"The Government may spend billions buying overseas carbon credits over the next seven years. But monitoring of the health of our biggest homegrown carbon store was halved to save $500,000 a year. Nobody plans to restore it." I should say something here.....
The Guardian is worse than the establishment..and for many many years now....they drain away the energy for change, they distract and manipulate the voters needed for any real change. Also...Don't forget their "Bernie Bros" narrative. The liberal class who...
"Royal biff: Prince Andrew in 'despair' after being shafted by Queen in will13 Mar He expected something in his mother's will. Now the extent of the snub has been revealed." This..in the New Zealand Herald..who seem unable to just say it like it is..the ...
"Labour ...well placed given the progressive left’s long term commitment to the issue and because it has been shown to be right."..that should be Labours next election campaign slogan...about as informative and committed and ultimately meaningless as ...
Yeah..atleast the Democrats, and the rest of us, know how to farm out child labour when its needed..(I was going to say needed for our cheap crap..but then I remember reading this just last week.. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/03/child-...
RNZ thinks we have an interest in American "news'..or atleast RNZ's limited understanding of what makes American News..that is.."Trump Bad, Shootings and Bad China with its spy balloons"...for anyone here reduced to having RNZ as their only radio news ...
"The idea of universal basic income, or distributing cash handouts regardless of employment status, had a moment in 2017. Billionaires and the tech elite talked about the idea publicly, with perhaps the crown jewel of UBI’s moment in the cultural zeitgeist...
Pre Earthquake Syria story...https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/11/1130427 “With more than half of the vital infrastructure either completely destroyed or severely damaged, the imposition of unilateral sanctions on key economic sectors, including oil, gas, ...
"Sheltered?"..on The Standard..Yeah right!!
We must live in a different Hawkes Bay. The levels of homelessness, the schools that are resigned to being nothing more than holding pens for feral children ..the appalling hopelessness of people on hospital waiting lists,...lets face it ..we live in a ...
For those of us who have tried to support the Canary but have felt a little underwhelmed...https://www.thecanary.co/feature/2022/10/03/for-the-first-time-ever-the-canary-is-under-workers-control/?fbclid=IwAR1feQjSKfVwSpfDvQtZV6-jFuqhHXrmFGuf0vyiCAH-...
You don't need to be a millennial to not understand this language. As a GenXer I only very vaguely recognize it...mainly from sitting next to drunk Uncles with issues at family get togethers.
https://twitter.com/MerseyPensioner/status/1551591122446737409?s=20&t=3zbt4MIHaYe88Pd5mt-eKw Nice to see the good fight is being fought ..and atleast Starmer is self aware enough to realise he doesn't have any defense or counter argument. For those ...
The man of the hour for sure. I love it that the Brits still use the term "working class" with pride. Our delusions of an egalitarian society don't seem to have shifted that much, like working in a call center is somehow "middle class" because you wear ...
Global pandemics maybe...the rest is just ridiculous...and in actual fact a global pandemic only results in increased inequality if you actively let it...
Maybe people had naively assumed it was incremental change for the better?
I very much doubt they are that worried. We all know people (National, Labour and Green Party voters) avoiding tax either purposefully through Trusts and what not, or more under the radar through simple accountancy sleigh of hand. National voters are ...
I was interested to read about these Russian soldiers/mercenaries today. The terrible thing is I have never heard of them and their atrocities before ..but then I see the line... "Images taken yesterday show a soldier wearing the insignia of the ...
Probably been offered a job as a Shift Manager at Tauranga McDonalds. Though actually, as someone who served at the Golden Arches Queen Street with poor old Mark "the-most-tragic-man-in-politics" Thomas at the helm, Simon would actually make quite a 'good'...
Labour get labeled that anyway..so its not a consideration ..not to mention the embarrassing/insulting carry on that day in Parliament when they "hilariously" self identified as "Socialists" (see link) Labours problem is they appear to not have much in the...
"Foetal alcohol injuries in NZ 'could be five times higher' than some official figures suggest" Highly likely we live in a country with approximately 250,000 poor souls with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome...most of whom will be undiagnosed and unsupported, with a...
The Protest we should be talking about... "CHEP Workers Win New Agreement After Weeks On The Picket Line" https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2203/S00050/chep-workers-win-new-agreement-after-weeks-on-the-picket-line.htm Well done to all involved ..obviously ...
So just to clarify...are there Nazis on the Moon or not??
I think you missed ".its just they don't realise what they are actually protesting" in fact you seemed to have missed the whole point of what I said. And I realise in an ideal only nice sane law abiding morally upright people would be protesting ..but THE ...
Its occurred to me that these people (who I admit do my head in) are "real" protestors..its just they don't realise what they are actually protesting...which is inequality, insecurity, lack of community...not to mention underfunded Health care, both ...
I would argue that Labour have in fact gone for "a show of Strong Leadership for political theatre" rather than the actual evolving science..science is not of one voice..there are a range of voices/opinion/evidence..and some voices are very good at telling...
I get the timing was a challenge..but I still think that with our fortress mentality and mandates, we were, in fact, in a position to time the vaccines for maximum effectiveness, rather than panic stations. We have these vaccines at the expense of poor ...
Unfortunately NZ has squandered the benefit of vaccinations by having too short an interval between the initial 2 shots, it should have been 12 weeks, which I only managed with some manipulation of the system ..and now speeding up the boosters, which ...
"I get particularly upset when commenters accuse an Author of being a paid shill or propagandist." Well, I don't like to think of anyone here getting particularly upset...so if it helps soften the blow rest assured there are a number of contributors here ...
The general consensus here seems to be let the CBD die...but I cannot think of any well thought of city that has let the CBD die ..without then suffering massive regret ...and then having to pump untold dollars to get the whole thing up and running again...
An interesting piece in the Herald today around Public holidays and their Deep unfairness ... "Crocker was on the Holidays Act Taskforce that reviewed that Holidays Act in 2019. He says one of the reasons the law doesn't account for non-traditional work ...
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