"Gonzalo Lira died in a Ukrainian prison , jailed for crticising the Zelensky govt(illegal under Ukrainian law)" No, he was jailed for violating Article 436-2 of Ukraine’s Criminal Code — justifying Russian aggression against Ukraine (justifying, ...
Good points, and I just picked $20m out of the air actually. My main concern is that the truly wealthy are often barely considered in some conversations - when their wealth in fact dominates things. And $100k IRD-income does not identify them. A good way ...
Better still, forget about people with more than 100k IRD-declared income and focus on people with $20m+ wealth. That is where the real money is. The $1.2b is only about 8% of the wealth of NZ's richest person - ONE PERSON could fund it all for 10 years, ...
That is anti-democratic and utterly corrupt. If you have the money, you can pay people for special government access (and influence) - and keep it all a secret. Other parties in government should make the identities of these people known (unless there is ...
"500,000 dead Ukrainians for what exactly?" Dead because russia invaded its neighbour without cause. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be even more dead Ukrainians. (the 500k is a russia propaganda lie, btw. Ukrainian military losses, while much lower ...
I really like Alex's emphasis on class politics and working people. This is absolutely where the focus needs to go, rather than inflating identity politics which often helps no one and alienates many. His comment that "The working class has not had real ...
...and a small indication that Putin is full of shit, is his assertion in that insane interview that Poland forced Hitler to invade Poland. If you believe that, I've a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to sell you.
You complain about the quality of the media, express a desire for 'both sides of the argument'....and provide a link to youtube. Anything critical of the russian government on youtube is banned in russia, as are VPNs. Twitter, Facebook - blocked. Putin's ...
It's been all over the MSM. As well as reporting it, RNZ has debunked the worst of Putin's garbage here. Putin is an uninformed fool, only listened to by the gullible. But he isn't short of malice,
100%. WFF is a subsidy from the public to private business, allowing them to pay their workers less than they need to survive, pocketing the savings as private profit. (exception only when the employer is a public or charitable organisation)
Thanks Mike, very interesting read. Supporting Maori is a great way to encourage the country to be more concerned about people and community generally, instead of the current neoliberal idea about society.
So much so that he has become a poster boy for Maori men's health! https://menshealthweek.co.nz/maori-mens-health-status/
"The US has taken and continues to take a very strong interest in what happens in Ukraine." But what you said was "US proxy combatants", which is a far cry from that. You attempt to deny an entire suffering nation's people of agency, with such slander. ...
Reducing the desperate struggle for survival by the Ukrainian people to a russian propaganda attack angle ("US proxy combatants") casts a shadow over everything else Mike writes here, to me.
Caffeine == Nicotine is a tobacco industry public relations line, it is notable to see the minister using it, more evidence she is captured by tobacco lobbyists. The two drugs have some similarities. While the tobacco industry is implying that caffeine is ...
NZ put on the block to the highest bidder. NZ citizens the low-cost labour under our wealthy overlords. All to plan, I would think!
Across-the-board random-number cuts like this are a clear sign of blind ideology. Cut 7.5%....what if the 7.5% cut ends up costing us 20%? What if the cut is socially very valuable compared to the proposed tax cuts for rich people? Don't know, no analysis,...
To suggest that propaganda piece remotely represents Podolyak's position is nonsense - and the fact that Klarenberg quotes a Spectator article that includes a quote from Podolyak - hardly means Podolyak is a "source"! Plus Podolyak's comments in that ...
Russia-propaganda aligned piece from a former journalist for Russia Today and Sputnik - both state funded russian propaganda outlets. Russia is desperate to promote the idea that Ukraine's defeat is inevitable. “The past year of fruitless fighting has ...
It is more the (correct) accusation of him repeatedly invading and slaughtering his neighbours, that worries people. Putin's initially offhand comment that "Russia's borders do not end anywhere", now repeated on official russian propaganda bill boards - I ...
No one lying, misleading, fomenting division, should be credited with the conversations that result. Agree! Like giving credit to a ram raider for starting a conversation about crime...
Ames is 100% a shill for Poots, in my opinion. I always laugh when people writing about Ukraine are experts / journalists "formerly / currently based in Moscow". Here is Vatnik Soup's summary of Ames Like a good Putin puppy, he obediently promoted the ...
I think Ardern was NZ's Obama. Both came in with lots of hope and promise, but remained hard neoliberal and so inevitably could do nothing about entrenched inequality and disadvantage. Both were followed by cruel, right-wing, populist, anti-evidence ...
"...its a great time in the electoral cycle for this to happen….in 3 years nobody will remember." That is actually a very good point.
This incident is actually a good illustration of why such an arbitrary approach isn't a good idea.
And now this very weird reason - an ad hominem attack to which Trump might be especially susceptible. Will Americans Vote for a Man Who Is Now Widely Reported to Exude a Rancid Odor? I remember reading about the conservative tendency to be more easily ...
The point is, it is wildly one-sided. When did another country make war against russia, invade or subjugate it, post WWII? While the list of countries that russia has invaded and/or subjugated since WWII, is long.
I'm sure you know - the UK has a huge arms industry. So (as in the USA) much of the donated support remains in the donor country, not 'bags of money given to Zelenskyy' as russia's supporters like to say. Be great not to need an arms industry, but then you...
Subcontracting gone mad.
And he won despite China's malicious interference in Taiwan's elections. China's bullying and abuse of its democratic neighbour is appalling.
the West have no interest in democracies…and Ukraine sure as hell isn't one. Ukraine has free and open elections, with vigorous opposition and a free press. Zelenskyy and other government officials are widely criticised and discussed in the Ukrainian ...
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