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Wind Energy To Power Every Home By 2020, UK Govt Promised ... 13 Years Ago
In this newsletter:
1) UK 'Will Take 700 Years' To Reach Low-Carbon Heating Under Current Plans
The Guardian, 8 October 2020
2) Wind Energy To Power Every Home By 2020, UK Government Promised ... 13 Years Ago
The Guardian, 10 December 2007
An analyst in the states yesterday was predicting the office real estate market will get back to normal in 2025.
Who would know if that’s true. Who knows if anything is true or open to realistic prediction any more. But 2025 is a long time to wait for something to get back to so called normal.
And here’s the question of the age: what is normal anyway?
New Zealand’s Parliament has the power to make any
legislation governing our country…
This has given rise to laws that breach individual or
community rights without any recourse to New Zealanders other than repeal by
Parliament, as the New Zealand Courts have already ruled that Parliament is
supreme.
The Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights 1688 enshrine individual and community rights and are New Zealand legislation that is routinely ignored by our Parliament.
Centre Right Parties Planning To “Seriously Undermine” EU Climate Ambition
In this newsletter:
1) Adaptation Works, Problem Solved: Floodgates Now Protect Venice From Flooding
The New York Times, 3 October 2020
Judith Collins can protest all she likes, but those who say she is politicising her faith are on the money. She absolutely is.
It might be going a bit far to say she orchestrated an opportunity for the media to take photos of her praying, but I think we can say she absolutely spotted that opportunity and seized it. She used it to ram home a message she’d been trying to get out for a week and half.
No, of course not, tends to be the standard liberal democratic response. Religion is a private matter. It has nothing to do with whether someone can do the job or not, and that is all that should count.
Richard Dawkins was not so accommodating when he threw in his sixpence worth:
What Will It Do To Global Temperatures?
In this newsletter:
1) La Niña Is Here: What Will It Do To Global Temperatures?
GWPF & NOAA, 1 October 2020
2) Canada Wildfires At Lowest Level For Decades
Paul Homewood, Not A Lot Of People Know That, 27 September 2020
The ones out there doing the hardest yards are the small players, the ones that won’t just not make it this election, but will not even come close.
It’s another failing or sadness of MMP.
Colin Craig, Graham Capill, Gareth Morgan: periodically a collection of slightly earnest, at times bewildered, but always passionate groups come along for an electoral crack, and every now and again some make enough noise to one, draw attention; two, make progress; and three, sometimes even look like they might be serious.
But this time round, no one is going anywhere or anywhere close.
However, the name
“Aotearoa” is not a traditional, nor even an appropriate, alternative name for
New Zealand, according to Distinguished Professor Kerry Howe whose seminal
article “Aotearoa-What’s in a Name” appeared in MSN News on 19th
September. It is by far the most erudite and well-researched article on this
issue yet to be produced. All New Zealanders should read this.
But, it is high time we acknowledged all cultures in Nu Tirani (New Zealand) in the face of continued denial of other cultures by bicultural activists.
As we head into another debate tonight, I just wonder if the gloves are coming off a bit.
Is the kindness and positivity that the Labour leader beamed would be the marker of her campaign, starting to wear off?
Has she given that up already?
Yesterday when Judith Collins announced a doubling of the SFO's budget under National, Jacinda Ardern took a swipe.
She referred to Collin's past dealings with the SFO in 2014.. "obviously there's a little history there.." she said condescendingly, only to fire the final barb.. "her engagement with the SFO led to her job loss."
Ouch, a burn from Ardern.
Is the latest poll on cannabis reform the death knell for those who are desperate to legalise the stuff? It's got to be pretty close.
53 percent against it, 35 per cent for it, 11 percent don't know. That’s got to the point where even if every single person who doesn’t know, decided to vote yes, the yes vote would still lose.
And it's not like the yes vote hasn’t had a good run. The media in general has featured, to my eye, favourable coverage of why we should be legalising the stuff, as opposed to why we shouldn’t. I think the answer is relatively simple. Why would you look to create trouble, simply for the sake of it?
You know things are bad for a party when people start asking whether that party is in its death spiral yet.
And that is the conversation around National now.
This has been prompted by last night’s Newshub-Reid Research poll which puts it at 29.6 percent. It’s not far off the Colmar Brunton poll last Wednesday which had National at 31 percent, meaning it’s a fairly accurate reflection of where National is at.
