Newshub will cover Winston Peter's NZF party conference this weekend. Some under NZF umbrella include anti-vax doctors and anti co-governance/3 Waters activists. Lots of competition in that corner, though. NZF looking to hover up disgruntled Nats who can't...
Time magazine does a great big-picture analysis of RFK jnr's mindset. Hits all the key points succinctly.
Poll aggregator FiveThreeEight says RFK jnr was running at around 10% a week ago. So unlikely to get more, especiallly given the news about him since.
Stuff profile of Matu Tangi Matua Reid. There is nothing in his background to suggest he would act the way he chose.
Jamie Driscoll, the very successful mayor in the North of England was pushed out of re-running by Starmer and Labour Central. Stalinist-type erasure. Politics Joe interviews Driscoll, who resigned from Labour two days again to run as an independent, after ...
Say that 1.5 mi multiperson/family households used 2 supermarket bags per week to line their bins, 400 single person households used 1 bag a week = 166 mi bags per annum. That's 10-15% of the actual bags produced, leaving 85% of plastic shopping bags as ...
Sharon Murdoch has a trenchent view of election priorities: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/94869389/sharon-murdoch-cartoons 21 July 2023.
RoH was a mash-up of a never-ending revolutionary state with an entrenched bureaucracy, a soft stand-in for nominal socialism ruled by a political elite. The positive option presented in that SF universe, as I remember, is a benign capitalist monarchy with...
Uxbridge and Ruslip, Boris's old seat, retained by Conservatives by 500 votes in yesterday's by-election, down from Johnson's 7000 majority. Looks like UK Labour didn't do quite enough campaigning, by a smigeon. However, they have requested a recount. ...
This shooting does not sound like a predictable, or preventable event. He rang family and told them he loved them the night before. He'd had a visit with his parole officer the day before, which rang no bells, or not enough to predict his violent attack. ...
Some of those are biodegradable choices. I use newspaper from the local throwaway rag or real estate freebie. Or you can forgo the liner, and many will. And wasn't it around a billion bags removed from the environment? Your comment rather makes my point.
Because non-incremental change comes from governments, not people. The governments get bought out too, in one way or another. As a very small example of societal inertia against a positive environmental change, remember the extended and loud moaning of the...
Because of active and massive funding of propaganda by energy companies and others who benefit ftom oil and gas use. This 2013 Smithsonian article estimated a billion dollars pa spend. It's only got cheaper and more pervasive. My very intelligent son and ...
Sorry ianmac, posted my reply to you here at 11.2.1.1.1.1 by mistake. Hope all is revealed...
When I inputted your herald address into the archive.is website SEARCH function (further down the page, not the archive dialogue box), it popped up with the cerKV link I put at the top of my comment. That should take anyone clicking on it to the archived ...
I read that Luxon's an OK, results-driven executive, trained at Unilever, renowned for their all-rounder exec training. He is warm with his work team, but worships at Mammon's altar (shareholder returns), and will sacrifice all to reach his target. He has ...
More importantly, listen to Suzie Ferguson's new RNZ podcast series Undercurrent to understand why we as a society need to monitor online 'free speech' forums around NZ political life.
More mundane than that: making moolah for themselves coming and going. There seems to be breakdown where they contribute to legislation, while on-selling insider info to big corps (also their customers) affected by the laws/policy under development. Much ...
Well, I've got a bit more respect for Luxon and a lot more understanding of what makes him tick. He was a cypher before, possibly still is. Thanks for the link, ianmac.
Have a go yourself at finding the archived copy. https://archive.is/cevKP I went to https://archive.is/, pasted in your nzherald address into the search function, and it pulled up the above cevKP link. Hopefully that works as a link in TS, as it's the ...
Police Commissioner Costner says he was a 24 yo with a home detention sentence, for primarily domestic violence, but with an exemption to work at the construction site. He did not hold a gun licence.
A gun register's a good start. And a watchdog for online threats.
Simpson was all professional on rnz morning report shortly after 8, co-ordinating the relevant info for commuters and city workers. She refused to be drawn to speculate, saying that was for the police, and came across as 100% credible and competent. Brown ...
ABC asks about the opaqueness and unaccountablity of the Big Four consultantcy firms which have 'infiltrated' Australian governments (15 min). Their consultancy contracts have 'hollowed out the Public Service, which is one of the pillars of the Westminster...
Thanks J90, that was a helpful backgrounder.
The difference is not our judicial system and its charges. It may be dissected in the media, but the trial is in the NZ courts. Fair enough if you complain about bias in media coverage, but not for justice outcomes. The main advantage in the justice system...
She won't be 'getting off', merely determining where her sentence is in a mental health facility or in a prison. The trial is about a guilty by insanity plea, including infanticide due to postpartum depression, not about whether she is innocent.
Fight Against Conspiracy Theories Aotearoa encourage people to make submissions (by July 31) to public consultation on the Department of Internal Affairs Safer Online Services and Media Services. The trick is to manage safety across platforms, holding them...
Wootton's NZ-born, started at The Dom-Post, and was visiting his parents in Wellington when accusation broke, according to the spinoff (see 10.02 am post). No wonder he took pleasure in (and maybe initiated) anti-Ardern messaging.
In the US, there is effectively a two-candidate presidential election by an electoral college. At the moment, candidates are strutting their stuff for the Democrat nominating convention, which chooses that party's presidential candidate. RFK jnr is one of ...
To paraphrase you, DF, JK jnr is good for US democracy because he tells lies about covid. Why?
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