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Looking forward to King Charles image on our money. Not!
Of the 10 atrocities 8 were before he was born and all were before his balls dropped. Atrocities are as common as muck in history the USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and the list goes on and on – hell I have little doubt there's plenty of nasty in New Zealand's history. Charles is just just a figurehead and a fairly mundane one at that .
Having being said I see no reason why any non New Zealander should be on our currency nor any particular reason why we should retain an overseas monarchy as our ceremonial figurehead.
I am happily in favour of a republic – but I see no reason to grant a President more than the ceremonial powers currently in use by our /cough monarchy
"….. I see no reason to grant a President more than the ceremonial powers currently in use by our /cough monarchy"
Barfly
Why do we need a president?
Shouldn't a PM be enough?
The Uffindell affair is far from over.
Mark Sainsbury, who is reasonably well known, knows the family the report called liars!
See yesterdays Daily Review for links.
And
https://twitter.com/infinite_ink/status/1572304691194892290
Luxon and co…are splitting semantic hairs…'the incident was not as reported in the media'.
National are in big trouble over this and it's not going away Luxon and National want to avoid another byelection at all cost's but this will cost them dearly and could be an opening for Winston Peters to come in through another byelection in Tauranga.Luxon and National have seriously miscalculated or have been misled.Uffidell campaigned on a get tough on youth crime saying youth should face tougher consequences but no consequences for him no consequences for National MP's.If Uffindell had any honour he would resign now,How many chances does Luxon give a second now 3rd now Luxon looks like a complete idiot defending the indefensible from the Party which is supposed to be tough on crime!
I hope this farce haunts the National Party and continues to damage them.
I doubt it ,national voters where fine with key harassing a waitress,
Incredibly brave women.
https://twitter.com/NegarMortazavi/status/1572295701211627522
Good fortune to them!
Iran an Assad ally.
Tadamon massacre
Enough said.
Terrifyingly brave – the personal risk to those women – not just of arrest by the police and/or security services – but of assault, rape and murder by male thugs on the street, determined to put them in their place – is significant.
Wearing (or not wearing a hijab) is a deeply political statement in much of the world.
Courageous Iranians defying authority.
https://twitter.com/ErshadAlijani/status/1572286306948108289
https://twitter.com/bai_mina/status/1572300351021191170
https://twitter.com/Shayan86/status/1572389026367246337
I thought no right turn made a really salient comment.
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2022/09/this-seems-like-process-we-can-have.html
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Please put quoted text in quotation marks next time to make it clear(er) what is [the] quoted text and what are your own words, thanks.
Why does the caucus need to see the report? If I was being investigated at work, I would not expect the report to be widely circulated amongst my colleagues.
Labour are hardly transparent! Although they claimed they would be.
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The KC Maria Dew is now freed up to look in to the Labour bullying issues.
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Mod note
Why does the caucus need to see the report? If I was being investigated at work, I would not expect the report to be widely circulated amongst my colleagues.
If you were asked to vote on an issue (as the National caucus apparently was) do you think you should have been able to know something more than a decision by The Leader?
Covering up serious allegations becomes worse than clearing the decks Uffindell admits serious bullying at high school but refuses to admit similar behaviour at University.Luxon has seriously miscalculated his options he now wishes he had sacked Uffindell and blamed the National Party for not vetting its candidates thoroughly.Given NZ has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the developed world .National has dug a very deep hole which it can only sack Uffindell like yesterday have another byelection is the only way back for Luxon who released the KC's whitewash on the day of the Queens funeral.Luxon is in serious trouble and could go the way of Collins ,Bridges,etc .Luxon's only option now is to sack Uffindell even having him charged for the offences he is alledged to have commited to show National are truly a party that's tough on Crime!
Luxon's refusal to release the summary of Dew's report into allegations about Uffindell's past behaviour is revealing – imho it’s easier to trust politicians when they champion transparency.
The Uffindell affair will continue to dog National – until the next scandal.
Grant Robertson talks up market conditions,
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/129885262/grant-robertson-were-in-a-really-good-position-here
Whilst traders dump NZ$ for perceived risks with current account,and high absolute debt in a world of increasing interest rates.
https://nz.finance.yahoo.com/quote/NZDUSD%3DX?p=NZDUSD%3DX
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/series/new-zealand-debt-securities/holdings-of-central-government-debt-securities
Meanwhile Wood and Nash are selling visa's for money again.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-investor-migrant-visa-opens
We've had these visas for money before. I've never seen any evidence of their success or benefit to nz as a whole. Does anybody have any evidence to the contrary.
Our era has a new title
We are living through the time of the CGD
(Colossal Global Disfunction)
The EU is calling for a War Crimes Tribunal to be held to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Ukraine.
The Russian Federation has already had one.
Who knew?
Of course Russia would never get all it's ducks in a row as they prepare to propagate the narrative that any war crimes uncovered were committed by minorities.
Because real Russians, ethnic Russians, would never commit atrocities.
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“It seems that Ukraine was attacked not by Russia, but by Buryatia”
Head of the Free Buryatia Foundation Alexandra Garmazhapova talks about the truth and myths about the Buryats fighting in Ukraine
There is a stereotype that there are a lot of Buryats fighting in the ranks of the Russian army in Ukraine. Is it true? What is known about the involvement of servicemen from Buryatia in the events in Bucha? Why do the Buryats go to serve on a contract basis and how do the republic feel about the “denazification” of Ukraine? Alexandra Garmazhapova, a journalist and head of the Free Buryatia Foundation, answered these and other questions to Kholod.
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Buryats in Bucha – the main myth of the war
After the first news from Bucha, we were stunned by the footage of civilians killed and destruction. The news about the “mass atrocities of the Buryats” was no less a shock to us, so we immediately set about clarifying the details and verifying data from open sources. It turned out that behind the high-profile headlines about "mass atrocities" and the involvement of the Buryats (or at least Asians) in them lies much less sensational content. Bucha is not the only place where war crimes were committed, but rumors of "Buryat atrocities" began from here.
So, in order. During the fighting in Bucha and the Russian occupation of the city that lasted about a month, several hundred civilians were killed. After the Russian occupation, 458 bodies were found, 419 of them with signs of torture or violent death. The first reports of the discovery of evidence of targeted massacres of civilians in Bucha appeared on 1 April.
Already on April 4, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published a list of servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the RF Armed Forces (Khabarovsk Territory), who were accused by the Ukrainian side of war crimes in Bucha.
Ukrainian volunteers from the InformNapalm community immediately established that this list is 4 years out of date, and it does not include many who participated in the 2022 invasion, and there are also those who retired from the army long ago. Subsequently, we independently confirmed this conclusion.
google translate
What is the link between Charles the 1st. and Putin the last.
From Wikipedia
Sound familiar?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/21/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-blinken-calls-moscows-referendum-attempts-a-sham-zelenskiy-to-speak-at-un?