Putin is absolutely wanting "a Russia which included Ukraine"...problem is, the Ukrainians don't want it. The "70 odd years of communism" was really 70 odd years in the Russian empire, which included mass deportations, russification and events such as the ...
Photoshop is also occurring.
Russia is an empire, but one that has contiguous land borders. The current Russian Empire is a conglomeration of multiple cultures and societies, now colonised and with their languages and cultures suppressed. This youtube channel has 6 videos (in English)...
...and the 'Cheap Shot' biography book photo. Widespread on russian disinfo accounts on twitter. Can find no info anywhere supporting its authenticity (e.g. where, when). Does Mike have any idea of its actual origin, or just 'putting it out there'? I had a...
Yeah, you could consider reading some Ukrainian sources, when commenting on Ukraine. Arestovych is widely distrusted by Ukrainians, many of whom now consider him a russian agent. In unrelated news, russian propaganda channels seem to be promoting ...
Mike Smith uncritically absorbs russian propaganda and regurgitates it here. Not worth addressing all his disinformation, but a couple of points anyway. Here Mike repeats russia's lies that Zelensky is deferring elections to try to usurp power: But ...
Thanks lprent, excellent post. When you are a tiny country like NZ, encouraging wide agreement on a rules-based (and humanitarian) global order is completely in our interests, as it can protect us far better than any military force we are able to muster on...
...and WINZ offices
I'm not saying those businesses are being smart. The benefit these stupid employers think they have, is zero commitment to those workers and an ability to fire at will with no notice. Jobs I have direct knowledge of were all in hospitality, with low ...
OK..so they threw some bricks back at a guy who was throwing bricks at them. It appears the police threw with quite a bit less force than their attacker used. When attacked like that, the police are allowed to respond with reasonable force to defend ...
Is there a link to this footage?
Median wage, please.
Yep, doing things based on evidence, isn't this clown government's strong suit....
I personally know of multiple young people who were let go at exactly 90 days - often being told there was nothing at all wrong with their work, but company policy not to go past 90 days. New hires in exact same job, next day.
To be fair, that actually illustrates just how out of touch with reality Labour were - no clue about the imbalance of power in many employer / employment relationships. must be agreed by the employer and employee in good faith – an employee can’t be forced...
..meanwhile, initiatives to encourage walking and cycling are halted. Minister pulls brakes on cycling and walking initatives In a letter to local authorities Simeon Brown said he told the New Zealand Transport Authority (Waka Kotahi) to halt work on ...
Picton shocked by withdrawal of ferry funding!! Meanwhile voting place results show Picton voted for the current coalition of clowns by a robust margin. Vote for clowns, expect a circus.
Good article - I wasn't aware just how much effort NZ1st put into chasing the freedumb vote - long interviews with Liz Gunn etc. The dog has caught the car!
...plus passenger vehicles are only around 26% of global oil consumption...so 30% of 26% = 8% of total oil requirement.
If NAct actually gave a damn about gang crime etc, they would have written letters to Oranga Tamariki, Ministry of Social Development, Inland Revenue Department, Treasury, Ministry of Education etc etc, DEMANDING urgent action be taken to address poverty, ...
Replacing pasture with forest retains some carbon, but obviously at best only carbon previously released from deforestation, not the massive input from fossil fuels. I have often wondered if a good use of forest slash (and maybe entire plantation forests) ...
After decades of deliberate acts by the state to exterminate te reo (my mother recalled Maori children being smacked for speaking it at her school in the 1940s), this lousy government thinks this despicable move is a priority. yuk yuk yuk.
Loved this wry comment from a (real) data analyst, about the work of the Te Whatu Ora antivax privacy breacher: “It is unnecessary to use stolen data to make misleading graphs when you can make just as misleading graphs from publicly available data,”
With NAct I always think of Oscar Wilde "...someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" ...but it seems they don't know the price either!
Love the "FREEEEDUMB" cry as he left...cliched cooker to the point of hilarity!
I have quite often seen russian propaganda regarding russia's attacks on East Ukraine and Crimea, parroted on this site. Russian investigative journalist, Andrey Zakharov, and others, have compiled the history of how putin planned, propagandised and ...
Bastions of international law and human rights, all. Their opinion on who is and isn't terrorist is worth very little, in my view. .
The police list specifies the "Military Wing of Hamas" as a terrorist entity. https://www.police.govt.nz/advice/personal-community/counterterrorism/designated-entities/lists-associated-with-resolutions-1267-1989-2253-1988
Argentina and Chile - both drawn towards authoritarians and extreme "free market" (aka looting) types. Javier Milei sounds awful.
Probably foreign land purchases?
Apologies. I shouldn't assume.
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