Jedd Bartlett
@strumalong.bsky.social
Video Producer
Sculptor
Aotearoa
Sculptor
Aotearoa
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“We developed a child-centred system focused on a broad education. Māori have led the way in kaupapa Māori education...
Why now, are we being asked to channel this river, to narrow it in accordance with the values and power systems of other colonial countries?”
“We developed a child-centred system focused on a broad education. Māori have led the way in kaupapa Māori education...
Why now, are we being asked to channel this river, to narrow it in accordance with the values and power systems of other colonial countries?”
The imported ideology behind education reform | E-Tangata
e-tangata.co.nz
October 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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“We developed a child-centred system focused on a broad education. Māori have led the way in kaupapa Māori education...
Why now, are we being asked to channel this river, to narrow it in accordance with the values and power systems of other colonial countries?”
“We developed a child-centred system focused on a broad education. Māori have led the way in kaupapa Māori education...
Why now, are we being asked to channel this river, to narrow it in accordance with the values and power systems of other colonial countries?”
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NZ Govt plans to radically reduce the climate disclosure requirements on large companies as part of its war on the planet. And here is my timeline of the War on Nature mentioned in the article. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa
It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.
www.greenpeace.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
NZ Govt plans to radically reduce the climate disclosure requirements on large companies as part of its war on the planet. And here is my timeline of the War on Nature mentioned in the article. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/business/360...
"Belief that democracy is the form of governance best suited to the modern world is dwindling, especially among younger people. Meanwhile, the public space grows coarser and more violent."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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France is not alone in its political crisis – belief in a democratic world is vanishing | Simon Tisdall
The populist right offers a solution in the form of turning back the clock. Macron and his counterparts need to find a different answer fast, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"Belief that democracy is the form of governance best suited to the modern world is dwindling, especially among younger people. Meanwhile, the public space grows coarser and more violent."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Winston, the man of peace.
Peters vs Seymour July 2020: "I reckon you’d last ten seconds in the ring with me... There’d be three hits - you hitting me, me hitting you, and the ambulance hitting 100," Mr Peters tweeted this morning.
Winston Peters vs David Seymour Twitter spat turns nasty: 'You'd last 10 seconds in the ring with me'
"There’d be three hits - you hitting me, me hitting you, and the ambulance hitting 100," the deputy PM tweeted.
www.1news.co.nz
October 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Winston, the man of peace.
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Saying your political opponents are secretly in control of violence against you is a crazy thing to say! That is not typical of the level of rhetoric in this country and media outlets treating like that isn't a huge escalation is really worrying, actually!
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Saying your political opponents are secretly in control of violence against you is a crazy thing to say! That is not typical of the level of rhetoric in this country and media outlets treating like that isn't a huge escalation is really worrying, actually!
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If your "structured literacy approach" with its "phonics sequencing and decoding suitability" cannot accommodate a handful of commonly-used words of te reo Māori YOUR APPROACH IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
'Act of racism': Education Ministry cans children's school book for too many Māori words
"Our members see this move as an act of white supremacy. It's an act of racism," says Te Akatea, the Māori Principals' Association.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
If your "structured literacy approach" with its "phonics sequencing and decoding suitability" cannot accommodate a handful of commonly-used words of te reo Māori YOUR APPROACH IS NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Chris Bishop is trying to change the regulations to allow cattle to graze in wetlands and allow quarry companies to dig up wetlands. Less than 10% of original wetlands remain in NZ. I think I know what Don McGlashan would say.
May 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Chris Bishop is trying to change the regulations to allow cattle to graze in wetlands and allow quarry companies to dig up wetlands. Less than 10% of original wetlands remain in NZ. I think I know what Don McGlashan would say.
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Next Expert witness in the WAI3470 Urgent inquiry into the RSB. Chelsea Winstanley!
May 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Next Expert witness in the WAI3470 Urgent inquiry into the RSB. Chelsea Winstanley!
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Laminated sign at this hospital’s ward entrance.
May 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Laminated sign at this hospital’s ward entrance.
www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
"...unlike households, countries don’t die, retire, or ever really pay back their debt ... the gvt knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading?
Because it’s the language of fear."
"...unlike households, countries don’t die, retire, or ever really pay back their debt ... the gvt knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading?
Because it’s the language of fear."
Verity Johnson: ‘Running the country like a household’ is a political con
OPINION: Government knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. But it also knows that you don’t know that.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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"...unlike households, countries don’t die, retire, or ever really pay back their debt ... the gvt knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading?
Because it’s the language of fear."
"...unlike households, countries don’t die, retire, or ever really pay back their debt ... the gvt knows there’s nothing similar between household borrowing and government borrowing. So why use this metaphor if it’s so misleading?
Because it’s the language of fear."
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For those confused by the China tariff news:
• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage
• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage
May 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
For those confused by the China tariff news:
• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage
• Trump caved and got zero in return
• No manufacturing moved back to the USA
• 30% tariff is still a huge tax on Americans
• 90 day pause still causes uncertainty
• Trump lost all negotiating leverage
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Breaking: Man Upset Woman Has Ambition
April 29, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Breaking: Man Upset Woman Has Ambition
@mikeelgan.bsky.social this is how AI might destroy society - idiots using LLM to decide how to set global tariffs. Anti science anti expert pro search it up. youtube.com/shorts/yiX4h...
Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like an AI chatbot recommendation.
YouTube video by The Verge
youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
@mikeelgan.bsky.social this is how AI might destroy society - idiots using LLM to decide how to set global tariffs. Anti science anti expert pro search it up. youtube.com/shorts/yiX4h...
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social As we all knew it was never going to be autonomous AI that threatened global safety, but the fools who rely on it and aren’t smart enough to recognise the dangers.
April 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social As we all knew it was never going to be autonomous AI that threatened global safety, but the fools who rely on it and aren’t smart enough to recognise the dangers.
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Has #NZ foreign policy really come to this? A foreign minister travelling to Trump Administration in DC to ask “what they want of us”. This is self-abasement at a level not seen since the Muldoon years & deeply injurious to NZ’s independent foreign policy:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Winston Peters talks 'expectations' with Trump officials
Foreign Minister Winston Peters says initial conversations with Trump administration officials have centred on “what they want of us”. Just what, he won’t say.
www.thepost.co.nz
March 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Has #NZ foreign policy really come to this? A foreign minister travelling to Trump Administration in DC to ask “what they want of us”. This is self-abasement at a level not seen since the Muldoon years & deeply injurious to NZ’s independent foreign policy:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
March 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Come on down to the White House Tesla Auto Mall!
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
“We need to change the national conversation before it is too late and we lose more of the key elements of the independence of advice and thought … that lie at the heart of liberal democracy.”
“We need to change the national conversation before it is too late and we lose more of the key elements of the independence of advice and thought … that lie at the heart of liberal democracy.”
How New Zealand is venturing down the road of political upheaval
OPINION: Could a Trump-style assault on the old order of government be repeated here? Or are we already seeing it?
www.thepost.co.nz
March 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
“We need to change the national conversation before it is too late and we lose more of the key elements of the independence of advice and thought … that lie at the heart of liberal democracy.”
“We need to change the national conversation before it is too late and we lose more of the key elements of the independence of advice and thought … that lie at the heart of liberal democracy.”