Our planet needs us to stand up and fight back. Honour Te Tiriti. Former librarian. Proud grandma. Ngati Hine, Ngati Kahu. County Kerry. READ 📚
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Clare K retweeted
This should be front page news if we had legitimate professional newspapers
In the first report of its kind, Health New Zealand recorded 440 patient harm events in six months, including 59 where a patient died, with staff numbers highlighted as contributing to the problem.
nzherald.co.nz/nz/health-nz-…
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Clare K retweeted
"Under international law, a people under military occupation have the right to resist that occupation."
There is a sentence that almost never appears in Western coverage:
Under international law, a people under military occupation have the right to resist that occupation.
This is not a controversial claim.
It is in the United Nations Charter.
It is in the Geneva Conventions.
It has been affirmed repeatedly by the UN General Assembly, explicitly referring to "all available means, including armed struggle."
It is the same principle invoked to describe French resistance to Nazi occupation as heroic rather than terrorist.
It is so uncontroversial that it doesn't need to be stated when applied to almost any other occupied people in history.
When applied to Palestinians, it disappears.
Not because it became false.
Because the people who control which sentences appear in the news made a decision about which populations are permitted to have legally recognized rights that are spoken aloud in prime time.
That decision is political.
The silence around it is also political.
The pretense that both are journalistic is the lie inside the lie.
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Clare K retweeted
I was annoyed to hear during RNZs 9am news bulletin, that "Hamas killed 1200 people" on Oct 7th.
This is unproven and the Israelis refuse to allow an enquiry to confirm or disprove.
Oct 7th was described by a senior US diplomat as "a military disgrace" and that Israel...
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Clare K retweeted
He presides over a Govt removing Māori words from school readers.
He is a liar and a hypocrite
Luxon wants to learn more te reo Māori!
WTF! He's removed the language wherever possible, allowed destruction of Māori at every turn!!!
Do not be a fool. The man is not believable or credible.
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Clare K retweeted
Willis and his Coalition of crooks have done nothing but blame Labour for 2.5 years..so pathetic
Noticed Barbara laid out what Labour would do without blaming National, and Nicola went straight for blaming Labour.
Election 2026 live: Nicola Willis and Barbara Edmonds go head-to-head in RNZ finance debate | RNZ share.google/o1Eshllgtwem0bD…
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Clare K retweeted
Loving the schizophrenic approach of minimal govt in the lives of private citizens but let’s drug test you while you job seek because assumption unemployed people are on drugs.
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Clare K retweeted
#BHN The lady in red, or is it orange, was the winner of the debate between Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon, and she joined us to talk about her new found fame, and experience at the TVNZ debate #nzpol #nzpolitics
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Clare K retweeted
"according to the Hamas run health ministry there" RNZ Hipkiss.
As for '70,000 reported by JC
Palestinian Ministry of Health counts only deaths recorded at hospitals or officially registered. True toll much higher, as it excludes the 1000s still buried under rubble or missing.
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Clare K retweeted
L A B O U R P O L I C Y
Under Labour, every New Zealander will get three free doctor's visits a year through the new Medicard, paid for by a simple, targeted tax on profit from the sale of investment property.
@nzlabour
labour.org.nz/medicard
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Clare K retweeted
2022: Bennett becomes Nat lead fundraiser, targets richlisters & Douglas donates 50k
2023: Douglas donates another 50k
2024: Paula appointed as Pharmac chair
2025: increase Pharmac funding for one of Douglas’s drugs
2026: funding for new drug from Douglas Pharmaceutical
The head of Pharmac was a National fundraiser and received donations from the head of Douglas Pharmaceuticals in 2022.
Pharmac recently increased funding for one Douglas Pharmaceuticals medicine and agreed to fund another.
pharmac.govt.nz/news-and-res…
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Clare K retweeted
From Seniors email. Only your party vote will count if you’ve not updated Electoral Commission on your address. Making it harder to vote seems to be a thing.
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Clare K retweeted
Tried and true right wing approach of launching attack after attack on the people with the least. All while the economy is on fire due to their mismanagement.
The definition of twiddling one's thumbs while Rome burns.
Nats new welfare policy:
- Randomly drug test beneficiaries
- Reduce Jobseeker rates by between 12.9% and 3.6% for people unemployed for longer than two years
- Double stand-down period for voluntary unemployment
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Clare K retweeted
He is a narcissist - they are very dangerous people cos in their minds everything they touch turns to gold - just think Trump
Luxon barefaced lying saying they are improving outcomes for Maori after kicking the shit of them in every respect for the last 3 years.
Unbelievable. #nzpol
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Clare K retweeted
Some election promise. And what about the non existent jobs you bunch of idiots?. @chrisluxonmp worse than useless PM
rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
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Clare K retweeted
How can one man miss the entire point when it’s so fucking obvious.
Women-only train just for them to sit around reading and knitting 😭 You could’ve done all this at home, but somehow it has to be a whole performance.
Community note
Women-only cars like this one in Rio de Janeiro exist to reduce sexual harassment on public transit, where it is common; reading and knitting are normal ways to pass time during commutes in the resulting calmer space.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-onl…
oglobo.globo.com/rio/noticia/20…
voxdev.org/topic/infrastr…
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Clare K retweeted
Excellent community meeting in Te Aroha last night, about 70 people who want to protect their mountain from mining - Ngā mihi to speaker from Ngāti Rahiri Tumutumu for your beautiful kōrero / time to go Mineral Exploration Australia-not welcome on sacred mountain
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Clare K retweeted
In this political climate I’m reminded of some guidance for choosing a spiritual teacher:
1. Where does the power lie at the end of a session? If it isn’t with you - run the other way
2. If the pitch is elite or exclusive ‘this is the only way’ - run
3. Trust your intuition
#VOTE
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