Just a correction: The Tactical Response Teams are being trialled in place of the Armed Response Teams. (I used TRT above twice.)
All fair points, & well made, Blade. Clement may have had the background & skills to handle front line police with more support from them because they believed he "had their back". I don't know whether he'd have had them all now routinely armed or whether ...
The police consolidate their power over people they consider outliers in our woke society. People who are supposedly a threat to the powers that be. Dare I say… people who may be able to defend themselves and fight back? Against the police? People with ...
Given that NATO's rebuffed the latest request for immediate NATO membership by Ukraine, Putin's probably already won this round. After doing a bit more reading, it seems that the current US planning envisages the strongest ever economic sanctions against ...
Ukrainian troops probably will. Beyond that it's difficult to tell what the various calculations are. The Ukrainians have been taking part in regular regional military training exercises with NATO troops for years & have recently been undergoing a ...
God, what a moronic chump that anti-masker was. (It would have been better if the Mitre 10 dude refusing him entry and "personhandling" ( ) him out the door had a mask which fitted properly and wasn't continually slipping down past his nose and mouth as he...
They do have some troops and advisers in Venezuela: https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18283807/venezuela-russia-troops-trump-maduro-guaido As regards elite troops, possibly you are thinking of this? (I wasn't previously aware of this event.) https://www....
After reading the article the troops to Cuba & Venezuela threat sounds like something of a throwaway remark that is solely intended to illustrate how Russia feels about Ukraine possibly joining NATO and thus having their opposition/enemy right next door on...
I think you're right. From an image search for Tsar Nicholas II & George V, Nicholas has the slightly more receded hairline. Difficult to tell them apart in many images. In their finery, Tsar Nicholas has the more bling. Must have been rather time-...
Ah. Thanks for the clarification.
Unfortunately many have jobs thanks to the status quo. I can follow your argument above for those who are unemployed on multi-generational welfare, but I don't quite get that bit. How is some of these folk having jobs a problem?
Shouldn't be a problem for you then, Robert. You can just ignore him as the local equivalent of Radio Fox News. Probably so can I. But I don't mind waiting & then seeing what the show's actually like. Better imo to have a media outlet like this where ...
Because there are quite legitimate points to be made for against various issues & matters of interest to Kiwilanders by commentators & proponents who don't get much of an airing on mainstream tv or on radio. Martyn Bradbury on Waatea sometimes does this ...
🙄 *memetic
I think it's cool someone has invented menetic theory that can be used to also encompass what we all know happens in hereditary monarchies. They believe they are special because they are from centuries back literally born to rule. Whether as the monarch or...
As a minor side issue you may find interesting, Dennis (not meant to deflect from the main topic of what an embarrassment & rotter Prince Andrew seems to be), I only recently learned while listening to a history of the Tsars that, altho it predominantly ...
My sarcasm detector went off immediately. Plunkett's style seems to be to criticise everything. Once he criticised RNZ for not using enuf Māori language. Now he's moved on to criticising political correctness, wokism, & probably whatever the gummint's ...
I'll probably have a brief listen. Right wing radio's a lot more entertaining than pretty boring middle-of-the-road left wing RNZ. But I wouldn't want to have it on all day. One gets pretty bored after listening to a constant stream of talk back ...
I'd add that that article by Andrea Vance is a good piece of journalism. Gives a comprehensive look at Plunkett, his background, & his quite varied career. Who knew that Sean Plunket was once a staunch advocate for more Te Reo Māori to be used on air than ...
From the article: He refuses to confirm it – citing client confidentially – but Plunket also had a role in the revival of Te Paati Māori in last year’s election, media training candidate Rawiri Waititi, now an MP and co-leader. Fascinating. But explains ...
Is the argument that no extra methane is being created by cow farming, and that's okay? If you read all the linked articles, the answer is yes. Globally, it appears that cattle herd sizes are not increasing, they're either stable, or in some countries ...
The story got an airing on TV1's 1ewes at 6, coverage was critical of Gayford for misusing his relationship to the PM & misrepresenting the MoH guidelines in an apparent attempt to pressure the pharmacist. It featured brief cameo appearances by Chris ...
Gayford was rung by a friend about Rapid Antigen Testing and was put on speakerphone while the person was in a pharmacy.
Yes but that CO2 is still still constantly being extracted from the atmosphere by growing plants, including the regrown grass that the cows eat. So if you don't increase the total number of cows (& it helps if you feed them less methane-generating foods) &...
@ waggers I keep reading conflicting reports on methane produced by cattle. My understanding is that it doesn't build up in the atmosphere because of the process known as the biogenic carbon cycle. But it's sometimes hard to find articles explaining this ...
The only fruiting plant I have here at Pookden Manor is a lemon tree, Robert. I took out the feijoa tree because it was so chronically abundantly fruitful (it thrived on neglect) that I eventually couldn't even give them away to neighbours & friends & they...
Sorry, I meant Riverton, Southland.
One of the arguments some climate emergency skeptics use is that global warming will enable more tropical crops to be grown in formerly temperate regions that have been too cold for them before. So it's a positive thing, not a negative. How are you ...
"The oil and gas industry has found itself under a harsh spotlight as concern over climate change increases across the world. Lately, oil and gas majors have responded to the scrutiny with a series of pledges, plans, and press releases on the subject of ...
I'd rather leave that to the police because I have no idea. Not enough information for me to make an educated guess. The fuzz may know more from their enquiries. Possibly someone with an alternative New Age outlook from the misuse of "earth plain" for ...
No, Contrarian would be the right word in your case. An intelligent person would be able to clearly articulate WHY they consider that all the scientists who agree that the evidence is incontrovertible that AGWCC is actually happening are wrong - by stating...
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