Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:54 am, January 11th, 2021 - 21 comments
Reading the effect of the Wednesday riot at the US Congress has been interesting. The Trump position has as usual been as infantile and self-adsorbed as all of his disaster of a presidency has been. The Republican politicians have been been more nuanced. But it looks to me like they would like to not rely on cheeseburgers to stop Donald Trump running again in 2024.
Sanctuary 2.1.1
Yes, and the state of our Navy ought to be a national scandal and a matter in urgent need of remediation.
High attrition and chronic skills shortages means we have two aging frigates with barely enough sailors to fully crew one of them to combat readiness, ships spending long periods in harbour due to manning issues, while the RNZN s poor spending of limited funds (Politicians in NZ largely leave the purchasing decisions to public sector technocrats. The NZDF has a very poor procurement record, look at the EH-101 helicopters, the P-8 purchase and the money wasted on the LAVs) means that the four inshore patrol vessels that only came into service in 2009 have basically been a giant waste of public money, pretty much just swinging on the anchor since around 2012.
When: Saturday 09 January 12pm-1pm
Where:
32 Kokopu Block Road, Maungatapere,
Whangārei
Tomorrow anti-rodeo protesters from Direct
Animal Action (DAA) will demonstrate at the Mid-Northern
Rodeo in Whangārei calling for the Government to ban rodeo
for good.
Protest organisers are concerned that
animals will be injured and killed at tomorrow’s
rodeo.
DAA spokesperson Apollo Taito says there’s a
history of animal abuse at the Mid-Northern Rodeo.
In
November last year, the Whangārei District Court found
Northland farmer Derek Robinson guilty
of ill-treating rodeo animals after he used a live
electric prodder on two distressed steers.
The