Ms Hooper

Surprised that the government has not updated its safetravel.govt.nz page for USA since December last year.
They've put a blanket 'do not travel' warning across the gulf states - USA is at war too!

Why haven't the All Whites pulled out of the World Cup already. It's not safe in Trumpistan!
#NZPol

The #future #Aotearoa #nzpol

Massive AI factory to become New Zealand’s second-largest electricity user Resource consent has been given for a data centre near Invercargill, which would become New Zealand’s second-highest electricity user.

We have an electricity shortage that is so bad, they want to import LNG to 'fix' it.

Why then are Southland councils consenting a huge new electricity consumer without requirement for an equivalent green energy supply to be built in conjunction?
#NZPol

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Wastewater testing shows Covid cases increasing There has also been an increase in hospitalisations from Covid as New Zealand enters its ninth Covid wave.

“Wastewater testing is showing an increase in Covid cases, and hospitalisations are on the rise as New Zealand enters its ninth Covid wave.”

Get a booster✔️
It’s a wave✔️
Mask✔️
Stay home if sick✔️
Point made about lack of RAT accessibility ✔️

Nice to see health reporting being taken seriously here.

Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition

Do we want to keep fixing the same issue? Unlearned lessons from the first big oil crisis
As energy prices tripled in the 1970s due to Middle Eastern wars, Scandinavia, France and the Netherlands sped up green transition

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans

Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? | Mining | The Guardian

An AI factory

Good news #NewZealand !

We've found a use for a spare 280MW of electricity, we'll turn it into hallucinations that will poach your Jobs

What do you mean we don't have spare electricity..

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

I fucking hate this. Also hate the way it gets reported. Not saying I know how it should be reported but these fucking guys are financially powerful dangerous authoritarian shitheads, and even unfavourable reporting like this gives them too much.

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Robin Williams once said "Politicians should wear sponsor jackets like Nascar drivers, then we know who owns them."

It’s no joke though.

Matthew Hooton's column should have been illustrated with this. He talked abt Sweden's death toll without mentioning it was NINE TIMES bigger than ours. He dismissed deaths in other countries as mainly being older people, so it would have been ok for us to have heaps of older folks die? Ghoul.

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown to work remotely following hip surgery

It's quite incredible how these men in high places can suddenly work just as well remotely, when it suits them to do so #NZPol

a man in a white shirt and tie sitting at a table with his mouth open Alt: a man in a white shirt and tie sitting at a table with his mouth open

Damn.

I bet those 15 minute cities are looking pretty good about now…

#nzpol, #uspol, #auspol, #nooil

This why they increased the salaries for board members - exit strategies…

#nzpol

Winston and Luxon are in the line up #nzpol

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith dismisses officials' advice on 'move on orders' Paul Goldsmith has batted away advice from government agencies strongly urging against the move and pointing to a lack of evidence.

National/ACT/NZ First: Labour ministers didn't take official advice they didn't see into account when keeping Auckland in lockdown for the last week.

Also them: We're going to ignore all this official advice because we don't like it.

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#nzpol

Original headline "Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith dismisses official's advice on 'move on orders'" Reusable version "Coalition MP dismisses officials' advice on latest ideologically driven policy"

This happens so much that RNZ should consider using recyclable headlines at this point. #nzpol

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Beef, lamb, onions and wine: Kiwi dinner time staples in huge demand offshore How most of NZ's meat goes offshore, driving up local prices.

Daily, if not multiple times are day we are bombarded with the evidence of how we have completely fucked the fundamentals of our economy, all the while being told that exports are the only way to grow NZ Inc.

Food insecurity is a construct of NeoLiberalism

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New shorter ferries: $596 million.

Paid to Hyundai for zero big ferries: $222 million.

Total cost of ferries: $818 million.

So we're paying $409 million per smaller rail enabled ferry.

We would have paid $225 million per larger rail enabled ferry.

Saving money? Pull the other one.

I mean I wouldn't trust Winnie either, he is a senile old windsock who will change his mind as soon as the election results are up

#nzpol

This could have been the crisis that made Luxon seem credible….

Except, he tripped over the first hurdle, twisted his ankle and went down in a flailing tangle of limbs, SPLAT, into a giant mud puddle, AND, it was all caught on camera.

#nzpol

The power of Chris… 🤢🤢🤢

All entitlement, No boundaries, No awareness, No empathy, All bravado, All contempt.

No more. 🙏🏾

#nzpol

Mr Grabby, invading personal space, oblivious of boundaries… creepy Christopher

'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.

Food aid is necessary atm but Living Wages, affordable secure public housing and dealing to avaricious supermarket corps/owners is needed urgently #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

#nzpol

LNG, yeah you know me.

Ludicrous headline above a picture of the empty suit parading as a PM - Luxon - reads Politically Correct: Could this be the crisis that makes Christopher Luxon?

🤣😂🤣 Honestly, he’s demonstrably worse than he was on day 1 and they’re still trying to sell him like he’s a wine that’s supposed to improve with age but was corked on day 1. #nzpol

Give it a rest Henry, we see him, we hear him and we live with the end result of his actions.

When you're paying $3 a litre for petrol... Remember Luxon's govt crashed the EV market, slashed public transport & cycleway spending & cut fees for importing gas guzzlers by 80% - turning NZ into a dumping ground for the worlds dirtiest most oil hungry vehicles.
Credit @newsroom.co.nz for the graph

NZ has lined up with 'MAGA US states' on oil, former Marsden Point boss says While others are switching to renewables, this country is "going down the 1980s' path", David Keat says.

Former head of Marsden Oil refinery on NZ Govt: "Most other countries in the world outside MAGA US states and New Zealand are [going for 100% renewables and electrifying transport] now, at pace. For some reason, New Zealand 's going down the 1980s' path." www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

It's cool that the New Zealand Government lets Israelis come here visa free.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.