donations to the Conservative party rolled in, and too many peers and MPs luxuriated in yet another connection to wealth and power. Now, many of the same people who allowed everything to happen suddenly tell us that the party has to end. Whether they are even halfway sincere is something that all of us – including ordinary Londoners, people long since priced out of the capital, and the kleptocrats nervously marking time behind their stucco facades and security gates – are about to find out."

    Meanwhile in little ol' NZ…

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/127330504/new-zealand-reopens-door-to-wealthy-foreign-investors-promising-to-drop-millions