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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Thank God for the ABC, Good call by the PM
https://twitter.com/abc730/status/1623250310952103937?s=20&t=Kp96EuMjS7BzQLFI0A4KKg
Wow, aren't we dorklanders so so glad we voted in a "Mr Fixit" type mayor to manage our current and potentially another weather dilemma.
It will be so comforting to observe him applying his self professed expertise.
But be patient folks it will require his articulate deputy dog to wake him up from his after lunch nap
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/483958/auckland-state-of-emergency-extended-ahead-of-tropical-cyclone-gabrielle
The wonders of being added to the e-mail list!
His staff were on the list.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/07-02-2023/leaked-emails-call-wayne-browns-flood-narrative-into-question
That’s very good, thank you!
But his emails!
Seymour Hersch investigates the Nordstream 2 sabotage.
https://twitter.com/johnpilger/status/1623538549596516352?s=20
Not a sausage about Assad's butchery, either.
https://twitter.com/harun_alaswad/status/1623220876744204288
Not much about the huge quake in Syria and Turkey either
https://twitter.com/angelofhistory2/status/1623112186955714560?s=20
And yet, when you compare coverage of one event with coverage of the other….
Spelling error in your search term: should be "marae". But point taken.
Really?
Mare' (Arabic: مارع Māriʿ, locally pronounced Mēreʿ), also spelled Marea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare%27
Ahh, I didn't know that. Jeepers.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/russia-ukraine-war-us-dismisses-utterly-false-report-on-nord-stream-pipeline-bombings/7FYJTPQFCNCQHPQM4XLWHV4YBM/
And the rebuttal. Seymour Hersh is 85 years old, and the end of this article says he has been prone to accept info from hidden sources about conspiracy theories in recent years. Throwing mud, maybe, but he doesn't look embedded in a wider media organisation, or to have done extensive fact checking.
The Europeans don’t seemed too fussed themselves – it may have saved them complicated wiggling out of commercial contracts with Russia.
The evidence provided by Hersh seems to be circumstantial (US navy movements, apparent lack of interest in an enquiry by Scandi countries). More likely it's misinformation than not. And it's a small event in the overall mishmash of the war.
Yes it is circumstantial, but there is enough obvious data in the public domain for Hersch's narrative to make sense. Sabotage would have been a particularly cynical move by the US and damaging to the German economy, but the US has form. (And France has done similar stuff to us in the past!)
Agree with the wider perspective, it's more important to stop Russia's aggression.
He also somehow managed to expose some of the biggest stories in the 20th century AND 21st century, all these initially denied by the US govt before fully vindicated as fact, won a Pulitzer and just about all the most prestigious journalistic awards out there.
I just read his wikipedia bio. Amazing career of brave reporting.
But again, from links cited in that same bio, prone in recent years to depend on a single 'intelligence source'. Also poor on corroborating facts, for which other journalists and media transparancy organisations have challenged him more recently.
Exactly. Regrettably, age does not always confer wisdom.
Hersh has been proven correct many times over many years. He gets good sources by protecting them. That is how journalism works.
Same pattern with every story that doesn’t fit The Narrative – the author gets attacked, demonised, anything to destroy credibility.
Biden is on video less than a year earlier saying they'll get rid of the pipeline. That people don't believe the US (or a European NATO state) did it is ridiculous.
Biden's State of the Union made a ton of positive commitments. Really progressive stuff on Social Security, Medicare, workers' rights, gun control, democracy and the rule of law over MAGA extremism.
https://youtu.be/F7-QF5SdzM4
Now this is cycling infrastructure.
A look at the new (and largest) bicycle parking in our city!
This is open today and is located on the center side of Central Station. In total there is room for 7,000 bicycles. On 28 January we celebrate the renewal of the Station Island.
Are you there?
https://twitter.com/AmsterdamNL/status/1618271564075786241
It is not just cycling infrastructure, it is highly integrated with public transport infrastructure too! In addition, there are many options for bicycle rental, including a PT option using your ‘HOP Card’.
https://www.ns.nl/en/door-to-door/ov-fiets
Well my burg has Te Ngaru (The Tide) to look forward too.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2018875358/anthonie-tonnon-on-whanganui-transport
Thanks for the inspiring vid – If you build it, they will come.
It is based underwater and first 24 h parking is free (the Dutch love freebies as much as anybody).
Noticed how well lit the area is? It has better lighting than my local library!
The Washington Post editorial is encouraging POTUS Biden to support TPP.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/07/asia-trade-deals-china-tpp/
An interesting take about how the culture war/anti-woke language is only in play in the GOP primaries, as it plays with the base, but candidates are advised to take a different approach when contesting elections against Democrat opposition.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/08/sarah-huckabee-sanders-sotu-response-biden-woke-ron-desantis/
Remembering when Auckland had a plan for public infrastructure free of any risk of flooding
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/public-urged-to-get-behind-the-crater-a-sunken-waterfront-stadium/EWDDI2MD3NCNZIWJLDW6TRVLKU/
Pakistan trying to avoid a Sri Lanka outcome (bankruptcy) and thus has no capability to reduce its carbon dependence (city pollution).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64449037
https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/09/pakistan-presses-us-lead-global-response-climate-disasters