All this nonsense about having the border protections on for the foreseeable future is crazy. Many people will not stand for an indefinite travel ban if we have vaccinations available. The "foreseeable future" is not what it was. All this nonsense about ...
... interesting to know if Kendrick M.D. has revised his assessment...
Redlogix called you a bigot?! Extraordinary.
It's regrettable that Rosemary's 'vaccine trust glass' is empty - still, more for the rest of us guinea pigs; it's not like forced vaccination is a thing in NZ. What I don't understand is how/why this lack of trust developed. Most adverse reactions to ...
The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 infections has just topped the 2,000,000 mark. Wouldn't dream of saying "people who think, and god forbid say, that the Government really hasn't done very well at all should leave the country" - how bizarre. As ...
Yes, I do call that facilitating the arrival of 5,735 people into NZ in the first two weeks of January 2021 during a steadily worsening global pandemic, including the evolution of more infectious strains. Alwyn, would you prefer more arrivals (bags not ...
Won't someone please think of the 'alphas'
Red, what makes you think that there's a (general?) lack of realisation of the advantages (e.g. remote island, delayed risk of exposure, small well-educated population, competent leaders and dedicated public health workers focussed on protecting the health...
Based on NZ's COVID-19 health outcomes to date, is it really the case that "David Clark really was useless", and that the preparation of our health sector was poor? Goodness gracious, if that's really is the case, then the UK Secretary of State for Health ...
Agree 100%, "A very bad idea", exploitative even - kinda why I mentioned it.
Now how soon do you think the BLM and Antifa leaders should have 'called it off' once they realised their peaceful protests had spun out of control into violence? @RL (4:20 pm): Did Trump call for the invasion of the Capitol to be peaceful? If so then ...
@RL (2:32 pm) ... hell even Trump himself knew enough to call it [the Capitol invasion] off once he realised he'd overplayed his hand. Maybe the President should have called off the Capitol invasion sooner. We're cycling back to Trump's deliberate use of ...
Bit off topic - a question in a recent quiz in 'The Listener' reminded me of the once common enough practice of using X-ray Shoe Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope devices in shoe shops. The first scientific evaluations of these machines in 1948 ...
Thanks for that YouTube video - interesting, informative and empathetic IMHO.
So what evidence do you have that this protesting crowd was in any way motivated primarily by 'white supremacist terror'? I've made no such claim - maybe someone did, but it wasn't me. So the protestors/rioters were primarily Trump supporters were they? ...
You for example quite cheerfully characterised this protest/riot as 'white supremacist terror'... - RL Did I RL; did I really? I did however find myself agreeing with some of the 'characterisations' and analysis presented in the linked article. ...
RL, if you truly believe "white supremacist" is "a deliberately [?] ill-defined term", then why not campaign for an accurate definition? Better still, state your definition here. IMO white supremacists are people who believe in white supremacy. By "white ...
"...the term 'white supremacist' is one of those phrases the left has conceptually stretched beyond all usefulness. It can now mean pretty much anything you want..." - RL Simply extraordinary.
And now you want to pretend this isn't in any way, shape or form related to 'neo-nazi' in the ordinary sense of these terms that most people will understand. Best hyperbolic fabrication yet RL. You are the champion
To be fair, "white supremacist" was in bold because it was part of the title (in bold) of the article. It would have been difficult (and IMHO dishonest) to link to Borger's article without using the term "white supremacist", as this term was in the title ...
Isn't that just more fabrication? I can't remember disagreeing with the idea that "the term[s] 'white supremacist' and 'neo-nazi' are for all practical purposes entirely adjacent to each other", whatever that means. "white supremacist" (Borger) --> "'white...
Care to explain how this is so very different to 'neo-nazi'? They're spelt differently , and Borger (the Guardian's world affairs editor) used the term "white supremacist" in the title of his article that I linked to - he didn't use the term "neo-nazi"; ...
"Yeah and to be honest I'm very suspicious of this 'white supremacist/neo-nazi' thing the left immediately cooked up on this. It was a very large crowd and I'll bet that any actual neo-nazis represented a very small fraction of it." Yeah and to be honest ...
Anyone can fall into the trap of "whining about things we have ZERO control over", and it's handy to recognise such behaviour in oneself as well as others Of course Trump is responsible for his inflammatory language, but so what. It's what Trump does, why ...
Frankly both major US parties are so compromised in my view (although in quite different ways) that there was no outcome of this election I would have been overjoyed about. So you don't have, or would rather not express a preference - all good. This is ...
Just because you like the outcome of this particular election... I do like the (likely) outcome of this particular US election - do you?
Soy cropping in NZ - plenty of potential for growth, some reckon. Six ‘star’ crops – soy, hemp, chickpeas, oats, buckwheat and quinoa – could represent new opportunities for New Zealand farmers. Market-Led Trials of Specialty Grains and Pulses in ...
The most important reform the US needs to look at immediately is to find a way to restore trust and transparency to their actual voting systems. If it's an easy fix, why didn't Trump fix it? Splitter par excellence. How Trump drove the lie that the ...
Increasing populisation and radicalising across the spectrum made the splitting of this fault line pretty damned inevitable. Trump's the exploitative splitter par excellence - who could do it better?
... love affair with America. I’m also lucky to have seen... in and outside government. I’m a 30-year fan of...
Interesting what's happening in Brisbane - hope it's not too disruptive. https://www.smh.com.au/national/coronavirus-updates-live-nation-s-covid-vaccine-rollout-may-begin-in-february-case-found-at-brisbane-quarantine-hotel-20210108-p56sji.html In the light...
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