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  • Bene-bashing like it’s Australia or 1990

    It’s funny how the anti-nanny state crew are all for getting the state up in your face. Across the Tasman, the conservative Howard government invented electronic income management in 2007, with the original idea being to prevent Aboriginal First Nations Peoples from spending their money on booze, tobacco and pornography. Beneficiaries in certain parts of…

  • Anand Giridharadas: The left has to build a ‘bigger, better movement’ to beat Trump

    I’m a big fan of how Giridharadas articulates thoughts around movements. Step away from the Trump specific stuff and listen to what he has to say about building movements and the narratives the need to present: This holds true for the left every where right now.

  • Gordon Campbell On The Government’s Assault On Maori

    … the National-led coalition is mounting a sustained assault on Treaty rights and obligations. Even so, Christopher Luxon has described yesterday’s nationwide protests by Maori as “pretty unfair.” Poor thing. In the NZ Herald, Audrey Young has compiled a useful list of the many, many ways that Luxon plans to roll back the progress made here over the past…

  • Report: Israeli Officials Knew of October 7 Attack a Year Ago, But Didn’t Act

    Israeli officials agree in private that, if they had taken the plan seriously, they could have reduced the severity of the death toll or even prevented it altogether, the investigation found. Due in part to the U.S.’s unbending support, Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world. https://truthout.org/articles/report-israeli-officials-knew-of-october-7-attack-a-year-ago-but-didnt-act/ I really fear for…

  • It’ll die down…

    Not if you keep screwing people it won’t. #goodluckwiththat

  • The protests are unfair… next minute…

    Te reo Māori: Govt seeks to halt extra pay for public servants fluent in the language https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504003/te-reo-maori-govt-seeks-to-halt-extra-pay-for-public-servants-fluent-in-the-language I wonder if they are going to cut pay for public servants who are fluent in SQL too. It’s petty and obviously idealogical. A quick reminder of this ironic high-level timeline, which would be a funny skit, if…

  • Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Māori protests against government ‘pretty unfair’

    Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government plans to work for Māori and non-Māori alike, and protests are “unfair” for a government that’s only been in power a week. The protests taking place across New Zealand were part of a “National Māori Action Day”, led by Te Pāti Māori and iwi, to challenge the government…

  • ‘We’ve got to be talked to, not walked over’ – John Tamihere ahead of nationwide protests

    Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says a national “Call to Action” planned for tomorrow is a response to what he calls a coalition government anchored on anti-Māori sentiment. “We either lie down after 35 years of winning incremental, slow, painful change and then all of a sudden it gets turned over inside of three…

  • New Government crashes environment

    National, which has traditionally taken a responsible blue-green approach to environmental management, has traded away many of those principles in favour of a radical anti-environment policy programme. The politics of the campaign period are morphing into revenge politics of a Government wanting to undo anything that has happened during the past six years, irrespective of…

  • ‘An embarrassment’: NZ picks up ‘award’ for offshore oil ‘U-turn’

    New Zealand has picked up the less-than-coveted “fossil of the day” title at this year’s COP28 climate summit. The “award” is given each day at the conference to a country deemed to be “doing the most to achieve the least” or “doing their best to be the worst” in terms of the progress in the climate negotiations…