Surely even their most loyal supporters will balk at this?


This really is blatant poor bashing. How long before we're seeing shanty towns on the edges of cities? How long before the first person - likely a child,  dies of starvation?

They're making it more difficult for people to access  benefits; what do they think those people are going to do, if they become desperate enough?


https://www.cpag.org.nz/media-releases/a...ctnAb4Z1Xw

"Overseeing shepherd" was found to have employed six year olds, according to the findings of judge Christina Inglis.


https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-nat...d-children

My Galaxy A30 has gone belly up.
Started making a humming noise.
Nothing showing on the screen.
None of the buttons would do anything.
Held the power button on to make it stop.
Now it's quite dead.
Time for a new one?

Putin says Ukraine war is going global

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/put...024-11-21/

{"The use by the enemy of such weapons is not able to change the course of the military actions in the zone of the special military operation," Putin said.
"We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities," Putin said. "If anyone else doubts this, then they are wrong - there will always be a response."}

Russia fired medium-range hypersonic missile and that missile was also 'M.I.R.V.ed'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_i...ry_vehicle

Before Joan Didion Had John Gregory Dunne, There Was Noel Parmentel Jr.—A First and Searing Love

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/j...first-love

I am trying to find a free copy of her book "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" so we can all read it, has anyone read it already?

Why should I read Slouching Towards Bethlehem?
Slouching Towards Bethlehem isn't just a collection for hopeful writers or even for people who are young and unmoored. It's for all people who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self. It's for “the quiet ones” that people always tell you to beware.5 Apr 2013

Merkel: I mistook Trump for ‘someone completely normal’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...ely-normal

Angela Merkel recalls the impression Putin made on her

https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/n...1/7198873/

This article has now been made available to non-subscribers. Garnesh Nana interviewed on the content of the letter presented to parliament today.
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/these-bud...productive

... is back again. Some people just cannot retire.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/kim-hil...m-gladwell

Deportation facilites for migrants..for 'processing, dentention & largest deportation of violent criminals in America's history.'


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87xqwd71wzo


How it might work.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9z0lm48ngo


Migrants hope deportation is only for criminals

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79zxjj0j55o

Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/18/2429...nuclear-ai