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Trump could well be the Anthony Eden in this case. Europe & Asia could be the creditors who threaten to sell off US debt.

Suez Crisis underrated as an analogue for Strait of Hormuz.

Yes, big foreign power, the local power has disrupted traffic through a major shipping route. Got any bright ideas?

I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Tim Jago of honours, awards and life membership

📢 He was jailed for two years and six months in 2024 and lost an appeal.

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Tim Jago of honours, awards and life membership It comes more than a year after Tim Jago was sentenced for his crimes.

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Tim Jago of honours, awards and life membership

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Tim Jago of honours, awards and life membership

📢 It comes more than a year after Tim Jago was sentenced for his crimes.

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Tim Jago of honours, awards and life membership It comes more than a year after Tim Jago was sentenced for his crimes.

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Tim Jago of honours, awards and life membership.

Is Tim Jago still a member of NZ ACT Party? I haven't heard any comment from them nor any apology to the young people Jago abused.
#NZpol
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Jago of awards, life membership

📢 Former ACT Party president Tim Jago was found guilty in 2024 of sexually abusing two teenagers in the 1990s.

May Tim Jago rot in hell.
May those people that vouched and supported him, rot in jail.
Including you David Seymour
#nzpol

I listen to Te Pati Māori and their words frighten me. If they just wanted to live as Māori, that would be, well, ka pai. But they want everyone to live in a Māori society, with themselves as tangata whenua on top. It’s not just bad for New Zealand, it’s bad for their followers. Anyone, any time, who has grown up believing they are born special… is destined to failure. You might call it former Prince Andrew syndrome.

I considered doing a breakdown of Act's state of the nation but ultimately, I just want to share this.

David Seymour, associate of Tim Jago, making Prince Andrew jokes.

#nzpol

Surf Life Saving strips convicted sex offender Jago of awards, life membership Former ACT Party president Tim Jago was found guilty in 2024 of sexually abusing two teenagers in the 1990s.

Surf Life Saving deals to former Act party president, Tim Jago. #NzPol

“Muslims don’t belong in American society,” says GOP Rep. Andy Ogles.

Made me think of my rabbi, after post-9/11 bigotry, saying that Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and anyone else called unamerican for their religion has a moral obligation to push back.

This country was founded on religious liberty.

In the debate about raising the retirement age, 2 factors are typically ignored:

- Some jobs where health & safety or labour intensitivity still have mandatory early retirement, such as aviation
- Age discrimination is a big problem for those out of work & nearing retirement

NZTA picks cheaper but less effective option to fix SH2 through Waioweka Gorge A newly released business case shows the recommended option would cut closures by 53 percent while a full fix would cut them by 70 percent.

So the government has spent well over a billion dollars on planning and land acquisition for fantasy RONS we can never afford, but there's no money to properly secure SH2 through Waioweka Gorge, which is regularly closed by washouts. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

A “Who’s Who” of Global Far Right Extremists Gathered to Share Plans for Whites-Only Communities White supremacists from the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and Australia gathered in February to openly strategize about building whites-only communities and deporting millions. Hosted by Arkansas-based ...

White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.

I keep wondering how hard it must be, in practice, for an adverse state actor to take out a high level U.S. official because it seems like the president is really begging Iran to try.

“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going to make a tonne of money... Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves." - Lindsey Graham

At least he isn't pretending this was about "freedom for the Iranian people", like some are, just greed.

After all, war pigs like Graham DGAF about dictators or similar - as long as the US gets what *it* needs out of any arrangements, *any* leader compliant to US Empire becomes a "freedom lover".

Reading Marc Daalder’s super helpful analysis of the 2nd Covid inquiry, it looks as if Ardern’s Govt came through with a B+.
Well done.

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Nobel prize nominee who predicted 9/11 and the fall of the Berlin wall has a terrifying message about Trump Election of Republican 'speeds up decline' of America, claims Nobel Prize-nominated professor

"Other countries refuse to be good allies and the USA has to do the killing themselves, by bombing from high altitudes, drones steered by computer from an office, special forces killing all over the place."
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I recall the infamous Clear Channel memo that blacklisted certain songs as "inappropriate" during Dubya's Iraq War.

"Five presidential elections ago, before the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling that lifted many remaining campaign finance restrictions, the share of billionaire spending was almost zero — 0.3 percent, to be precise."

Meanwhile, 300 billionaires & their family members donated more than $3 billion in 2024

This year, all of those previous fears remained, but the leaders of the Government’s spy agencies also spoke in detail about their concerns for New Zealand’s young men.

Oddly not mentioned: support for violence against women
predicts support for violent extremism.

“Misogyny is often central to violent extremist indoctrination, recruitment and ideology and yet it mostly escapes scrutiny by policymakers.”

We should check on that.👇

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Iran-Contra with greenbacks instead of weapons?

ICMYI: We published this piece on Friday, which explores a 4chan board that’s turned into an assembly line for online sex abuse via AI “deepfakes.” Even a small number of its users seem to question whether what the community is doing there is legal

Trump unintentionally just put a stake in the heart of gasoline powered cars/trucks

You start to realize the era of the nation state is long since dead and that everything that happens is wealth and oligarchical class jockeying for power between people and groups that sometimes partner and sometimes hold the global economy hostage in a perpetual game of chicken.

The Iran war puts Asia in an energy panic Stranded Gulf supplies are choking off the region’s economies

“It is up by 42% since hostilities began. American motorists are already paying over $3.40 for a gallon of petrol on average, around 50 cents more than on February 27th. In Europe prices of natural gas, of which the Gulf normally ships lots in liquefied form, are 92% higher than before the war.”

This is how I access Bluesky.

Don't the FSU & Curia et al sound awfully like Big Tech lobbyists? It squares with the hypocritical free speech stances of Musk & Ellison/Weiss.