Extreme activism on both sides of gender/sexual politics have effectively poisoned the well so that nobody wants to talk about this stuff. I am sick and tired of it. Thank-you Weka for continuing to speak out for reason and compassion and biological ...
Haven't come across "Dark Mountain" before - is it this collective of authors? This thread on X today was a relevant critique of western culture: "One could easily look at the cultures that have survived 50,000 uninterrupted years on this planet, and say, ...
Fingers crossed that that the NAF coalition hasn't trashed our trade agreements with their stated intentions to ignore environmental standards
Mammals are a tiny % of global carbon biomass
Some of the mainstream Christian publications have denounced it. But it's still massively popular along with the rise of Trump and "Christian" nationalism. Prosperity Gospel | Topics | Christianity Today Retributive theology opened the door to growth of ...
Jonathan Pie embarked on one of his sweary rants about this chilling legislation, which makes comedy and acting a risky enterprise in the tartan police state. He capped it off with a joke that's probably offensive to your Scottish granny, but pretty ...
You mean they had the decency to resign for their errors of judgement, as opposed to the current administration which places no value on competence or integrity, and does not punish malfeasance but seeks to cover it up.
Popular music and the arts are another way to influence culture and change our trajectory. I liked this article on the role of culture: (paraphrase) Cultural and Spiritual Transformation – addressing the Climate Crisis in our daily lives within the Modern ...
Or a Matauranga Māori theme
We can’t afford another leaky homes crisis | The Spinoff
Some long overdue upgrades to schools just got shitcanned too. Rotting classrooms as Govt hits pause on school rebuilds (1news.co.nz)
They are getting rid of free vaccinations and Seymour wants more sick children to take their germs to school Changes to free flu vaccine eligibility are a missed opportunity to close NZ’s health equity gap
Our Minister of Regulation is planning to relax the rules for building materials, because he thinks another leaky homes disaster would be a laugh.
They cancelled the much needed Interislander Ferry upgrades, when the project was already half completed, thereby burning a couple of billion, just for spite.
Cossetted modern humans are going to become re-acquainted with the power of nature in a most painful fashion. We are only at the beginning of the killer heatwaves and climate migrations. (image: @extremetemps)
This is a massive problem and it's quite disheartening to even begin to understand its scope. CC and ecosystem collapse is the result of thousands of years of industrial human society growing like a hegemonising swarm, and with advanced agriculture and ...
So, from National's 'rock solid fiscal plan' -the $3b foreign buyers tax (which wouldn't have worked) was nixed by NZF -the $2b from cutting benefits was actually $600m -the landlord tax cuts cost $2.9b, not $2.1b -the gambling tax raises $200m, not $700m ...
A 'normal' business operates in a market with supply and demand and some competition to keep prices honest. What we have in NZ is a captive market with demand hugely distorted by decades of under-supply, and a FIRE industry milking Kiwis with huge ...
"The purpose of an investment is to generate profit" Oh really?? But according to the government, landlords are providing a social good from the kindness of their hearts and are doing it tough 🙄🙄🙄
Whatever, it's a group of privileged people exerting unfair leverage over the market. Luxon loves tax cuts but does nothing about rent, the biggest expense for unhoused Kiwis, leaving them to the wolves. The Nats have gone pretty quiet about the cost of ...
Businesses that employ people can claim interest and depreciation costs, except landlords are not running a normal business and most of them are basically farming humans and extracting capital gains as well as rent. The moral argument against monopolising ...
We can't afford the rich. The Royal Family's combined carbon footprint tallies up to a massive 3,810 tonnes a year. To put this into perspective, the average Brit has an annual carbon footprint of just 10 tonnes.
Luxon is holding one finger in the air and hoping that his financial genius will result in more houses being built, but what is more likely is that the ownership class will have more ready cash to outbid first home buyers, making inequality worse.
Do any MPs actually divest themselves of their property assets before implementing policies that inflate house prices? Conflicts of interest everywhere
It's true, honest! The magical trickle-down fairy says so.
Is there a word to describe Seymour's prevarications and patronising? Supercilious? Glib? Bullshit artist? Here is Seymour lecturing Lisa Owen, in true Rogernome style, all theoretical economic gobbledygook that attempts to justify a counterproductive tax ...
“A new study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.” But here's Luxon saying renters are "very grateful" the Government is reintroducing interest deductibility for landlords... what a lying...
thank goodness we cancelled affordable water upgrades and stopped the Mowrees from stealing everything 🙄 Cryptosporidium outbreak: Hundreds of cases reported across New Zealand, more than three times normal amount
“The Princess of Wales is missing and the spare Prince is in exile and the King is treating his cancer with herbs. If this were the 1300s France would be looking to invade.” 😂 https://x.com/thestefansmith/status/1767191732368867811
Labour's public interest journalism fund should have been continued and extended. But the public interest is very much not in the NAF coalition's interest. Josh Drummond's latest Bad Newsletter is worth a read on this topic.
Pokarekare ana / I stole your kids banana I look like a potato / And I love landlords But if you're poor / Please go away Shut up about living costs / And lower pay
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