The dumbass Govt has finally conceded it can't build an LNG import terminal and its dreams of a revival of fossil gas are dead. NZ wasted 3 years while this Govt delayed the transition off fossil gas, while telling the country a dangerous fossil gas fairy tale. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Simeon Brown's disastrous decision to cancel the Gas Transition Plan (and buy a lotto ticket instead) - Greenpeace Aotearoa
New Zealand is in the middle of an energy transition
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Let's pretend for a minute that right-wing discourse is correct and unemployed people are just lazy and could get a job if they just worked harder at it. Since the coalition took power, more and more people have been becoming lazy. The last time this many people were lazy, National were in power...
“The Finance Minister should stop pretending that inflation is a mysterious visitor from overseas, that he has no control over,” Nicola Willis, Stuff 2022 #nzpol
They probably think this says to centre voters "we've ruled out this Green policy you might think is extreme: you can trust us". But it just as much says "National's right, the Greens are extreme, you can never vote for Labour because the Greens will get in too". www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/23/h...
Hipkins confident he can form coalition with Greens without budging on tax
The Labour leader said his party disagreed with most of what was announced by the Greens in their tax policy.
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Updating this one: Q: Do you want to make things better? Greens & TPM: Yes! Labour: Not really. National: No. TOP: We'll support the 'no' team to form Government. ACT: We want to make things WORSE! NZF: WHAT iS a wOMan? #nzpol
“Empires rise and fall, but to my knowledge no state has ever deliberately, and systematically, killed its own power – much less with such speed,” writes the historian and expert on fascism Timothy Snyder of the US under Trump.
Timothy Snyder: We are watching the US attempt a superpower suicide
From the abandonment of its alliances to the dismantling of its education system, Trump’s administration is tearing down the institutions that really made America great, writes the historian
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Trump is such an unreliable ally that the Gulf States are about to undertake a massive military buildup. And any of them could become a potential long term threat to Israel. Not sure if that's part of Trump's thinking with this, probably not, but Israel might well be keen to get them onside.
In fact the GFC, nearly 20 years ago proved decisively that countries with governments that did austerity fared much worse than those that, you know, helped people and understood that a country isn’t like a household
National-led government lied to the public about impact of carbon sweetheart deal for farmers. #NzPol @marcdaalder.bsky.social
Ministers knew one thing on methane target rollback, the public another
An unredacted Cabinet paper included in a court filing shows ministers knew their decisions could lead to higher costs for households.
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Getting both the rise and the savings wrong is quite the fail. An increase from $100 to $600 is a 500% rise, not 600%. These guys are too stupid to be making decisions for anyone else.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoRFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%. I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'" Trump: "Right"
If AI agents have to buy software licenses then they also have to buy all the material they were trained on.
Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀@thomasfuchs.at · 6mo ago*spits out water* www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ex...
The mistake people often make is to view the increased frequency and intensity of damaging storms as the “new normal” under climate change. The reality is that it’s going to keep getting worse, even if we stopped all emissions today. How much worse, is still up to us, but it’s going to get nasty.
I want to remind NZ that one reason we were the last to get the covid vaccines is that we are a small country with very low trading influence and power. If you think we're going to be anywhere near the front of the line for the 80% of fuel left in the world, think again.
The NZ Govt just spent the last two years introducing policies to make NZ more dependent on fossil fuels, and proudly overturning policies that were reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Now they have some Mickey Mouse national fuel plan. What a joke.
An essential read for anyone in #nz - the fuel crisis is far, far worse than the govt is letting on energyandresilience.substack.com/p/every-coun...
Every Country in Our Supply Chain Has Declared an Emergency. NZ just launched an Ad Campaign.
What the ministerial press conference got wrong about NZ's fuel supply, and what it didn't mention at all.
energyandresilience.substack.com
Watching Luxon claiming credit for interest rates being lower than a few years ago - yeah, like everywhere else you egg. If he wants to claim credit for something stand out about our economy over the last few years, he could talk about our go-it-alone recession. Envy of the world.
There’s soo many things to drag this govt on I can’t believe they are still around tbh: -Cost of living: like they did nothing -Tax cuts: no one has seen them -Childcare rebate: ditto -THE FERRIES WTF -Pay equity -Unemployment -Voter suppression -Climate crisis inaction: EV, Solar etc Epic fail.
Can’t say Muslims. Can’t say mosques. Can’t say white supremacism. A coward who is scared of his own base and overpowered by his own bigotry. In the month of Ramadan too. Disgusted.
Current annual carbon emissions are more than twice the Earth's sustainable limit, highlighting the urgent need for accelerated decarbonization and integrated pollution management strategies. doi.org/hbrnw6
Carbon emissions now more than double the planetary boundary, analysis finds
Earth is not infinite. Pollution beyond certain levels threatens the climate and ecosystems. To prevent this, scientists have proposed planetary boundaries, defining the safe operating limits of the Earth system.
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Countries that have adopted electric vehicles the fastest will suffer the least from oil price spikes caused by the US/Israel attack on Iran. NZ is not one of those, thanks to Luxon’s poor leadership.
Even if it works now - and I'm not saying it does - AI is explicitly and loudly destroying the things that makes it feasible, and nobody is even looking one move ahead here. When the snake eats itself, it doesn't grow and eat endlessly. It just fucking dies.
The covid emergency clearly demonstrated one inescapable fact: Labour is better at planning for the future. The Superannuation Investment Fund and Kiwisaver is more evidence that Labour plans for the future whilst National offers tax cuts for short term electoral self-benefit. Until NZers... (3)
So I read in some article that folks are adding deliberate typos to their writing in order to dispel suspicions that they’re getting machines to speak for them. That’s coward shit. I say just use the word “fuck” more. In the face of enshittification, commence the enfuckening.
So instead of being a tiny country with little to make us a target, Farrar wants us to become part of a much larger, much more attractive target that is a lot closer to the perceived enemy he's worried about? Typical Farrar logic.
The Press@thepress.co.nz · 8mo agoOPINION: In this new era where the rules-based order has ruptured, we need to be bigger to survive. Joining Australia will protect New Zealand, enhance Australia and benefit us all.
This is probably the best and most important video @techconnectify.bsky.social has ever made. And that’s a very high bar. Even if you’re just measuring by impact. And you’ll think that even before the last chapter, which is even more so. youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?...
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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If you're deliberately failing at climate and emmisions targets, then you are not "doing everything we can to help flooding victims"
