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any modelling on the spread of the oil clouds?

I’d be willing to bet NZ MPs over the last 30 years have orders of magnitude more property ownership titles between them, than published research papers, books and patents etc, between them.

Political culture of promoting media managers who are neither doers nor thinkers.

Nothing on WW3 or the Tehran being subjected to mass chemical weapon attack on the front page of NZ's public broadcaster. Levels of propaganda by omission that are inconceivabe

well said

Stuff excerpt of comments by NZ’s Director Gen. of Security: He said there were a range of issues feeding into his agency’s concerns for young New Zealanders. He listed “the global environment, increased polarisation online, more young people engaging with violent content online”. “There’s also the ability for people to go a long way down the radicalisation path by just engaging with a computer. So that is a concern.

Intel agencies are very keen to place the focus on ‘shadowy figures online’ as being the major cause of concern, whereas the people with the most influence (those in charge of govts, law enforcement, media, & businesses) are made up of warmongers, bullies, predators, and wealth takers/hoarders.

Political leaders who  preach ‘tough on crime’, anti-gang rhetoric are always the most rabidly gung-ho when they or their group of allies deploy forces and use extreme mass violence to get what they want.
#nzpol

Stuff news purely seeking to misinform it's audience now by presenting headlines and thumbnails that imply Iran is bombing Lebanon... surprise, it was Israel!

NZ Herald: "Iran's decline began two years ago, with Israel's tough and sustained response to an invasion by Hamas from Gaza."

It is March 2026. The NZ Herald is publishing this gob-smacking version of history by the New York Times.

So tired of white political leaders basically saying that Iran’s govt was really bad but thanks to western govts (who are all their own shade of authoritarian) using or supporting extreme violence (which many of the west’s citizens get little say over), Iran could now be truly free like the west.

text from al jazeera live thread "When asked directly if the administration believes that Iranian leadership were killed, Trump replied: “A lot of it is, yeah. But we don’t know all, but a lot of it is. Was a very powerful strike.” He said the attacks will continue “as long as we wanted to”."

this is the most powerful person on the planet, and all the other powerful people are happy with that

freight is a real core character class actually

ART/WTRFLL.GIF

keeping an eye on other far right groups with similar views (ACT comes to mind) who’ll be using this as an overton wedge

at this point its fair to assume people like Tamaki & Seymour in the fascist bracket are aware of each other’s plans even if not directly coordinating (probably doing that too)

here’s simon oconnor doing some of the most insane projection imaginable at the fsu anti china conference this weekend in front of a side saying “such groups use MPs to give themselves legitimacy”

speaking at this event: former MP oconnor, stephenson from ACT and White from Labour 🫣

You want some fucking *clicks* MSM? Get 'em here while they're HOT GOSSIP

Mark Mitchell appeared in a NEMA jacket yesterday to offer the message to camera that individuals need to take responsibility for securing their own property. Everything else was about increased police powers. About as close to ‘every landlord for themselves’ as I’ve ever seen from the NZ govt.

A scroll through Bishops posting history is enough to void him as any ally of anyone who even pretends at moderate social or economic centrism, let alone leftism. He is, at best, an ecological fascist.

Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵

Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.

Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.

#nzpol

Almost everyone who interacted with the insane husband girlies were elderly. And maga. This is what actually sent me down my research path that led to me finding an alt right AI pipeline.

(Obligatory paper link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...)

Hyperobject permanence and situational awareness deeply lacking in our societies.

again, any other government doing this would not have had a moments rest from nz media, their public lives made almost impossible and been hounded out of government

this coalition is being given the most cover and support, maybe in nz history, by media and institutions

text from stuff article (link below) "It also shows China’s increased confidence in its attempts to directly influence New Zealand’s political discourse."

I'll link the story below, and whatever, but saying this when we've just had the Minister of Defence effusively touring with Hegseth, Noem and other fascists and a Luxon/Trump photo op that have been routinely amplified, if not celebrated, by NZ media is just pathetic actually.

trying to operation paperclip NZ

This is insanely foul, genocidal zionists rife in NZ media again

To translate Oz-govt speak: A complex web of proxies means, "We have no evidence but just wanted to pin something on Iran."

Commissioner won't rule out absorbing Ministries for Women, Pacific Peoples into larger organisations The Public Service Commissioner won't rule out merging it, and Ministry for Pacific Peoples, into other organisations.

It is deeply frustrating to see the Ministries for Women and Pacific Peoples positioned as expendable. Equity ministries exist because the system does not treat us equally. Calling their erasure “efficiency” is structural misogyny and racism #nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Secretive terror laws review targets protest and dissent A leaked document reveals proposed law revisions in New Zealand, as Western repression in defence of Zionist genocide takes hold in the South Pacific.

Mick Hall lining them up again, you're missing out if you're not on the subscription list

mickhall.substack.com/p/secretive-...

too many people with actual influence, power and resources in this country - liberals and progressives - who refuse to see what's happening, believe without reason that institutional rules and traditions will win out, and get rabid at any suggestion otherwise from their left flank.

fyi edge is being disingenuous here... he's actually weaponising ng's support for hk protest movement with a contrived criticism. calling ng a counter-revolutionary was a dog whistle, since it's a parody of ccp speak.

Genuinely need to heed these warnings. What’s implicit rather than explicit in this analysis is the global scope of the problem. All that artificially pumped wealth (created by policy choices) catalysing inordinate imbalances in carbon emissions between wealthy and poor, cooking the biosphere.

This KiwiSaver stuff (along with consistent messaging over time from the Protestant work ethic think tank cult believers) feels like the beginning of the end for that part of the welfare state. Burden us with student loans at the start. Wring us with “should have saved harder” at the end.