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Miniature musical instrument makers admit defeat as violin size requirement for story is declared "too small to build."

Just to be clear what is (and isn’t) happening here. The Govt MPs are empowering a select committee with a majority of its MPs on it to stuff more things into the government’s bill, because these things procedurally couldn’t be included in the bill when introduced.

“The proposed debate on economic management between Ruth Richardson and Nicola Willis was, or perhaps is, a farce. They are, to borrow an epithet from UK politics, two cheeks of the same arse.” #nzpol A sentient arse that lacks the self reflection to recognise it is sitting in shit it created.

Undermining Democracy to Destabilising the Climate: A brief history of the Neo-liberal Atlas Network: www.alliancemagazine.org/analysis/und...

Data reveals disparate treatment of peaceful climate activists versus violent far-right agitators. Available in EN, ES, DE, FR, PT-BR, IT, AR and HI.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Here's our country summary. Top 1% have 12% of income and 22.7% of wealth. "inequality remains moderate but has risen slightly in recent years..but shows signs of gradual widening across income and wealth dimensions"

I really would ask ppl on this site to think for a minute about what it feels like to have a moderation team hell-bent on erasing your existence online while an ethnostate destroys you in real life

GOVT WASTING RESOURCES BY TRASHING COUNCIL PLAN CHG The Tree Council is appalled the Govt refused to grant an exemption to Auckland to allow them to cont with Plan Change 113 to add more significant trees to Notable Trees Schedule 10 of Unitary Plan. PC 113 was officially withdrawn Fri 12 Dec 2025.

Journalist Mohammed Mhawish, who left Gaza last year, describes how Palestinians are watched, tracked and targeted by Israeli forces who have access to their most intimate details through constant surveillance. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/12/mohammed_mhawish

By choosing to no longer decarbonise, NZ is choosing to be poorer. Continued fossil fuel dependency means forever volatile import costs, increased public health burden, and international market risk. Economically stoopid. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.

Fast & fudged: #CrimesBill omits crimes: "Officials, both from Ministry of Justice & from Police warned #NZGovt this is a dangerous piece of legislation. They say it would escalate low-level theft into more violent crimes & endanger lives of business owners #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/thehous...

#nzpol Today the government announced that the minimum wage will rise by 2% in April 2026. On current forecasts this will represent the 3rd successive year in which minimum wage workers will face a real terms cut in pay. Over 3 years full time workers are $4,184 worse off. A 🧵

1/2 "American democracy is being gutted from within, our foreign policy is realigning away from Europe and toward Russia and China, all while dictators and corporate oligarchs openly bribe Trump and members of his family....

#nzpol Data out today on the economy ahead of the GDP reading next week. It’s a mixed bag – Profits up for firms but not wages. Some sectors are seeing growth, but parts of the private sector are smaller than at the election. This isn’t broad-based growth - we’ve just stopped falling. A 🧵

"Carceral regimes — from Britain to Palestine and beyond — operate according to the same fundamental logic, which seeks to break the spirit of resistance." The 45th Progressive International Briefing of 2025 is online now.

New interview on the old kleptocracy youtu.be/Hx2jh93_1Fs?...

Every hour there's new shocking levels of evil.

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“EIGHTY PERCENT OF CHILDREN’S BODIES RECOVERED SO FAR IN GAZA PROVE THEY WERE SHOT EITHER IN THE HEAD OR CHEST”- BBC All those responsible for these cold blooded murders are WAR CRIMINALS WHO MUST BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.

" In helping to free Palestine we cannot but challenge the fallacious logics underlying the consensus that prison is a viable solution to social problems." Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, AR, HI and RU.

If you read one thing today, read this: open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

The Atlas Network has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. Its objective is to protect the privileges of capital owners. #nzpol

The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.

One country to rule them all, And in the darkness bully them. www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

The Atlas Network, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT, TU and AR.

My understanding is 80% of the Historians at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage depart this month with their cartons of books. Does that just leave a Chief Historian? With it ends an unbroken record of state-produced history going back to the War History Branch seen here in 1946. #HistoryEnzHere

Witkoff, Kushner, and the Trump crime family – 𝘢𝘭𝘭 in bed with the Kremlin while our friends in #Ukraine fight for their lives. We’re living in a madhouse. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Yellow-legged hornets and golden clams pose a catastrophe for our environment. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Climate action delivers all sorts of co-benefits. Yet while cities worldwide often trumpet the economic rewards of climate action, they regularly fail to report the many health benefits. A new study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

First wireless charging road in U. S. Unveiled in Detroit www.fox2detroit.com/news/first-w... Looks like it has been there in Detroit since 2023. #energy #electricvehicle #battery #batterylife #environment #Technology #ActOnEnvironment #EnergyIndependence #GreenPlanet #SaveEarth #GasIndependence

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/the-... I posted a story with a Gift Link to the Wall Street Journal article. This piece makes it even more clear what is going on. trump and his minions are selling America off as parts for their own bank accounts.

If you have 6 hours to spare, you could hear Aotearoa NZ try to justify its record on eliminating #racism. #NZpol 3179th Meeting, Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) How is NZ doing? webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1w... 3180th Meeting, CERD NZ, continued webtv.un.org/en/asset/k10...

24 years ago! Lessons from privatisation. Do you want your services to go away after they're privatised? All this talk about rural development and regions left behind you know what would have helped... if they still had banks and passenger trains #nzpol www.beehive.govt.nz/speech/lesso...

You know they’ve really screwed the economy when businesses that have been around for generations start to fall over.

Excellent new video from Youtube channel “Just Have a Think” explaining how African nations are trying to catch up with Pakistan to import record levels of Chinese solar PV and batteries. Excellent video. Worth watching:

Professor of economics Robert MacCulloch slammed Luxon's claim that a 21 yo wld retire with a $1m KS as a lie....It's a political announcement. This scheme is not well thgt out. It's a PR anncmt. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Fossil fuel companies were given insider access to confidential drafts of legislation during a 2-year campaign to weaken oil & gas regulation & overturn the offshore exploration ban. They lobbied Shane Jones to dilute New Zealand's clean-up rules for ageing oil fields. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Morena from the Waitakeres looking twds the Manukau Harbour.

SANCTUARY GARDENS has taken court action to save this area from becoming an apartment block. Please donate to help us keep it as a public space. It's been a garden since Maori times from the adzes found here. This 👇 or This 👇

UK Budget – is this the end of democracy? youtu.be/g0lEbH2kEw8