The lack of leadership in Aotearoa-NZ is staggering. Our foreign minister has MAGA brain rot. No one is preparing the country for what the next 6 months of a full crisis will look like. Not politicians or journalists. The coverage of Amerisraeli aggression has been extremely muted.
Every country should withdraw from the World Cup.
#nzpol π§΅
3. It is important to remember that there are other ways of managing inflation than keeping a bufferstock of people on the dole. The Govt can take direct action to reduce unemployment. They choose not to. They prefer to keep labour subjugated, atomised... whole communities abandoned. Ghouls. (Ends)
2. I think we can do without incredible insights as 'benefit numbers are high cos job market is grim'. Why is it grim? Cos Govt and RBNZ have worked together to create unemployment. This was the plan; the reckonomists just didn't know how hard it would be to pull out of the dive. They never do.(3/n)
Three things:
1. *At least* Brad talks down the option of cutting benefits. Although with numbers at this level, and the budget artificially fixed, watch it happen anyway. (2/n)
High unemployment driving benefit dependency, but set to improve - economist The rise was largely driven by a weak labour market, said Infometrics principal economist Brad Olsen said. "There has been a larger proportional increase in Jobseeker support benefit requirements compared to all other benefits on average," he said. The government had options to intervene but they were not all politically or socially palatable, Olsen said. That included clamping down access to benefits. Brad OlsenInfometrics principal economist Brad Olsen. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone "Which could well reduce the overall numbers, but would likely leave a number of New Zealanders out in the cold and facing very challenging circumstances at a time when we know that the number of jobs being advertised in the economy are still 25 percent lower than pre-pandemic and the unemployment rate is at a 10-year high."
The majority of reckonomists under 65 were obvs given psychedelics at Uni and brainwashed by hypnotic ideologues.. 'these simple models explain the complexity of the world that you seek to understand my children ... and they provide your ticket to well-paid reckonining and self-import'. (π’οΈ 1/n)
On the positive side of things, the tech for BEV trains with mega-watt charging at stations is becoming more & more developed, so we wouldn't even necessarily need full lines electrification.
My gut punch moment is that we used to have some really early (short length) electric trains, but they were dismantled for diesel units because they were deemed cheaper/easier in the long term, and now the cost of reinstating electricity is deemed too inconvenient!
Yes, the trains back in the day when we had a complete country-wide network were steam and diesel.
But how about if instead of making the infrastructure choice to go with airplanes, we had chosen the different infrastructure choice to electrify.
Best time was a century ago. Second best is now.
Now imagine if we had electrified the inter-city rail we used to have all over this nation.
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#nzpol It is totally unacceptable that the Public Service Commissioner is attempting to turn teachers against each other and undermine solidarity across the sector. As New Zealanders we love our teachers. They deserve to be paid what theyβre worth.
Commissioner Brian Roche also published anti-union adverts during public service strikes.
Pretty clear whose interests he is serving. #NzPol
This is the same 2020 study you might have seen before, but it's true. I was gamely riding a lightweight street bike when and where I could, but it wasn't until I got an e-bike that the bike became my main means of transport.
Six years ago WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Despite tens of millions of deaths, the world has not sufficiently addressed the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, and we are more vulnerable to future pandemics due to anti-science officials leading government agencies around the world.
Luxon thinks heβs invisible, that the lies he tells are unseeable or he simply doesnβt care, probably both.
Surprise, surprise. Lying Luxon strikes again
Guess what? The Govs promise of 10,00 EV chargers was a LIE!?
I KID YOU NOT!
It seems they failed to allocate any money at all..
#nzpol
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"When German teenager Rabea Santjer arrived in NZ as an exchange student, she believed she had found a safe Christian host family. Instead, the man responsible for her care began abusing her. In the first of a four-part investigation, Paula Penfold tells Rabeaβs story β and what else it led to."
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Have you seen a constant critical narrative from news media organisations highlighting Luxon's uselessness since he entered Parliament?
I haven't.
It was all "you'll like him once you get to know him" bullshit being pumped out.
BVV knows the cost of everything and the value of nothingβ¦.
True but she knows the value of human life to the ACT Party vs profit for business. Zero. ACT has been driving policies through government that make workersβ unsafer everyday, alongside kids been made unsafer in ECEs and schools.
It's inevitable that voters are not informed about a host of issues.
It's inexcusable that they elect someone both stupider and less curious than they are.
Alaa's children are hungry and cold and she is due to give birth soon. A small donation or share from you can make a difference.
No donations for 9 days. Please help Shimaa survive Israel's genocide with her little child & mother, who are starving & ill. She's already lost her husband, & she's unable to post regularly because Bsky deletes her ruthlessly.
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...donβt trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesnβt bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesnβt create jobs
Folks, weβve seen this all before.
Rural New Zealand's drinking water is being poisoned by dairy industry nitrate. People's health is threatened. And our Govt refuses to act.
We're calling for legal limits for drinking water nitrate to be lowered to under 1 mg/L - just as Denmark intends to do.
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Cartoon of 2 people watching a TV report on the NZ covid inquiry. One holds a paper in which Brooke van Velden/ACT Party says: WE COMPLETELY BLEWOUT WHAT THE VALUE of A Human life was..β the other person responds: THERE'S A LOTTO BE GRATEFUL FOR.. I'MJUST GRATEFUL BROOKE VAN VELDEN WASN'T IN CHARGE
Thank you @rodemmerson.bsky.social so many of us are glad Brooke van Velden/ACT werenβt anywhere near the Government of the day too. Weβd be dead, and BvV wouldnβt and couldnβt care less. #nzpol
