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Chat Control is "like a malware on your device" – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats Encrypted messaging app, Signal, said it could leave Europe instead of weakening encryption if the bill were to pass

Ohhh another massive privacy overreach thinly veiled in "child protection". EU...aren't you supposed to be better than this?

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Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers The Prime Minister is urging young people to look for work in the sector amid changes to the Jobseeker benefit.

Mr. Luxon making stuff up? No....surely not 😉

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Greens back plan to 'abolish' private landlords A motion passed at its party conference called for the party "to seek the effective abolition of private landlordism" while backing building more council houses.

Necessary. Private letting has to go under 8%.

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Aucklanders say CBD feels unsafe, homelessness prompts some to avoid areas Aucklanders say their central city feels unsafe, particularly at night, with homelessness, dirtiness and “dodgy people” scaring some away.

I like to see what the usual mouth pieces are saying ...NZ published a piece where people are actually saying the Government has given up on homeless people? (Unhoused persons!). No mention of removal of emergency housing or other supports though

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Elon Musk tries to make Apple and mobile carriers regret choosing Starlink rivals SpaceX Starlink’s mobile power play: 50 MHz of spectrum and 15,000 new satellites.

Just what the world needs! More Elon Musk controlled monopolies. 😉 🤦‍♂️

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Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data.

We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district.

Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

Benefit due to change for families living under one roof Former Welfare Expert Advisory Group member Phil O'Reilly joins Ryan Bridge to discuss upcoming changes to the benefit for families living under the same r

Sounds like even more red tape

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Masked police abducting people at random. America fell very quickly didn't it...

And we see that genuine frustration about unemployment and failing public services in the UK being framed as caused by illegal immigration as fuel for the rise of the far right.

It's very monochromatic and stale isn't it.

'Frightening’: Businesses slate CBD as lawless, unclean, hit out at drug use & begging in scathing survey A survey of 102 Auckland businesses found the city characterised by 'neglect and disorder'

Yes. What do we expect when we drive people into poverty?

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Right and the far right now it seems.

How did Labour get here? 15 years of Tories set the mold?

Govt offers $1000 bonus to keep young Kiwis off dole, as date set to cut service for teens Parents earning $65,529-plus will have to support their unemployed 18- and 19-year-olds

Translation. "Find a job. We will give you $1000. Never mind there are no jobs as a result of our policies. "

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No but because of his policies they don't have jobs to go to.

He's living in a millionaires bubble...

No accident. The neoliberal playbook. They are are getting richer from it. Their donors too.

So MAGA want to blame Democrats for the shutdown because Democrats don't want higher Healthcare costs for all Americans (including Republicans) but MAGA do? 🤦‍♂️. Are the GOP base buying that?

"Popularity" lol. Love it.

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

Weaponisation of the civil service. Who they fooling?

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Trump sees ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to punish Democrats as shutdown enters day two Republicans and Democrats engage in war of words as White House also uses impasse to cut government spending

By "Democrats" he means the American people. Punishing the American people is really what Trump does best.

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It’s official: White House orders federal agencies to shut down Russell Vought said federal employees should still report to work so they can “undertake orderly shutdown activities.”

I suspect they won't be telling the FBI or ICE to shutdown...

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How is this sustainable?

Imagine dedicating your life to your country. Reaching the highest levels of military service, then having to listen to a drunk, woman beater who's covered in white supremacist tattoos....

Key takeaways from Trump’s speech to US military generals Republican president tells top military officers they will play part in ‘war from within’ in major US cities.

Storm troopers basically...

“Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances"

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Senate fails to pass stopgap funding bill as government heads for midnight shutdown – follow live Resolution that would keep current levels of funding until 21 November failed to reach the 60 votes needed to pass

Ahh they would spin it that way wouldn't they....

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Thousands protest livestreamed murder of 2 women, young girl in Argentina Drug gang suspected in torture and murder of two young women, and a 15-year-old girl, in crime that shocks Argentina.

This is where extreme neoliberalism and people *playing* at running a country ends up. Tragic but predictable.

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Russia will give ‘decisive response’ if provoked by West, says Lavrov The Russian foreign minister made the comment in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday.

"If provoked". What is he smoking? 🤣

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Trump says he is authorizing military to use ‘Full Force’ in Portland The president wrote on Truth Social that he is directing the Defense Department to send troops to Oregon.

Only sends troops to Blue cities but Red cities are the ones with the higher crime problems. Only "untruth" can reconcile that.

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Lavrov tells UN Russia has no plans to attack Europe, warns of 'decisive response' to aggression Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told world leaders at the UN General Assembly on Sept. 28 that Moscow has "no intention" of attacking European countries, while warning that "any aggression agai...

Yet they already have. Sabotage. Cyberwarfare. Poisonings

Lavrov tells UN Russia has no plans to attack Europe, warns of 'decisive response' to aggression

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FBI fires agents seen kneeling in iconic photo during George Floyd protests five years ago | CNN Politics The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fired as many as 20 FBI agents, including a group associated with a 2020 incident in which agents were photographed kneeling with demonstrators at the height of...

And Patel said he wouldn't do political witch hunts. Day after day they find new ways to degrade themselves and the institutions they serve.

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