Socialist, unionist, proletarian director, comic. Once a panelist. We/our.
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined June 2012
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And now, in 2024, while still in the middle of a nursing shortage this reactionary destructive government stops employing nurses, leaving many graduates unemployed. Unbelievable.
Today we graduated over 220 nurses and 60 other health graduates at MIT.
HealthNZ: look after them
NZNO: advocate well for them
NZ public: respect them
#nzpol
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General Harald Kujat was formerly the head of the German Armed Forces and, as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, also held the highest military position within NATO glenndiesen.substack.com/p/f…
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Jill Stein has never wavered in her support for the working class, for Palestine, and for the global majority terrorized by the US-Israeli regime.
Support her now as she faces imprisonment for bogus charges, which is a direct attack on all of us.
These charges are an assault on our right to free speech, to protest & to call for an end to the slaughter of children.
Shame on Washington U & St. Louis officials pursuing these charges that threaten us all.
Sign the petition to drop the charges @ jillstein.net
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MFAT continues to ply its trade in sanctimonious weasel words in support of rightfully convicted Hong Kong “democracy warriors” . “Hong Kong revolution of our times” - really ? China had it’s revolution and civil war already - the collective west’s proxies got the boot. The so called “Hong Kong democracy” movement with its western backers was always going run into the Great Wall and find out who’s boss. 🇨🇳🇭🇰
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The professor who speaks on issues he knows nothing about and then blocks people who challenge him is obviously not embarrassed enough about the egg on his face. 😂
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This man’s strategy also set out to discredit MMP, which he has surely done. He represents big money working to distort electoral outcomes. #NZ law on political donations & 3rd parties running political campaigns is far too loose. Reform needed. nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/e… #nzpol
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Duh, RNZ, vote splitting is the only way
Mowbray, Brash et al finally bought themselves political power. National colluded with removing the ability to enroll up to election day.
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The "professor" blocked me for this comment. 😂
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There is literally a massive election going on in China RIGHT NOW, with 2.6 million grassroots representatives being selected by one BILLION registered voters. Are you, umm, really a professor? I think your university might want to double check your credentials. 😓
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A truly shameful decision.
Māori are being expunged.
Mihirangi Forbes replaced by Paddy Gower on Saturday mornings and now The Hui cut.
It is a disgrace
Goldsmith and this whole rotten Government have to go
teaonews.co.nz/2026/11/06/ma…
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That disgraceful headline should be National Plummets further rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
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He thinks the rules don't apply to him
"Well what AI would say to you is this is totally fine"
Luxon used non-government AI account for official PM business
The Cabinet Manual discourages ministers from using personal email, but Christopher Luxon used a non-government AI account for work as PM
newsroom.co.nz/2026/11/03/lu…
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Luxon says 220,000 new jobs
Fact check
10,000 needed, instead 5000 lost
National's '220,000 more jobs' is just Treasury's projection based on a model that assumes normal growth resumes soon.
As @MusicalChairs14 shows, that projection is already going wrong in its first quarter. Rather than ~10k jobs being created as expected, 5k were lost
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Willis lies. Luxon fails
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Wow- he won Texas
When you listen to James Talarico, you realize that last night's results were not just a rejection of Trump and Israel's Iran war, but also a rejection of a Democratic Party led by people like Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan:
"I've never taken money from AIPAC, and I'm not taking money from AIPAC in this campaign. Seeing what's happening in Gaza makes me sick to my stomach as a teacher, as a Christian, as a human being"
This is his message, and he won in Texas!
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An end to the evil no cause evictions
L A B O U R P O L I C Y
Labour will make renting safer, fairer and more secure, with an end to no-cause evictions, warmer and healthier homes, and problems sorted faster.
labour.org.nz/renting-better
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Brown and Luxon are dismantling our public health system.
Stop them in their tracks
This is why private hospitals got 80% of the new funding for health while people died from lack of treatment in public hospitals
Party donors are making lots of profit courtesy of taxpayers
#ditchthepricksin26
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This needs to be to of mind when voting. An effective tax rate of 8% or thereabouts for the very rich. 17% or thereabouts for us
Simon Wilson has laid out who's who in the overhang campaign better than anyone. Brash, the Mowbrays, Reality Check Radio, and Luxon's own campaign manager all pulling in different directions.
The 8.1% effective tax rate for 300 megawealthy families against 17.4% for the median is the number to remember.
Also, remember, tax doesn't fund the public health system, the Crown does that by spending. Tax is there to restrain exactly this sort of privilege. So the fight is about who gets restrained, and they know it.
A lament for Christopher Luxon simonwilsonhopetown.substack…
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FENZ and the National led Luxon Govt - this is the result of ACTs slash and burn agenda
Firefighters were striking with a "heavy heart", NZPFU National Secretary Wattie Watson told RNZ, but FENZ had given them no choice. #NZPol
rnz.co.nz/news/community/233…
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Too little, too late
He should sack him now, not promote him to parliament
rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
