A blue car balanced precariously on a fence. The car has the National Party logo on the side, the name Luxon is on the bonnet, with the words “back on track” along the bottom

Like this?

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.

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"Kuwait invokes ‘force majeure’ on its fuel, allowing it to forfeit delivery to NZ’s refined fuel suppliers"

Neat development #nzpol

Well, that was totally predictable.

Why do none of these clowns have the bandwidth to think of this possibility, & factor it in to their forecasting?
(Rhetorical; I know why. They assume ‘solidarity’ among business leaders 😑)

If I polled at 16 percent on Sunday night and knew the following morning I'd be grilled about it by Tova and John Campbell, I'd just quit. No hesitation

Wow!

The price of beef : Kat's Garden A frank look at what we do with our cows.

Wondering what's up with the price of beef mince these days?

We sent some cows off this week, so I've brought the receipts from our small-scale, low-input situation.

I live relatively near there - there’s a bunch of names that just got plunked down whenever 3 or more settlers were close together. Mostly from English counties.
(We have Oxford, too)

Swannoa is the one that grates hardest. WTH is that?

I’m not sure if this helps but … Mr 30 is still mostly only happy with grey, blue & dull green. There were many arguments in his teens.

Bravo both of you for working with their temperaments!

Iran war: Greens call to ‘electrify everything’ and distance NZ from US The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

The Green Party says a national electrification plan is needed to build NZ’s energy security as, unlike oil shipments, wind and solar can’t be held up in the Strait of Hormuz.

nz voters are starving for big impactful ideas like this

Yes, I get that - but my point for ‘self-sufficiency’ includes eggs, milk, and meat - I grew up on a farm - and animals need acres of land.

Plus if you want the full medieval, flax to make linen for clothing.

Ah yes, the theologically ancient and sound idea about the Divine Right of Presidents

Still: it wasn’t going to the concert that was the problem, it was snogging her boss in public.
Which could have happened anywhere, so why blame Coldplay?

“The right wing is on the decline. People are realizing that they have no vision or solutions, just hatred and empty slogans. All they’ve brought to the world is war, inflation, inequality, and social division.”

engage in forbidden sexual intercourse, the Gemara notes that Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: There was an incident involving a certain man who set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. And they came and asked doctors what was to be done with him. And the doctors said: He will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not engage in sexual intercourse with him. The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not stand naked before him. The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter. The Sages insisted: Let him die, and she may not converse with him behind a fence.

reject modernity (online r*pe academy), embrace tradition (the Beit Midrash telling a man to die)

I’m no sports fan, but this is a very good dog!

Dunno, maybe raincoats/umbrellas?

Scaling up to a short break in the sun in Fiji, for full-on disaster floods?

It’s an idea worth exploring, right?🤣

For anyone in Aotearoa doubting the rape academy I have one word: Roastbusters.

We know what this is, we know how it goes.

And we can end it. We absolutely must.

What if men worked to end it now, forever? What a better world we would have, for everyone.

State of local emergency declared in Ruapehu District amid possible ‘life-threatening’ flooding Civil Defence made the declaration at 4.43am after heavy rain caused slips and flooding overnight.

Over the past ten years NZ has averaged 55.9 days annually under a State of Emergency each year, and 66.6 days over the last five. In the 10 years prior to this, NZ averaged only 13.4 days per year.

Consider the implications of central government continuing to refuse to believe in climate change.

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over US blockade Iran says the US broke a promise by continuing its naval blockade.

Just in 20 minutes ago
Iran has reclosed the closed Strait of Hormuz again
We are back to what it was 26 hours ago
And likely see oil rocket on Monday
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/iran-c...

Yep. I like gardening, because I like watching stuff grow.
But I’d need acres of land to be self-sufficient, so I grow herbs & a few hardy veg; the rest of our fresh comes from food rescue/supermarket.
Market gardeners are more efficient at scale than I can be.

I'm as keen on a good embattled leader stoush as the next person because I'm a petty wench and I love to see Luxon squirm.

But look at what they're doing. They're speed runnning Stephen Harper's playbook. It took him 1 1/2 terms to gut the science and info gathering functions of the state.
#nzpol

Looks like a good starter for my Xmas list for family. 🧀🍋‍🟩🍖

Rich Dad.

Somebody gave him the series of books back in the day, & he thinks he knows all about wealth creation.

Nobody told him a country is different to a company.

We get stuck with those ‘self-help’ quotes, when we need understanding of geopolitics, global trade, foreign policy dynamics.

Renewables First, Not Fossils First: Policy Response to the Fossil Fuel Crisis - Greenpeace Aotearoa The attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran have created a global energy crisis, as oil and gas exports from the Gulf are restricted and global prices rise.

Of course Greenpeace and others have been calling for policies to reduce fossil fuel exposure for years. We were right then and we're right now. Here's an update on things that would actually help with the current global fossil fuel crisis. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

This heavy use of urgency — shortcuts in the parliamentary process — is cheating democracy. And ministers know it too.

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This topic is particularly on point at the moment given today's MBIE webinar on public research funding priorities.

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