Yes. All you have to do is follow the money to see what they will do.
+100000 It's not hard to identify the sunset industries. Industries have had to adjust to realities before and some disappear. We've already wasted a lot of time propping up polluters (impossible futures investment) instead of listening to sensible voices ...
... at: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/106546688/milking-it...
I'm not angry, I'm realistic. It's too late to promise baby steps and get applauded. Baby steps should have started decades ago when the first scientists' warnings came out. Companies like Fonterra don't and can't want to 'run' along Joy's path as their ...
.... https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/114431409/nzs-biggest-greenhouse-gas-emitters...
'Kill all the cows' sounds like familar propaganda rhetoric. Oh, that's right. Trump said 'she's going to take away your hamburgers!' In the US, the hamburger is the sacred cow. But really, it's the Right that responds to simplistic (and thus wrong) ...
+10000000
20 minute video but worth it...Economy vs. Ecology National's base depends on pushing economy over ecology. The obvious point that you can't eat money continues to evade them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT41mni6lw4&fbclid=IwAR2vpYk16hk_...
.... ' https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/114247530/the-officer-pushed...
I hear they are buying big plumbing pipes and wrapping the guns in them and burying them and laughing at how clever they are. To me, that's practically as good a result. They're not available to be stolen or used accidentally or badly, which cuts out most ...
Found a link, sorry. Feel free to delete long post. https://medium.com/being-liberal/why-people-are-against-donald-trump-the-alphabet-of-liberal-hate-1a8cd0508215
Here's a really long answer to 'why so hostile to Trump?' that I'm sharing because it's awesome and comprehensive. 'Chris O'Leary: I’ll take a stab at this. Before you pass my answer off as “Another Liberal Snowflake” consider that 1.) I'm an independent ...
'But as Noam Chomsky argues in an interview with Truthout this week, “there is a strategy”—one that has empowered the far right across the globe and ultimately endangers human life on earth. If Ronald Reagan’s presidency was a tragedy, he speculates, then ...
Trolls have a basic and predictable set of trigger attempts based on outrage. If you can't believe 'somebody actually said that', there's little point in responding. Whether they believe it or not - no value in engaging.
Totally agree. From today, I now have 2 posters on my list of 'bad faith - don't engage, no matter what'. With a couple of possibles. Posts would be much more educational (and shorter to scroll through the pile of waste) if we could refrain from hopping ...
Wow, this post really brought all the trolls to the yard with their nonsense emo-slogans!
Obama knew. He spent 90 minutes with Trump in an attempt to bring up some realities. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/10/barack-obama-donald-trump-white-house-meeting-transition
He was never up to the job. He is there only because his gang (Republicans, Russians) helped him cheat into it (gerrymandering, voter suppression, bot political advertising, etc.) Anyone who understands evidence understands this, anywhere on the political ...
Our local religious extremist Nat MP Simon O'Connor promoted a public meeting on "Can We Afford Budget 2019?", with himself and a Nat finance mate Alastair Scott MP as experts. When he first posted it on Neighbourly, replies were enabled :-) I asked if we ...
Not only is National missing a partner, they have no credible candidate in the offing for PM. Does anybody on either side really like or value anybody in the Nat ranks at the mo?
And notably, the Herald article is not behind the paywall...
+1000000 She sees it is trending on Twitter and jumps on board for a few touchy-feely feminism points to raise her current level of zero. What's she got otherwise in her media portfolio? Oravida, Slater pal, and will she/won't she knife her party leader?
The Tax Working Group has other valuable and possibly more effective recommendations apart from the CGT. Wealth tax and steep progressive income tax might not be so scary to NZF voters, who are more likely to have a small amount of investment property than...
My grandfather was kept alive for years when he couldn't walk by himself (diabetes, toe amputation) or do much except be in his expensive care hospital room. He was put on antipsychotics to calm him down (he was a big guy and only got heavier with inaction...
On the other hand and I believe more to the point, end of life care is currently an accountant's wet dream. A great way to drain any savings an older person might wish to hand on to their next generation is to leave them no option to say 'please, let me ...
+1000000 and Lucy, I also hope it doesn't feel like belittling as I also suffer from a chronic condition which has no certainty of resolving well. The eventual law would never allow for a short term (day, week, even month?) decision. No doctors would ...
Seriously though, does he think he's going to pick up votes for ACT from disgruntled gun supporters? Is that a danger?
Counteracting Petition to support the Arms Amendment Bill and add a gun register. https://www.toko.org.nz/petitions/create-a-nz-gun-register
The WOil crowd were on it before it happened, wailing about how the tragedy would lead to tyrannical moves to control guns. And have carried on as expected ever since. (I lurk in an incognito window, when I'm feeling strong enough.)
Hope he's not burning his Bridges :-)
We need to be loud and clear in pushing back against the 'rushed' or 'emotional' narrative every time it's pushed. National carried out a Select Committee investigation by firearms experts in 2016 and ignored the results. This is tragically delayed action,...
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