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The UK Conservatives want Jewish groups to meet their new Neo-Nazi ex-con candidate.
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
Winston Peters relentlessly dodged answering Lawrence Xu-Nan's very precise questions inviting him to stand by his racist outburst in the House last week. What a snivelling coward. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan grills Winston Peters on 'racist' comments that were directed at him
The Green MP who Winston Peters told to "go back to your own country" has challenged the Foreign Minister in Parliament over his comments.
rnz.co.nz
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The insanity of this - absolutely dire, yet RBNZ increase rates and polls show people still are supporting the coalition. Where is our main opposition party? They are invisible. Hipkins needs to go - he’s the worst person for this crucial period.
Lisa Kudrow: Stop The Madness!
Alt: Lisa Kudrow: Stop The Madness!
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Bernard Hickey@bernardchickey.bsky.social · 21h agoFree & open for all: Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas were granted & the RBNZ hiked to take 'heat' out of the economy. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
This has aged worse than sour milk. "Luxon rejected suggestions that a Defence Force flight allowed greater flexibility." #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Christopher Luxon commits to flying commercial if elected
Opposition leader Christopher Luxon says he will not use Defence Force planes to travel internationally if elected as prime minister.
rnz.co.nz
The major party in govt not being "legally" allowed to share a bill with another major party in parliament in order to get their support to pass it, has to be the most stupidest excuse I've ever heard. Oh look, and it came from our Education Minister... #nzpol
National wants to show Labour the social media ban bill, but 'we can't', education minister says
The education minister says she hopes to get a copy of the social media ban bill to Labour's caucus this week, after previously saying legal reasons were preventing her from doing so.
rnz.co.nz
Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷♀️
power companies heavily increased prices a few months back, even before it was seriously cold and people were using more power. and yet here we are again with another energy infrastructure failure despite being rorted for the last decade. where the fuck is NZers money even going??
Tom Isaacson@parsley72.bsky.social · 23h agoEverybody get solar. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
"It's actually a real crisis for people. I don't think people really understand or like to think that we have older people who are actively living in poverty in our country," #nzpol
Older Kiwis choosing between 'starving or heating' as price increases bite
An advocate for older people says recent cold temperatures combined with the cost of power and other goods have produced a crisis point, with many people forced to choose between food and heating.
rnz.co.nz
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Free & open for all: Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up to 37% of workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas were granted & the RBNZ hiked to take 'heat' out of the economy. #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
Unemployment worse than forecast & real wages fall
Unemployment rate up to 11-year high of 5.6%; Underutilisation rate up to 13-year high of 13.8%; Youth underutilisation up by 21,500 in a year to 37% of youth workforce; Yet 111,000 work visas granted
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Cue that souless human being, Minister Louise Upston, issuing media statement, "people on welfare must be encouraged to find work and the welfare dependancy is not an option". This is code for: "Shift the focus on the unemployed,so people don't blame us".
Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.
#nzpol Nicky noboats has been bleating on national news hours beforehand to front foot this with things are now picking up. Unemployment rises to 11-year high of 5.6% www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
Unemployment rises to 11-year high of 5.6%
Unemployment has pushed higher to its highest level in more than 11 years as growth in the labour force outstripped the number of jobs.
rnz.co.nz
New Sentinel-2 satellite imagery reveals the extent of damage caused by large scale Israeli detonations overnight on July 30 into July 31st around UNESCO World Heritage site Beaufort Castle in Lebanon.
#VoteBinface www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...
‘A 99 with a Flake? That will be £7, please’: what’s behind the surge in ice-cream van prices?
From the cost of milk and chocolate to diesel and electricity, every part of producing the summer treat has been hit by the climate crisis and other shocks
theguardian.com
new, from Renee DiResta: "How Matt Taibbi was groomed by Mike Benz in a Twitter Space, uncritically ate up a truly wild conspiracy theory, and started touting it in a congressional hearing as if he had evidence of “millions" of censored tweets" Read here: substack.com/home/post/p-...
When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz
How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.
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The #climatecrisis is driving drastic measures. In Romania the navy has carried out a controlled explosion to deepen the channel of the Danube to keep water flowing to the Cernavoda nuclear plant's cooling systems.
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
More evidence that Reform voters are not like other people in the UK. Show them some potential corruption and they’re all in.
Kemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
Badenoch Slammed After Former Neo-Nazi Activist Chosen As Tory Election Candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine is the creator of the Crewkerne Gazette.
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Latest piece: people often overlook one of the fundamental questions of war. How do you fund it. The Trump administration is actually facing real problems in each area (historically in one). Even if they wanted to escalate, they might not get the money for it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Do Not Forget That Wars Demand Money
I Doubt The US Can Afford To Escalate And Fight A Long War, Even If It Wanted To
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