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We Should Fix This Electricity Poverty First
The World Bank says there are now 720 million living in extreme poverty, defined as less than $3/day. To combat poverty, we need jobs, and good industrial jobs require cheap, reliable electricity.
Reform To Take on Khan
Laila Cunningham pledges to wage “all-out war” on crime, scrap the hated Ulez scheme and automate Tube trains to end the strikes.
What the Stats Say
Estimates suggest climate-related disasters killed around 50 times more people a century ago, and in the 1870s the death toll was almost 10 times higher again, underscoring the long-term decline in climate disaster mortality.
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What Tribal Governance Means for Ordinary Māori
Why concentrating power in tribal institutions may leave ordinary Māori worse off.
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Face of the Day
Asked by RNZ whether Luxon was back at work, what he was doing, and where he was working from, a spokesperson said Luxon was in Auckland working from home, planning for the year ahead.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… paltry (adjective) - 1: inferior, trashy 2: mean, despicable 3: trivial 4: meager, measly Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : Before paltry was an adjective, it was a noun meaning trash. That now-obsolete noun came from palt or pelt, a dialect term referring to a piece of coarse
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
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