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YouTube video by Paul… The Other One NZ First Already Feeding off Public Anxiety To Grow Its Conspiracy Pushing Base

As @paulbarlownz.bsky.social really validly points out, if we were to have a snap election, many would be voters could be caught out not being enrolled.

Please make sure you and those around you are enrolled vote.nz

#nzpol #bhn #ditchthepricks #onetermgovernment

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I also studied anthropology. 700 year one students back in the day. There were complaints in articles about the pointlessness & funding required. Imo studying society & how it operates is both useful & enjoyable.

If Morrison set a cap, why can't Albanese adjust the cap?

I hope you have something nice planned to celebrate your special day. Take care of your wrist.
I went to chair yoga today & the ballet Macbeth on Sat. It was set in modern times & dancers wore grey suits. I missed the bard's words & killing Macbeth with a billiard cue was, well, an anti climax.

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I've never seen this last section. With the latest Curia poll, maybe the geese will win in November & get their common back.🪿🤞

The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
Anon

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

"Trump is not the architect of the Iran war, only its vehicle."

On who's really in charge:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

Reading that dialysis was being cut shook me. Nothing will chg with RW parties' monetary model until Treasury chgs. The 30% gvt debt ceiling is set in stone depite gvt debt being low. War in ME exposes Luxon's gamble that reneging on CC, solar & evs, supp oil & gas wld help COL & be popular.

The US & Israel are destroying Iran, the ME & the World's economy. All for Netanyahu's Greater Israel plan. Trump criticised Starmer for not helping bomb Iran. The US didn't rush in either WW1 or WW2 to join UK.

When I was a college teacher, female students questioned why I used my maiden name. It's traditional to chg, don't you love him? I pointed out their birth, marriage and death certificates would be in their maiden names. Tho funnily enough male students always called you miss!

I was stunned at a party in the 70s when a friend's BiL×2 (farmers) said they wldn't let their wives share a cheque account bc they might spend all HIS money. My cousin had to (by law) get her husband's permission to get an Aussie passport. But low paid NZ were betrayed by well paid women secretly.

YouTube video by Louis Rossmann Norwegian Government comes out swinging on enshittification

youtu.be/ii-D9LaitUw

They were almost hunted to extinction. Now, the southern right whale is at risk again Once a pillar of conservation success, the tide has turned for the Southern Right Whale as they face dwindling numbers in the wake of climate change.

Once a pillar of conservation success, the tide has turned for the Southern Right Whale as they face dwindling numbers in the wake of climate change.

I enjoyed the 1st para of an article by Vance where she desc Luxon as collateral damage of the war in Iran as he watches the economy tank. But if the inflation is due to war, the RBNZ shdn't raise rates. Supp oil & LNG, not evs & and solar, was always a dumb move. They're cheaper & make NZ indep.

Moore replaced Palmer only weeks b4 election & lost. Shipley replaced Bolger & lost. Key resigned & English took over & lost. Hipkins took over from Ardern and lost. Hmm.🤔

Great article. Imo the rollback of all CC policies while flooding cont to wreck lives as well as jumps in COL have helped undermine the gvt along with cancelling the ferries & Willis's outmoded austerity approach. The recent oil & LNG hikes due to war underline how blinkered this gvt is.

Luxon’s War on the Climate - a deliberate effort to increase emissions - Greenpeace Aotearoa The Luxon Government claims they are serious about climate change. They say they are simply taking a different approach to cutting emissions, such as using price signals rather than regulations. 

And, Luxon’s lot are now going to kill the Clean Car Standard.

At a time when fuel prices are rising and emissions have to come down.

It’s a pattern and it benefits big business while the rest of us pay the price.

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My cousin had difficulty today getting into her car & backing out bc the ute parked next to her was so wide. Modern car parks aren't wide enough for them.

You could be right. As Kelton expl inequality matters bc it gives the rich access to politicians via fund raising dinners etc to write tax laws in their favour. Here, fishing & mining have been rewarded alng with other donors. Repeal of 10 year brightline & landlords & smoking lobby too.

I blame Treasury & RBNZ too. They clearly foll old economic theory. Breman may chg direction. As Gary Stevenson ptd out to his economics Prof they got inflation wrong for 10 yrs. He got rich off their ineptitude. Also failed to recognise their strategies were driving up inequality as happ here too.

I made hedgehogs, trains, a dragon, a snake and Boba Fett. Your bear looks like Yogi. Impressive. The chocolate swirls look yummy. Have fun.🐻🥳

Stephanie Kelton Colombia Prof was hired to sit on the Budget Cttee. She tore her hair out trying to sell modern monetary theory to US politicians who wtd to balance new spending with cuts to balance bks like Willis. A sovereign gvt creates money via computer key which it spends & taxes back. So no.

New Zealand economic policy since 2023 in 10 charts Steven Hail argues New Zealand is enduring a period of economic self-harm and offers a way to end this and create a future based on hope

This article cf spending & inflation in Aust/US/NZ under Lab & finds sim results. So it's NOT Lab's fault as this gvt repeats ad nauseum. This economist uses a MMT lens & unsurprisingly finds Willis/Treasury's traditional model of job cuts & austerity wanting.

www.interest.co.nz/economy/1374...

Henrietta Lacks and her Hela cells spring to mind!

I don't like killing spiders as a result of Charlotte's Web. I try to trap them and put them outside. Lovely book that I read to my classes.

Brooke van Velden: "When it came to COVID, we completely blew out what the value of a life was, completely, I’ve never seen such a high value on life.”

John Key: "Show me the money."

Why are we surprised? Capitalism!

And the outdated economic model Willis & Treasury use instead of MMT.

Sea levels are already a foot higher than most scientists estimate, research reveals Nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population lives along the coasts

FUCK!

This is terrifying.

Coastal sea levels are already up to a foot higher than many scientists thought, according to an alarming new assessment from the Netherlands

That places tens of millions more people in the danger zone sooner than previously thought.

#ClimateChange

Chloe should be above Hipkins.