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AI is already creeping into election campaigns. NZ’s rules aren’t ready Months out from the next general election, political “AI slop” is spilling over social media feeds. Lessons from overseas could help electoral laws catch up.

#nzpol Heads up and pay attention Aotearoa NZ. There's going to be a deluge of dirty politics and lies thrown at us on social media this year. Please remember to go to party websites to read published policies. Do due diligence and watch out for each other. 💪

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Tony Blair criticises UK PM over failure to back Trump’s Iran war Former PM says ‘you better show up’ for allies as HMS Prince of Wales readied for deployment

War criminal says what?

I would just like to remind everyone that the slimy Atlas operative cancelled the network of community organisation supply good lunch (apparently “woke” to have nice food for kids) in favour of a global corporate to serve up disgusting and occasionally dangerous slop to our tamariki.

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Andrew Barclay needs to front up and be hauled over the coals

PS... the Govt having a net positive financial worth relies on the private sector, net, being in debt to Govt. This is very unusual - normally reserved for Govts that use the proceeds from trade surpluses to build up wealth funds.

Oh, and if you want to really spin the ghouls' heads ask them whether our businesses having the most negative net financial worth in the OECD is perhaps a bigger problem than having very low levels of Govt debt (and crumbling infra)? [Ends]

Perhaps most importantly, the NZ Govt is not really in 'net debt' at all - the Govt has more financial assets than liabilities. We're saving up for a rainy day apparently. Let's hope that all those shares and equity will be worth something when it rains. [3/n]

Liam Dann: Iran conflict could sink economic recovery ... and Luxon A badly timed supply shock threatens to spike inflation and sink our fragile recovery.

Imagine Liam, if this govt had accelerated, even just continued, energy transition, getting NZ off the oil&gas addiction, liberating our economy from this vulnerability they would have something real to offer. But no, they chose the exact opposite, for reasons.
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As a small country, everyone in AoNZ ought to support the rule of law and international mechanisms/ institutions to maintain it, as it is the only thing stopping someone like Trump or Putin coming here and taking whatever they want. #NZpol

Hamish Rutherford stinking up the editorial board at NZME as well

Barclay still dodging media, when will he front up?

1News Board Chair Andrew Barclay, a former Goldman Sachs boss & Auckland Hospital Foundation Director appointed by National texted Paul Goldsmith to apologise after record gang story & "corrected" news - Newsroom @samsachdeva.bsky.social scoop

Countries that have adopted electric vehicles the fastest will suffer the least from oil price spikes caused by the US/Israel attack on Iran.

NZ is not one of those, thanks to Luxon’s poor leadership.

Nicola Willis - along with the rest of the National government - has a performance review on 7 November this year. And the choice is pretty simple: either we vote for the ultra-rich, or we vote for ourselves.

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Responsibility for the health cuts and the harms being done to vulnerable people by rationing their dialysis rests with one person: Nicola Willis. She's the one that decided a tax cut for families with an average of $276 million in assets is more important than healthcare

So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer

Cutting dialysis just to save a couple of dollars is truly toxic behaviour. But let's ask ourselves the question: where did the money that used to be available to keep people alive actually go?

A short thread.

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Let's talk about what happens when oil prices go through the roof and stay there - because it really isn't pretty, it's going to hit our economy incredibly hard, and it's only peripherally about how much it costs to fill the tank.

A short 🧵

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Oooh, I know this one!

1. Blame Labour

2. More tax cuts for the rich and more austerity for the rest of us

3. Enlist media hacks like Malpass to “explain” this to us

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It’s not often politicians get to face the consequences of their terrible decisions this quickly.

I'm just annoyed that I feel like all the knowledge and the technology we have means we could all be having a really nice time and scientists could be doing science and everyone could have enough food and shelter and everything they need but instead *gestures at everything*

The ghouls will see increasing flows offshore, but their ideological bias means their prescription will be austerity: kiwis simply need to be poorer to reduce the demand for imports. Meanwhile the obvious strategy will be staring us in the face: invest in energy, food, finance sovereignty [Ends]

Of course, arseholes like these always claim they're going to be better for the economy, and provide a better quality of life.

In reality, things always get worse for anyone who isn't already rich under right-wing govts.

The stinger is that people like Luxon claim to be Christian. Yeah right.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Ex-ACT staffer Grant McLachlan says party created fake grassroots groups Political pundits and media experts are warning that artificial grassroots organisations - nicknamed "astroturfs" - are being used to manipulate and mobilise public opinion for political gain.

“TPU did a lot of the groundwork for the party in the 2020 election with their Campaign for Affordable Housing to fight the Green Party's proposal for an asset tax.”

"So when they were saying 'This is a problem', it was actually a contrived problem that the ACT Party told them to create.” #nzpol

I cannot believe the US Military take orders from these unbelievable idiots and have put the world in this precarious position #nzpol

Nancy Youssef, ..guil @ X.com @nancyayoussef The preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 billion a day, a congressional official told me. 12:20 PM • 3/4/26 • 44K Views

Preliminary Pentagon cost estimate of the war in Iran is $1 BILLION a day. So far.