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Interesting to see Kosovo attacking Serbs again.
https://california18.com/kosovo-reported-that-it-partially-closed-the-border-with-serbia/5994882022/
NATO opening up another front against Russia.
Vote buying. How to circumvent a dodgy donations scandal and instead. Use taxpayer revenue to buy overseas kiwis votes.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cost-of-living-payment-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-admits-some-people-overseas-will-receive-it/DDORSOVMIAJMVZT7XEID3A72C4/
Oh! And here’s one for Johnny Depp!
Billy Joel … “An Innocent Man”
Some people stay far away from the door
If there’s a chance of it opening up
They hear a voice in the hall outside
And hope that it just passes by
Some people live with the fear of a touch
And the anger of having been a fool
They will not listen to anyone
So nobody tells them a lie
I know you’re only protecting yourself
I know you’re thinking of somebody else
Someone who hurt you but I’m not above
Making up for the love
You’ve been denying you could ever feel
I’m not above doing anything
To restore your faith if I can
Some people see through the eyes of the old
Before they ever get a look at the young
I’m only willing to hear you cry
Because I am an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
Some people say they will never believe
Another promise they hear in the dark
Because they only remember too well
They heard somebody tell them before
Some people sleep all alone every night
Instead of taking a lover to bed
Some people find that’s it’s easier to hate
Than to wait anymore
I know you don’t want to hear what I say
I know you’re gonna keep turning away
But I’ve been there and if I can survive
I can keep you alive
I’m not above going through it again
I’m not above being cool for a while
If you’re cruel to me I’ll understand
Some people run from a possible fight
Some people figure they can never win
And although this is a fight I can lose
The accused is an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
An innocent man
You know you only hurt yourself out of spite
I guess you’d rather be a martyr tonight
That’s your decision but I’m not below
Anybody I know
If there’s a chance of resurrecting a love
I’m not above going back to the start
To find out where the heartache began
Some people hope for a miracle cure
Some people just accept the world as it is
But I’m not willing to lay down and die
Because I am an innocent man
I am an innocent man
Oh yes I am
An innocent man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQCWY5ynBaw&ab_channel=billyjoelVEVO
There are a few points that come up from this article about porn sites operating in the USA with payments made to women participating about how their identity would be limited to
certain places and sites.
One is that the two Kiwi men running sites left secondary about 2000. But the article names their school I suppose because it helps underline the Kiwi identity – just two good ol boys from Christchurch. I think it is a unfair for the school to be mixed in with their grotty ways in this Bay of Plenty – NZHerald item that is under the aegis of Open Justice reporting. I feel that it is a sort of news porn itself in its reporting style.
There is plenty still happening in the world involving abuse of women and their
integrity while men in general consider themselves good fellows whatever they do. Using the psychology term called projection, they place their lascivious thoughts about females that often know no bounds, as faults of women.
In fact for many young people it could be regarded as learning what it is all about. Perhaps we can have discussions about the fair way and best morality to use when starting to think about having sex as part of teenage learning. But stop treating it lightly as popcorn while viewing life.
Sex, what made us and why we’re here. Women as well as men should be agitating for all to attend classes and groups with NCEA certificates about personal health and adult self-management. Maybe people could find some hands-on sport or subject apart from sex to be involved in – chess, tiddliewinks, monopoly, even computer games. One real man’s event is taking part in Bludgeon, and learning about handling metals and building your own body armour. It has rules of engagement that are not as loose as those relating to sex!
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/bludgeon-2018
Are we, the social democratic Left, ‘grooming’ Labour back to the right path? They know the heart of it so we have an in despite how they got to power — vile free-market leaving behind the neediest: Maori after a hundred and forty years of the same. Should we water them on now? Only if there isn’t another alternative.
Speaking of ‘fire sales’.
Here’s NZ 1984. Labour doing what Labour is doing again, now.
Hehe!
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996