A.J. Ponder

#nzpol
National is rolling back regulations for Monsanto-the corruption is so apparent it's eyewatering.

This proposed health legislation is really really bad in a bunch of ways. This in particular is VERY chilling: it's the only law that explicitly prevents public servants (including doctors and nurses) from criticising the government. #nzpol www.legislation.govt.nz/bill/governm...

Any reporter worth their salt should be looking into the back channel links between the NZ Initiative and the National Party.
Or, more specifically, the ones between Erica Stanford and Michael Johnstone.

Have your say on the Pae ora (healthy futures) ammendment bill today Have your say on the Pae ora (healthy futures) ammendment bill today

Followed swiftly by a sub on this one, looking to fuck up our health system even more, invisibilise Te Tiriti, and make everything one size fits all 🤬

This one closes for subs Mon 18th August.

#nzpol

action.greens.org.nz/paeora_subsg...

Look at all the men fronting almost all the pics. That's a no go.

IMO Any of his Foundation series, anything with the extra M. to show it's Sci fi and not literary.

Yup, everyone needs to go and pen an objection to this piece of fascism 101 -

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

a man wearing headphones sits in a room with a bunch of people laying on the floor Alt: "At least we still have a roof" a man says before the roof falls down and everyone falls onto the floor.

Yup, along with, it's not fiscally responsible to refuse to mend the roof.

And OMG the IMF is telling them they've got it wrong and still the myth seems to have more sway than reality.

Restore our Māori place names

Rongotai is being renamed “Wellington Bays” and Ōhāriu will be split between the new “Wellington North” and “Kenepuru” electorates.

Petition to restore our Māori place names.
Please sign and share.
#nzpol

Yup,
Also this Electoral Amendment Bill needs opposing

Stopping people from registering to vote through the early voting period is undemocratic-esp after people were wrongly kicked off our voting rolls

Not to mention stopping prisoners from voting—fascism 101

www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/mak...

Weird how they can twist ACT dogwalking National into fascism to write a scare story about Greens *checks notes* doing the mahi and going out to talk to people about their policies.

Yup, best movie ever.
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What I don't get is the New Zealanders who think the Tory's are crazy, the Republicans are crazy, and yet mindlessly uphold our own version of those two groups.

How can they not see that it's all the same damn right wing, run by the same billionaires?

If you haven't heard this, the extent of the danger of these chemicals is off the charts.

Even the origin of having to prove a new chemical is unsafe (rather that a new chemical is safe) comes from this abomination.

We have to change the world.
And have real accountability for the poisoners.

She was the last: Penguin starvation crisis sparks call for emergency fishing ban The fate of the hoiho - among the world’s rarest penguin species - rests with two ministers.

Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death.

She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony.

#NZOverFishing

My results from the quiz: https://votelyquiz.juleslemee.com/quiz Showing basically - economically very left and moderately progressive, with a slightly libertarian.

Mine was quite different

On this one I'm not the libertarian that I am on Political Compass. I think because I believe the state has a role in protecting people's freedoms against bad actors, and in creating important infrastructure.

The Israeli military has murdered the entire Aljazeera Arabic team. They bombed their tent outside a hospital.

THIS CANNOT GO ON.

What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has an answer Modelling study based on almost 250,000 positive COVID-19 tests in the United Kingdom shows that universal masking could have cut transmission markedly.

UK: What if everyone had masked up? Analysis of app data has the answer:
"Respirators would have dropped the rate of COVID transmission by an estimated factor of 9, compared with 0.6 for surgical masks. A factor of 9 is enough to put SARS-COV-2 into exponential decay!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's just our newspapers fluffing National -

Oh we have to leave them in longer for some fictional benefit—ignoring the fact that National's policies are tanking our economy.

Because the worse National makes things, the more people crave stability (& will tolerate corporate fascism)

A true definition of patriotism

#corbyn #yourparty #socialism

Turning Frustration Into Action By Connor Sharp

A lovely Sunday morning pick me up via MountainTui.

“Frustration can be a lever for change.

And by taking action, by working to change the world for the better, we can move towards hope. In fact, by doing something, we create hope.”

#nzpol

This is gross
Tax the rich
Don't take their Super away

Means testing Super will take it away from hard workers and vulnerable people.

It always does.

Articles like this are complicit in the deaths of our vulnerable.

When it's really cold ❤️

It's damningly accurate

Even if it's missed one or two things like the environmental deregulations that will expose us to increased levels of poison, nitrates, and biological contaminants as well as put fragile flora and fauna at severe risk of extinction.

I'm very fucking tired of Aotearoa NZ forgetting that it was happily living life as normal (excepting border restrictions), covid-free, whilst folk like my mum were isolated in their homes in the UK, hearing about 1000s of deaths, and growing cancers because they couldn't get to see a doctor.

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I remember one of my Grandmas used to quietly vote, gosh it would have been social credit/Alliance.
Anything green-ish, she just loved the environment. But not sure she'd not be lost in the propaganda now.

Mine's definitely dense. Maybe I should work on mind numbingly obtuse, because that sounds cool.

National is shedding compassion and showing its mean streak OPINION: The National of today has drifted a long way from the party’s compassionate traditions.

Although obviously not a cheerleader for this Government, I have tried to give ministers their due, praising reforms in schooling, infrastructure and elsewhere. But when people with pneumonia are being left on our wintry streets, what am I supposed to say? What is anyone supposed to say? #NZPol