Manu Caddie
@manucaddie.bsky.social
Hope is waiting for someone else to do it. Born at 327 ppm CO2. Less than 30 years to live (StatsNZ). Biotech entrepreneur & Indigenous/Nature activist.
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An extremely good & important read on the Atlas Network, neoliberalism, and its power & influence.
It really worries me that Newsroom, one of the last high quality news outlets in Aotearoa, regularly gives the NZ Initiative a platform to promote its message.
#nzpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
It really worries me that Newsroom, one of the last high quality news outlets in Aotearoa, regularly gives the NZ Initiative a platform to promote its message.
#nzpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
www.abc.net.au
January 26, 2026 at 12:35 AM
An extremely good & important read on the Atlas Network, neoliberalism, and its power & influence.
It really worries me that Newsroom, one of the last high quality news outlets in Aotearoa, regularly gives the NZ Initiative a platform to promote its message.
#nzpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
It really worries me that Newsroom, one of the last high quality news outlets in Aotearoa, regularly gives the NZ Initiative a platform to promote its message.
#nzpol
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 AM
"We should be demanding a government-wide commitment to climate risk reduction, incl. binding emissions cuts, adaptation plans, and a national programme to stabilise vulnerable landscapes using science-informed, Indigenous-led land stewardship." manucaddie540258.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... #nzpol
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Board of Peace - Season 1
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Board of Peace - Season 1
Very sobering reading from the #UK Govt: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
January 22, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Very sobering reading from the #UK Govt: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...
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"...and that's our focus right now"
I chat more about this over at my Substack, which you can read for free: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/christophe...
I chat more about this over at my Substack, which you can read for free: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/christophe...
January 19, 2026 at 4:28 AM
"...and that's our focus right now"
I chat more about this over at my Substack, which you can read for free: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/christophe...
I chat more about this over at my Substack, which you can read for free: yeehawtheboys.substack.com/p/christophe...
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the media are so fucking tragically captured and lazy, instead maybe: 'unprecedented number of unpopular laws forced through without scrutiny', 'economy tanking', 'health system collapsing' 'what will it mean when corporations and billionaires can snap up vast tracts of public land forever?' ....
I would like to see far less 'Can he win?' rubbish and much more 'What would it actually mean for the country if we gave the climate denying, asset stripping racists another term?' #nzpol
Can Luxon turn a fragile recovery into an election win?
January 19, 2026 at 8:55 AM
the media are so fucking tragically captured and lazy, instead maybe: 'unprecedented number of unpopular laws forced through without scrutiny', 'economy tanking', 'health system collapsing' 'what will it mean when corporations and billionaires can snap up vast tracts of public land forever?' ....
Shane Jones makes totally unfounded claims of 'immigrants' being responsible for over-harvesting kaimoana at Whangaparāoa. When challenged by @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy to provide evidence immigrants are to blame, he says he won't be cancelled & continues to use the interview for electioneering. #nzpol
January 18, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Shane Jones makes totally unfounded claims of 'immigrants' being responsible for over-harvesting kaimoana at Whangaparāoa. When challenged by @rnz.co.nz.web.brid.gy to provide evidence immigrants are to blame, he says he won't be cancelled & continues to use the interview for electioneering. #nzpol
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Having watched US politics fairly closely from the other side of the world for the last 25 years... This seems like a documentary.
January 18, 2026 at 6:13 AM
Having watched US politics fairly closely from the other side of the world for the last 25 years... This seems like a documentary.
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“While it is good to see [the district council] pushing back on forestry industry expectations [that] they have a right to break the law in perpetuity, it is concerning to see just how much influence the companies are having over the consenting process." @manucaddie.bsky.social
Forestry group urges Government to remove legal accountability for slash
Forestry industry leader forecasts “social and economical meltdown” in Gisborne unless things change.
www.stuff.co.nz
January 17, 2026 at 11:40 PM
“While it is good to see [the district council] pushing back on forestry industry expectations [that] they have a right to break the law in perpetuity, it is concerning to see just how much influence the companies are having over the consenting process." @manucaddie.bsky.social
Does Simon Watts really want to kill the ETS? This #nzpol Govt has done a great job of passing policy that protects polluters and will make it even more difficult for future generations to survive in an economy and climate anything close to what we’ve enjoyed.
www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/fixture...
www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/fixture...
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Does Simon Watts really want to kill the ETS? This #nzpol Govt has done a great job of passing policy that protects polluters and will make it even more difficult for future generations to survive in an economy and climate anything close to what we’ve enjoyed.
www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/fixture...
www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/fixture...
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Privatisation doesn't work, mkay? Blackrock has let down NZ, again: the first time with Solar Zero. I dunno, maybe we should set up a Climate Emergency Response Fund? But they shut it down, and the ETS has crashed so won't generate cash anyway. What a mess.
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/b...
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/b...
BlackRock bails on $2b NZ climate fund
It was hailed as 'a game changer for the clean tech sector' and a model for the world; less than three years later, BlackRock is walking away from its NZ climate fund
newsroom.co.nz
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Privatisation doesn't work, mkay? Blackrock has let down NZ, again: the first time with Solar Zero. I dunno, maybe we should set up a Climate Emergency Response Fund? But they shut it down, and the ETS has crashed so won't generate cash anyway. What a mess.
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/b...
#nzpol
newsroom.co.nz/2026/01/16/b...
Turns out that cutting ‘back-office’ roles in the public service has some serious consequences…
'Ongoing technology issues, including the axing or deferral of more than 100 IT projects, delays to roll outs and the outages were "not a good advertisement for New Zealand being a great place to work" amid a globally competitive health care market' - Sarah Dalton, ASMS union.
Health NZ confirms another major tech outage
A union says crumbling systems put staff and patients at risk, however, Health NZ disagrees.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Turns out that cutting ‘back-office’ roles in the public service has some serious consequences…
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Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
January 15, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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The Australian and NZ govts need to grow a spine and make it abundantly clear that a US attack on Greenland would result in the end of all military and intelligence co-operation. No more AUKUS. No more Pine Gap. Cancellation of orders for military hardware from US suppliers. #auspol #nzpol
January 14, 2026 at 9:33 PM
This note should be the election billboards for @nzlabour.nzcow.com and @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Office burglar stole food but left expensive gear. Then wrote a note apologising
Two-minute noodles and a half-eaten packet of crackers were among items taken from a Christchurch office in December.
www.stuff.co.nz
January 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
This note should be the election billboards for @nzlabour.nzcow.com and @nzgreensglobal.bsky.social
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...
Impressive impact ✊🏼🤞🏼 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Small NZ charity takes big swing at US government in bid to protect endangered dolphins
The charity says "taking on the US government is not something we take lightly", but it has the support of legal teams and Kiwis.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Impressive impact ✊🏼🤞🏼 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
January 12, 2026 at 9:34 PM
greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
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The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...
Democracy Briefing: How Privatisation built the MisManageMyHealth disaster
Why don’t we have a single, secure, government-run system for health records?
www.democracyproject.org.nz
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
The Manage My Health breach wasn’t a tech failure, it was a policy failure. This column traces how 30 years of privatisation, light-handed regulation and “high-trust” governance left NZ’s most sensitive health data in private hands, with no real oversight: www.democracyproject.org.nz/p/democracy-...
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This is a video I think every American could benefit from hearing. A perspective on US politics from a German citizen, who previously lived here before fleeing due to concerns over our slide into fascism. Our political system is captured. We stand at a cross roads, under a new age of technology.
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is a video I think every American could benefit from hearing. A perspective on US politics from a German citizen, who previously lived here before fleeing due to concerns over our slide into fascism. Our political system is captured. We stand at a cross roads, under a new age of technology.
Interesting talk by @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social on her book #DontTalkAboutPolitics - around issues of political organising, how protest only changes the protestors, political debates creating division not enlightenment, and social atrophy as the crisis of our age… www.youtube.com/live/MkQ6Bah...
January 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Interesting talk by @sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social on her book #DontTalkAboutPolitics - around issues of political organising, how protest only changes the protestors, political debates creating division not enlightenment, and social atrophy as the crisis of our age… www.youtube.com/live/MkQ6Bah...
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what the fuck are Peter Beck and Rocket Lab up to and why tf are they hosting Hegseth and selling him on their build capacity?
Beck seems hellbent on bringing military integration to NZ at a far greater magnitude than RocketLab already provides via their military launches
He is making NZ a target
Beck seems hellbent on bringing military integration to NZ at a far greater magnitude than RocketLab already provides via their military launches
He is making NZ a target
January 11, 2026 at 3:42 AM
what the fuck are Peter Beck and Rocket Lab up to and why tf are they hosting Hegseth and selling him on their build capacity?
Beck seems hellbent on bringing military integration to NZ at a far greater magnitude than RocketLab already provides via their military launches
He is making NZ a target
Beck seems hellbent on bringing military integration to NZ at a far greater magnitude than RocketLab already provides via their military launches
He is making NZ a target