This is just straight neolib ACT policy dressed up as a Westpac report.
We don't want the Americanisation of our health system. Any public sector woes would be dwarfed by the poverty and poor health privatisation would bring to many AoNZers. Westpac and Seymour can just fuck off with this. #nzpol
The solution is obviously fund public health to a level it requires
Paying private companies to do the same work is (1) just privatization by the back door and (2) going to cost more
None of that is better for us as a country
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
“Pharmacies spoken to by RNZ say they haven't seen any unusual uptake in people coming in to get a Covid-19 booster in the last few months.”
Probably because we need to fund our health system which means we can then fund our health comms, the lack of which also wrecks our health and costs lives.
I believe that deliberate attacks on water facilities are illegal and in contravention of the ENMOD Convention set up in 1976 to counter the kind of environmental destruction the US wrought on Vietnam.
Covered this phenomenon in my book - trees add significant value to houses.
Making them pollinator and wildlife friendly species only enhances the effect!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Get fucked.
“As the over 20,000 dead Palestinian children killed by a US-backed, Israeli genocide in Gaza affirm—Muslim and Arab life is simply not important, their children’s deaths are simply factored in, they’re collateral damage in a noble War on Terror.”
In 2022 a group of us (experts) tried to explain to the joint security group that extreme misogyny was the fastest growing form of violent extremism www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
Immigration Minister Erica Stanford apologises after lying overstayer figures
She used the lie to justify increasing the powers of Immigration Officers - will she rescind those changes?
#nzpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Our family - including Grandma, who *adores* buying festive treats - have decided we're not doing Easter eggs this year (and probably not ever again, tbh). It's stupidly expensive. I might make an Easter cake instead.
Anti-drone nets are now a lifeline in Ukrainian cities&villages close to the frontline.
Russian drones always hunt for vehicles, and these nets protect civilians, medics, Defenders.
The nets need constant maintenance and replacement. They are damaged by drones, explosions, even weather.
📷: libkos
Study: The risk of kidney disease increases following SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to influenza
Published: 25 February 2026
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Loving* this new AI customer service assistance world we're living in. So much more helpful than talking to a human**.
*may not actually be loving it
**may not actually be so much more helpful
My friend, a LW voter in an office full of RW voters, said her colleagues all voted National at the last election, and were then horrified by the resultant Nat+ACT+NZF coalition. 🤦
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
If you were at work today and you got a phone call from your wife that France just blew up your kid's school, your lifelong opinion of France is probably not going to be anything other than "Death to France"
Kushner inks deal to build luxury condos in Tehran.
And our current government are absolutely fine with it. So much for them being strong on law and order #nzpol
so the US has just murdered 120 school girls, the reported number is still rising
and Chris Luxon is praising Donald Trump
can someone wake me up please, i don't like this dream
#nzpol
If this goes ahead I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say the NZ Government is working against the best interests of its citizens.
Thank you for the music, Mr Sedaka! 🙏💖💖💖
Just looked to see how this has been covered by NZ media and it hasn’t been widely picked up - incredibly strange given the clear concern outlined in the article, the refusal to give any answers to valid questions, and the wider, connected context of US fascism.
Democracy dies in darkness indeed.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
timeline cleanse
you will love this!
An interesting part of this article is police saying they get about 40 extremism tip offs a month, half of them white supremacy related
This man has a manifesto, a massive collection of violent images and videos, and planned a mass stabbing targeting Muslims
www.1news.co.nz/2026/02/27/n...
Do not, under any circustances, use LLM based AI if health and safety depend on it.
(Actually don't use LLM based AI at all)
They shot a 14 year old child.
Then blocked the ambulance reaching him.
Then laughed as they watched him die.
This is what the IOF does every day - murder children with impunity and laugh as they do it.
tinyurl.com/3chsh2rc
The school term only started at the end of January, so that's at least one incident a week.
All on Simeon Brown's head.
#nzpol
