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Grumpy Granny (me) having a rant about the government's disgraceful Move On orders and their other heartless polices
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#nzpol

You don’t hear much any more about the raw sewage still pouring into Wellington harbour but it’s up to 2.5 billion litres

"As global attention shifts to the war with Iran, settler violence in the occupied West Bank continues to escalate"(PalTimes News) #WestBank #Settlers

But don't worry everyone. Covid is gone. But it's still here and extremely dangerous, but it's gone you don't have to worry about it. It's still here but not as bad. It's really dangerous but it's gone don't worry

You know Smithers, I don't think reminding the entire country that the Labour Government did well in extreme circumstances when the National Government is doing shite in unpressured circumstances is quite the tactical stroke of genius they thought it would be.

Queenstown-based tech entrepreneur Brian Cartmell donating hundreds of thousands to political parties Brian Cartmell, a Queenstown-based expat American, has given big donations to ACT, National, NZ First and the Opportunity party.

This kind of crap is why we need to get donations out of politics. Money is not speech. The rich do not merit more influence than the rest of us.

#nzpol

Just fucking cap donations - end of.

US military kills 6 in strike on alleged drug boat in the Eastern Pacific The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

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Trump has now conducted 42 boat strikes, killing nearly 160 people.

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it.

He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner.

This is a danger to us all.

Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the governments jury trial reforms

Every Labour MP should listen to her incredibly powerful and brave statement in parliament today

You’re nearly there, Newsroom…

Now ask:
“So why did we do all this a SECOND time at all this expense?”

Bonus round:
“Why did Luxon, 8% Melted Rimmer, and their chucklefuck MP’s keep demanding Labour STOP doing the best COVID response in the world thereby damaging public trust in it?”

#nzpol

NZ's readiness for the next pandemic now Brown's unpalatable responsibility

Analysis: If the health minister believes the pandemic response was so poor, it's now his job to lay the groundwork to do better next time, writes Marc Daalder. - Newsroom Pro - $ -

Why some of New Zealand’s best doctors won’t work here anymore - and it’s not about pay Doctors and healthcare workers are heading offshore after seeing patients die due to a lack of modern medicines, the Prime Minister has been warned.

Some of the country’s best doctors and healthcare workers have been driven offshore by seeing their patients die unnecessarily because of a dire lack of modern medicines, the Prime Minister has been warned.
#nzpol

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

Sickening. Perfectly tailored headline for the unquestioning stale toxic idiot rw vote i
NZ media beyond the pale now

At my big age of 41 I just need to learn that good things don’t get amplified. If a minority is bad it will get amplified to look like it’s the majority. If the majority is bad then no question. If major it is good then minority gets amplified. And so on. Anti vaxxers are a tiny group of bad actors.

Warning for employers skimping on sick leave as Covid wave hits Under-pressure employers taking a hard line on sick leave are being warned to take care with the rules.

Having sufficient leave is really important. People need to be able to isolate while infectious. Also resting with a Covid infection can lower the risk of long term effects.

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“The government is making changes that will mean that annual and sick leave will accumulate based on hours worked, rather than as a set entitlement.”

What this means in practice is people will be forced to work sick, and the NZ government undermines every attempt at a health response, every wave.

In the 2023 general election, Luxon promised to stop "wasteful spending" AND help ease the cost of living

Luxon has failed to deliver on BOTH

Now the reality of their failure is something National, ACT, and NZ First want you to forget.

Never forget. #nzpol

Women to bear the brunt of sick pay changes We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

Just noting the NZ Greens have been consistently clear that changes that will impact how much sick leave people get will disproportionately impact women.

Following on from this, in a Covid wave scenario this disproportionately increases health risk to women.

Yet another clear reason to vote Green.

Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social • 12m The world we live in... The Jerusalem Post publishes an op-Ed by English far-right thup and serial criminal "Tommy Robinson." Following the Israeli government's increasing embrace of even the most extreme far right in Europe and beyond. = THEJERUSALEM POST Jerusalem Post / TOMMY ROBINSON TOMMY ROBINSON Tommy Robinson is a British patriot, street-level activist, and unapologetic truth-teller who has spent two decades exposing the rot in Britain's

I think it was pretty clear in the 2020s that fascism across the white-people world was an international movement, and that its adherents were far more closely aligned with each other than they were with their compatriots. Is this not the underlying point of the Trump-Putin stuff, after all?

Screenshot from Amazon showing The Rise with 4.8 stars from 14 reviews, and 4.7 stars from 31 reviews at Goodreads.

Despite the time I've been doing this, I'm still a little guy with a pretty limited audience, so it really makes me happy to see these ratings just under a month after release. THE RISE appears to be... rising well! Thanks to everyone who's giving these books the love. It means the world. 🖤

and 'cause we love numbers: your trilogy has a combined Goodreads rating of 4.38 over 767 reviews (sum of ratings divided by the sum of reviews of all three books; look, I know some maths 😁) and should stay close to that number, as people will love The Rise. That's really an accomplishment

In order to create, one must be embodied. It applies to everything: to children, to art, to writing and music and dance. Because what we communicate to each other with these things is an experience inherent to embodiment, to being alive. AI can mimic. But it will never create.

jesus I am absolutely stunned

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

#ImpeachTrump

A Video the World Needs to See

Iran made a video showing a little girl getting ready for school and a U.S. soldier getting ready to launch the missiles that will kill her & all of the children at school.

Via @FiorellaInMoscow (Telegram)

Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away.

"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"

"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."

NOPE.....

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles