I caught up with Jack Tame's interviews on Q&A this morning. The thing that struck me was the contrasts between the two interviewees. One blustering evasive and lacking facts, the other a totally different public servant.

ÔÇÿWould you survive 72 hours?ÔÇÖ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...ssible-war

Attempted Coup DÔÇÖEtat Taking Place in Damascus

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/middle-...024/11/30/

Aleppo: Rebels 'take control' of airport as thousands of fighters seize most of Syria's second-biggest city

https://news.sky.com/story/aleppo-airpor...s-13263439

These candid photographs capture the daily life of Albert Einstein, 1930s-1950s

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/albert-...ld-photos/

It may be that govt wants to privatise the health system. How anyone with a vestige of conscience can even contemplate such a thing is beyond understanding - but apparently, that is the aim of David Seymour....who will soon become deputy leader.



https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/5352...shane-reti

Its going to be very interesting to see what effect this has.  They're doing it with the best interests of young people in mind, but no doubt some ingenious human will find a way around it somehow.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89vjj0lxx9o

Bidens Thanksgiving message vs Trumps.

https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/commen...vs_trumps/

Copied from Reddit.

Really contrasts and shows what we have lost now that Trump is back in power soon.

Interesting suggestion I've read this morning is the possibility that Winston is putting things in place to crash the coalition in 6 months time when the DPM role chages to Seymour. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36050231...struggling

Note too that Chippy is improving his image, visibility and presentation of late. (e.g. running half marathons, new suit, increased media presence)

I was just reminded of one of mine.

 People being interviewed for the news/TV programme sitting or standing in front of what looks like a beautiful painting/sculpture/wall hanging/embroidered/photograph/collage/whatever, when you desperately want them to shut up & move over so you can see it properly.
Drives me up the wall every time.

She's appealing a court decision that she was a racist. 

She told a Greens senator to "pack her bags & go back to Pakistan" but having found to have been racist she now claims to be 'concerned about free speech' - a thorny area but nonetheless, she was legally found to have been racisr.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/11/27/pauli...as-racist/