Katie

Ohai, other descendant of the Curries in Aotearoa!

Did yours pass through Dunedin? My grandmother’s lineage includes Curries in Palmerston, Otago. (C1870’s)

Watch Tehran - Apple TV Tamar is a Mossad hacker-agent who infiltrates Tehran under a false identity to help destroy Iran’s nuclear reactor. But when her mission fails, Tamar…

I have been watching this series for a few weeks, an international cast, focussing on the tensions between Isreal and Iran.
The final episode seems ironic, given recent events.

tv.apple.com/nz/show/tehr...

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime

Well, let’s see what Bish has to say about that.

Plus: who exactly thinks Standford is leadership material? Bypassing Seymour?

The whole line is bonkers…

Glad you can be there when he comes out of post-op.

Best wishes for a successful outcome ❤️‍🩹

And, related to the story - how does he think he can overrule the national sovereignty of another nation?

The hubris is mind boggling.

Have you missed all his pressers in the past fortnight?

The inept attempt to correct his question time mistakes in Hansard by turning up late on a sitting night to make a statement to a (mostly) empty room?

He has never shown good leadership; & he follows after Adern, who was so much better.

Well, if it’s Bish & Wills’ show, it’s not going to save them at the election polls.

No, it’s not the media; Luxon is doing it all by himself.

He’s shooting himself in the foot every day or so, wildly ignorant about geopolitics.

Did you think nobody was noticing that?

Oh well, that’s going to define their campaign strategy - again - attack anyone who’s gaining in the polls, esp Greens.
Farrar hates it when Labour looks like having enough partners to form a government.

New Zealand isn't the only place learning the hard way that there are real and absolute consequences to handing political power to shitposters and trolls. Disasters don't give the proverbial flying fuck about how dank your memes are. #nzpol

For someone who moves into a cabin at a camping ground, they need a food grant for basics like salt, pepper, flour, sugar, maybe tea or instant coffee - commodities that due to long shelf life, rarely turn up in food rescue.

I can offer anectdata that Noth Canterbury food rescue volunteers are seeing more participants arriving at food distribution sites who say they were declined a food grant & told to seek out the food rescue. Y’know, participate in the lottery of ‘what supermarkets didn’t sell this week’.

Emergency food grant decline rates up 60% in two years The Ministry of Social Development's 'strengthened hardship approvals' are seeing more emergency assistance requests being turned down....

Emergency food grant decline rates up 60% in two years

The internet may have been a mistake.

A Kuwaiti F-18 could do the funniest thing right now

Luxon on LNG: "international commodity prices rise and fall, and you don't change your approach just based on that".

And this guy was in business, you say?

Company behind Auckland’s tallest half-built skyscraper goes into receivership Receivers said the immediate priority was to ensure Shundi Customs's development continues to remain safe and secure.

We are going through some challenging times.
The entitled one and the Ferry disaster MP will say its a blip.
It is not.
They dont have a financial background and this is screaming Black Monday 1987 at me from every angle.

#nzpol
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

New Zealanders support more taxes on ultra-rich, new poll shows Half of New Zealanders also agreed that billionaires shouldn't exist while people still struggled with basic necessities like housing, food and healthcare.

Support long-term thinking not just next year's profit

Things like fundamental research at 2% of GDP

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

The one thing I do not want is more emails, but I would be ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED to get an email because someone wants a copy of something I’ve done and/or to hear someone has read and thought about something I’ve done.

Immigration account $150 million in the red, visa numbers overestimated Over-optimistic forecasting of visa numbers has contributed to a blow-out in Immigration New Zealand's finances.

The "market economy" wizards apparently have never heard of an effect called "market clearance" and how cranking up the costs without calculating the "oh-fuck-off" discounted cash flow effect, can leave you with too much stock and not NEARLY enough income
Clown show governance

Sharing this while thinking of my younger sister, who ticks many more boxes than I do.

But it’s close, lol, we shared that latchkey & got into trouble together.
#genx

Must be an uptick in ‘high net worth’ individuals applying for residency, again.

Outbreaks of war will do that…

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

for the youths who werent around for the iraq installment
- dont believe anything the govt says about progress
- no the democrats dont have to say getting rid of the baddie was good and therefore they have to support the war
- the war needs to be ended
- the media is not your ally and they love war

JD VANCE: "There's just no way Trump is gonna about this country to get into a multiyear conflict with no end in sight"

TRUMP HOURS LATER: "Wars can be fought 'forever,' and very successfully"

Watch: Luxon returns to Parliament at night to correct answer on Middle East – Greens say he mucked up again 'The Prime Minister just doesn't seem to know what is going on,' Chlöe Swarbrick said.

Luxo is such a part-timer on this stuff that he probably thinks farcical is the language they speak in Persia www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Oh goodness ... apparently having our energy needs fulfilled by a source that is highly dependent not just on overseas provision but also on highly contingent trade routes, and pricing from markets sensitive to both, rather than domestic generation of energy, isn't quite the best idea. Who knew?