From what I understand , the party that she is part of is not doing to well in the polls ? The party was slightly trailing in December polls, but was also closing the gap after easing COVID policy, with the election 10 months out. Ahern herself was still leading the polls as candidate for prime min...
Jump to postTitle says it all. PM Jacinda Arden will not seek re-election and will leave office next month. She says she is exhausted. Didn’t see that one coming. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/jacinda-ardern-quits-as-prime-minister-labour-must-decide-on-new-leader/N64AC3RI65DNDAOG55Z6GHGU4Y/ Did she s...
Jump to postTitle says it all. PM Jacinda Arden will not seek re-election and will leave office next month. She says she is exhausted. Didn’t see that one coming. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/jacinda-ardern-quits-as-prime-minister-labour-must-decide-on-new-leader/N64AC3RI65DNDAOG55Z6GHGU4Y/ A lot of ...
Jump to postNot from the documentary I watched last year, the locals hate the US presence. The locals have hated the US presence there (generally) since 1945. However, the current Japanese government has much broader view and can see over the horizon towards China to recognize what is in the best interest for ...
Jump to postHow ridiculous would it be if you're recognised as a male or female in Scotland but not in the rest of the UK. This is why this law was stopped, it really is a matter for Westminster, not the devolved parliaments. Good examples are passports and drivers licenses which are issued centrally, they hav...
Jump to postMy take is under the new law if I 'live as a woman' whatever that means I can now be deemed to be a woman with access to areas such as female toilets, changing rooms and refuges. Is that correct?. No, not really. . There’s a lot of misinformation going around about this law. To be clear, I do not l...
Jump to postThe cynic in me says that Nicola Sturgeon and her party introduced this law knowing that it would be challenged by Westminster as items relating to the equality act are not devolved. They can, and will, now use this to increase pressure for independence. Are trans issues in Scotland really so galva...
Jump to postThe US Dollar is used as offical currency in 21 countries / territories ... Colonialism ? a) You don't see the difference between "we print our own money but choose to put the UK royalty onto it" vs "we don't print our own money, we use the US dollar"? b) What does this have to ...
Jump to postTo be fair, Japanese cities were completely in start-over mode at the end of WW2 following decimation from firebombings, but they still ended up being excellent rail-oriented metropoli But again with population density still far higher than the US. True, and applies to ROK and Taiwan as well. They ...
Jump to postI heard that ceramic induction is actually a whole other technology different from regular induction stoves? They use magnetism to do the heating. They feature powerful, high-frequency electromagnets instead of heated coils. These magnets generate a magnetic field that heats the pan and not the coo...
Jump to postThere are induction commercial ranges meant for restaurants, and they are increasingly popular with top chefs because they are faster, more responsive, efficient, and provide for a more comfortable and safer working environment. I have an induction burner and love it but it's not the same as gas. R...
Jump to postT18 wrote:As an American with no horse in the race, I say strip all the titles from the family and make them pull their own weight like the entire tax base that supports them does now.
What the UK Royal Family needs right now is a Tommy Lascelles type character to straighten out everyone. A stern lecture from him would have put everyone in their place. At this point, one really wonders what Harry's endgame is? Does he expect his elder brother to give up and allow him to succeed t...
Jump to postHe flies a HondaJet, when he was in Norway he flew into the town I live in in his HondaJet.
Jump to postThat's up to the country who minted the coins to choose. Sure, if they feel it benefits them to display their colonial heritage, they should go for it. Nope but my dad, uncle, cousin, grandfather and great uncles who did. Only one of my great uncles ever talked about his war, he was a mosquito bomb...
Jump to postSome people are idiots, fact is Harry served his country in combat and showed considerable bravery there whether you like it or not How many people do you know who served brag about how many people they killed? Publishing it in a book was stupid? It’s not bragging if you really did it and the answe...
Jump to postSo, why even bring it up in the first place? https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/prince-harry-says-reports-he-boasted-about-killing-in-afghanistan-are-a-dangerous-lie/news-story/b0692a520cb5f3a1e9fe6be2a92c931c Sharing it with fellow vets - fine, as you wore the same uniform...
Jump to postI guess the word "symbol" is lost on you. Perhaps a better question: How many different world currencies is Liz's face on? The answer, apparently, is 35 ( ref: https://qr.ae/pr2S2q ). That's just pig headed ignorance on behalf of those who prefer to blame others for there own failings. So...
Jump to postgeomap wrote:Kiwirob wrote:I wonder what the Okinawans think of this, they’ve been wanting US forces out for decades.
Id be interested to know as well. I wonder if the tensions with China over the last few years have changed any attitudes.
Just out of interest what countries do you believe the previous Queen and the current King have colonised? Or even the previous Queens father and grandfather? I guess the word "symbol" is lost on you. Perhaps a better question: How many different world currencies is Liz's face on? The ans...
Jump to postI wonder what the Okinawans think of this, they’ve been wanting US forces out for decades.
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:One of rock's greatest guitarists, Jeff Beck passed away of bacterial meningitis. We shared a birthday (June 24, hence my screen name) but he was 15 years older.
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WH Smith. They'd been very overtly advertising it at half price for at least a fortnight before the books release in my local store. Thanks. So maybe they're using it as a loss leader? Prince Harry’s Book ‘Spare’ Sold Over 1.4 Million English Copies, Already On Second Run https://www.forbes.com/sit...
Jump to postJeez people get riled up over nothing these days. Biden isn't coming for your cooktop. Or was the secret plan on that laptop! I have an electric stove. If you cared to read any of the info you would have seen this would be a disaster to the restaurant industry which was the real thing here. Really ...
Jump to postIt's very hard for a lot of us to accept but the ocean is massive and if you don't know where you are looking its nearly impossible to find something. A 777 is big to us but not to the ocean. It took 2 years to find AF447 and they knew pretty much where it crashed. I think that the inability to tra...
Jump to postI notice the racism debate has kicked off again. Harry now saying he didn't accuse the Royal Family of being racist. he is full of shit Prince Harry denied accusing the Royal family of being racist in his bombshell ITV interview. Viewers were stunned to see Harry distance himself from comments made...
Jump to postThe post above questions the validity of the AUKUS alliance. Especially if it's just to dump old submarines onto someone else. That someone else probably doesn't want them either because they are old. Australia should have got its own nuclear capability a long time ago back when everyone else was r...
Jump to postMedical facilities throughout the Pacific Northwest have heavily moved away from the central cities. I have a friend who lives in a small town that has a great hospital in it. Turns out the hospital CEO is one of his neighbors. I asked how they could have a great hospital in the middle of small tow...
Jump to postAsk your fellow countrymen why they moved to Canada or the US, its because they want exactly what we all want, a nice 4 bedroom rancher with a 2 car garage on an acre or two of green grass and a shiny new Cadillac in the driveway. - so, because of that, we built out and not up and with that buildin...
Jump to postOn the matter of the AUUKUS partnership, doing the successor to the "Virginias" together really seems a no-brainer to me. This is for a multiplicity of good reasons, starting with the extremely loud complaints by USN brass that the US supply-chain has been struggling to deliver more than ...
Jump to postIt's not just in American where people are dependent on cars to travel around. Where I live in Norway we have poor public transport, which is an issue in Norway outside of the 4 main cities, we have to have cars. At the moment we have three of them.
Jump to postThe hatred, outright racism, intolerance and arrogance shown towards Harry and Meghan is pretty nauseating I don't see any racism in the press, I think the intolerence has come about because they spend there entire time complaining about everything, if they just went away nobody would be interested...
Jump to postIndeed, my aunt died when her kids were late teens, early 20s. Everyone knew, she had cancer, it took a while to run its course. The younger ones had a harder time than the older ones. The dad was a big-time manipulator long before the mom got sick, that made things far worse than they needed to be...
Jump to postI don't wonder don't think it will change anytime soon if this is any indication he would have to do something really really stupid https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/bmncb6vteb/Republic_Monarchy_221215.pdf We should keep the monarchy 60% We should abolish the monarchy 25% Don't know 15% ample Size: 1690 ...
Jump to postTate’s now being held for 30 days. Romanian authorities have now seized property and cars, including his Bugatti Chiron. I hope they can make charges stick and bang this tossed up for a few decades. https://www.ndtv.com/feature/andrew-tates-cars-including-2-9-million-bugatti-seized-by-romania-after-...
Jump to postHarry knows not the forces that are being unleashed... I am beginning to wonder if the UK (in whatever form that may be) will still be a monarchy by the time Charles dies I don't wonder don't think it will change anytime soon if this is any indication he would have to do something really really stu...
Jump to postMy best friend was traumatised by the loss of his mother at a young age as well, his younger sister is even more messed up, there dad is not an emotion man and the mother never told them she was dying, when she died they were caught completely by surprise, my parents knew she was dying and told my ...
Jump to postI think he's more or less admitted that he was traumatized by the loss of his mother at such a young age, and felt a lack of love from his father and the rest of the family, something common in many royal upbringings. His dad said more or less the same thing about his relationship with Phil The Gre...
Jump to postMy best friend was traumatised by the loss of his mother at a young age as well, his younger sister is even more messed up, there dad is not an emotion man and the mother never told them she was dying, when she died they were caught completely by surprise, my parents knew she was dying and told my ...
Jump to postSays you, but not in the least provable. Doesn’t seem to have affected William. And, is he not responsible for his behavior? You can’t change what happens, but you can change how you react. Well according to the book excerpts (yeah I've read a long article about it) Harry says that it did affect Wi...
Jump to postleader1 wrote:Queue the “thoughts and prayers” and ridiculous mental gymnastics ”moar gunzzz” defenses in 3…2…
What next? Submit application to re-join the "firm"? One element of his book tour seems to be pushing the issue of being at Daddy's coronation. Seems the current state of affairs from Harry's point of view is that Harry isn't going unless Daddy reaches out personally. Either way, he wins....
Jump to postAs I have suggested before, I wonder if Prince Harry has some serious mental/psychological health issues. I think he's more or less admitted that he was traumatized by the loss of his mother at such a young age, and felt a lack of love from his father and the rest of the family, something common in...
Jump to postStaggered, in what world does a 6 year old take a weapon to school and purposefully shoots their teacher? A 6-year-old boy is in police custody after he shot a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, Friday afternoon, Police Chief Steve Drew said in a news conference. "...
Jump to postAbsolutely nothing new here. 1) From day one there have been USN brass, US supply chain chiefs and various US politicians warning that no changes to the existing SSN delivery plans to the USN would be entertained. 2) From before Boris Johnson's time the Brits have been intimating that the RN had an...
Jump to postThe plan will last longer than the current administration. All it takes is some comments from the UK saying they would be more than happy to provide the submarines then the US lawmakers will get in line. :roll: bt Could be that the senators might be looking at AUD to help set up a third line in the...
Jump to postIs this submarine plan looking shaky now? https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/leaked-senators-letter-warns-aukus-deal-could-harm-us-submarine-industry-20230106-p5cary.html Senators don't like the idea. Can the US administration be trusted here? The plan will last longer than the current adminis...
Jump to postYes, I understand, but there are many bills where the option to pay by credit card includes the stipulation that 3% (or 3.75% for the one I am looking at right now) will be added for payment by CC. That is the specific example I am speaking of. I have not yet seen a situation where a fee is being a...
Jump to postWell, for a future king, dropping anyone, let alone your brother, isn't exactly a good look. Especially over the woman basically everyone in the family is rejecting, for "reasons" that might not be too progressive either. I think you'll find the exact opposite, if the social media trends ...
Jump to postCash is Liberty. We always have a few hundred in the house plus I carry a hundred or two on my person. same here My new credit card has my name, the bank’s name on it an nothing else. To make a purchase of more than 50€ I need my phone, the bank app, internet and be able to receive a SMS. To find t...
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