I'm sure lots of pundits will be searching for meaning and reason behind Trump's sacking of Bolton, when there won't be any, in the world of the sane and rational, that is.
Roger Waters Performs 'Wish You Were Here’ in Assange's Support in London This is worth watching - actually introduction by John Pilger starts at almost six minutes in. Powerful words from him, as well as Roger Waters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
Canterbury can grow more milling wheat for flour for bread so New Zealand is self-sufficient instead of importing three quarters from drought stricken Australia https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12233017
I was interested to discover through doing an interview with farming land use consultant, that the furore in the region I live in over people buying hill country farms and converting them to forestry has nothing to do with the government's One Billion ...
This video is an excellent counter point of view Some interesting facts that people may not know: * A Hong Kong man who murdered his pregnant girlfriend in Taiwan and was going to stay free unless he was extradited to China started the protests - not6 ...
Interesting to hear that. See my comment just below on that subject
There's a real opportunity for independent media outlets that pick off the news that really matters and leave all junk opinions etc to the Herald and other media (media not being the same as news) outlets. All you need is a couple of journalists and a free...
Let's stop calling them "whitebait" to start with and give the five species their actual Maori names. "Whitebait" is a perfect description of the ignorant colonial attitude to the species - a bunch of white fish that are generically called "white bait"
I enjoyed the way this article was written
One dog barks at a shadow, 1000 turn it into a reality
Why Ihumātao and Capitalism will never agree I was just musing with a fellow bus traveller on how the Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same American capitalist coin which only allow change within a capitalist framework, and certainly won’t ...
Three words: Negative Bond Yields "A quarter of the bonds issued by governments and companies worldwide are currently trading atnegative yields — which means that $14tn of outstanding debt is being paid for by creditors in a bizarre reversal of normal ...
Earlier this week,‘Te Koiroa o te Koiora’, a Discussion Document for the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy (NZBS) was launched setting out proposals for inclusion in a new Biodiversity Strategy. The Department of Conservation made a video promoting it (see...
I think Ihumatao is about the law. New Zealand, as it became reinvented by European colonisation, is based on the preeminent rights of private ownership over everything else, especially when it comes to the land. The law protects private property more than...
People in New Zealand, especially reporters, don't understand what an "attack" ad is. It is an advert made and paid for, by third person or organisation attacking a political party.
The Coming Economic Crash — And How to Stop It - Elizabeth Warren "Household debt. A generation of stagnant wages and rising costs for basics like housing, child care, and education have forced American families to take on more debt than ever before. The ...
So we are all going to die because of some book based on zero historical truth
What is happening to towns and cities with global warming is like what happened to the city of Rome. It didn't collapse to little more than a village in one day. It was sacking after sacking by a variety of invaders after the fall of the Roman Empire in ...
Interesting photo that, at the top, which I have seen used in quite a few different context It's quite loaded with negative subtexts towards women and JAG
In a housing market where few new houses are being built, I don't see how more small investors returning to the market is a good thing for anybody other than small investors. The signal no capital gains tax sends to the market is that property investors ...
"What are the real movers and shakers up to?" Just chilling out trying to goad Iran into war, and stuff
This fascinating documentary focuses primarily on the use of methamphetamines by the German military during World War II and Hitler's personal drug habits but it also mentions a fact I've found mentioned elsewhere, which is the allies (and Japan) preferred...
Former left wing British MP George Galloway gives a good argument for why Brexit was a workers movement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3WLwEl7ywQ
Israel Folau isn't a Christian. He's a non Jewish follower of the Old Testament, as are most "Christian" fundamentalists
Alistair Scott got a lot of flack from both those who voted for him and those who didn't, but generally speaking he has done a pretty good job as Wairarapa MP (saying this as someone who wouldn't vote for National in a million years). He pushed for the ...
"This speaks volumes about what their priorities are." I don't they have any priorities full stop, same way as vandals don't have priorities
"Apparently unsatisfied with the legal loophole the Americans had created for them, the Israelis sought and received full access to the NSA's massive surveillance data troves after the war. A 2009 memorandum of understanding officially gave ISNU ...
But there is another material from Venezuelan soil that could be extremely valuable. Its name is torio (Thorium), and it has the potential of becoming an ecological nuclear fuel. Professor Eduardo Greaves, an expert in nuclear physics and a professor at ...
"The Rare Earth Threat The third tool is exports of certain goods that are critical to some important U.S. industries. One is rare earth metals, a group of minerals that are vital to advanced electronics and power systems, including smartphones, batteries ...
"Coltan is Venezuela’s Oro Azul or ‘blue gold’. In 2009, President Hugo Chávezannounced the discovery of reserves worth $100 billion of “the blue gold of the 21st century” in the Amazon region of the country. The price of this blue gold follows an ...
"Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.” The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some ...
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