petermartin.bsky.social
@petermartin.bsky.social
Ōtepoti. Aotearoa. Daughter has a chat..https://open.spotify.com/show/0hBFH6yf3FlTtU7jq3Iu1e https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/both-sides-now/id1649021913 https://linktr.ee/bothsidesnownz?ltsid=4f85c45d-a98b-4e08-924b-c74efece4d94
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% of income spent on food Latest OECD data US: 6.7% Ireland: 8.4% UK: 8.6% Switzerland: 8.9% Canada: 9.6% Australia: 9.8% Austria: 10% Germany: 11.5% Norway: 11.6% NZ: 12.7% (thanks to @_breadcapital on X)
Dublin protesters greeted Trump’s visit with an inflatable Netanyahu appearing to have his way with him.
Gee....where have we seen this recently...
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w agoThe House voted to condemn “socialism” earlier this week. Listen, I’ve been in and around politics for over 50 years. I grew up during McCarthyism and the “red Scare” of the 1950s. I’ve seen all of this fear-mongering before. Here’s what’s really going on.
The media spring...sprung. But in Ōtepoti...we appreciate when the sun sets. And at the mo it's after six and the light's lengthening....
Hipkins says he's not bringing back the University Free Fees Scheme. Way to torpedo the chances of your Labour candidates in seats with high student numbers. If you want fees free vote greens. A vote for labour and national is a vote for higher student loans. #nzpol
if infrastructure is what connects people, holds them together, serves, supports, and endures, then Dolly Parton was infrastructure.
I was a Labour member for donkey's years. I never left them. They left me. When I realised the party that once represented fairness, decency and a chance for working people was gone beyond recall, I joined @greenparty.org.uk. I've never regretted it. I can hope again, for me, and for our planet!
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4w agoThis summer of hope, I’ve spoken to some epic crowds! And I keep hearing the same things: People want a party that will fight for wealth taxes, rent controls and our environment. Amazing to meet so many new members who signed up this weekend. Join.greenparty.org.uk
I just don't believe that Labour has listened to the folk and the overwhelming message was 'return the country to a profit'. If anything...it was ' I'm fucking tired of starving'....
Seems Labour's loot policy has gone down like regurgitated vomit... It wasn't good for you the first time around....why now? Lose yer affiliation....vote Green.
I think that if yer a Labour Party member the time has come to resign and join the Greens. Let them raise some loot the old fashioned way and be beholden to you and not the sort of vested interests that Labour is clearly beholden to....
Imagine if Luxon attends the opening of the new outpatients building in Ōtepoti.
Community service? People have been jailed in NZ for shoplifting & this business owner got community service for a relentless campaign of of threats, blackmail and sabotage which included visiting the wife of the rival, paying thugs to do damage. #nzpol What unequal justice looks like in practice.
Juha Saarinen@juha.bsky.social · last mo.Laundromat owner Timothy Jeffs intentionally damaged a new store he deemed as competition www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/laundroma... Running a business in Hamilton seems rough.
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
What would be cool...would those MP's of any ilk...who take advantage of all the stuff that we folk fund...that they are entitled to , state that. For no other reason then transparency...
Apologies...but when did 'afterpayday' become A Thing... and WTF is afterpayday.....
Perhaps politics and politicians is where trickle down actually happens....
On the upside...I do love how defibrillators are getting ubiquitous. It's cool to live in an age where yer able to live an age....
What sort of dinner etc do Nat MP's get whilst their integrity is being feted....
Kinda feel that if Luxon is rolled...we won't notice much of a change....
I wonder at times if because of the dearth of satire locally, the politicians get away with promoting stuff that they don’t actually believe…
The Post seems to be the newspaper that holds politicians in general, and the Government in particular, to account at the moment. Gotta say that it’s been a while since….
Ōtepoti is 8c , all sun and bugger all wind. BBQ's still six months away....
This MMP thingy is little more than a dead cat..sigh
The National party just had $350,000 donated. Assume it's not nascent policy. *smirk*
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Jeeeze. ACT and NZ First are robbing the graveyard. Is there no-one with a bit of youth...yanno under pension age, willing to stand....
