Welcome back Nicky Hager This provides context for Judith Collins' recent military-aligned proposals "...Global Information Dominance Experiments....“full GIDE experiment every 90 days” to develop and practice new capabilities. This is the “Need to move even faster” urgency to be ready for conflict"

#EUr0cktober #MusicChallenge 9. United Kingdom “Britain voted by a margin of two-to-one to stay in the European Economic Community, as the EU was then known, in a 1975 referendum” The 1975 – When we are together

#nzpol Newsroom is not letting go of finding out about the circumstances of Adrian Orr's exit from the Reserve Bank. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/07/o...

#EUr0cktober #MusicChallenge 8. Ireland Siobhan Fahey (Shakespears Sister) – I Don’t Care

I know it's not real, but Ouch! I'll enjoy this moment. Stuff poll at the end of the article

#EUr0cktober #MusicChallenge 7 Denmark The Chemical Brothers - Denmark

Spotted this gem in a footnote on page 62 of Treasury's He Tirohanga Mokopuna "Between 25% and 30% of everyone born in New Zealand is living overseas by age 30, and emigration rates are even higher among those with tertiary qualifications" Radical idea here - how about stop shitting on our young?

the idea that jobs are what will fix poverty is morally and factually broken #nzpol

#EUr0cktober #MusicChallenge 6. The Netherlands- Shocking Blue - Venus I totally love the lack of awareness of the need to put on a show for this very cool song.

Well actually, Parents are legally obliged by the government to send their kids to school so they can be educated enough to... Get a job that helps the country (productivity and all that). Seems to me the government should be legally obliged to provide that worthwhile job.

#EUr0cktober #EUrOcktober #MusicChallege 5. Luxembourg - Chook - You Are All You Have (feat. Claudine Muno) youtu.be/_YBD6xe7VjY?...

#EUr0cktober #EUrOcktober #MusicChallege 4. Italy - Jack Savoretti - Vedrai Vedrai

#EUr0cktober #MusicChallege 3. Germany – Die Toten Hosen - Tage wie diese "On days like these" One of the sounds of our first European summer

#WoW #WearableArts #Wellington Indescribably good. I've never seen the partner so overwhelmed by a show so visually and aurally fabulous.

#EUr0cktober #EUrOcktober #MusicChallege 2. France: Film Noir - My Love youtu.be/JHVv_bS_gc4?...

How much did this report cost us? Absolutely worth reading to the last well-deserved, scathing last paragraph. #nzpol "There is no grand vision behind the reform package announced Wednesday, beyond perhaps a commitment by the Government to double down on fossil fuels..."

#EUr0cktober #MusicChallege 1. Belgium Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) Of course I'll take this opportunity to add someone from my hometown as well 😉

This is what we're looking at, AoNZ. It would be good if we were too small a market for the financial corps to look at. But I doubt it. #nzpol

So Wellington is not colder, not wetter and not windier than Raglan. This one instance is something I shall now repeat as fact forever 😉

#nzpol The CTU has today released its report on electricity in NZ. We are calling for electricity generators to be brought back into public ownership - and to recognise electricity for what it really is - a public utility - not just a source of profit. 🧵 www.reimagineaotearoa.nz/publicly_own...

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge Thank you @lagrume.bsky.social for hosting another great challenge 30 A New International – Ride the White Horses 🎶Green for the land Blue for the ocean, Blue for the ocean Blue into pale sky There’s gold in the sand, and graceful the motion ...

Well worth 20 mins of your time if the purpose of the UN, shifting power, what its arrangements mean for small countries and what reforms could give a fairer voice is of interest.

"Clark said the government's rationale about the present and future governance of Gaza didn't make sense."

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 29 Shona Laing - Soviet Snow 'Soviet Snow’ relates narrative around the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 She said “I think the Soviets got slagged something awful for that, as if the whole nuclear issue was entirely their responsibility, and it really bothered me.”

“Before 7 Oct atrocity, 40% of Gaza's land was farmed. Gaza was mostly self-sufficient in vegetables, poultry, olives, fruit and milk. Now 1.5% of its agricultural land remains both accessible and undamaged, roughly 200 hectares to feed more than 2 million people” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Drop something Blue www.nzonscreen.com/title/blue-d...

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 28 Icehouse - Great Southern Land 🎶Standing at the limit of an endless ocean Stranded like a runaway lost at sea City on a rainy day down in the harbour Watching as the grey clouds shadow the bay

Sozz Canada, NZ says you will no longer exist if a Trump-led US invades. #nzpol

Self-serving quisling. Which journalist is going to ask him a (comms-proof) question about why one situation justifies urgency and not the other?

Use “I” statements please Winston. The tens of thousands of NZers who marched, the thousands and thousands more who see this genocide for what it is and who know recognising Palestine is an important symbol of solidarity, your decision does not represent us.

Confirming our Puppet State status.

In all the years I've dipped in and out of academic research, I've not had a project as jinxed as the one I'm on. Finally, today, we get to present some stuff, and I wake a 3am with a massive cold, so I'm missing it. If I ever get the urge to do this again, I hope someone stops me 😭

Fundamentally people are asking you to boycott until Israel stops the genocide in Gaza. It is not about silencing voices, it is asking you to pause and be on the right side of history. Your art, privilege and entitlement could be used to hold Israel accountable. #nzpol

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 27. Florence + The Machine – What the Water Gave Me youtu.be/am6rArVPip8?...

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 26 Hurts - The Water The metaphors are sort of what you'd expect from a duo named Hurts. 🎶 I wish that I was stronger, I'd separate the waves Not just let the water take me away

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 25 Terry Callier and Beth Orton - Dolphins First time I heard Beth Orton - and she happened to be singing this brilliant Fred Neil song, along with the equally wonderful Terry Callier. I still get emotional watching this.

Government is reannouncing every project they cancelled in 2023 and 2024 The reason they cancelled them Because Labour started it That is it And wiping out a construction industry with record migration to Australia while we are at it

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 24 Greg Johnson - Hibiscus Song 🎶She smelt like red geranium Wore hibiscus in her hair...

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 23. Ocean Colour Scene - Go To Sea

I mean, there's just some sacrifices other people have to make for our non-essential ambitions.

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 22 Dragon - Rain 🎶It's been raining for so long It's been raining for so long Oh is it any wonder, the streets are dark Is it any wonder, we fall apart Day after day straight rain falls down All over town, rain coming ___ Seems appropriate right now 🌧

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 21 My Morning Jacket - Squid Ink Banishing negative energy

We're throwing taxpayer dollars to the very rich. Instead, we could be empowering our communities. "Nothing would return us to productivity as fast as allowing workers to share in the productivity gains they’ve been locked out of for the past 40 years." Gary Payinda

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 20 Wunderhorse - Mantis A pretty song, for prey.

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 19 Big Country - The Storm Still right up there in my list of favourite BC songs

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 18 Orville Peck - Kalahari Down 🎶Travel lucky, Kawasaki Maybe, next time I'll take you with me And I still hear the sound The wind come up, Kalahari down Kalahari down

For ffs, it’s way past time for companies and their directors to stop making us (taxpayers) pay for cleaning up their messes while the pocket the gains from their dirty businesses. From dairying, mining through to forestry and all other polluters and environmental vandals - clean up & pay up. #nzpol

So the media and opposition politicians will hound Costello for days and demand apology and discipline, nay, resignation? #nzpol

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 17 The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches Seems like a good idea for some reason 🎶Movin' to the country, Gonna eat a lot of peaches I'm movin' to the country I'm gonna eat me a lot of peaches

Hamish Kerr!! "Geordie and I won world indoor titles on the same day. He gave me a kick after his win last night, so I had to win, too. It's really cool to share our best moments together." This guy, along with Tom Walsh, has setup a fund for athletes to get to these events. Bloody legends 👏👏