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 ...
Yup, it's a great listen to find out, for example, how the 15 min cities conspiracy evolved. Entertaining and horrifying in equal measure.
And to balance the Cass report, a critique from those raising trans children in the UK. Points from the critique: 1. Parents interviewed by Cass were looking for depathologisation of trans children, and decentralisation of supporting services away from a ...
NZ Initiative... rw thinktank. Why do you believe their views on a voucher system are worth espousing on a lw opinion site? A solution in search of a problem, seems to me. Greater resource targetting to low decile schools is a better answer, surely, than a...
That's several stakeholders' opinions. Where's the actual information on specific projects which these stakeholders objected to? Have a look here where all projects funded are listed. (See section on Detail of funding- projects only). Which were ...
NZ videogame spoof from Tavola for a little giggle... Tavola NZ facebook Sunday 7th April 2024
Paul The Other One discusses NZers' decrease in media trust, media literacy, and social media algorithms that encourage bias confirmation. I wonder how much of this is the decrease in tone-neutral fact reportage, and the rise, begun by Paul Holmes in feely...
A science research fulltime equivalent costs around $250k pa. The rebrand is only half a person's worth.
Pre-election McKee and ACT clearly stated gun reform as part of election policy and key to coalition talks. The Police Association challenged ACT's figures even then.
Listened to Richard Shaw on RNZ this morning. He talks about the issues covered in his book The Unsettled. He tells his story of unearthing the history of his own forebear's role as a constable in the invasion of Parihaka by colonist forces... with the ...
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