Simeon Browne has completely drunk the kool-aid of US style nihilistic culture wars. He doesn't care about the climate or good policy, he just wants to own the libs.
I don't believe half of what was reported about the Chinese scandal, some of it read like wishful thinking from the West. For a start, liquid fuelled missiles are really, really old technology and I would be surprised if those that are still in service ...
The North Asian arms race gets very little coverage here, which is bizarre because a big conflict there would almost certainly involve us via our status as a military client state of Australia. South Korea is an excellent example of the rapid decline of ...
Only 14% of registered Republicans voted in vile weather in Iowa, and just under half of them voted against Trump. Its an interesting opinion poll on where the GOP is at.
Lots of Greenery from the Wellington region then!
Does all this mean the venerable ex-mayor of Wellington Celia Wade-Brown is now a Green MP?
what a massive disappointment Golriz Ghahraman turned out to be. I hoped she could go all the way in politics, but she has proved unable to make the transition from activist to MP and clearly her mental health is in tatters. There does seem to be a case to...
Where exam results they don't like won't apply!
Worrying about the impact on global warming of jet fuel consumption is a bit of pointless middle class theatre for Grey Lynn yoga mums, who will fly to Europe for their bi-annual holiday anyway. The elephant in the room is coal being used for electricity ...
I am currently on holiday so internet search skills are a bit limited. The point isn't the content, it's that these people are growing an audience when legacy media numbers are falling despite a race to the bottom. These people are doing something right, ...
Here is a list of NZ's top YouTube content creators. They got millions of followers and above all, are GROWING when legacy media are shedding jobs and seems to be in terminal decline. Yet legacy media is utterly indifferent to their obvious appeal. Why is ...
Well, if a knight can find the holy grail, and a Mallard is a duck, and if by using our biggest set of scales we can show a dame weighs the same as a knightly duck, then clearly all dames are witches, which makes Jacinda a witch! The cookers were right all...
https://www.tophamguerin.com/work/the-digital-campaign-that-rewrote-nzs-political-playbook The MSM - all those so-called political pundits, gallery journalists, savvy reporters - uncritically repeated the tax cut rhetoric bullshit from National. Topham ...
Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers have died for that ephemeral idea of freedom - freedom to determine their own future, freedom to decide what sort of society they might wish to be. It seems so naive to us that a man might lay down something so precious as ...
They probably should focus on dinosaur exhibitions, Egyptphemera, and curating their exhibitions and ensure there is still a museum to interpret contentious current events in a century from now.
"A riot is the language of the unheard" - Martin Luther King Jr.
This piece is on the media is thought provoking: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/in-2024-the-tension-between-macroculture This bit I found very interesting: "...I never get asked a single question about Substack from mainstream media people (although they ...
"...But clearly National and Chris Bishop will insist loudly and angrily that there is one. ..." And the complacent idiots of our MSM will report the story entirely in terms of the political optics and how Bishop gives them a hard on/gets them all wet with...
So far Luxon has utterly failed to reign in the far right and conspiracy agendas of ACT and NZ First. He seems incredibly weak politically, allowing his government to be highjacked by the most extremist agenda since Richardson. To quote Pablo over at ...
We are staring at an economic catastrophe of the scale of Cameron's austerity under this government. It is utterly maddening to me how our navel gazing, parochial, rather stupid, bored and listless MSM couldn't be bothered to investigate the dealings of ...
Advantage asked me to write a post – this could I suppose be lifted as guest post in reply to this one if a moderator feels like it meets requirements... Since we are in the quiet patch before Xmas, I plan to also write two additional posts about the ...
SIT were always full of it when dealing with other polytechs; to give them their due they came up the fees free innovation but the upshot of that is/was a huge sense of provincial exceptionalism and a big dollop of militant parochialism born from a massive...
Don't forget the Boeings.
Narrow gauge is a major handbrake on long distance rail freight and especially passenger services. The selection of narrow gauge for New Zealand set the tone for the next 150 years of infrastructure development in NZ. Narrow gauge was seen as a no brainer ...
In his defense, it is quite hard to smoke when you are cycling.
Weka and co have totally red pilled themselves on the trans debate, whilst the whole time imagining they are free thinkers untouched by social media post truth culture wars.
It is all well and good to say National aligned themselves with protest movements, but much of the momentum and heat of many of these protest movements themselves was generated from disinformation spread by right wing culture war proxies on behalf of ...
Old Putin was sounding pretty cocky yesterday, but a day is a long time in politics and he'll be furious this morning that his toady Orban got so completely isolated that Hungary was basically ignored and Ukraine got a big win on it's journey to EU ...
As I tell anyone to slow to escape, if you think Winston is going to let Seymour be deputy PM for 18 months then I have a nice bridge to sell you. My guess is he'll white ant the government until he thinks he has caused maximum damage to ACT and got NZ ...
Hmmm built between 1995-99 so at replacement the fleet would be at least 27, 28, 31 and 27 years old respectively. Effectively, lack of a replacement path means we are looking at block obsolescence.
Cancelation is all gravy for National/ACT. They don't care about the infrastructure deficit, they don't believe in the government planning anything. So they simply ignore it on basis that by definition tomorrow never comes and when it does, it'll be ...
Recent Comments