Half of the primary care medical practices are not taking new patients. This has impact on job mobility and also the children of parents moving to new areas after being evicted from their rentals. This sector of health care is short hundreds of doctors ...
Reagan served till January 1989, his falling asleep at cabinet meetings not being a thing if the nominee GHWB was present.
RNZ Biden has indicated personal support for Harris, but is not handing over his delegates (he is not able to) - this means an Open Convention. Mike Johnson BOTH claims Biden is unfit to continue in office AND any other nominee apart from Biden is illegal....
Trump vs Biden – Biden needs to lead by 2% in the general poll to win the electoral college and yet he was falling further behind. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden Harris has better favourability than Biden, not ...
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-19-07-2024/#comment-2005290 Trump vs Biden - Biden needs to lead by 2% in the general poll to win the electoral college and yet he was falling further behind. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/...
*Some one is not going to the Convention as a candidate for the nomination. They will remain POTUS until January 2025. He was hoping for a Convention bounce, but it was going to be a divided convention. If he won the nomination and remained behind in the ...
Vance and his people and the liberal redneck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eMMZksZSL8
Iraq was complicated by it being under UN oversight because of its attempt to annex Kuwait. They hoped sanctions would end the regime, but it did not. NATO wanted to end sanctions, but not while Hussein was still in power. It would have been better if they...
The problem with one option, when that is not that good an option. She said the group was also concerned about the Government’s intention to focus New Zealand’s emissions reduction strategy on planting more pines on steep, erosion-prone land in Class 7. “...
It is not possible to claim that defence of a nation involves starting a war. And annexing territory by war (even if attacked first) was banned by the UN in 1949. BN appreciates your support for occupying and settling land taken in the defensive aggression...
Given the lack of status of those of that wider profile, it is the Treaty consideration that raises all waka, when otherwise it is the better connected middle class that has influence on those of the C of C.
It all depends on whether LGB people see themselves as part of the umbrella term "queer" or rainbow (homosexual, does not include bi-sexual). (except for the idea that Rainbow excludes bi, it doesn't). That was not my intended meaning, more that the term ...
Are those who do not identify as cisgender welcome in LGB groups?
Meanwhile In France, Macron is allowing a summer recess without a parliamentary government. Leaving the Popular Front to decide whether they want a govern alone, without a majority to achieve anything, or not. The only majority is where a Socialist is ...
But she still has to confront the issue of consistency on international law, as per recognised international borders and defence of them.
Over 10,000 nurses have moved to Oz in the past year. Now it's well over 20,000 registered Kiwis there. Each year graduates sit an exam to be eligible for their placement. Only half have a local placement (hiring freeze). For some yet to be explained ...
CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. is an American cybersecurity technology company based in Austin, Texas. It provides cloud workload protection and endpoint security, threat intelligence, and cyberattack response service Presumably they will not (now) be the ...
In Europe An Italian the PM has been called short (she is 5 foot 3) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnk41nnl125o Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as president of the European Commission following a secret ballot among MEPs. She is also short (5 ...
If the UN General Assembly is being consistent it will make the same determination as to Ukraine. Russia cannot annex territory of Ukraine and other states should not provide any military aid to it.
The UN's top court has said Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is against international law, in a landmark opinion. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said Israel should stop settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East ...
Sure for a long time Pharmac did not provide a drug that managed the diabetes condition better than a cheaper alternative. The health system paid the price of this - quicker decline to need for costly dialysis. The wider economy with people unable to work....
It's about improving Maori health and in this context would relate to the drugs that would do this. This would in fact benefit Polynesians and the working class in general managing the impact of poverty - and thus mitigate middle class influence on ...
Sorry Joe, but it's time for the Biden rocket to lift off. He is making the same mistake Ruth Bader Ginsburg made in 2015-2016. She wanted to have her place filled by POTUS Clinton. And it invited McConnell to make his double play on a Trump victory. This ...
The government is making councils come to them with a plan for them to approve before signing off on increased access to debt finance.
Those who survived the mortgage cost of recent times will survive the rates increases more easily. Retired homeowners can (should be able to) defer rates. I am not aware that getting the rebate is an issue, just that it has not been increased for awhile (...
Yeah that horse has bolted from the stables - we have too much delayed infrastructure work to do.
It all depends on whether LGB people see themselves as part of the umbrella term "queer" or rainbow (homosexual, does not include bi-sexual). Transgender people, can be all sorts. To call a transgender person having sex with both male and female, straight,...
All we want/can expect is a local government that is functional and can hold rate increases to 10% pa. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/what-you-need-to-know/522539/missing-mayor-record-rates-rises-and-tauranga-s-election-what-s-going-on-with-councils
There was a time when wives would be informed by their husband that he was gay ... Then there's the stories of Trans widows: heterosexual women whose husbands transition and become very controlling and misogynistic towards them. I doubt it is the nature of...
The full quote In the last three years The Auckland Sexual Assault Service had seen instances of choking during sex in their work increase from 1% to 25%, Denholm says. Denholm says another area of concern is the acts of violence being gendered with women ...
Consent, politics and social behaviour. Brett Kavanaugh became a Supreme Court Justice after being questioned about no one being above the law (as all candidates are and all say no one was, something to note given a recent decisions as to easing the rules ...
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