go on then, give us all a wee lecture about male violence against women.
not really. Mitigation is specifically the acts of decarbonisation. Adaptation technically doesn't involve that, but rather taking actions to deal with the effects of CC. The best solutions do both, and once we get there mitigation and adaptation are two ...
he ended up pleading guilty to fighting not assault, so I assume there was a bit of aggro on both sides.
anything in NZ?
because he could see how this was going to play out for Genter and the Greens?
As for serious, there have been incidents of brawls in other parliaments, threats of violence and scuffles in close proximity to the chamber by MP's in our own. Can you please give more information on this?
reread it. I didn't say that.
please fix your username.
Anyone who argues we can adapt to runaway climate change is either ignorant of what the climate crisis is, or is running climate denial lines. At this point, given how much your argument has been dismantled, it's hard to not see it as wilful ignorance at ...
Micky, I let this one through because it's your post, but also fine to move it to OM if you prefer.
not quite following you there. Do you mean Labour and the Greens are self sabotaging?
Great post micky. Imagine if we lived in a both/and world. Genter made a mistake/aplogised AND we looked at the broader context of what happened that day. The Greens spoke to both the unacceptability of the behaviour, AND the unacceptability of a ...
why is that so for NZ?
It's also gendocide.
BG already said she had taken responsibility.
good point, I doubt this came out of the blue. There is also the problems of the past 12 montks and Green MPs. They can't afford stupid shit like this.
Helen Clark's twitter has been interesting.
there's a genocide happening, some of the students will have family and friends in Palestine. Protesting that is appropriate. There were huge protests against the invasion of Iraq. Those changed how we think about war and the West's involvement.
sure, but I don't know what any of that means.
I really hope so.
For clarity, I think the US campus occupations are righteous and I hope they regroup and continue. This is one of the few things I've seen that has the potential to force the US government position on the genocide in Palestine to change. I also think there...
Watching the police clearing Palestine liberation protestors from US campuses, I'm thinking about the ways in which this is different from clearing freedom protestors from Parliament grounds. https://twitter.com/NaomiMaePhD/status/1785657833750516155 The ...
lol, same. Genter is an asset for parliament and the Greens. People using this as a reason to diss her generally are just politicking.
the problem is the precedent it sets.
it was fucking stupid from an experienced MP not least* because of the politicking that follows. The only excuse I can think of is that she was having a bad day, and I bet the reactionary right knows exactly what to do with that. *it's also bizarre. Afaik ...
Anyone want to have a crack at explaining what James Shaw's new job is? Shortly after his speech wrapped up, it was revealed Shaw would join global infrastructure management company Morrison from July, and take on a director role at new investment ...
I haven't seen anyone suggest that MPs control their own pay. The criticism is whether MPs need that degree of pay rise during a cost of living crisis when so many people are living in poverty. The specific critique of Hipkins is that as the leader of the ...
so we've always existed? I find this strangely comforting.
I don't know. You could be right. But it seems odd that National would be doing this if it didn't save them money. And that MSM wouldn't have checked. I'm guessing they're using different data than you. You could look on the MSD website?
then there is this (Feb 2024 RNZ), National set out its fiscal plan during the election, including a move to reverse a change brought in by Labour to link main benefit increases to average increases in wages. Wage growth has typically increased faster than...
have a look at this and see what you think, https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/main-benefits-increase-line-wages
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