Yeah, Bidens all about the workers and their struggles...seriously though...the pro union headlines are a great way to distract from what is actually happening to workers in America ..and unfortunately some of the Unions are more interested in being self ...
Ignoring the fact that people on middle low incomes are struggling to pay rent let alone insurance, ignoring the fact that heavily mortgaged homeowners are increasingly letting their house insurance lapse etc etc...Lets just talk about the awesomeness of ...
Meanwhile, despite the angst and gnashing of teeth over Russia and China... in the Middle East things are on the boil again... https://thegrayzone.com/2017/04/12/isis-us-syria-sharyat-air-base/ woops, sorry, wrong one.... https://www.militarytimes.com/news...
I'm always surprised that no one brings up the undisputed fact of the United States "intervention" in the 1996 Russian elections...and the American lead IMF loan of US$10.2 billion that Boris and his mates squandered ..quite blatantly...and this is just ...
Um...thats entirely my point...we haven't moved on since 1975... but anyway...google 'DEMOCRATS MUELLER PROTESTS" (heaps, right?) now google this mix or variation thereof ... 'DEMOCRATS TAX CUTS FOR RICH & CORPORATIONS COVID-19 RELIEF BILL PROTEST" (clue...
Its not Romantasism..its a desire for truth... For my part ..the problem with the Anti Putin rhetoric is that it dominates western media for absolutely no practicable purpose,...leaving the stories, the issues and the political intrigue we should be ...
Well well well....from the Guardian .this morning "Amnesty strips Alexei Navalny of 'prisoner of conscience' status". https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/24/alexei-navalny-loses-amnesty-prisoner-of-conscience-label I do love the obfuscation of the ...
No need to repeat my quote...but thank you anyway Incognito. If you have some words of your own as to in what way this is a "broad-brush fidget of fantasy" given the actual reality of what is happening in regards to laws and policy...and the reality of how...
For that small group of us with an interest in actual comprehensive human rights, decency and the rule of law....disturbing news from the UK...where...with Boris in charge...and Starmer being a "good boy" , are about to pass a law that will have a myriad ...
Nice to see Biden continuing the Trump tradition of outright lying about covid... "Biden’s response to a mother attending with her eight-year-old daughter, who asked Biden when her children — who “often ask if they will catch COVID, and if they do, will ...
Trust Incognito to bring up the good old "everyone else was doing it" defense ... working for someone considered a war criminal ..working in an organisation controlled and nurtured by said war criminal...all fine as long as there are exactly how many other...
Starmers donors are probably more than happy with his, erm, achievements, or lack thereof...Centrists do, after all, seem to have a taste for rubbing the publics faces in piles of ashes ..and if TS is anything to go by ..the public have learnt to love said...
Further proof, if any is needed, that we are no less racist, nor "Less Genocidal" than out Australian cousins... Stuff really are on a roll with the "Truth and Reconciliation" ..so nice to see some actual journalism .. https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/our...
Well, we live in a country where many firemen and ambulance drivers are volunteers....it would seem the greater the personal sacrifice and heroic requirements and risks of your job the less our market economy values your labour...but meantime...are you ...
As someone of Scottish heritage...I consider cultural battles over dress are, infact, important... however the fact that the Māori Party co-leaders did not submit on the business attire dress code seriously weakens their position. The argument not to ...
I'm still wondering how they will frame an 'invasion' of Venezuela, in whatever form that takes...let alone the continuation of sanctions(impacting the economy at more than $11 billion in 2019)during a pandemic ..and yet....not Brazil... "The mercurial ...
... you'll be all for #forcethevote then ..or just the DNC 'vibe' of actual reform?? Fiddling at the edges...incremental nothingness... https://forcethevote.org/
..actually...the poor Americans are, as you so delicately put it "fucked as usual"..heres a link to an interesting article related to the lack of basic hospitals in America...a country where five million American workers lost their insurance this spring ...
Well if your idea of "Normalcy" is a crying President on repeat over his dead son...you're in luck...though I guess todays rehash was better than the time he introduced his granddaughter as Beau ..that being said ..I wonder how long they really can keep ...
...like that time Clinton pardoned Marc Rich (plus his own brother, and Patty Hearst), or George H.W. Bush pardoning six people involved in the Iran-Contra arms scandal, or Ford pardoning Nixon, or President Ronald Reagan who pardoned George Steinbrenner, ...
That AOC has an interesting relationship with the power (or otherwise) of voting though... "A few reasons: Sometimes it’s to get members on the record, so ppl can’t make excuses later. Sometimes these votes create real political pressure that forces ...
Isn't it strange that we are all supposed to be so concerned with American Democracy....the very corrupted Democracy that led to Trump being elected in the first place...meantime...under the cover of the Covid Bill.... "$33 million “for democracy programs ...
Bernie Sanders, self described and never shy to claim being a Independent Democratic Socialist, was massively popular, and had voters listening to him on both sides of the divide....so, despite what we are told, it would seem that the people were not so ...
Meantime the DNC along with AOC are making darned sure that Medicare for all never happens...in the middle of a Pandemic ffs.... while our dear friend Boris in the UK is doing such a sterling job of dealing with things that UNICEF is stepping in to feed ...
Don't feel too bad....For some reason 'statsNZ' is "Closed"..but if you google "Average Student Loan Leaving Debt' (Image) and squint really hard, you will get some idea of how much individual student debt has increased since 1992....so while not free, ...
All the more weird and downright delusional/dishonest a comparison given that Households Debt To Income in New Zealand is at 163.80 percent and yet we have a housing policy designed to encourage even more debt....
"Climate change. Build those walkways and cycleways and get rid of those coal boilers. And while they are at it build light rail." Woah, woah there...hold your horses Mickysavage..we don't want to get too radical about dealing with climate change and the ...
'we need a strong economy to support the underclass'..we've basically had a strong and growing economy since the '84 reforms....I'm not exactly convinced thats been used to 'support the underclass'..or, infact, even the middle class..beyond encouraging ...
The first step is for the (world wide) main stream Media to regain its tender hold, on its previous role as a marginally independent Educator, and Mediator, between the voter/consumer/citizen and the Government and Industry.. unfortunately I really do not ...
"Many of us are already doing things in our personal lives".....we can recycle, we can buy locally produced goods(really just Beer, Gin and food) we can refill our glass containers at the milk collective....however within the paradigm of ever more, ever ...
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