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Right now the New Horizons Space Probe is 6.4 Billion Km from Earth and sending back data to NASA and last October the Japanese landed a small robot on a asteroid hurtling through Space 300 KM away.
Those are amazing achievements.
In 2018, the National Party – under the leadership of Simon Bridges – very clearly attempted to push for the “Trump vote” in a bid to increase their voter base.
US citizen Bahia Amawi is a language specialist who works with autistic and speech-impaired children. She received a master’s degree in speech pathology in 1999 and, since then, has specialized in evaluations for young children with language difficulties . For the last nine years she has worked with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school children in Austin, Texas. Each year she signed an annual contract that allowed her to continue.
But now she has been told that she is fired!
I wasn’t going to write today but last night I received a press release from Prof Jane Kelsey about the fact that the TPPA- minus America ( and now called the CPTPP) went into force yesterday.
The essence of my proposition is: The State should become the provider of goods currently provided by the Black Market (which means gangs and organised crime), and thereby nullify the impact of crime syndicates which can and do e.g. Noriega in Panama and Escobar in Columbia -ultimately control governments and/or pervade the Hallowed Halls of power with bribes.
While I think it is important to acknowledge people for their contribution to our communities and our country, I do think it’s time we had the discussion again about what Knighthoods and Damehoods signify.
Under National an increasing large number of people could overstay for ten years or more by rolling over their temporary visas and there was simply not enough money to monitor them…let alone the employers exploiting migrant workers.
since WW Two, American generated paranoia amongst its allies and the “International Community” (a figment of American mentality with no legal or actual substance and conceived to replace the United Nations as America’s puppet when they realised, they could no longer guarantee majority support in the institution they conceived in 1947), has run riot.
So many Maori profess a love for Christianity and yet we copped the same shit as our Native American, and African American, and Aboriginal brothers and sisters.
This is a day when prisoners line up to make phone calls to family and we think of those that can’t be with us. I think of my children – Tyrone , Kane & Siobhan especially .