Pops Paul 🇳🇿
@peecee65.bsky.social
A figment of your warped imagination!
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Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 Aotearoa | New Zealand 🇳🇿
Likely to comment on #Eels NRL 🏈 #Canucks hockey 🥅 films 🎞️ and books 📚💙
Toitū te Tiriti 🇳🇿 Aotearoa | New Zealand 🇳🇿
Shows how passing Seymour’s bill impacted polling!
Should have listened to the people ahead of passing it - too late now!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Should have listened to the people ahead of passing it - too late now!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'It's not impossible': Willis says National may join other parties to repeal Regulatory Standards Act
The National deputy leader said her party may also campaign to get rid of the law.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Shows how passing Seymour’s bill impacted polling!
Should have listened to the people ahead of passing it - too late now!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Should have listened to the people ahead of passing it - too late now!
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Remind me why Aotearoa New Zealand is looking for oil when these kleptomaniacs will just steal it!
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Remind me why Aotearoa New Zealand is looking for oil when these kleptomaniacs will just steal it!
Why is the building industry an exemption from the consumer guarantee act?
Why is government making people buy warranties that any other industry must include?
Why is government making people buy warranties that any other industry must include?
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Why is the building industry an exemption from the consumer guarantee act?
Why is government making people buy warranties that any other industry must include?
Why is government making people buy warranties that any other industry must include?
Many employees charge their KiwiSaver contribution as part of the employment package.
So Luxon’s announcement is effectively a 1% per annum increase for the next six years in payroll taxes to subsidise our own retirements.
So Luxon’s announcement is effectively a 1% per annum increase for the next six years in payroll taxes to subsidise our own retirements.
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Many employees charge their KiwiSaver contribution as part of the employment package.
So Luxon’s announcement is effectively a 1% per annum increase for the next six years in payroll taxes to subsidise our own retirements.
So Luxon’s announcement is effectively a 1% per annum increase for the next six years in payroll taxes to subsidise our own retirements.
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One such illegal order is an order to “Kill the President”
Oh the irony if he was killed by someone who didn’t want to be “seditious” according to DJT’s definition and they followed such an order!
PS Don’t follow illegal orders folks!
Oh the irony if he was killed by someone who didn’t want to be “seditious” according to DJT’s definition and they followed such an order!
PS Don’t follow illegal orders folks!
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One such illegal order is an order to “Kill the President”
Oh the irony if he was killed by someone who didn’t want to be “seditious” according to DJT’s definition and they followed such an order!
PS Don’t follow illegal orders folks!
Oh the irony if he was killed by someone who didn’t want to be “seditious” according to DJT’s definition and they followed such an order!
PS Don’t follow illegal orders folks!
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ICIJ’s latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is now live!
Tap the link to read how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.
Tap the link to read how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.
The Coin Laundry, a global cryptocurrency investigation
How the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.
www.icij.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
ICIJ’s latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is now live!
Tap the link to read how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.
Tap the link to read how the crypto boom minted a shadow economy that thrives on crime — and left a trail of devastated victims.
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“The Ms Z case does not demonstrate that the HDCA is broken. It demonstrates that institutional corruption can pervert any legal mechanism, no matter how carefully designed. The solution is not to abandon digital harm protections.The solution is to hold accountable those who weaponised them.” #nzpol
The Tool Isn't Broken – The Wielders Are Corrupt
Why the Ms Z case demands accountability, not the repeal of the Harmful Digital Communications Act - By Paul Thistoll, CEO, Rights Aotearoa
www.rightsaotearoa.nz
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“The Ms Z case does not demonstrate that the HDCA is broken. It demonstrates that institutional corruption can pervert any legal mechanism, no matter how carefully designed. The solution is not to abandon digital harm protections.The solution is to hold accountable those who weaponised them.” #nzpol
This will be a fascinating display … highlighting just how much land was coerced from Māori.
insidegovernment.co.nz/christchurch...
insidegovernment.co.nz/christchurch...
Christchurch reunion for Ngāi Tahu Land deeds - Inside Government NZ
For the first time since their signing in the mid-1800s, the 10 Ngāi Tahu land sale purchase deeds will be on display together. This landmark exhibition at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū ...
insidegovernment.co.nz
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This will be a fascinating display … highlighting just how much land was coerced from Māori.
insidegovernment.co.nz/christchurch...
insidegovernment.co.nz/christchurch...
It’s that list of Police’s “few bad apples” getting bloody long!
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It’s that list of Police’s “few bad apples” getting bloody long!
Luxon’s Govt: we are going to merge departments to make the public service more efficient.
Also Luxon’s Govt: please don’t notice as we spin this tiny part of Police into its own agency requiring Chief Executive and other overheads!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Also Luxon’s Govt: please don’t notice as we spin this tiny part of Police into its own agency requiring Chief Executive and other overheads!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Details of gun law reforms unveiled as Cabinet signs off
Cabinet has signed off on an overhaul of the country's gun laws, including a crackdown on gang members.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Luxon’s Govt: we are going to merge departments to make the public service more efficient.
Also Luxon’s Govt: please don’t notice as we spin this tiny part of Police into its own agency requiring Chief Executive and other overheads!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Also Luxon’s Govt: please don’t notice as we spin this tiny part of Police into its own agency requiring Chief Executive and other overheads!
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Remind me whose idea was this !
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Remind me whose idea was this !
Most companies would be considered insolvent if they had a contingent liability that was 14 times their net assets!
What's deeply funny about this:
It's mostly tied to 10 year targets around robo taxis and Tesla sales figures he has zero chance of meeting.
So it's just pure delusion on all sides. 12 year old brains doing 12 year old 'cool' things all round.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's mostly tied to 10 year targets around robo taxis and Tesla sales figures he has zero chance of meeting.
So it's just pure delusion on all sides. 12 year old brains doing 12 year old 'cool' things all round.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most companies would be considered insolvent if they had a contingent liability that was 14 times their net assets!
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
NZ’s youth unemployment is starting to read like Spain in the GFC!
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new... Unemployment hits 8-year high, youth rate rises to 15%
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new... Unemployment hits 8-year high, youth rate rises to 15%
Unemployment hits 8-year high - 160,000 Kiwis out of work
The rate is the highest since December 2016.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
NZ’s youth unemployment is starting to read like Spain in the GFC!
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new... Unemployment hits 8-year high, youth rate rises to 15%
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new... Unemployment hits 8-year high, youth rate rises to 15%
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Where’s David Seymour, that defender of private property rights, in the fireworks ban debate?
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Where’s David Seymour, that defender of private property rights, in the fireworks ban debate?
I assume that Mr Peter’s bill will be extended to ban those things that really cost the tax payers and ACC. Things like car accidents, rugby injuries, tramping and alcohol.
Otherwise he is just being the family fun police!
‘Enough is enough’ – New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks
Otherwise he is just being the family fun police!
‘Enough is enough’ – New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
I assume that Mr Peter’s bill will be extended to ban those things that really cost the tax payers and ACC. Things like car accidents, rugby injuries, tramping and alcohol.
Otherwise he is just being the family fun police!
‘Enough is enough’ – New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks
Otherwise he is just being the family fun police!
‘Enough is enough’ – New Zealand First wants to ban private fireworks
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Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...
cm.asiae.co.kr
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
I know they are playing in the US but surely it doesn’t take this long to play a half of rugby!
November 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I know they are playing in the US but surely it doesn’t take this long to play a half of rugby!
Reminder: the biggest CGT/ Wealth tax currently in Aotearoa New Zealand is land agents fees. They increase as your house value goes up.
And there are no exemptions for the house you live in!
And there are no exemptions for the house you live in!
November 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reminder: the biggest CGT/ Wealth tax currently in Aotearoa New Zealand is land agents fees. They increase as your house value goes up.
And there are no exemptions for the house you live in!
And there are no exemptions for the house you live in!
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On this day in 1835: He Whakaputanga and the vision of a whenua rangatira
On this day in 1835: He Whakaputanga and the vision of a whenua rangatira
Its vision of collective Māori authority still challenges how Aotearoa understands sovereignty today....
thespinoff.co.nz
October 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
On this day in 1835: He Whakaputanga and the vision of a whenua rangatira
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Today marks the 190th anniversary of the signing of He Whakaputanga, along with being Te Pūtake o te Riri/He Rā Maumahara, the national day of commemoration for the NZ Wars.
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He Whakaputanga — The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand
On the 190th anniversary of the signing of He Whakaputanga - the Declaration of Independence of New Zealand, I am sharing an extract from a 2017 publication...
buttondown.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today marks the 190th anniversary of the signing of He Whakaputanga, along with being Te Pūtake o te Riri/He Rā Maumahara, the national day of commemoration for the NZ Wars.
buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
buttondown.com/unsettling/a...
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