Ms Hooper

X.com post: Alan Sadowsky @AlanSadows24597 If there was a Pulitzer Prize for eulogies, this would overwhelmingly be chosen. Quoting this post: Joe G • @EastEndJoe: Perfectly expressed! Image attached to post, which looks like a picture or screenshot of a letter to the editor, which says: By Oliver Kornetzke August 18, 2025 Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul— all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been-arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul— it sh*ts out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.

Just remembering this post for no reason.

The Onion is on to it quick! -

Trump has posted a video on Truth social saying it's a major and ongoing combat operation and calling for regime change. It's not a warning shot, he's started a war.

Israel launches attack on Iran as explosions heard in Tehran Blasts heard in capital as Israel declares state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile strikes

Two genocidal fascists launching an illegal war to distract from their previous crimes and dodge accountability. May they burn in hell.

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Despite a compelling report initiated by the previous government about the urgent need to regulate lobbying in NZ (currently unmonitored), #lobbying regulation has stalled since June 2024.

Evidently, financial interests and friends go first. #nzpol
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Judge finalises US$575 million judgement against Greenpeace in pipeline case Greenpeace in a statement said it would seek a new trial in a lawsuit pursued by pipeline company Energy Transfer.

BREAKING:
A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay them US$345 million.

This is a billionaire-backed attack on the right to protest.

Greenpeace stands for all of us.

Financial forms of family violence affect 1 in 7 New Zealanders – but the law is lagging Despite global efforts to see economic harm as a form of domestic violence, New Zealand’s Family Violence Act doesn’t recognise it as a standalone form of abuse.

So Nz is lagging in this too

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Glowing character references for abusers to be banned in court ‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

This needs to happen in AoNz

Character references to be scrapped in Victorian courts for crimes including rape and assault
‘As if being a ‘good bloke’ cancels out the violence you perpetrate.’

The advanced nature of digital surveillance means we cannot compare the current autocracy in the US to any in history. It’s a global crisis playing out here more because of Silicon Valley’s control over US politicians and institutions. - Sarah Kendzior

Read this from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social and consider the alarming news that broke this week that the NZ Government is currently deciding whether US should get access to New Zealanders' biometric data - and is also currently refusing to answer any questions about that plan.

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'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.

“Food grant limits had not been changed since 2008.
And you wonder why people aren't managing to get by."

“MSD cannot grant someone more than $200 in food grants over a 26-week period, unless they determine there are exceptional circumstances.”
#nzpol

We should stop calling it "minimum wage" or "below living wage" and start calling it the "POVERTY WAGE"!

#nzpol

Tesco walked away from talks to take on supermarket duopoly, documents show Aldi and Lidl also declined to engage, leaving the supermarket duopoly intact.

So Willis' RFI to sound out potential competition in the supermarket industry was as much of a flop as the much touted Investment Summit

NOBODY bothered to even meet with her or participate in the RFI

Tesco, Aldi (who operate across the ditch) and Lidl all said no🤣🤣
#nzpol

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If your GP practice is using an AI scribe I have two suggestions: first, demand clarity on privacy (storage, access, policy). Second, ensure they personally verify accuracy. We’ve seen clinically important errors, and doctors who couldn’t explain where the data was going. Patient safety failures.

What Australia’s carbon market for cars means Australia’s new fuel efficiency scheme quietly created a carbon currency for cars that's working, Hussein Dia says

NZ needs to quickly match this Aus policy, as we will now be the dumping ground for the worst vehicles from these manufacturers:

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I gotta say that I didn't see this coming from this bunch of ignorant, transphobic, racist, sexist, god botherers.

National party policy for the 'squeezed middle' with some surprises On the morning of 30 August 2023, the National Party (National) released its tax policy for the upcoming general election, titled ‘National’s Back Pocket Boost’. The policy contains a number of changes to the New Zealand tax system, including changes to income tax rate thresholds, relaxation of the tax rules for residential property investment and two curious new taxes targeting non-residents.

1 October 2023 - Election 2023: Nat Party release 100 day action plan if elected

National Party released most of its policies at the end of August/September 2023 - i.e weeks before the election

Yet they are desperate for Labour to

Why?

#nzpol #newzealand

The same america the right wing National govt wants to let have NZera info. #nzpol

Update: Trump announces end of business with Anthropic, unclear if they are going to invoke supply chain risk designation.

Calls it a “radical left, woke company” after it rejects demands for AI usage in mass American surveillance and autonomous killing drones.

Wild timeline.

‘We defeated the parties of billionaire donors’: Hannah Spencer’s victory speech ‘We don’t have to fight dirty to fight for change,’ says Green party’s new MP after Gorton and Denton byelection win

‘We defeated the parties of billionaire donors’: Hannah Spencer’s victory speech
‘We don’t have to fight dirty to fight for change,’ says Green party’s new MP after Gorton and Denton byelection win

Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon
"There doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen."

Safer Speeds Benefit Cost Ratios

This is a table showing the Benefit Cost Ratio of lowering speed limits just on their own. It has not factored walking or cycling benefit spins offs from this which would send the BCR higher

The table comes from AUSTROADS so it is Aussie and NZ relevant
Just dont tell Simeon Brown or Ryan Bridge

Men as a collective benefit from not being angry about the files.
Anger has a flow on effect to the status quo for women/girls in every sphere - from healthcare to pay equity to home ownership to sexual assault.
The risk of accountability/consequences is the work noted below would have to be done.

I didn’t grow up wanting to be a politician. I’m a plumber. And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer. Because even in chaos, even under pressure …. I get things done. I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That’s what we do. Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades. Because working hard used to get you something. It got you a house. A nice life. Holidays. It got you somewhere. But now- working hard? What does that get you? Because talk to anyone here and they’ll tell you. The people who work hard but can’t put food on the table. Can’t get their kids school uniforms. Can’t put their heating on. Can’t live off the pension they worked hard to save for. Can’t even begin to dream about ever having a holiday. Ever. Because life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry. I don’t think its extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life. And if you’re not able to work, that you should still have a nice life.

To our Muslim communities, who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan. Whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in Longsight, someone just down the road walked in to a mosque carrying an axe. Whilst we were gathered, and eating together - an act of terror could easily have taken place. And I can’t and won’t accept this tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society. My Muslim friends and neighbours are just like me, human.

These are 2 parts of Hannah's speech that stood out to me as we prepare for this year's election. I'm glad she said that if you cannot work you also should have a nice life, as too often our politicians just refer to people who work. Scapegoating of ethnic minorities has already started here #nzpol

Complete Party Policy We are building a future where we do more, faster, to protect our planet and make sure everyone is treated equally.

A consistent experience when comparing policy between Labour and Greens - Labour will tell you something is a focus, Greens will describe the actions they intend to take in detail - see below.

Reflecting that much like any other relationship you’re contemplating, actions speak louder than words.

'It's just not enough': Salvation Army warns families are starving The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.

“The Salvation Army is warning that families are starving and it wants the government to urgently increase food aid.

Its latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment, rising family violence and stubbornly high cost of living pressures.” #nzpol

“Oops, sorry no defence for harming pedestrians” Letter of the Week from Saturday’s Herald notes 5 school students hit by traffic this year inc. 10-year-old who was tragically killed after exiting bus 😭 time to re-prioritise vulnerable road users #saferspeeds #carbrain #oopssorry #nzpol

#nzpol

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