This the same guy touting savings from his plan? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Fair point

So these dipshits won't fund a *pair* of ferry terminals that'd get used several times a day, but will fund an LNG terminal that *might* get used once in a blue moon? One terminal, for the same price as two, and with zero (0) ferries?

LMFAO we're being taxed for this, we may not use it, and we're buying it on HP and paying $2.7bn fo rit Are we utterly fucked in the head?

This gaslighting government #nzpol

“Since AI was added to the device the FDA has received unconfirmed reports of at least 100 malfunctions & adverse events…Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads”

Attention Ōtautahi Christchurch. FOOD RECALL by New World Haswell branch bakery - recall of carrot cake and red velvet cake products. Photos on the page. Possible risk: Contains Metal. www.mpi.govt.nz/food-safety-...

Footage of the cops in Sydney is unhinged. Absolutely awful shit.

Here is a smoking gun ….

For years now, UK state owned rental properties have had swathes of solar panels on their rooftops, supplying clean energy to the grid. But clean green 100% Pure NZ is going to import fossil fuels instead. Fuckwits.

And this is why you don't let billionaires own platforms.

Here’s the thing. Power bills in this country suck. The price keeps going up. It’s a financial burden on many households. Campaigning on actual measures that would lower those bills - forgetting entirely the benefits to the country - would win votes. An LPG terminal isn’t going to win votes.

Look at me, pontificating in my lane: www.nzherald.co.nz/business/cor...

This is plain treachery. They KNOW what they're doing. I really want to see their offshore bank accounts. No doubt that greedy lying bastard Key has pointed out the best tax havens.

#nzpol Pull the plug NOW.

New Zealand’s score in the @anticorruption.bsky.social Corruption Perceptions Index has dropped yet again. Over the last decade we’ve slipped 10 points, and gone from equal first to equal fourth. Greens & Labour must take integrity issues seriously and act. www.transparency.org.nz/blog/falling...

Lab is being very stupid by focusing on the word tax. Focusing on a tax being a bad thing will only come back to bite them. There is so much else wrong with the Nats fossil gas plan to be attacked. #nzpol

Let’s have a little bit of a chat about an economic concept known as the learning rate, and why it makes an LNG terminal a batshit insane idea 🧵 #nzpol

It's the most flawless economic plan since they paid $671 million to buy zero ferries.

cute how they have a number for how much households will benefit, based I assume on modelling of the spot price for electricity with LNG added to the mix, but are very cagey about the other numbers, which are just too up in the air to discuss at this point in the election cycle, i mean, process

'The net benefit of us adding a levy to your bill is that your bill will actually be ever so slightly lower. Not lower than it is now mind you, lower than what it otherwise would be if we didn't do the thing we need to levy you for.' I mean. Fuck off. That's just bunkem

2016: In 10 years we'll have a man on Mars 2026: In 10 years, we'll have a city on the moon 2036: Today we honor the memory of SpaceX founder who took his own life

It is very funny that Elon talks about building a city on Mars or a city on the Moon when we all know him building a city in Indiana would be an unmitigated disaster

Chat is it good that we’re naming our sewage plumes and giving them their own website?

Sometimes I wish there really was a secret room somewhere where thirty people who really run the world get together and decide shit just so I could burst like a school principal into a rowdy class and yell 'quiet down right now. what the fuck are you kids playing at'

Too bad 1. Seabed mining will have irreversible adverse ecological effects 2. The USA is an unreliable partner 3. There is little evidence it will produce any real growth or wealth for NZ

But like this is literally true. Elon Musk is literally responsible for the deaths of millions. Literally, literally. And we let him walk among us.

Policy uncertainty seems to be hallmark of this government.

FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

Sadly all countries except Aotearoa New Zealand #nzpol :-( It is increasingly suspicious - between the secret minerals dealings and the LNG boondoggle amongst all the other things - how lock step Luxon, Seymour and Peters are in with Trump

This Luxon gas scheme feels dodgy, like he needed to lock it now just in case they lose election. The minister says it could be online by next winter , this, the same gov that couldn't even run a roadcone tip line.. #nzpol

Prisons are for people who've been CONVICTED of crimes. Most people in these warehouses - without proper food or sanitation or worse - haven't even been CHARGED with crimes. And thousands are CHILDREN. This will be another of America's greatest shames.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Australia: let’s roll out so much rooftop solar you can have free power during the day NZ: businesses are closing down because they can’t afford power so we’re building a one billion dollar fossil fuel terminal so we can keep not having free power

So no counter-factual using "let's build more storage to cover the dry season issues"? Is that right?

"I think what would be a really good idea, given the current international climate, is for NZers to pay extra on their power bills so that we can be energy-dependent on the USA." And I assume the Winter Energy Payment will be going up to compensate? Pardon?

Imagine putting 1 billion into home renewables, reduce power consumption at its source... crazy talk. #nzpol

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Reasons why RNZ will never have me back on: -said landlords being MPs was a conflict of interest -called ACT a far right political party -declined to gossip and speculate about Golriz

With National against the ropes on LNG, Hipkins snatches defeat from the jaws of victory

But wait! There's more!! #nzpol

Despite 85% of our power coming from cheap renewables the price you pay is set by the cost of gas By an industry making 93% margins Who are refusing to adequately invest in the cheap renwables because that would impact profits Our electricity is expensive because that suits the gentailers #nzpol

Elon Musk announcing something feels like one of the best ways to know it will never happen.

Renting in Aotearoa NZ? Please fill in the survey; if nothing else the results will help me with council decision-making! Own your home? Please share it widely to get max responses.

Govt to pay up to $180m/year or $2.7b over 15 years to lease LNG re-gasification plant, paid for by $15-$30 'levy' per household per year. That $2.7b would build four Benmore Dams worth of electricity #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...

"Unlike many countries, New Zealand does not require lobbyists to register, disclose their clients or funding sources, or adhere to ethical standards." I bet this was helpful in this gas case! And imagine the lobbying against lobby rules that's going on too! theconversation.com/lobbying-reg...

Rewiring Aotearoa's response to Government's LNG terminal plan: you cannot create cheap electricity with expensive fuel #nzpol www.rewiring.nz/news/rewirin...

The growing threat of antibiotic resistance has scientists searching for solutions. They may have found it in a newly discovered bacterial behavior: chaotic dormancy.

Time for a wealth levy it’s not a tax it’s fine don’t worry about it