Politics

[Waltzing]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/national-extends-lead-in-latest-poll-chris-hipkins-falls/FEFRB553ZZC37PSDUO7HQQB7EA/

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labours-worst-week-highlights-its-existential-crisis-political-round-up/X5ZFOQ53UJAZXPWZVKJ4ETBTVY/

[Waltzing]

The worst Finance minister ever !!! thats what she says !!!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/labours-worst-week-highlights-its-existential-crisis-political-round-up/X5ZFOQ53UJAZXPWZVKJ4ETBTVY/

[Untamed]

Guess the government coffers aren't as empty as we are being led to believe.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/510560/christopher-luxon-claims-52k-accommodation-payment-to-live-in-own-apartment

I accept that he may be entitled to claim this, but Luxon would gain a great deal more credibility and trust, if he did the right thing here.

[Waltzing]

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/council_debt_ceiling_240403

[Waltzing]

oopps someone forget to tell the PM to be nice ...  JA will send him a note... and get Hellen to have to a chat at the next UN function they all attend...

who is the NZ UN rep anyway..

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/christopher-luxons-show-of-strength-is-perfect-for-our-angry-era-bryce-edwards-political-roundup/3BMNHP6S7ZGXRGRHLQW72TF2RE/

[Waltzing]

 Apparently you can just do what ever you like with a Tax funded budget ...

https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/mbie_paying_psa

[Waltzing]

https://www.interest.co.nz/public-policy/128064/brian-easton-impressed-how-effective-taxpayers-union-has-been-he-looks-their

[Waltzing]

The Tax payer union is looking at funding for music theory these days ... but RBZ probably a much bigger budget than some of these ...

"iHe Whiringa Māramatanga: Kaupapa Māori Music and healing

"'He Whiringa Māramatanga' examines Kaupapa Māori music theories and practices as a pathway to accelerating Māori well-being. Music theory is primarily located within Western music notation, harmony, and tonality. However, Māori Music, particularly through oral forms such as waiata, karakia, ruruku, haka, pūrākau and whakapapa, illustrate that Māori have unique key elements of musical theories to create oral legacies and that traditional Western definitions of 'music' may be confining for true Māori creative expression."

Approved funding: $377,550"

think these guy deserve some support ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq2K8ak47nM


Guided by Hine te Iwaiwa: Exploring Maramataka [traditional Māori lunar calendar] influence on pregnancy Outcomes

"This research aims to explore the effects of incorporating the maramataka, a traditional Māori lunar calendar system guided by the goddess Hine te Iwaiwa, into the context of pregnancy care for wāhine Māori and Maori Midwives."

Approved funding: $400,000

perfect ... 

[winner (n)]

Nassim Nicholas  Taleb on France -

France: the unsustainable & unavoidable mutation of a standard industrial welfare state into a low-growth-high-debt museum welfare state with a medieval economy focused on handbags, cheese & wine, regardless of the "rightist" or "leftist"outcome.

France: One reason the xenophobic statist group called the "right" is gaining is that poor immigrants are incompatible w/the new French museum state -ignoring that the high ratio of Asian tourists to population also harms the marketing oriented character of that new state.

For those who still don't get the Pareto distr:
4/5 of largest French corps in capitalization, LVHM, LOréal, Hermès, & Dior are into #Lindy Medieval products.
(LVHM has > 3x the capitalization of Airbus which is not even formally French, 8x Dassault's, etc.)

[Waltzing]

Elon does not yet buy french ... but he will when he realises that girls and he has a few tagging along really really like french stuff...

 voting in the second round will show how the french voting system works and how the parties work together to block the right...

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20240701-rival-parties-race-to-block-far-right-as-france-heads-toward-legislative-run-off

there is nowhere on the planet like france and the  french language is really not only the most lyrical  but it just cant be compared to well anything really ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo0RLhg7Df0

dont under estimate the french ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes

computer controlled climate .. and it was very inventive for its time ..

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en

and ... lets not forget  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In1cnJlEIwU

some nice ships ...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistral-class_amphibious_assault_ship

and back in the day ... the class of class ships ...the most powerful steam turbine ship ever built ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie

its just the french hate anything the rest of the world is doing ..

ok so Turner bet the french to impressionism ... but they caught up big time ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave_Ship

dont forget this will draw people from around the world forever ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

I mean can you beat this man?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion

just say it ... the french are the best ... its just they are a bit you know ... up them selves...

[Waltzing]

"Yes well will this ever be resolved they even teach it in schools as a subject at teenage .. "
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redacted .... poorly worded ..

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-holocaust-survivor-speaks-of-her-anger-its-difficult-to-put-up-with-these-old-germans-a-9cc14234-653e-491c-b737-a64452bb6ceb

[BlackPeter]

Yes well will this ever be resolved they even teach it in schools as a subject at teenage ..

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/a-holocaust-survivor-speaks-of-her-anger-its-difficult-to-put-up-with-these-old-germans-a-9cc14234-653e-491c-b737-a64452bb6ceb

Difficult subject.

I wonder, though how many survivors from slavery and their families have been compensated by British, US and Dutch governments? I wonder how generous the compensation of Belgium was for the slaves they "recruited" in their colonies? What about the crimes Portugal and Spain committed in South America, what about the crimes all European nations committed in their colonies? What about the crimes committed by any historical power (like the Romans, the Mongolians, the Dutch, the British, Russia, China, US) to subjugate other countries? I wonder whether the Maori tribes ever paid compensation to each other for enslaving, killing (and eating) each other?

It does not feel that the Russians fear compensation claims coming up when they continue to commit unspeakable war crimes in the Ukraine, and neither does it feel Israel cares about committing crimes in the territories they occupy, in Gaza and in Lebanon. Does the Taliban fear compensation claims while waging their war against women?

But hey - the uncompensated for crimes done by humans to fellow humans would fill many books - and, looking at recent history, it does not appear we learned anything from that. But yes, we probably should not feel too good about ourselves. The reason humans are at the top of the food chain is not because we are nice and fair.

[Waltzing]

" I wonder whether the Maori tribes ever paid compensation to each other for enslaving, killing (and eating) each other?"

your not allowed to talk about this ... not in this ... what ever it is as its not a deomcracy and really never has been...

they dont want you to read the bill of rights and between the treaty and bill of rights its a rope pulling event...

for a good read on how a Chief saw his role read "Defenders of New Zealand" ... well the title itself is problamatic .... only one chief quoted the rest is all the british army in action with local Militia... we have family mentioned and medals in it... oh dear...

[Waltzing]

right ... fred Dag you tube video will be banned from a date to be specified by Infernal Affairs...  anyone in a cupboard found to be carry a labour party card will be interviewed ....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIedNhGqWF0

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/legacy-of-prime-minister-david-lange-and-the-fourth-labour-government-re-examined-40-years-on-the-front-page/SUPXOUYX4VCXVJFBTGEL4QCXTY/

anyone with a labour membership card from this date must submit themselves to a lie detector test at the next election....

oppenheimer ... communist party card


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WjPJQYoT8I