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This is my vote for gustiest person of the decade: Malala Yousafzai:
http://www.dw.com/en/malala-yousafzai-returns-to-pakistan-six-years-after-taliban-attack/a-43175846
Shot in the head by evil men.
Learned and promoting female liberation.
Young world leader.
And then goes back to Pakistan, at very high risk to her life.
Astounding courage.
She is an amazing young lady.
Is there a good reason to make this claim?
The National Party is suggesting New Zealand’s spy agencies are asleep and oblivious to the reality of Russian spies in New Zealand.
Regardless of truth it paints a target on the entire country for political gain.
Source http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/353697/nz-spy-agencies-oblivious-says-national-party
National ought to know. They made our spy agencies what they are. There has been no change since the recent election.
+111
Exactly what I was thinking and something that the government needs to be mentioning every time it’s brought up.
We’re benign, tiny, no large companies, almost neutral, and with fuck-all of any patents to steal.
Baa-aaa.
Why would you steal patents? They are publically available!?
I think he means IP, that you dont make public. Often its source code or manufacturing processes
Yes, that would make sense, thank you. I’d call it proprietary.
For god’s sake get all the Vodka off the shelves, we don’t want to attract them to NZ ?
Todd McLazy says he knows NUSSING of russkie spies in New Zealand. NUSSING.
Agrochemicals and anti-biotics in the food chain are probably major contributors having been the recipient of one of these conditions ?
Another Natzi Professional Bludger with no real world experience ?
What about China??
Too busy spying on it’s own citizens ?
Monitoring NZ based terrorists like Tama iti ?
It’s a wonderful conceit: we can’t possibly be so unimportant and open that the Russians don’t have a spy permanently based here. St John played golf with Obama!
Jacinda should call Bridges out on the floor. Ask “Do you or anyone in your party have evidence or knowledge to declare against any Russian here in NZ and if not why not in view of previous comments?”
Put him and the Party on record.
The RNZ interview with Todd McClay re. Russia and Winston is worth a listen, and a laugh.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018638317/what-is-peters-interest-in-russia-todd-mcclay
How many were killed by the war machine…lead by The USA?
Handguns….wasn’t the focus ‘assault rifles’…
How many people did the pharma industry kill…medical profession, ‘food industry’….over the same time period….
Orders of magnitude higher death tolls….each of them…
Yeah but guns….
The medical/pharma and food industry killing the masses now are they…how are those tinfoil futures going ?
Didn’t you get the memo? 1, 2 is on your team.
Poisoning on one hand and curing on the other ?
Easy money ?
Big profit centre.Create a problem-S.A.D,Societal Anxiety Disorder,then provide the solution.Xanax,Valium,whatever.Your bank floweth over.
Why does NZ have some of the highest rates of bowel and breast cancer in the world ?
The Russians, of course.
It a wonder Bridges hasn’t come out with that answer ?
Agrochemicals and anti-biotics in the food chain are probably major contributors having been the recipient of one of these conditions ?
Well, I reckon crispy crisp till it’s burnt bacon killed my mum, and my mate’s community oncology nurse SO won’t have preserved meats in the house.
So there’s a clue.
Joe90, Processed foods, meat especially and the wrong cooking oils are real bad..
To do better, go round the edges of your supermarket. Drink water often.
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For all of your assertions.
The Counties/Manukau DHB have not been communicating with the Minister of Health on the State of the Buildings at Middlemore ?
Why do we actually pay these DHB Managers ?
The whole neoliberal health system is SICK INMHO ?
Nigel Murray Waikato DHB ring a bell ?
DHB”s = JOKE
eradicate all DHB’s.
They were a great idea to democratize healthcare back nearly 30 years ago.
Now they are mere risk-shifting devices.
I doubt Clark has the stones to do it, but if he really wants a Health Ministry worth the name, it’s what he has to do.
Why in a tiny little country like NZ do we need all this duplicated management, what an absolute joke. Managers managing managers.
Having worked for multinational’s larger than Fonterra worldwide if you get your management and distribution systems right you don’t need too many Managers.
Organized Cock Up DHB’s neoliberalism gone wrong ?
They need to rebuild a Health System which was once one of the best in the world.
So Russia and China move to challenge the dominance of the U.S petro dollar.
Trump enacts trade sanctions and protectionism,the usual suspects beat up anti Russian and Sino relations,as the ‘ City ‘and Wall ST weigh up their options.
War,what is it good for?Profits and death apparantly.Where can we find a bolt hole far from the nuclear fallout?
Tierra del Fuego
Si.
Reacting to the post’s opening photo. In a 78 year average life time, 330 million Americans have a 1in 109 chance of being killed by a person using a hand-gun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
In terms of all firearms, 10 in a 100,000 Americans are killed annually. In New Zealand 1.07 per 100,000.
America has more than one firearm per person on average, 101 per 100 people. NZ has 30.
Of the countries with more than 30 firearms per 100 population, these are the deaths by firearms per 100,000. Austria 2.9, Cyprus 1.87, Germany 1.01, Iceland 0.07, Sweden 1.47, USA 10.45.
Countries with death rates from firearms over 5 per 100,000 and the number of weapons per 100: Venezuela 59 per 100,000 deaths from 10 guns per 100 population; Uruguay 11 deaths : 31 guns; USA 10 : 101; Swaziland 37 : 6 ; South Africa 8 : 12 ; Phillippines 8 : 4 ; Peru 5 : 18 ; Paraguay 7 : 21 ; Panama 15 : 21 ; Montenegro 8 : 23 : Mexico 11 : 15 ; Jamaica 30 : 8 ; Honduras 60 : 11 ; Guatemala 34 : 13 ; El Salvador 45 : 5 ; Colombia 18 : 7 ; Brazil 20 : 8 ; Argentina 7 : 8.
Of these 18 countries, 12 are in South America, all but 4 in the Americas.
There seems to be no real link between high deaths by firearms and high numbers of weapons held.
What is the link? Civil unrest, war, drugs, gangs, Catholicism, language, geography, government style and extent of Central authority, colonisation, political corruption, police corruption, other?
“What is the link?”
Inequality?
You may well be right, mikes.
The cynic in me would say that Trump and the NRA would see that inequality as between the armed criminal/terrorist/disturbed and the unarmed good guys. Their solution is to arm up beyond 101 weapons per 100 people.
Whereas solving inequality? There’s no money, pre-eminence or power in that!