Our Tories are not stupid, it's pay-off for the funders who got them elected.
"sell out" crowd indeed, well described.
Some info on charter schools: "In 2018, New Zealand spent USD 9 934 per student at primary, secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education" OECD education spend data. BHNews on charter schools at 1h:10, Chewie rips into Charter schools, including a ...
Two thumbs up, agree SPC, too much of the rw biased debate thrown up here is solely about the evil of government spend on citizen welfare. But remains quiet on state welfare for corporates (e.g. bank bailouts, corporate environmental damage remediated at ...
And here we have the rapacious mining lobby quietly just starting on work on an opencast gold mine alongside the Otago Gold Cycleway, extending the site with no consent, looking to retrospective agreement by Otago councils. Obviously one of the firms that ...
Charter schools are for-profit education businesses, which suck up state education funds to pay for the lifestyle of directors. Look to the UK and Australia to see the damage that a for-profit model in education produces, where charter/private schools suck...
Stuff discussing senior poverty, the increase in rents, rates and other bill, and the role that shared accomodation might play. Stuff on going flatting in old age
I started reading this book earlier this week: Blakely pulls together key debate floating round in economics circles, but which are not accessible to the general public. Instead we hear ad nauseum the simplistic 'free market, free market, free market', ...
Big Hairy News covered the issues regarding the initial meeting with this interview with VUSWA President Marcail Parkinson. BHN FB 30 Aril 21:00. The calls were not to 'cancel' the debate, but to make the podium panel more representative. And free speech ...
Haha more funnies. The UK Tories brought in a photo id requirement for election voting, despite voter fraud not being an issue, following the culture war trend of Trump's election fraud assertions Boris Johnson turned away from local body voting station ...
Big Hairy News clip from Guy Espiner's RNZ 30 interview with Seymour BHN FB 02 may 2024 21:00. From 24 min onwards, well worth it to see Espiner catch Seymour admitting that tax cuts will be funded by borrowing.
Perhaps the iniquity of coloniser policy has something to do with Maori educational outcomes today. Maori in the mid-1800s were a literate community, with high rates of literacy, and Maori language press. According to the Office of the Auditor General 1862...
And that's the iniquity of colonialism, as an invading coloniser culture which runs down opportunities while economically exploiting indigenous people. In 1880, by government policy, Maori were actively discouraged from tertiary education in academic ...
Big Hairy News and Paul the Other One discuss Minister of Children Chhour's decision to thumb her nose at Waitangi tribunal over changes removing Maori focus in Oranga Tamariki. This opens the door for others in government to refuse to speak to the ...
Enjoying very much reading Liam Dann's book BBQ Economics, out a month or so. He graduated during the1990's job squeeze, and says clearly his experience then puts him economically on the side of managing the economy for the benefit of all. The last essay I...
Talking of land-based Chinese trade, the China Belt and Road initiative includes land routes, as well as sea route development, for reasons of both strategic trade and military influence. One reason does not preclude the other.
Disagree with you on the authoritarian nature of Labour on the vaccination front, weka. War, epidemics and natural disasters fall outside usual democratic constraints for a fixed term. Many businesses breathed a sigh of relief over the mandatory ...
UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals from the Guardian. Mass graves include old people, women and children, and naked, bound bodies.
Big Hairy News deconstruct the recent Q+A interview with the Israeli ambassador. Chewie chews out the ambassador's arguments. BHN Facebook 23 April 2024 13:30.
In-depth CNN article about China's internal security services. Thete's an iteresting new framing of national intelligence agency on social media to encourage citizen input on suspicious activity.
Just to say that lumping these three together on the basis of their sex (use of the term 'daughters') skitters too close for me to attacking politicians for being women, as opposed to taking reprehensiblere political actions.
Big Hairy News discuss the meaning of 'trusted media' with Greg Tredwell, co-author of the media trust survey 2024 results recently published. BHN facebook 14 April 2024 20:27 Topics covered include increasing 'news avoidance' and the fact that trusted ...
Chewie on Big Hairy News made the very pertinent comment that the analogy of citizens as clients is wrong. We are, in fact, shareholders.
Debunking conspiracies aotearoa Facebook page (weds 17 April 2024 12.25) has a short summary and links to petitions regarding the newly-named govt Fast-Track advisory panel. "the government announced the advisory panel on the Fast-Track proposal ...
Women who support YOUR version of the womens' rights movement, Shanreagh. In the UK, a Womens' Equality Party was established in 2015, well before Posie Parker set up hers finally (after several attempts, with paperwork out of order in previous tries). ...
Fascinating interview with Batya Ungar-Sargon, deputy editor of Newsweek, who identifies as a Democrat. Her new book Second Class uses interviews with working-class Americans across the US to look at the divergence of working-class values (of whatever race...
Unless you have removed my posts from the history, weka, they are there for anyone to view. At the time you personally barred me from posting links to articles and facts which challenged transphobic material on this site. [I didn't bar you from that, I ...
In fact weka, around the time of PP's visit I called out you and other anti-trans posters on this site for language full of vitriol and disgusting slurs against trans people, primarily trans women. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike ...
RNZ interview with makers of The Lost Boys of Dilworth, to be screened on TVNZ tomorrow. Actual victims of institutional paedopholia in our own country, which I find 100 times more newsworthy and more relevant than the tearing down Scottish hate speech ...
https://www.facebook.com/DebunkingConspiraciesAotearoa/posts/pfbid0VFbjcdyx2LMTRgnscsqFGmPBBCUS8Boqf4nLYUM7jeSuZ2Q4ehRzJZM9dCWvGRxFl "Media Insider: Top Rupert Murdoch TV exec meets PM Christopher Luxon amid media turmoil" "Paul Whittaker...chief executive...
From Wanda Sykes, black US comedian: “To me, the whole complaint about cancel culture is a lot of men — especially straight men — who are just pissed that they can’t say things any more, y’know?” Sykes explained, “And it’s not like you can’t say these ...
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