Asher's a comrade. Get this man in the House!
So it was the Supermarkets particularly the predatory Foodstuffs the major catalyst behind Watties closing their factories
Only have to look at Pak N Save recently with their shelves full of their home brand which is cheap imported garbage over NZ and even branded brands
Men really hate those scary educated bitches.
Electoral loss is not a consequence, it’s a paid vacation for these people. They destroy everything and go to the oppositional benches for a break and come back and do more damage. Workers have fewer rights now. Beneficiaries have more hardship. Everything is more expensive.
A young woman in our singing group didn't know who Janis Joplin was. So we said Janis was a contemporary of Jimi Hendrix - but she didn't know who he was, either. So we said they performed at the historic Woodstock concert...she said oh yeah, I think my grandma once mentioned something about that.
You can literally see where this government increased our exposure to oil price shock
There is no reason for this other than oil money funding politics
#nzpol
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.
Like do they not remember when we actually had eliminated it? And everyone else in the world was dying and we didn't even have to mask?
National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic.
Labour saved 20,000 lives.
National are saving landlords and tobacco
They don’t understand bloody anything. Not the refrigerator truck morgues, not the mass graves, not the resthomes full of corpses.
They sure as hell don’t realise our lockdowns were short af and kids were out of school for very short times.
OH WOW 👇
"I feel like I've done all I can to damage scientific research and the census, so I'm going back to the private sector to make loadsamoney."
As someone who was in that last Auckland lockdown, I firmly believe the Government did the best it could throughout the main acute phase of the pandemic at every point. Hindsight is 20:20 but I'm glad Simeon Brown wasn't making any decisions during that period.
That's a pitifully slow response supposedly due to complicated legal reasons.. if only SLS were as thorough protecting their junior members...
Prepare for meltdowns from any VFF or similar people in your life. I think they genuinely convinced themselves the phase 2 report was going to prove them right.
Reader, it did not.
This is just straight neolib ACT policy dressed up as a Westpac report.
We don't want the Americanisation of our health system. Any public sector woes would be dwarfed by the poverty and poor health privatisation would bring to many AoNZers. Westpac and Seymour can just fuck off with this. #nzpol
The solution is obviously fund public health to a level it requires
Paying private companies to do the same work is (1) just privatization by the back door and (2) going to cost more
None of that is better for us as a country
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
“Pharmacies spoken to by RNZ say they haven't seen any unusual uptake in people coming in to get a Covid-19 booster in the last few months.”
Probably because we need to fund our health system which means we can then fund our health comms, the lack of which also wrecks our health and costs lives.
I believe that deliberate attacks on water facilities are illegal and in contravention of the ENMOD Convention set up in 1976 to counter the kind of environmental destruction the US wrought on Vietnam.
Covered this phenomenon in my book - trees add significant value to houses.
Making them pollinator and wildlife friendly species only enhances the effect!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Get fucked.
“As the over 20,000 dead Palestinian children killed by a US-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza affirm—Muslim and Arab life is simply not important, their children’s deaths are simply factored in, they’re collateral damage in a noble War on Terror.”
In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after lying overstayer figures
She used the lie to justify increasing the powers of Immigration Officers - will she rescind those changes?
#nzpol
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Our family - including Grandma, who *adores* buying festive treats - have decided we're not doing Easter eggs this year (and probably not ever again, tbh). It's stupidly expensive. I might make an Easter cake instead.
Anti-drone nets are now a lifeline in Ukrainian cities&villages close to the frontline.
Russian drones always hunt for vehicles, and these nets protect civilians, medics, Defenders.
The nets need constant maintenance and replacement. They are damaged by drones, explosions, even weather.
📷: libkos
Study: The risk of kidney disease increases following SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to influenza
Published: 25 February 2026
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Loving* this new AI customer service assistance world we're living in. So much more helpful than talking to a human**.
*may not actually be loving it
**may not actually be so much more helpful
