I’ve said right from the start that the insurance companies are the ones to listen to if you have any doubts about climate change.

The insurance companies are more aligned with the Greens view of climate change, adaptation, and the locked in effects than the current Government of New Zealand.

Screenshot of the Guardian website with a photo of Christopher Luxon and a headline saying ‘embattled NZ PM survives leadership vote and blames media for ‘soap opera’’

We know he’s genuinely and irrevocably embattled when it’s the headline in the international media

#nzpol

Science-folks: If we run 100 experiments, we might find 1 or 2 of them may have results that can make many dollars.

NZ Govt: Excellent. We will fund those 1 or 2 experiments.

'A storm every eight days' - country's biggest insurer calls for systemic response An increasing number of severe weather events were now happening in spring and summer, IAG says.

A storm hit NZ every 8 days on average in 2025, causing claims to the country's largest insurer to more than triple. IAG's Wild Weather Tracker showed there were 46 storms between March 2025 and end of February 2026.
#NZpol #ClimateEmergency #ExtremeWeather
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'Urgency' needed over climate adaptation funding, Insurance Council says But the climate minister says decisions on cost-sharing arrangements are "complex" and won't be made until after the election.

Public rejection of National Party grows as lack of plans hits home! NZ Minister Watts admits no plans to work out who will pay to protect or move communities threatened by climate hazards, despite pleas of Insurance Council
"severe weather's not going to wait"
#NZpol
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Reading Guards, guards! at bedtime with Junior Cans and he's chuckling at the jokes at his level and I'm grinning at the ones he'll get later.

Yes , distraction , divide & conquer and chaos etc …. they’ve all been used before.

Keeping the masses arguing amongst ourselves is the prime distraction activity of the 0.1%. Because if we were to coalesce around legitimate shared grievances, they’re toast.

Fake Daily mail headline. We blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires

Then I'm afraid you are ignoring a vast body of evidence, and might have succumbed to myths that have been heavily promoted in billionaire outlets.

I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to speak my mind, to state what I believe even when it's directly at odds with billionaire power. I'm among the minority allowed to do it. But it's not a privilege. It's a right. And everyone should possess it.

We claim to treasure free speech, above almost anything. But on the most critical issue, very few of us are free to speak. The majority are silenced by fear of censure or loss of employment. This conspiracy of silence looks more like what you'd expect in an authoritarian regime than in a democracy.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Epstein recorded every one.

💯

We went to war cause we all(100%) did not go and vote for Kamala. End of story. If we want out of this, register for the mid terms.

Is this why we went to WAR???

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

For my 10 cents, I think you're both right (and not just cos I don't like conflict) but I think the subtlety is that the accountability role the media plays seems more aligned to the drama of 'blood in the water' than it does to genuine accountability factors, like eggregiously cancelling ferries

But not something anyone should vote for… 🤔

His ability to be in opposition while in government is quite something.

Let the games begin!

Please let this energy consume Peters and Seymour 🤞

"Winston says it was a 'very bad move' by Luxon to call confidence vote, suggests it won't be the last" ah Winston the headline hog strikes again #nzpol

There's academic research into exactly this dynamic, with the example of the constructed outrage against Metiria Turei

example after example of increasingly absurd lies by media in service of promoting NZF as a party for economic populism

this isnt just a trend anymore, folks

Peters is THE guy this election for media leadership and the gallery, ask yourselves why

What I'd just said to you is, oh that letter.
#DyinLuxon #NZpol

AYCC are the real bloody deal. I just donated, please consider donating too if you can. There aren't a huge number of REAL ONES out there sticking solidly to the task of climate action and fossil phaseout but these amazing ppl are staying strong

Help them!!

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I think I need to make known that I can help with computery stuff, especially anything related to standard websites, social media etc.

I need money, and clearly making cute beanies prolifically won't cut it, overall. That's a nice addition that means I skate by, alas without thriving.

I guess that is kind of "an announcement" on the subject of securing more fuel.
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(but more seriously, changes in supplier policy is yet another stated reason to change fuel alert levels)