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6:00 am, January 17th, 2026 - 13 comments
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He oughta wear the thing on state occasions and remind world leaders that he had said he was going to get the Nobel Peace Prize and did so. Talking point.
Oh, there's a worthy addendum to that…
What do they know? It got done, didn't it? Transferred from one person to another actually did happen. So their claim that it can't be done is incorrect. The world's viewers and readers are likely to notice this. Also, she shared the winning of the medal with him, so they have been proven wrong on their second point as well.
2 out of 3 ain't bad. They have established their lack of credibility using numbers, so scientists will be able to measure this and confirm it. To err is human, so we can now confidently assume that the Nobel committee are not alien imposters.
Why are you fabricating a straw man again? Just to have another mindless onanism?
The article is clear that the medal doesn’t equal the prize.
In this election year, patience for your idiosyncratic self-indulgent pseudo-intellectual onanism is on a knife’s edge and Mods will use Occam’s razor without too much hesitation.
Machado's action seems treasonous, encouraging her country's enemy. Perhaps she will be arrested and put on trial when she returns to Venezuela.
Yeah but in politics all is often not what it seems. The regime may prefer to survive, in which case it will go along with T's initiatives to the extent that enables pragmatic adaption to circumstance. The interim president has the opportunity to do whatever framing the residual leftists require, but that depends on the deal to be negotiated.
I suspect T will exert sufficient pressure to compel compliance due to knowing that hegemony prevails, but the left could get a win via window-dressing.
What's the legal situation regarding ownership of the medals? Do they become the absolute personal property of the recipients, able to be gifted or sold without restriction? Or are they subject to the same sort of buy-back rule that applies to Oscar statuettes?
New year and my Facebook is full of Labour ads about National cost of living failures…fair play.. and then the big New Year Labour policy is to increase my streaming costs to produce local shows I may not want to watch. Who's on a focus group asking for increases in streaming??
Before you grasp at focus groups you may want to consider stakeholders first, yes? For example, NZ’s screen production industry and its reasoning for supporting a levy.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/584114/election-2026-labour-proposes-game-changing-streaming-levy-to-fund-local-productions
By the way, I cannot (yet) find the “big” New Year policy on Labour’s website anywhere!?
https://www.labour.org.nz/news/
https://www.labour.org.nz/our-policies/
And what do you mean by “your” streaming costs? Sounds like a straw man.
I think they are looking at streaming as a luxury, which in a cost of living crisis, it is. Lots of people I know have cut their streaming service and have gone back to free channels or put the records into good use. I personally don't think it's a bad policy, whilst not being something I think they need to focus on right now.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/584114/election-2026-labour-proposes-game-changing-streaming-levy-to-fund-local-productions
Another question to ask is what benefit will such a policy have upon New Zealand local production.
That's the point. The rnz article cited above discussed the downturn in local productions, the effect of streaming upon advertising revenue which helped fund local productions, the effect of local content in terms of culture and identity, and also what other countries have done to aid their homegrown industries.
Another question might be, "Who's asking for New Zealand shows showing New Zealand talent in acting, direction, production skills, New Zealand scenery and life style, New Zealand food, wines, beers, habits, accents and language, New Zealand music, bands, artists, all that can be shown locally to boost our sense of special beauty, culture, nationhood and shown internationally to showcase our own place in the world?"
What am I looking at when I watch Shetland, or Vera, or Midsomer Murders, or Ballykissangel, or those other shows from Italy, France, the US etc? Their local productions highlighting their countryside, language, food and culture.
Good policy that will bring revenue, work opportunities, and renown to New Zealand.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/584298/trump-threatens-tariffs-on-countries-that-don-t-back-greenland-takeover-plan
There's an obvious response to the bully boy’s latest retaliatory threat to anyone who stands in the way of his latest toy acquisition:
Do a Carney and sign a trade deal with China and if you already have a trade deal expand it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxycAjGBj94
If you can't control 'em, starve 'em.
The CoC is govt by and for the sorted – their wrecking of NZ is all going to plan.
We don't know how lucky we are, and were.
