André Hock

Strongest El Niño on record this year?! New ECMWF guidance shows a *75% chance of a super El Niño* by October, with some scenarios suggesting the most intense event in more than a century. It will bring wide-reaching weather impacts that last into 2027 🧵

BREAKING: Denmark says it will boycott all diplomatic relations with Israel.

Trump’s address is a simple test for NZ media: will they sane-wash it into something coherent, or call it what it was : the deranged ramblings of a demented old man?

Copenhagen completes transition to an entirely electric bus fleet thedriven.io/2026/04/01/cop…

The Ōtaki-Levin highway was killing a lot of people at 100kmh. After Ardern Govt cut speed to 80kmh, the dying stopped. Then Luxon Govt increased the speed limit on the highway for culture war reasons. And people starting dying again. greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story…

We supposed to be having fuel emergency: @NewZealandMFA burned 40-50,000 litres (appox $38,000 worth) of Jet A-1 to fly air force 757 to Rarotonga for a several hour long meeting with a bloke he met at his Auckland home last week. These people are not serious.

Bush biking overnighter.

A BBC investigation confirms it: IDF snipers are systematically targeting and killing Palestinian children, including infants

I’m telling you. Israel has made ethnic cleansing NORMAL. They film it and post it. And now any powerful nation in the world can do anything they want to anyone they want to do it to. Because the world allowed Israel to do it, and even funded them, it will spread like a virus

Kelvin is observing in Opotiki college. Labours old deputy leader..

Apocalyptic scenes across Asia. Vietnam and Bangladesh are shutting down as the fuel crisis bites. In Manila, protesters burn the American flag, explicitly blaming Washington's imperialist war on Iran for doubling food prices and starving the developing world.

Never forgot that day Fatima Ftouni held up her mic after an Israeli air strike in 2024 and called it the weapon she and colleagues were targeted for. Israel murdered her today.

Israel has just killed Lebanese journalist Fatima Ftouni. I am honoured to have known her. Just at the beginning of the month she reported on Israel killing seven members of her own family live on air.

Iran has released this.

Canadian commentary but apropos for NZ youtu.be/BIjYX98NpRQ?si…

This is horrifying. Paramedics in South Lebanon are forced to choose between saving lives or staying alive. They can’t rush to emergency scenes to avoid Israeli double-tap strikes. Israel is hunting rescuers for doing their job. This is a war crime.

Since israel is losing to Iran, it's destroying Lebanon. Lebanon has no defense systems, just civilians. This is not a war. This is a genocide.

BREAKING 🚨: This is VERY BRUTAL 🔥 UN. Special Rapporteur Albanese: "Palestinian detainees being forced to eat off the ground, attacked by police dogs, and subjected to brutal sexual violence by Israeli forces. This is Absolute barbarism".⚡ Women with METAL SPINE 🔥

The exact opposite to what Peters told Ryan Bridge interview. Only after global media started asking questions did Peters row it back. Was he drunk? Peters says NZ not 'rushing to contribute military forces to this conflict' rnz.co.nz/news/political…

LNG plan 'worst of both worlds', environment watchdog warns newsroom.co.nz/2026/03/25/lng…“Committing to a large, hard-to-reverse option on the basis of an LNG-specific procurement process risks New Zealand making an expensive mistake”. Indeed.