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  Green party:"Govt doesn't care about renters"
Posted by: Lilith7 - 12-04-2024, 03:41 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (6)

Its difficult to avoid that conclusion given their actions. This just looks very much as though they want to encourage wealthy people to own more & more rental properties as a means of maintaining & increasing their wealth, & never mind about the tenants.

Things are done differently in some European countries; its not uncommon for several generations of a family to rent the same property, that would probably work well here too.


https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/...713e&ei=10

“The Green Party says the Government's new rental changes prove "it does not care about renters, which is a majority of people in Aotearoa".    
On Thursday, Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced an overhaul of the tenancy laws - including reintroducing 90-day no-cause evictions and making several changes to notice periods in a move meant to "encourage landlords back to the rental property market".      
The changes mostly affect periodic tenancies and include reintroducing 90-day "no cause" terminations, returning landlords' notice periods for ending a tenancy to 42 days under certain conditions and returning tenants' notice to 21 days. The Government is also reintroducing landlords' ability to give notice to end a fixed-term tenancy at the end of the term without requiring a specific reason.   
While Bishop said the changes will encourage more landlords into the market and put downward pressure on rents, the Greens see it differently.    
Party housing spokesperson Tamatha Paul slammed the changes, saying they give the majority of New Zealanders "little hope".     
"We have a Government that thinks it is running a company not a country, and treats housing as a business. 
"Housing is a human right, and every person deserves a warm, safe and affordable home, whether they own that home or not."   

She accused the Government of being "pro-self-interest" and not for tenants. 
"Homeownership rates in New Zealand have drastically reduced over the past three decades, with more and more children growing up in rental housing and more and more elderly New Zealanders struggling to make ends meet while paying high rents," Paul said. "   

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  Trump & Biden comparison of competency
Posted by: harm_less - 12-04-2024, 03:31 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (3)

This interview raises some of the doubts many observers have in regard to the respective health and psychological issues exhibited by the US presidential candidates.

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  Arizona back to 19th entury, abortion law
Posted by: Lilith7 - 10-04-2024, 07:08 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (10)

Its just amazing, the lengths to which these women hating people will go. Now they've dredged up a law from the 19th century, in which the only grounds for an abortion are 'when it  is necessary  to save the life of the woman.'



https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/08/us/ar...he%20state.


[b]"The state Supreme Court has delayed enforcement of the law for 14 days to give the plaintiffs an opportunity to pursue other challenges in a lower court if they wish to do so, including whether the law is constitutional.[/b]
Speaking in a news conference after the court’s decision was published, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes vowed, “No woman or doctor will be prosecuted under this draconian law … as long as I am attorney general. Not by me, nor by any county attorney serving in our state. Not on my watch.”
Her office is looking to pursue options available to ensure the law is not implemented in the state, Mayes said.
“Today’s decision to reimpose a law from a time when Arizona wasn’t a state, the Civil War was raging, and women couldn’t even vote will go down in history as a stain on our state,” she said in a release posted online."

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  Well done, those Swiss women!
Posted by: Lilith7 - 10-04-2024, 06:58 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (2)

Brilliant move, just brilliant. A group of older Swiss women have successfully sued their govt, saying that their strategy on climate change was inadequate & likely to put them at risk of death from heatwave.


https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/9/...ate-ruling

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  Greenland becoming green again
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 10-04-2024, 06:47 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (20)

The place might become a bit more tolerant to live now!
Lots of nice vegetation growing to soak up all that co2.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...ate-crisis

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Thumbs Up UN has sensible policy on climate change when it comes to meat production
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 10-04-2024, 06:40 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (1)

All this BS about reducing meat intake to save the planet.
Happy that the UN can see through it.
ACT has done a good job surrounding methane emissions too.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...imate-plan

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  If the WEF get their way...
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 10-04-2024, 06:34 PM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (4)

You will be living in a world controlled by mega corporations, including oil companies and drug companies etc.
Not good!
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourecon...eat-reset/

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  Kate Hawkesby gets NewstalkZB into hot water for speaking the truth
Posted by: C_T_Russell - 10-04-2024, 06:21 PM - Forum: News and Current Affairs - Replies (7)

For context, even the guardian confirms that Maori patients can jump the queue for surgery waiting lists.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...y-patients

Now the BSA come out and basically say she is full of shit?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertain...atory.html

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  HDMI ?
Posted by: allblack - 10-04-2024, 04:41 PM - Forum: PressF1 - Replies (10)

Ok, so I bought an all-in-one without understanding the HDMI v HDMI-in thing. 

I wanted the (in) to run a laptop and my Playstation. Man was I pissed when I figured out the problem...

Anyways, enough of that. Is there a way I can make the HDMI (out) port work like an HDMI-in?

I've tried Googling etc but either no-one has ever asked this question, or I'm asking it wrong (probably this one).

If not I'm buying a new AIO - I'm over this.

Thanks.

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  Nats truancy policy 'as useful as tits ona bull'
Posted by: Lilith7 - 10-04-2024, 11:42 AM - Forum: Opinion and Politics - Replies (12)

According to principal Pat Newman - who doesn't mince his words... Rolleyes Big Grin

Would it really be so very difficult for our politicians to put aside their political differences & work together for the sake of our kids & their future? So very impossible to actually consult teachers & find out what IS really needed? What would really work properly, both now & in the future?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...ction.html

"A Whangārei principal is slamming David Seymour's newly announced attendance action plan saying it is " about as useful as tits on a bull".   

On Tuesday, the Government revealed details of how it plans to meet its target of 80 percent of students being present for more than 90 percent of the school term.     
Seymour is the lead minister in charge of the target and said the "truancy crisis" must be fixed.    

On Tuesday Seymour announced several new measures to improve attendance including mandatory daily reporting of attendance data, a traffic light system, making attendance a strategic priority for school boards and using improved data and analysis to distinguish the drivers of non-attendance to target interventions.    

But the plan isn't being welcomed by Hora Hora School principal Pat Newman, who has more than 50 years of experience in education.   
Newman said the action plan is not going to achieve anything.   
"I don't know if you could call it a plan... This thing is about as useful as tits on a bull," Newman told Newshub Late on Tuesday.   
"It's not going to do anything, and it shows this guy who thinks he knows everything knows bugger all nothing."  
Newman said publishing attendance results is all well and good, but he questions who is actually going to read them.   
"The [parents] we are trying to target don't actually go look at school newspapers or websites or anywhere else."  
The principal also lambasted the health advice changes questioning whether it would mean sick children would start showing up to school.   
"Does that mean we are going to have classrooms full of kids with gooby noses? We know if children have a cold they infect other children and we know they infect teachers. I mean it's crazy."  Newman accused Seymour of blaming educators for the issue when really successive governments, including the current one, are at fault.   

"He's blaming the boards and principals and schools for the problem we have, yet he's the one that says, 'Listen we are going to cut lunches'. How the hell is that going to get people into school? He says, 'We are going to cut back the public transport subsidies'. How the hell is that going to get people into schools?   
"He talks about minimising disruptions to kids, do you know the biggest disruption to kids over my 51 years of being a principal has been that every two to three years we have a new political master who thinks they know it all and comes in and changes everything we've been trying to bed down.  
"Then they wonder why the kids aren't there, they wonder why no one wants to go into teaching, they wonder why our kids are failing. It's not the schools, it's not the teachers, it's the bloody politicians who will not sit down and work out a plan with the sector so that we have a direction for 10 or 20 years and instead we get a change every two to three years.   
"What planet is the guy on? Newman questioned. "That's not in the future – that's what we are dealing with now. That's what we need the help for not tinkering around with systems and ideas that he thinks he can impose and it will all work and we will jump up and down saying, 'Oh yes all-knowing Minister'. 

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