Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In the outrage economy he's pure gold. First you hire someone offensive. Then you make them offend people at opportune times. Social media lights up. Clips play over and over. Advertisers get clicks. And people on all sides...
We had years of "National is cutting money to health" which was technically true if you squinted and ran some calculations. National of course screamed how unfair that was, but Labour justified it as a reflection of some deeper meaning. Now the table has ...
I think no one was behind it, but to add fuel to the fire, Whaleoil admitted before the election they were in the pay of Winston Peters. And a news website that popped up over night was run by former Aotearoa Legalize Cannabis party leader and now Winston ...
Remarkably level-headed comment. Who doesn't have some baggage? We've all done something we regret, or don't regret but probably should. Someone who claims otherwise is either lying or they haven't stepped out of their shell.
Yes they're shopping around dirt. I wouldn't repeat it here for legal reasons.
Don't need fines. Vector's insurance would make claims against the property owner's insurance.
What happened to council responsibility? I had a rental property and I used to get letters from the council - I think it was council anyway - whenever the trees got too close to the lines. There are after all, or should be, bylaws on trees, property ...
They used tear gas. I didn't see water canon but I'm sure they're there. After that it could be rubber bullets but you then need to fire more of those and the more you fire, the higher the chance of killing or seriously injuring someone. In total shooting ...
My point was less on what they should/could do, but on how the weapon really isn't a sniper rifle.
Well it isn't. If anything it is scarier. At least snipers acquire a target and fire with reasonable precision. These guys are there in case they have to blaze up a crowd or face a concerted attack.
2006. And they won the election for all Palestine. So if any group was to claim to represent the people it'd be Hamas. Fatah lost that election yet still remains the recognized government of the West Bank.
Not so much deflection as basic fact. They're most likely M4 5.56mm (.223) as state below. It's effective at just over half the distance as the NZ rifle shown above. Certainly not a sniper rifle. Way less efficient as that. On the other hand if things got ...
Okay so shoot once they cross the border? Yeah that sounds like a good compromise.
Those aren't sniper rifles. Those are standard issue assault rifles probably set to single shot for precision. Clearly an infantry squad taking up position.
I'm okay with it. Not the situation. Not with Israel. But from a simple project management point of view, how do you stop 50,000 peaceful protestors marching over your border. Disputable border or not. From the point of view of Israel, it is their border ...
This exact case aside, I almost feel like we should make things easier and lower the penalties. Defamation cases are a rich person's sport; a way for the powerful to silence the weak, or the way for the wrong to silence the right. You need deep pockets to ...
What conflict has got better by getting worse? One day Israel and Palestinian will have to live together. In the meantime those arm shipments will harden Israeli voters, and be an excuse for blockades, blowing up tunnels and raids into occupied territory.
Remember Ariel Sharon, hardly a liberal and a horrible person at that, pulled Israel out of Gaza. All the settlements were removed. All the Jewish population relocated. Then some idiot in the Israeli government decided to destroy the Jewish businesses so ...
Maybe the way forward - and the big barrier in the way is Israel's relationship to Hamas - is to focus on an independent state of Gaza. At least they have the territorial independence. Not sure what the rules would be if one side hit the other. Israel ...
As an honest question what were the political dynamics that enabled the then government of Israel to withdraw from Gaza? I understand they suffered terribly for it, and maybe it's a case now of 'once bitten, twice shy' in regards to the West Bank. But as I...
Well said. I support an independent Palestinian state, or more than one if it comes to it. But I also see Israel as there, and there are generations that have grown up there, so regardless of legitimacy in the past, it is a state now - a well established, ...
Just over eighty, only fifty something being business days and a lot of them being during the holidays. Not sure what people expect. Governments take time to move. If it was rushed people would point to all the mistakes done in haste.
I'm glad the mods let this through. It made my day. And a huge congratulations to Jacinda.
One of our lowest scores is with "Passive Suffrage" at 69.5%, or 105th place globally. Passive Suffrage is the right to run for elected office, as opposed to Active Suffrage which is the right to vote for the elected office (we got 83.7% = goodish). What ...
One thing to remember; celebrities don't face as much negative attention and probings as politicians. It is comparatively easy to look clean as a celebrity, there isn't the same 'public interest' argument. Of course you can royally screw up, but it is also...
Not ability to pay. Income. Big difference.
I suppose I was taking a broad approach in laying down a case to illustrate how the general theory of responsibility could be applied, and not to say all cases are equal or that people are in all cases let off.
While I note the sarcasm, I want to put forward an argument anyway. It comes down to personal responsibility. A person can be both a victim and a perpetrator. It does not excuse them. For example, bullies are more likely to have been bullied themselves, ...
I'm sure that was tongue and cheek, but, no. Arab today is a broad term, but in the 7th century the Arab armies came up out of the Arabian peninsula. They spread Islam, but not a lot of genetics. Modern Palestinians are closer related to Jews, Egyptians, ...
Yeah the case of Ahed is ridiculous. The soldiers went out of their way to not respond (good), only for probably some elected official or civil servant wanting to look tough deciding to send a squad in to arrest her. Unfortunately this is the problem with ...
Yes, so they are in the wrong. A full and final settlement would see some peace agreement with some give and take, and the original lines, within limits, restored. I suspect, for example, that Syria would probably have to give up the Golan Heights, but the...
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