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• Post #4301077

  From Substack: 'Dr Harpreet Singh 5d' 'New Zealand First Continues to Deceive Voters 'When political slogans promise one thing, but official actions deliver the exact opposite, it pays to look past the rhetoric. 'We were told: '“We fight for the hardworking blue-collar Kiwi battler... We have always been, and always will be, for common sense.” 'So, what is the actual record? Here is the reality Kiwi workers are living with today: 'Fair Pay Agreements Scrappe...

• Post #4181317

  https://keenlens.substack.com/p/the-bank-of-england-admitted-in-2014 'I see everyday #politicians repeat like parrots #economic propositions they don't even start to understand, defending a model that a central #bank admitted was wrong over twelve years ago. ... The #Greens propose actual structural change and get labelled "communist" by people who have never read a balance sheet or a #Lenin text. The heterodox approach #predicted #2008, predicted the #housing #crisis, and pre...

• Post #4045853

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116969123572949200 300mm over a day or two around #Kaikoura, New Zealand, a few weeks ago, and one river eroded a whole section of one of the two lanes of State #Highway 1. #Climate change is not a hoax. Humans can stop accelerating it if we have the #political will.

• Post #3920824

  https://carrickryan.substack.com/p/the-truth-is-behind-the-headlines '#Populism, by its nature, rests upon the notion that all of the complex problems that #society is compelled to address actually have very simple #solutions. 'To hold this world view, it necessitates a deep mistrust of #expertise, of #institutions, and of #science, and anyone else that dares explain why the "simple solution" has already been dismissed from calculations. 'These are the natural adversarie...

• Post #3890978

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@scottrossi/116933706611736840 Easy!

• Post #3890977

  RE: https://mastodon.nz/@dayvblack/116818810472357241 '... #rightwing #governments in the #UK and around the world that have focused on #cost-cutting and running down the #public sphere in favour of private provision have neglected and in some cases destroyed #community #amenities, and communities with them. Shared spaces, Mazzucato makes clear in her book, are at the heart of any idea of the common good. “It’s investing in those collective structures,” she says. Arsenal FC also run ch...

• Post #3890976

  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-17/donald-trump-national-address-ominous-sign-for-midterm-elections/106928662 "Donald Trump's failure to let go of 2020 an 'ominous sign' ahead of upcoming midterm elections" 'By North America correspondent Lauren Day in Washington DC' '... Using a prime-time address to the nation to repeat long-debunked claims about his 2020 election defeat is a desperate and unusual move. 'Usually t...

• Post #3875790

  A second bird found in the #Wairarapa has been confirmed to have #H5 #bird #flu. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/734160/second-bird-tests-positive-for-h5-bird-flu

• Post #3851748

  ' Those who shout loudest against #Green policies and visions for a #sustainable egalitarian future are those few with the most to lose.' https://substack.com/@fatboyfriend/note/c-287269216 https://substack.com/home/post/p-203688103 'Hopetown by Simon Wilson 'The case for #voting Green 'I’m not a member of the Green #Party, but they're getting my #vote. Here’s why. ... 'THE GREENS HAVE two core messages. They’re both simple enough to express, but they can be diffic...

• Post #3749952

  https://www.themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz/winston-peters-empires-pacific-deputy-and-the-selective-conscience-of-a-man-who-counts-dummy-warheads-but-not-dead-childrenthe-blood-washed-badge-updated-with-source-analysis-8-july-202 'Jonathan Milne’s analysis published on RNZ on 8 July 2026, “China risks exploding Pacific goodwill in one fell swoop of a nuclear-capable missile,” is the best mainstream analysis of this event published so far. It is worth reading. And it is worth reading very care...

• Post #3684937

  "the Good Faith Yarns Tour is not a harmless community roadshow. It is an #Atlas-aligned propaganda truck rolling into ten towns over seventeen days, loaded with "free speech" framing, fronted by an #FSU council member, and anchored by Professor Paul Moon #ONZM — the #Pākehā #historian in a #Māori faculty whose career trajectory has made him structurally useful to this regime." See the reasoning at https://www.themaorigreenlantern.maori.nz/paul-moons-good-faith-helps-a-white...

• Post #3593489

  RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@jtonline/116858377529241011 "Running a server made sense when we had funding and staff. As a tiny unfunded org, it wasn’t safe, it wasn’t sustainable, and it wasn’t having enough impact to justify the cost and effort."

• Post #3546029

  https://larssona.substack.com/p/snatching-victory-from-the-jaws-of (defeat) 'Going back to our roots 'I am very lucky to have played a small part in a successful people-powered resistance movement, and it has informed my thinking as a campaigner ever since. 'In #Aotearoa New Zealand, the current right-wing government reversed our country’s historic ban on offshore #oil and #gas #exploration shortly after coming to power. They even went so far as to introduce fresh #subsidies to lu...