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Yet. There are still those around who believe in magic. Shane Jones included. After more than a hundred years of exploration, we have found few economically exploitable fields. And those are well developed already. The “plenty of oil in the Great South …

Like the health system, failings that i’ve seen are in funding support and management. The workers we have encountered have, almost without exception, been caring and dedicated.

Parties can say they are “neither left nor right” or “centrist”, until they are “Blue in the face”. In reality, every policy position is one of those things. We had a lot of discussion on UBI here a few years ago. I’m one who supported the general …

Yes. Lets just subsidise private rent seekers, even more!

“Socialism”, for the wealthy only, has never been more apparent since fuedal times!

As I said yesterday. Yep. Waiting for Nationals GST increase to 20%, to fill Nicola’s hole after the election. They have to fill it somehow, and obviously taxing the rich is Not, an option. Though, I think they are more likely to raise more sneaky levies, …

Which pales into insignificance when you consider all the “Small Government”, anti tax advocates, whose income and/or business depends entirely on Government “largess”!

Well. They were not wholly wrong.. Too many times i’ve seen people, whose education is entirely, post calculator/computer, accept totally inaccurate answers in engineering design, ship stability and navigation because that is the answer the machine gave …

https://keenlens.substack.com/p/the-rbnz-printed-54-billion-now-it?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=ryrbu About how the Reserve banks models contradict the reality, of how we directly financed State infrastructure in the past, with minimal inflation. …

That is how the NHS does it in the UK. However the Medical association resisted public GP funding, in NZ, so they are effectly state subsidised private businesses. Which worked, when they, like chemists shops, could only be owned by qualified practitioners …

Well. Labour has already suggested policies which assist GP’s to set up new practices. Which is certainly a lot better than the current model, which is private equity buying them up, and trying to extract maximum profit by paying staff as little as …

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-massive-climate-lie-that-will-destroy-human-civilization Why is 2C so vaunted? Let’s do the context thing again: 2C will mean we have completely left the stable climate period known as the Holocene. This is the 11, …

“Big Pharma”, has regulatory brakes to limit over claiming effectiveness. Though buggerrall on profit taking, unfortunately. The “alternative medicine”, exploitation of the gullible, has managed to avoid any such restrictions.

Good commentary on the links between the snake oil, “alternative medicine” industries, big money and anti-vacc, anti science, anti climate science “influences on the right wing. Paul Krugman on right wing influences

The only reason Luxon is still there, is because Nationals talent pool is not even ankle deep. They do not have “anyone more competent”.