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Even the IMF is saying NZ needs a capital gains tax or land value tax. It also warns Nicola Willis not to create another credit-fuelled housing boom by loosening bank capital rules. GDP will likely be smaller by 2026 than it was in 2023.
Also, Compass is flying in school lunches from Australia. Nuhaka school is feeding them to pigs. More …
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FiveThirtyEight is the single reason why we have seen the proliferation of garbage polls in American politics. For example, they allowed Patriot Polling, a group of two high schoolers running very questionable “polls”, to be included into the likes of Gallup and Pew Research.
They also standardized what dictates a “good poll”, which is usually the partisan horse race. Even if the underlying data is garbage, it didn't matter, like 48% of black voters would vote for Trump in PA by Atlas, their “mo…
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I finally blew my stack over the “trans sports issue.” I’m sorry.
Probably one of your most important essays as it exposes the truth of US imperialism and empire. I did notice how the judge shied away from Crooke - I don't think he can fully bring himself to see that the republic he so loves was a fiction.
Many have the same issue as Napolitano. My description, Outlaw US Empire, is hard for them to swallow despite my judgment's basis being in the Constitution, and then there's essay #10 in The Federalist by Madison that's admittedly anti-democracy and the very oligarchic nature of the proposed US government to replace the Articles of Confederation's far more democratic Congress: The Philadelphia Convention of 1787 designed a Coup that gained the approval of perhaps 5% of the adults that might have voted according to today's franchise. And that's how it all started, the US Empire under the Constitution that is.