Food prices won't be coming down soon - El Nino will most likely hammer global food production, and "heatflation" is coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQkyouPOrD4 You'd like to think the government at least had a plan on what to do in the case of a ...
mikesh is one of those depressingly common types who spend their whole time railing against western imperialism while bending over backwards to justify Russian imperialism and genocide, and hating on the military industrial complexx as evil under all ...
I didn't watch - the minute I heard Jessica Mutch-McKay - the ultimate concierge gallery journalist - was going to moderate I knew the debate was going to be an exercise in political kabuki. I also predicted that the outcome would be scripted performance ...
Interesting that AT's card system only just came back up afdter being down for five days due to a ransomware attack https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/132964755/aucklands-free-bus-rides-are-over-as-hop-system-comes-back-online It hasn't been reported at all ...
Russell Brand is a pretentious pseudo-intellectual liberal joker who is as mad as a cut snake. He isn't as half as clever as he thinks he is and frankly I'd wish he'd go and join Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate in the corner where toxic people I never want...
Tim Gurner basically endorses the theories of Marxist economist Michel Kalecki... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJHP0VfeOrU
Ad - I know you are an aficionado of political biography and I reckon this one is going to be a cathartic hum dinger... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/mitt-romney-retiring-senate-trump-mcconnell/675306/
Have to say the Fijians were robbed by the referee today. Matthew Carley is a plonker, same dude let the Jaapies spend two hours ambling around Twickenham against NZ.
Pretty much. An aging team with a too much say, an incompetent board that can't be held to account and who appointed a medicority as coach in a triumph for the chummocracy, and all with so much denial you'd think they were on a felucca in Egypt. Actually, ...
This comment by Advantage - https://thestandard.org.nz/daily-review-07-09-2023/#comment-1967316 - to my mind touches on the reason for such widespread disinterest and disillusion in the upcoming election. Despite the media deciding that "Labour hasn't ...
My lack of engagement these days has more to do with tiring of a certain moderator than anything else. It's like trying to negotiate with a Pyongyang tram conductor.
Some one is doing OK - I just caught up with the news that Indian airlines have announced orders for a record 500(!) airliners at the June Paris Airshow. https://www.flightglobal.com/orders-and-deliveries/paris-air-show-order-tracker-indigo-deal-and-air-...
I am picking the the turn out this election will collapse, I think we'll be lucky to get two thirds of voters to the polls on election day. I am worried the 20% undecided vote will simply not bother.
The bonnet head shark is a vegetarian, and I am sure it doen't appreciate it's identity being questioned by you. Just saying you need to check your privilege and apologise to all the bonnethead sharks. And not one of those Tory apologies where you ...
Aitutaki is nice at this time of the year. ;)
I reckon he looks more like a startled Xmas ham.
The crew were innocent. Not that the inconvenience of ending the lives of completely innocent three flight crew would trouble the criminal Putin at night. The bastard is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths already.
"Asassination by Putin? Good, out of the door, line on the left, one missile each".
Shot down by a surface to air missile. Putin is a murderous monster. I feel sorry for the innocent people on the aeroplane. Russia is a mafia state with gangster "justice".
Russian gravity strikes again... Yevgeny Prigozhin apparently killed in an air crash.
HI Sutton is a pretty reliable source, although I am sure he could be taken in by rumour.
I was thinking about the Maui fires yesterday. Globally, fire weather seasons have increased in length by 27% since 1980. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/07/climate-change-wildfire-risk-has-grown-nearly-everywhere-but-we-can-still-influence-where-and-...
Faith is a personal matter, until it becomes a matter of influencing public policy. If there is a suspicion that National's caucus is in the thrall of an Evangelical plurality determined to impose a US style fundamentalist culture war on our realtively ...
But that is still faffing around the edges. They have to do something radical to get the phone back on the hook. Here is a couple of ideas they can still throw out there: A tax free income threshold of $10,000 and removing the tax exemption of churches - ...
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Labour had better wake up pronto - insipid and visionless policies that tinker around the edges are not going to win them the election. They owe their supporters a better effort than that.
RMA third reading was Wednesday, not that our petty minded gallery journalists would think to inform us - they are far too busy trying to gotcha Hipkins on whether or not passata is going to be GST exempt. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/495939/rma-...
On cue, Seymour's words have consequences: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300952879/incident-at-ministry-of-pacific-peoples-leaves-staff-rattled-police-called-in The media need to hold him to acount.
A lot of senior journalists are getting on a bit and haven't moved on from being Roger Douglas's cheerleaders, and the rest only see politics through the lens of the horserace where Seymour offers a reliable one liner for clickbait.
Biden's pivot to stimulate the reindustrialisation of the west to meet climate change (and strategic threats) is echoing across the world, and will be rightly seen as an historic moment if he wins reelection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vFmfrASIkA
If that is NZ First's immigration policy then it is classic playing to elite theory, where elites are the insiders who shape consensus reality and whose moral and political views dominate. The elites of both the left ("woke elite") and right (metropolitian...
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