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Many young people feel disconnected from the political system and question whether their vote will make a difference.
18-24-year-olds are the 2nd-largest voting age group in Aotearoa.
rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
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After 3 years of wrecking the health system, the pedo protection party, act have found millions of dollars for GPs. splashing cash weeks before the election. A vote for them is supporting more destruction of health. Judge them by how they act not what they say
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"Young people are mobilising across Aotearoa, calling on their generation to enrol and vote in November's general election." 💪 💪 💪
'The power is in our hands': Young people aim for biggest youth voter turnout yet | RNZ share.google/DSYp3BmNZlaTDfO…
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Starship Hospital is having to delay cancer treatments for children because of a nursing shortage. This news will be very upsetting for a lot of people and will surely be the the final nail in this government's coffin.
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NEW ON EFA: At this year's candidate list conference, Josh Jacobsen described why his experiences made the Greens his home. He neglected to mention these experiences included two NZSAS deployments to Afghanistan in 2010-11. Why is the Green Party running a potential war criminal?
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Oh he'll be picking up that phone from Qiulae, that's why he's swerving like a drunk driver to not answer straight up. Also... Bill English would be in the ear: when the PMship is on the line, pick up the phone,& give Qiulae DPM if you have to. That's how things are done #nzpol
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"New Zealand was not offered leadership. It was handed a televised puppet show by two people who lacked the intellectual range to understand the crisis they were pretending to manage."
The Leaders’ Debate Was a Muppet Show keenlens.substack.com/p/the-…
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Wong has walked back the UBI and land taxes.
Her deputy was a young Nat and has already indicated National
Wong is waiting for a call from National
Gareth Morgan initially donated $3 Mn alongwith another millionaire,Cantwell---what do you think their politics are?
@nzlabour
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Qiulae Wong’s mother, Margaret Malcolm, was a senior advisor to former National minister Judith Collins. Let that sink in.
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I sometimes moderate a Reddit NZ Politics page r/nzpolitics and the amount of astroturfing and brigading from Opportunity Party is insane. The only comparable I've seen is ACT / Taxpayers Union (JW owns a literal bot company) but TOP surpass even TPU by far. #nzpol
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Latest NZ balance sheet data is out. Always a pleasure. We can start with our apparently perilously indebted government. Errrm, see those blue bars? They're higher than the yellow line, right? Yep, the private sector is in net debt to the Govt. Daft. [🧵1/n]
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A Defence Force commander warned NZ would be cut off from information exchanges within #FiveEyes intelligence if it did not sign up to build a new #digital super-system.
A month later, NZ signed up to #ProjectArcadia. #war #Israel #Zionists #USA #genocide rnz.co.nz/news/politics/1798…
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↪️ 54 New Nurses
↪️ Zero Roads of Significance
↪️ No Ferries
↪️ 6% Unemployment
↪️ 4.5% Inflation
↪️ Rising Interest Rates
↪️ 22% Cumulative Power Price Increase
↪️ Cost of Living Crisis on Steroids
The @NZNationalParty delivering the basics. Yeah Right.
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If Govt reduces spending from 32% of GDP to 30% of GDP and the private sector doesn't grow, what happens to GDP? Anyone know?
If we can do this (we can) then LLMs can too.
“a while back there were discussions about future agents communicating by burning CPU cycles and measuring ambient temperature, revving up the fans and listening to fan sounds, and so on. After running this experiment, it wouldn't surprise me at all if publicly available models could do this sort of communication even today”
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Economics didn't stay confused about public money by accident. A discipline that treats sovereign currency issuers like households produces governments terrified of their own ledgers, which is exactly how you keep wealth and power where it already sits. Most people can't check the homework because the subject was built to be unreadable. That's the real scandal.
How Economics Manufactured the Household State Part II — They Kept Keynes’s Name and Removed His Threat keenlens.substack.com/p/how-…
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Varoufakis is right and it's the same story in NZ. Cost-push inflation from petrol and shipping lanes doesn't care about the OCR. The RBNZ hikes anyway because it's the only lever in the cupboard, so mortgage holders absorb a war and a gas cartel's margins while the people pocketing the windfall never feel a thing. Blunt, regressive, and it pays interest income straight to bondholders while pensioners wait for a hip replacement. Wrong medicine, wrong patient, right alibi for the next round of "restraint".
Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Whistleblowers, we LOVE you!! 💐💐💐
"... corroborate claims that managers routinely asked staff not to write down sensitive information, least it be discovered... "
Whistleblowers offer to aid Education Ministry probe share.google/a7VEyQTpkoHDFzx…
