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League tables usually suck, but the nice thing about being at the top of one is that you don't have to cross the paywall to find NZ's placing 🙂
Moving up the table,
cdc gave us a level 1,state gave us a level 2
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/new-zealand-travel-advisory.html
lol we still have the rest of the world on a "Do not go" L4.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12354666
It's not even pot and kettle stuff.
A terrible state of affairs, eh? Bad enough that they aren't giving reasons for the promises but failure to put them into rhyme is the ultimate in bad taste.
That Geoff believes this was come as a great surprise to many – particularly those who expected the TOP leader to tell everyone his party is the top choice.
Particularly as the founder's money is no longer available, I presume.
I'm fairly sure that Shane's largesse was due to the overwhelming reason of getting NZF up there in the polls. But his failure to put it into rhyme for the folk in the regions could be why their poll rating has subsided instead. Geoff could be onto something that political pundits have missed.
Here to give Gerry Brownlee free advice:
75% of 2017 National voters trust the Ministry of Health on Covid-19.
So keep doing what you're doing, Gerry. The other 25% will cheer you on, and that's enough to get National into double figures in 2020.
The more I hear The Brown One, the less I like him.
Whose been following the TikTok/45 thing? Is the transaction ban financial transactions? i.e. it's aimed at the owners to force a sale. Or does transaction mean what the users do?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tiktok-trump/trump-issues-order-to-ban-transactions-with-tiktoks-chinese-owner-idUSKCN25304R?il=0
It is essentially a ban on TikTok and WeChat from operating in the US if they are not sold to a US company within 45 days of the order.
He is doing this by the following financial stand-over tactic. The executive orders threaten penalties on any U.S. resident or company that conducts transactions with TikTok, WeChat or their owners after the orders take effect.:
not sure that quite answers my question. Is a transaction anytime someone uses the app? I assume it is, because otherwise people could keep using it so long as it was based outside the US?
Actually no one really knows. From my reading of it, it appears that what constitutes a transaction is yet to be fully defined. As I understand it, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross will be responsible for defining what constitutes a transaction as the Order specifically relates to financial transations.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21358093/trump-tik-tok-ban-bytedance-transactions-executive-order
Sarah Cooper says it best. 😸
he also would like to receive a nice cut should the transaction go ahead.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/tech/tiktok-trump-treasury-microsoft/index.html
Not sure if you can call it a 'sale' but hey, Microsoft may or may not want to buy it for use in America or buy it globally …who cares.
https://www.ft.com/content/45d739f5-37cc-4957-874d-a310c2ac8e07
https://twitter.com/guy_mont/status/1291546983371542529
Rio Tinto are the very definition of corporate scum. But blah blah they have jobs, blah blah blah they help the economy. I'm over the liberal economic shit we keep getting feed, but then again when the left is dominated by labour what else is there but platitudes – I know, I know the tories are truly vicious scum of epic shit fuckery, but please rio tinto – quietly bugger off – as were taking back the land.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-07/rio-tinto-had-options-to-save-juukan-gorge-rock-shelters/12534092
So many headlines, so much drama in NZ politics, and the voters …
Are unmoved, new poll, no real change.
This is worse for the opposition than "rogue polls", ups and downs. It's increasingly evident that a lot of minds are made up. See the confidence rating.
Ouch!
The more ppl see & hear any Nat (Brownlee, Collins, Key, Hosking, DPA, Paula on the radio, 30,000 houses wasshername, Ben Thomas, Hooton, Price) the less ppl like?
Apparently Bennett is covering for Peter Williams talk back spot next week, so you might want to avoid listening to it with such sensitivity to different opinions.
TBF she will probably be better than that twat John Banks who was doing it this week.
Bennett doesn't have a different opinion – it'll be exactly the same as any other Nat fanboi. And, as her guest will be another Nat, all its really going to be is an echo chamber of delusional wishes.
Which you will no doubt avoid.
Think it will be quite humorous, purely for novelty factor.
It is a stupid radio show with idiots ringing in. If that scares you then you might want to see someone
On the odd occasion I hear talkback (On Other People's Radios), I can feel brain cells dying.
The Greens were prescient in giving the nats their questions.
Follow the Hippies!
https://twitter.com/swordfish7774/status/1291690603206463488
RM usually poll over a uniquely extended period of 3-4 weeks. Fieldwork for this one began while Muller was still leader & probably ended not too long after the Falloon & ILG stories broke.
Pleasing to see greens on 8%
Another Rouge Poll.
Yep, very rouge.
Those rogue polls are at it again looks like a trend.
I hate the trend that is ACT over 5% but it is an unfortunate side effect of a weak National Party.
Still, it will be entertaining watch Rimmer try to contain the gun nuts he's brought in to prop up his far right party.
agree muttonbird, act will be very entertaining. they will revert to type and pull apart explosively. they always attract such diverse single issue zealots, that making them spend time together is hilarious.
Funded by the NRA.
https://www.twitter.com/nzlabour/status/1291589145429790721