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Sorry about the missing link, but no intent to misrepresent. I just used it to bridge time on the topic since Greens have supported land taxes in principle ever since I got into their economic policy development circa ’91. Curious as to why you seem to be …

Atlas takeover of US msm? BBC complicit: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-media-freakout-nicaragua At US legacy media outlets, clarification was sought not from the government or its supporters, but from right-wing apparatchiks financed and directed …

AI is likely to defeat a powerful coalition of lawyers and bureaucrats, unless they mentally condition their stance via repetitive uttering of `jack be nimble, jack be quick”. https://www.cfr.org/articles/cfr-surveyed-350-experts-about-ais-future-most- …

Younger generations seem keen to climb aboard the racism bandwagon: https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/01/geoffrey-palmer-be-careful-what-you-wish-for-new-zealand/ New Zealand First’s youth party membership has shot up in the past 18 months. Young people, the …

Whilst finding 18 breaches of te Tiriti is absolutely spiffing, it is merely a legal opinion. The Tribunal recommended the government “immediately pause its reforms” until meaningful co-design with Māori has taken place. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-ao- …

Either the racism is a political opportunity or not. I agreed with him that it is. I pointed out why. All your melodrama around trying to hallucinate motives I don’t have is irrelevant.

I agree with your critique, but could be there’s more to the situation. Try this amateur depth-psychologist view: Luxon was responding to Western Bay of Plenty Deputy Mayor Margaret Murray-Benge, who asked what Luxon was going to do with Peters. “He [ …

Nothing about hotels on the Mediterranean waterfront, but he’s foreshadowing a peace deal… https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/31/trump-says-deal-reached-for-hamas-to-disarm-israel-to-leave-gaza/ Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan calls on the Iran-backed …

Lux is using pragmatism quite well here. Winston’s rhetoric is racist in the mind’s of enough of the electorate, I reckon, to deflate NZF poll ratings. Yet voters may not be thus swayed. They may dismiss it as the kind of posturing that democracy induces. …

Interesting that ABC has returned to China after that 5-year hiatus, and that she can no longer taste the pollution that was in the air there 20 years ago when she first arrived. She said their bet on EVs became official in 2001. They have a charger for …

He tried to be Brash, but words failed him: Speaking to Stuff at a public meeting Luxon is holding in Tauranga, Brash said Peters had gone too far. “I think his comments about China were absolutely outrageous,” Brash told Stuff.“It’s one thing to make a …

Sheeple sensing shift soon somehow seems significant: https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/31/as-coalition-troubles-brew-national-loses-its-economic-shield-to-labour/ On each 1 of the 5 most important issues identified by New Zealanders, Labour now holds a lead …

No, can’t generalise like that. Behaviour tends to be context-driven, so officials do have some operational discretion and many seem to use it. I see the 3-strand rope principle applying to officialese in future: users will adapt to applying any particular …

Ebb tide on Trump showing in latest poll: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/30/politics/cnn-poll-midterm-generic-ballot-democrats-republicans-change More Americans say the country would be better off (38%) than worse off (33%) if Democrats were to take …

ain’t gonna deny it, but this too shall pass…