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@NewZealandMFA Iran has a right to defend itself. Or does that only work for Israel?

Maritime security and freedom of navigation are critical to NZ’s interests — and crucial for global peace and stability. New Zealand supports efforts to call on all states to respect international law and to uphold the fundamental principles of international prosperity and security. This is why New Zealand has joined this statement condemning Iran’s attacks on civilian vessels ⬇️ gov.uk/government/new…

Fast-track will ensure that gold mining, coal mining, and a variety of other natural resource projects are not stymied or squashed by the Greens. We need the jobs, development, investment, and we need the optimism.

Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels. We need to understand that this puts us in an extremely dangerous situation. Keep in mind that these investment firms control the surplus that *we* collectively produce. And yet, we have zero say over how it is invested. Instead, our ruling classes invest it in whatever is most profitable to them. So they continue to invest in fossil fuels and other damaging activities, knowingly sabotaging our future, even while the world burns around us. All of us should be outraged by the madness of this arrangement. We can solve the climate crisis quite easily - we know what to do and we have the capacity to do it. And yet we are prevented from investing in the necessary changes. I cannot emphasize this enough: the correct response is to bring these firms under public control so that we can mobilize investment — of *our* surplus, remember — toward achieving democratically ratified social and ecological objectives.

America is the enemy of humankind, and the new US spy base ties us into its empire of death. Join Kaiāwhina, @againstprisons, and me tomorrow outside of the US consulate at 1pm to show that we reject these torturers and genocidaires.

@NewZealandMFA Oh no! Someone committed to coral conservation should do something to protect precious habitats from the NZ bottom trawling fleet. nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-traw…

The Minister spoke at a small island developing states roundtable on ocean action, alongside the Prime Minister of Tuvalu, the Minister of the Sea of Cabo Verde and the Environment Secretary of the UK. Minister Peters reaffirmed New Zealand's commitment to the Global Fund for Coral Reefs. Conservation of coral reefs is vital for the food security, coastal resilience, and livelihoods of small island states. Nowhere is this more significantly felt than in the Pacific.   @SteveReedMP @GlobalFundCoral

Out on the @GreenpeaceNZ Seamounts Expedition last month on the High Seas, we witnessed live footage of a seamount that has been intensively fished by NZ bottom trawlers for decades. via @nzherald nzherald.co.nz/nz/environment…

Less Covid infection means less Long Covid in children. We need clean air in schools.

The problem with liberalism is that it rests on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved. It will always fail, it will always collapse, and this explains everything about our current moment. Liberals try to hold two commitments at once: on the one hand, they are firmly committed to capitalism; on the other, they express support for principles like human rights, democracy, equality, freedom of speech, environment and the rule of law.  This duality is the core of liberalism. But there's a problem. Capital accumulation requires cheapening labour and nature. This eventually comes into direct conflict with principles like rights and equality. And whenever this conflict appears, the liberal ruling class sides with capital, abandons their lofty principles, and throws workers and nature under the bus.  Every. Single. Time. This results in flagrant displays of hypocrisy. They run on nice-sounding platforms but end up either betraying their promises or actively working against their stated values. They'll slash public services, bail out banks, imprison journalists, beat up students, expand fracking, coup democratically elected leaders in the global South, bomb liberation movements, fund a genocide - they'll even trash international law itself - anything that's needed to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation. At most, they may try to negotiate mediocre compromises, a few social policies here and there - some abortion rights, a tiny increase in the minimum wage - but nothing that might pose any serious threat to capital accumulation. Thus the soul-crushing slowness of liberal incrementalism.  Ultimately they are unwilling to take any of the obvious steps that would actually resolve our urgent social and ecological crises. This is why nobody trusts liberal politicians.  This is why they come across as so fantastically insincere, and even sneering.  This is why they feel so spineless and *empty*. The center cannot hold.  Liberalism will always collapse, inevitably handing power to fascists, and this is not acceptable.  There is only one way to overcome this deadly impasse, and that is to mobilize a socialist alternative. A political movement that can unite the working-classes, overcome capitalism, deliver real economic democracy, and enable us to achieve rapid progress toward social and ecological goals.

@YourAnonCentral Why not mastodon?

Don’t obey. Disrupt. Join us here bsky.app/profile/youran…

Going from an enshittified corporate platform (Xitter) to another soon to be enshittified corporate platform (Blue Sky) is not really a solution. Try a non corporate platform instead. Stop being a product for marketers.

What's the opposite of "sidetracked"? That's what Greta is doing here.

@Iznogoodbd love it. Graeber was great. Thank you.

@pezmico Could u read this carefully please? When u're around of course.

🌊 As #COP16Colombia begins, let’s defend the deep sea—the largest & most biodiverse habitat on Earth! It’s time for Governments to act NOW to protect deep-sea biodiversity from the threat of bottom trawling & looming deep-sea mining 🌍 #DefendTheDeep

Week in Review: Four Kiwis with Long Covid speak to Newsroom about their battles with the illness and the debilitating effect it has had on their lives #Echobox=1728761027-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newsroom.co.nz/2024/10/09/the…

The elderly and most vulnerable will pay for tests (with high false negativity), then pay for a GP appointment. More obstacles to already unaccessible treatment. @TeWhatuOra how many need to die or get Long Covid over Christmas before the disasterous RATs decision is reversed?

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Let's do a roleplay, the year is 1936, and you are a concerned German citizen. The SS is grabbing people in your community to throw into concentration camps and you are at a loss of what you can do to stop or sabotage their efforts. /1

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And open-cast mining of the seabed. Not happy with more mining on conservation land, Straterra is working to ensure the industry can exploit the seabed as well! Trans-Tasman Resources aims to rip up 50 million tonnes of the seabed every year for 30 years!

We’re occupying the Straterra HQ to protest fast-tracked seabed mining by their client: Trans-Tasman Resources. Why Straterra? They are a malignant force, operating in the shadows to exert a pernicious influence over Govt policies. Here are some excerpts of their 2023 plans👇