I have many friends in both Ukraine and Russia and we communicate daily on the current war. Both sides have perfectly rational explanations as to how this all evolved, who is to blame and how it will end. My Russian friends naturally blame the US and Nato....
Not to mention the sport where men and women compete on totally equal terms. Also one of the toughest sports with one of the highest fatality to competitor ratios. An Olympic sport that Kiwis do extremely well in - both men and women! Equestrian Three Day ...
Fascinating, a very important but virtually unknown part of the world.
So you agree with National and if you are not vaccinated - you had your chance!
No, that is not what I want but it will happen sooner or later. There has been plenty of time to increase ICU facilities. The virus will escape and become uncontrolled. The vaccine, as in other countries, will not stop it’s spread. The vaccine take up, ...
No subsidy for broadcasting opposition press releases then?
Shows what it can easily jump to, even with higher vaccination rates than our's. We should be better, a small sparsely populated isolated island, we have had every opportunity to ride this out until a better vaccine was developed.
But we are only 58%. Don't fall for the spin of "eligible"
"slowly with care" has been abbreviated to just "slowly". The hiatus in vaccination after we thought Covid had been stopped in it's tracks and the jump from "first in the queue for vaccines" to almost last will prove deadly and hard for Labour to shake off...
I agree that vaccination rates are far too low to reopen the economy completely. The media uncritically parrots the "eligible" vaccination rate, the actual rate is much lower. https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations A quick look shows many countries ...
I know quite a few Iranians and I have found them to be exceptionally liberal, decent folks. They seem to live in a different universe to their leaders.
Yep, can't get in.
They seem to be off to a good start https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9970003/Taliban-BAN-Afghan-women-playing-sport.html
Good news! Arctic and Antarctic sea ice volume is the highest it has been for 9 years! We are saved! https://osisaf-hl.met.no/v2p1-sea-ice-index
Yet the legislating of minimum heating requirements came from Labour with apparently no consideration of the supply side consequences.
Look at places like Manila. Ports have links to the reticulation networks that allow ships to plug their generators into. You might be surprised how much you can get out of a container ship! Probably more efficient than burning diesel at Huntly to ...
Yet the North Island has the biggest population increase and landlords and Kianga Ora are installing electric heating at vastly over specified capacity...........of course the other option is not to reduce demand but increase supply.
Cheap rates (such as ripple controlled circuits) are the first to be cut off - that's why they are cheap!
True.....but.......how long ago was Max Bradford? How much new generation and transmission has been built since then? I mean serious generation, not a couple of wind turbines which should have backup in case (as last night) the wind doesn't blow?
All parties in the electricity industry make their profits from deferred capital expenditure. Because they are "allowed" a prescribed return on investment, they just keep revaluing their assets upwards and not putting anything into future planning.
Morrissey's frequent references to Julian Assange and his now fractured relationship with the corrupt Guardian go to the crux of the Russiagate hoax. Assange's oblique reference to Seth Rich and the recently revelation that the FBI held thousands of pages ...
....and everyone was paying the Bidens......talk about convergence.
…..and Huntly uses low quality coal from Indonesia. So the choice you give us is between NZ made steel using low quality coal from Indonesia or low quality steel made from possibly high quality NZ coal (or low quality from somewhere else) from China. The ...
I agree but why limit your tools of power to things that involve violence? Other things that greatly enhance a group’s power to convince and convert surely include the judicial system and the media. The best counter to bad arguments is good arguments. Free...
The fact that a political party can pick a guy like Muller as leader is a big concern.
If our recent tourist from Australia had not been vaccinated ( he would not have been if he were a Kiwi) and if he had the Indian variant you might not be so complacent. The fact that his wife tested negative was a big clue to the hype in Wellington being ...
Absolutely correct, the media have absolutely no moral values. It does not matter what side of politics either. The recent revelations that NZME, NZ Herald, ran a paid for article portrayed as news lauding the achievements of a political candidate. Paid ...
Driving a country into the ground because our leaders want to virtue signal when it will have absolutely no effect is criminal.. So when our economy and society is completely destroyed, China, India, and Russia will decide to follow our example?
By then the biggest emitters of most of the GHGs, China, Russia, India etc will probably not even have started cutting back on emissions and coal fired power stations will be springing up everywhere. Global emissions will be accelerating and little ole NZ ...
How about instead of blowing all that money on a cycleway we put it towards slotting a few more turbines into Manapouri, building s transmission link to the Waitaki and upgrading the Cook Strait DC Link
did you look at my link?
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