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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 8h

This is so sad 🥺

Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social · 9h

Sigh.

selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/02d9e31a...

Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 15h

The Telegraph PUBLISHED these words: “... should there be an incident, his private protection team can only call 999 and hope for a swift response.”
Those words seem like an extremely sinister way of providing a roadmap for any chancer, stalker or hired thug – or worse.

Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 1d

In Aotearoa NZ we need well funded, publicly funded, free media, moderated for truth and bias, untethered to the government of the day.
The national cost of having a free media should not be seen as a burden but a benefit to society, because without it no one knows what the truth is anymore.

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 1d

Good one!

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 2d

I want to know why the media didn't pick up on the huge changes she made - the record $1.8 billion investment in water infrastructure, a district plan allowing for more affordable housing, 27km of cycleways and a drop in emissions. All are projects the council have been delaying since the mid 1990s

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Mountain Tui @mountaintui.bsky.social · 2d

In 2022, protestors hurled bricks, faeces at police & lit fires. Winston Peters said those protestors just wanted to be "heard" & shook their hands.

This week Peters called the mostly peaceful, law abiding Kiwis outside his home "gutless, spineless, [the] worst" protestors #nzpol

Faeces thrown at police at Parliament protest

Poo was pelted at officers during an early morning operation today to contain the protest at Parliament. The 3.30am operation caught the occupiers off guard with attempts to thwart the plan, resulting...

www.rnz.co.nz

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 2d

Thompson to Duncan Grieve in 2015: "...fixed funding is tough for an organisation..."

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. Why was it printed when RNZ dont usually do this? Who caved?

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 2d

I nearly choked on my coffee 😂

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Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 3d

The rightwing government are coordinating their message to escalate political tensions by openly lying about their political opponents and the media is amplifying and aiding that message.

This is a political strategy and is only different from current US fascist strategy as a matter of intensity.

Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 3d

Calling people attack dogs is not at attempt to deescalate and maintain civility, it's a attempt to escalate to distract from a failing economy. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Musical Chairs @musicalchairs.bsky.social · 7d

I am admittedly rage-posting now, but come the fuck on! Can we have an actual conversation about what we are doing as a country?

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 5d

What happens now that their quali times dont count? Do they start from the pit lane or from the back of the grid?

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Stephanie... In New Zealand @bootstheory.bsky.social · 6d

1,000 people turned out in pissing down rain in Wellington to march for Palestine, and how many media outlets covered it? Two. And by two I mean, RNZ wrote an article and 1News "syndicated" it

But hey that Chocolate Fish Cafe news is devastating, amirite

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 6d

Standardised fees like this always hit the poorest people the hardest, because, proportionately, the poorer you are, the more expensive it is

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 8d

YES!!!!
"Healthy indoor air needs to be recognised for what it is: a human right and essential protection for population health. This means setting mandatory indoor air standards for buildings, including housing, and establishing national agencies to implement them."

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Trekkie Bill 🖖🏻 @trekkiebill.bsky.social · 8d

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 8d

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

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Kylie @styla73.bsky.social · 8d

Israel has kidnapped New Zealand Samuel Leason, Rana Hamida, and Youseff Sammour and other humanitarians. Email MFAT and Peters and demand his protection.

Email:

[email protected]

[email protected]

ABDUCTED
Samuel Leason, NZ Citizen
Contact MFAT 0800 30 10 30
Consular@mfar.govt.nz
Minister for Foreign Affairs Winston Peters
W. Peters@ministers.govt.nz

ABDUCTED
Rana Hamida, NZ Citizen
Contact MFAT 0800 30 10 30
Consular@mfar.govt.nz
Minister for Foreign Affairs Winston Peters
W. Peters@ministers.govt.nz

ABDUCTED
Youssef Sammour NZ Citizen
Contact MFAT 0800 30 10 30
Consular@mfar.govt.nz
Minister for Foreign Affairs Winston Peters
W. Peters@ministers.govt.nz

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 8d

'You do you' instead of 'we're all rowing the same waka' coming home to roost

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Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa @psna-otautahi.bsky.social · 8d

Samuel Leason from Aotearoa has been abducted by the IDF

Contact MFaT and let them know that they need to provide consular support

#NZPol

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 9d

I suspect if they get a second term, our NZ water systems will be privatised too - already their new legislation is removing the activity of water management into separate (currently council controlled) organisations which could be easily privitised and sold off in the future

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Raz @razmetaz.bsky.social · 10d

Its sorcery. Bewitchment 😉

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Chris Hipkins @chrishipkins.bsky.social · Aug 12

UK, Canada, Australia & 26 other countries have signed a joint statement calling for unimpeded humanitarian aid access to #Gaza. NZ has not signed it. This is beyond embarrassing. It’s utterly disgraceful. People are starving. Where is our govt’s moral compass?

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