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Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:56 pm, September 1st, 2026
Don't have the $3 mi or so that Nats and ACT have to saturate the social media of swing voters with slop ai ads and outright lies. Eg. https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/disinformation-operation-targets-chris-hipkins-ahead-of-election/Written By: tWig - Date published: 10:35 am, September 1st, 2026
Less tax = more paying somewhere else, and the deliberate degradation of social good. Less tax= 54 nurses extra employed in two years, while the health budget is diverted to pay for US helicopters and LNG terminals. Less tax = cutting flu vaccinations for ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:37 pm, August 28th, 2026
Reply to GWS's video clip with thoughts on Rory's framing. I think he's behind the times. Sure, this second tariff war is an opportunity for the UK, but why now, and not a year ago after the first tariffs? Sadly what the UK brings to the table is a. ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:43 pm, August 28th, 2026
This RNZ piece on the 'Politik Election Summit 2026: Navigating a Disrupted Electorate' conference is revealing. It had pollsters discussing current electorate trends. One showed 'how parties had been faring since the last election, with National on a ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 10:22 am, August 28th, 2026
I'm always wary of such campaigns. Big Pharma hates NZ's Pharmac, and I wouldn't be surprised if they support this group, or even if it's an astroturf organisation like Groundswell was. People in the IS use 75% more prescription medicine than any other ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 9:59 am, August 28th, 2026
A really interesting analysis of Labour's election tactics on BHN last night. Paul Barlow used the Open Brief app launched recently to do deep analysis of trending content on NZ media + social platforms (reddit, fb, the Standard, etc). He unpacks Labour's ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:30 pm, August 27th, 2026
This image from Bomber's daily blog was just so cute I couldn't resist the urge to share it. https://thedailyblog.co.nz/if-you-vote-act-youre-racist-if-you-vote-nzf-youre-a-culture-war-cooker-if-you-vote-national-youre-empowering-racists-cookers/ [Sorry ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:13 pm, August 27th, 2026
I'll have a look at Labour's list vs the Greens before choosing, because I know Labour have some excellent new candidates. It's Labour's policies that are so anaemic. Labour's so dumb. Don't fight'em on the ground they choose. Labourshould be setting the ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 10:05 pm, August 26th, 2026
Upton is a good sort, knows his science and cares about the environment. RNZ had a good short summary of his personal recommendation, additional to the formal report, that pine forestry was skewing the Carbon tax, and should be re-appraised. https://www. ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:11 pm, August 26th, 2026
Legislative hurdle: "This is because feeding harvested hemp to animals is against the law in Aotearoa. Under the Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act (ACVM), any feed products derived from hemp must contain no detectable levels of ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:29 pm, August 26th, 2026
Dolly shows hers smarts and her heart. "Show business is a money-making joke. And I like a good joke", in an early interview where Barbara Walters tried to patronise the hillbilly and her tits, and failed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If-oWqUYzlQWritten By: tWig - Date published: 8:25 am, August 26th, 2026
Her children's charity to fund free books to children is crashing as donations flood in from across the world.Written By: tWig - Date published: 11:44 pm, August 25th, 2026
Putin's clearly chancing a last throw of the dice. He's introduced legislation in the Duma to nationalise Russian businesses for his Small Military Operation, now with an expected finish date of 2030. Now this could topple him, as those around him are his ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 10:36 pm, August 25th, 2026
National running a sparse campaign, requiring an endless series of 'a-tax!' attacks.Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:39 pm, August 25th, 2026
House of El describes why the negotiations fell through: Lutnick, Trump's Commerce Secretary stepped in and derailed good-faith bargaining, virtually on the last day before sign-off. Trumped! American businesses and states with strong dependence on ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 10:46 am, August 25th, 2026
Sadly those commentators are getting it wrong. Ukraine was doing really well, both in destroying oil refineries and logistics centres deep into Russia. Alas, the US is no longer topping up Ukraine with Patriot missles, having rather stupidly emptied its ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:50 pm, August 24th, 2026
An article updates the most recent and comprehensive evidence from epidemiologists, primarily about the rate of evolution of progenitor virus sequences in animal populations that are reservoirs for viruses which somtimes change just enough to jump across ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 1:57 pm, August 24th, 2026
Spotted on Molesworth St. https://bsky.app/profile/jordanriversnz.bsky.social/post/3mtl2eefltc23 [Image resized]Written By: tWig - Date published: 9:17 am, August 24th, 2026
Carney said "these demands included curtailing Canada’s ability to forge new trade deals, in violation of its sovereignty....Unacceptable.” Another point: US importers will continue to buy those Canadian goods in the short to medium term, because it takes ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 7:54 am, August 24th, 2026
Updated your own unsupported observation with an actual citation. The reddit/nz politics comment I quoted got it wrong in those standing in the electorate (your 2.), but not wrong on their image of the Curia poll with only these two named on the form (your ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 6:39 pm, August 23rd, 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates_in_the_2026_New_Zealand_general_election_by_electorate Nat, Lab, ACT, OP. Only the 1st two had names on the Curia poll. Sneakiness factor unchanged by your point.Written By: tWig - Date published: 5:33 pm, August 23rd, 2026
Someone from Mt Roskill, where only Carlos Cheung (Nat) and Michael Wood (Lab) are candidates, picked up on the latest Curia poll there, asking who gets your electorate vote. Trick question, because only Lab and Nat are standing, but all parties are listed ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:04 pm, August 23rd, 2026
Canada is prepared to ride out US tariff shocks. The Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement has been under negotiations for months. Carney said 'no' to egregious last-minute demands from the US that threatened sovreignity. Province premiers are behind his ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 8:08 am, August 22nd, 2026
That's a step too far. It was a very stupid plan, if planned. Why not slowly buy up PPE over the previous 6 months, rather than rush-buy, for example? You have to be very careful of plausible-sounding conspiracy theories. And this idea has been cycling ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 9:08 pm, August 21st, 2026
It's pretty immaterial. If so, it was accidental due to poor lab management. The real sinner was China's government. It knew it had a big bad people-killing virus loose by then, and hid the fact from other countries and the UN. But, with it being Chinese ...Written By: tWig - Date published: 6:13 pm, August 21st, 2026
Written By: tWig - Date published: 3:37 pm, August 21st, 2026
More in-depth vindication of Arday', with receipts building on the claims in the Bylines article. Gee, actual fact-checked journalism. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-deathWritten By: tWig - Date published: 3:16 pm, August 21st, 2026
Yup, the gentleman farmers in OP protecting their patch by ruling all rural land out of the LVT.Written By: tWig - Date published: 2:52 pm, August 21st, 2026
Adieu, adieu, adieu.Written By: tWig - Date published: 12:47 pm, August 21st, 2026
One last stab at this topic from me, too, as I only found this comment of your just now. Because, from this comment, I believe your position on this issue boils down to: 'why should my rates pay for a 'snow-flake' councillor who isn't tough enough to take ...
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