Jim Marr

Another privatisation disaster

While climate change is causing devastation around the country Luxon is announcing NZ taxpayer support for an Australian Rugby League game that actually excludes our players #WorstEverPM #NZpol

It’s as if he’s drawing a line between who belongs here and who doesn’t.

Restarting oil exploration, importing LNG fossil gas and expanding the dairy industry is climate extremism.

Doctors’ union may yet save the NHS from Palantir There is power in the union.

Palantir's move on Britain's NHS - "a huge win for corruption over excellence and corporate surveillance over privacy". doctorow.medium.com/doctors-unio...

Giving billionaires a voice: 2025 election donations New donation data shows how wealthy individuals and well-funded campaigning organisations sought to shape Australia’s 2025 election through money, messaging and pressure politics.

Buying elections - Clive's Trumpet of Parasites throws $53 million into the kitty #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

The climate has changed, whether they believe it or not.

💯The #AtlasNetwork consists of 550+ ostensibly ‘independent free market non-profit research institutes’ in 100 countries. This is a disguise for what is more or less a single coherent system for mass marketing (oil) corporate sponsored disinfo & state capture. All 100 countries need to investigate.

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK

Extraordinary - UK handing over NHS patients' data to US military surveillance company, Palantir www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Comparing KiwiSaver and Aussie Super is the $6 trillion dollar question The grass is not necessarily greener across the Tasman; it's simply grown under different conditions, says NZ's semi-retiring Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson.

Universality is definitely a plus for NZ Super v the Australian model #nzpol but, fact remains, individual super in NZ is insufficient and National Super not well enough protected newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/13/c...

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK

#FOI disclosure of officials' briefing: it warned that rollout and use of Palantir software was being resisted across the NHS.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A pedagogical tax Why the rich should be Uber-taxed

Anti-Epstein credits you can bank? branko2f7.substack.com/p/a-pedagogi...

Good news. It's outrageous that gouging New Zealand supermarkets are now slapping tickets on customers' vehicles - or, even worse - hiring a private operator who charges more than any local authority, to do it for them #TakingThePiss

Clean drinking water is an essential need. Will the new RMA put it at risk? A decade on from the Havelock North water crisis, there are fears we're 'loosening the safety net'.

Chris Bishop upends core tenets of New Zealand water protection as Seymour-Luxon Govt moves to ensure benefits flow to commercial sector #nzpol thespinoff.co.nz/politics/12-...

Could we do something about sustainably growing our economy so competent Kiwis want to live and work here? This sounds like another short-term stitch-up, Palantir Pete - The Epstein Files Star - on steroids #nzpol

Surely, the Nats will have a safe seat for their man, Sunny

Other than corporate greed #ICC what is the reason for a fourth T20 World Cup in little more than four years?

Part of Taupō high school ‘completely destroyed’, as two fire appliances fail Emergency services were called to the blaze on Spa Rd on Sunday afternoon, while Fire and Emergency NZ

Two fire trucks failing at a large fire is what firefighters have been warning about for a long time. Services need a government that will invest in them #nzpol

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

Rod Emmerson cartoon of a huge pipe lableled "NZ's Chronic Infrastructure Shambles" And sewage pouring out onto a person who is now brown with slush (it's the sh*t word)

If only there was some centralised water management agency that could prioritise risk, allocate resources and manage decades of underinvestment before the shit hit the literal fan was in place.

Oh something something 3 something is coming to me ... something about Waters... #nzpol

That's a bloody good photo

Marina is wrong in the sense that this is fundamentally political. This is about wealth, privilege and power and all the political favours and protections that buys for wealthy, connected bullies

That‘s the spirit.

PETITION: No minerals deal with Trump Join the call. Tell Luxon you don't want a minerals "deal" with Trump

Action Alert ‼️

Luxon is doing secret deals with Trump to give US access to critical minerals in Aotearoa.

Think out-of-control mining of the seabed, conservation land, mountains and beaches. Would anywhere be safe?

Sign the petition and pass it on👇
action.greenpeace.org.nz/petition/no-...

Yes, it should.

Stock swindles A buyback is not just a dividend by another name.

Everybody knows the system is rigged. To build a movement and save our future, we have to know how it is rigged and who rigged it - take the stock buyback rort, for example ...
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Company running Wellington wastewater treatment plants failed basic asset management - report Despite multiple failures - including untreated sewage polluting a popular swimming beach - the company running Wellington's four wastewater treatment plants is keeping its multi-million dollar contra...

Veolia seem to have managed to keep their name out of the Wellington Water info this time around. How and why?

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Waitangi 2026. A government of Atlas Network slogans confronts a complex nation unwilling to be neoliberal roadkill. Toitū te Tiriti Toitū te Taiao

Global credit rating agencies warn against National Party (and Taxpayer Union) rates cap law - the modelling is fascinating and will hit Council expenses hard #nzpol #kiwi newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/04/g...

Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM's Claim Jeffrey Epstein 'Co-Owned' Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner A former Israeli Prime Minister and intelligence chief described Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein as "owners" of a venture fund. The founder of Palantir, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrast...

Mandelson and the growing pressure on Britain to cut ties with Palantir bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...

I don't reckon. That's hoisting him with his own hyperbole. If it isn't, we can't win