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6:00 am, February 21st, 2025 - 39 comments
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Has Donald J gone too far?
Will there be a revolt by even Republicans against the insanity of Trump’s policy towards Ukraine?
Bernie, as always, tells it like it really is! 5.30 mins long
How different the world would be if Bernie and Corbyn were in power.
As someone said "The best president (prime minister) the USA (UK) never had."
The sheeples of the world prefer a self deluded peace to a real peace so they vote for the next great pretender that promises everything.
"You ain't see nothing yet b-b-baabee, you you ain't seen nothing yet"
He'll be 88 when this term ends.
Biden should have appointed him to HUD. Perfectly qualified.
Will there be anyone as good to replace him?
https://newatlas.com/energy/france-tokamak-cea-west-fusion-reactor-record-plasma-duration/
Might actually be 10 years away from reality 🤔
They are always 10 years away….meanwhile in the here and now solar rules.
The Herald is running a Seymour friendly anti TPM agenda …witness the Sonny Tau main headline today.
Trump would be proud of them.
Yup, Nats looking to take down Tamihere. One clue: Collins's dirty politics mate Cam Slater putting up stuff about Tamihere on his site.
trump might well be proud of Sonny Tau. I dont think Sonny Tau is really the victim here….
Tim Jago…..et al, equally bad.
I realise that Psych….you are right….but is the way the Herald will treat it was my point…they will give it massive headlines for weeks…it will run and run….now if it was one of their business mates treatment would be much more sympathetic and they would close it down asap
Target?
Lots of money in war…………..
Interesting – the short-codes for the right side bar have stopped working.
Nothing obvious, they just appear to have stopped being collected and expanded by shortcodes ultimate. License is up to date. Nothing in history.
I'm short on time to debug this today, So I will disable them until I have time later in the day to debug the issue, or for the plugin author to get back to me.
Fixed – bad pickup on Skeptical Science. Looks like it picked up bad data and ever corrected it it on subsequent pickups.
Gotta find some time to finish my rss system and install it. I have already corrected for these issues.
lprent, reply comment function seems broken too. I can leave a new comment, but can’t reply.
the text box is over wide as well, and text disappears off the either side of the screen if the sentence is long enough.
Yeah. because it was failing as HTML renders on the page, the trailing javascript never triggered. Should be fixed now.
The RSS feeds are problematic because the current plugin doesn't clean the imported junk properly – it just trashes malware. So bad HTML gets pushed into the site. That has cascade effects.
working now.
I can however reply to my own comments.
but they don’t nest.
Green is Good.
I made a submission regarding. Feels good : )
Farmers like it because it's about not being locked out of their million dollar combine harvesters by John Deere.
tWig.Meh. Whatever. There is much more in the Right to Repair bill than that…..as you probably know.
Pointing out the broad church. Not just a greenie feel-good about fixing your toaster. Which is a point the Bill’s sponsor made on RNZ.
Did I say it was a "greenie feel-good" (strange phrasing) fix your toaster bill?
Were you somehow triggered by Green is Good? Strange.
Why the bristling? Being able to repair toasters and tractors is the crux of the legislation, as the public see it. PUBLIC PERCEPTION, mate.
Putin seems to be contracting out dirty deeds in what the experts call `hybrid warfare'.
This covert strategy seems aimed at confounding Europe, and it works on the basis of plausible deniability…
Although loitering with intent is a traditional British criminal stance, the Russians may have invented it independently. Repetitive loitering with intent could distract from action elsewhere – used as a ruse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-3036d1db-da99-49b3-9d64-272472095d4a
An outrageously unfair budget and an obvious betrayal of a promise not to cut medicaid.
https://balleralert.com/profiles/blogs/trump-endorses-gop-budget-that-slashes-medicaid/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
Trump makes up something, saying only 4% support Yelensky as leader.
The truth exposes the reality, someone with more support than Trump.
https://kyivindependent.com/us-objects-to-russian-aggression-language-in-g7-statement-straining-unity-on-ukraine-ft-reports/
It is also the position of POTUS Trump to not support a G7 statement citing Russia as the aggressor.
Good to see Twyford targeting Destiny Church to have their charitable status revoked, and pay tax.
Good stuff Phil.
Best make sure it's doesn't become a Supreme Court case against activism itself though.
An anyone explain to me wtf this is on about?
They need to remove level crossings to increase safety? How does that work?
The article is very generally about the CRL.
Oh so some will become road bridges. Not super clear.
Their messaging is hilarious- oh the government has to pay for this infrastructure thing. Again. It’s already slow and expensive. That’s not what government does. We’re here to facilitate tobacco companies and privatise healthcare.
It’s up to Wayne Brown to be Mista Fantastic for Auckland :
’"Once open next year, CRL will double Auckland's rail capacity and reduce congestion across the city, enabling Aucklanders to get to where they want to go faster.’
What a drag to have to modernise the road network to a accommodate that and
‘At Auckland's level crossings in the decade between 2013 and 2023, Auckland saw almost 70 crashes, plus over 250 pedestrian near-misses and 100 vehicle near misses.’
save lives and injuries. We cause more misery and physical harm in our transport policy usually! Unsafety! End this namby pamby safety nonsense.
Still I wonder how Brown, S woulda phrased it.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542604/government-puts-up-200m-to-remove-level-rail-crossings-around-auckland
Its in code : NAct1 hate Rail. So, It became necessary to destroy the
villagerail, to save the cars and trucks. Bloody Rail.National will open CRL in election year. Bridges as Minister signed the contract on site in – as I recall – Oct 2016.
We won't see the likes again of this scale of urban rail investment this century.
Shoutout to Len Brown.
With a train about every 5 minutes (going both ways) these crossings will be shut for the majority of the majority of the time.
Better to close them ASAP and let the traffic find alternative routes.
Melbourne went through a similar program as part of their new underground system.
In the mid 2000s we cleared 1 in Henderson, 2 in New Lynn, then a Newmarket one 5 years ago. Damn expensive work.
Road network in New Lynn, Avondale, Penrose and Papatoetoe would just seize up without it.
Most grade changes?
Citizens' assemblies. Good on Whanganui district council for setting one up to korero about the fate of a local swimming pool.
'40 randomly selected residents representative of Whanganui’s demographics will meet for a series of sessions facilitated by an independent expert. To ensure inclusivity, participants will be paid $500 for their time."
There will be a balancing exercise, to ensure a representative group. There’s sign-up now.
$20k to make a decision that we elect a council to make. Fuck off.
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Or, $20,000 redistributed to citizens that will make a decision free of vested interests.
Idea of the day.