@LewSOS Slavery was a blight on every single country, over thousands of years. I don't think there is a single nation or race on earth that can claim clean hands.
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Earthyundertones 🍸
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Earthyundertones 🍸
@Earthyundertone
My views are my own, and probably illegal in Venezuela and Texas. A right of centrist with liberal tendencies working in a creative field. I'm stuffed.😳
Murupara, New Zealand เข้าร่วม Aralık 2015
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NZ & Australia abstained too. Still trying to pretend we didn't benefit from our own special bespoke form of Pacific slavery
For shame
Alan MacLeod@AlanRMacLeod
BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.
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How many thimes can Chris Hipkins lie in the same two week period and get away with it? #nzpol
Tony Stuart@TonyStuart55
Has Chris Hipkins offered his resignation yet? Chris Hipkins says he never got the ‘unnecessary risk’ advice on teens and Covid vaccine. This Cabinet paper shows otherwise - NZ Herald nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/ch…
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@canderlodge But they didn't spend $300M on heated tobacco products, so you don't need to worry.
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Most medicines spent nearly seven years on wait list for funding rnz.co.nz/national/progr…
Pharmac need $300million to fund all the medicines on their list.
This govt chose to fund Philip Morris's heated tobacco products, banned in Aus & unapproved by Health, costing $300million
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This automated post has got a real "Wait, you guys are being paid?" vibe.
Samuel Hudson@foundersam
Thanks for 1,200 followers. For the record, I want to make it very clear to those in power. I am a private citizen who decided to start publishing my views and people appear to enjoy that because it resonates. Not because I’m paid by Labour you fools. Do better. #nzpol
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@dorajanno $10,000 for a table is a bargain compared to the amount Jacinda charged per seat😂 nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/la…
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@Feijoa_Chutney Wait till you hear about Jacinda and Hipkins! theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…
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Associate Immigration Minister Chris Penk tells migrant couple’s disabled son to leave New Zealand. Chris Penk is proud to be a Christian nzherald.co.nz/nz/associate-i…
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Don't worry guys, Mick'll fix it! Or at least, take credit for fixing it... or something. Who the hell is this guy again? #nzpol
Michael Wood@michaelwoodnz
I’ve had recreational fishers on Mt Roskill doorsteps tell me how angry they are about Govt plans to remove size limits among other changes as part of a sweetheart deal with the commercial sector. Following huge pressure from Labour and rec fishers the proposal is now binned.
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@liamvincent26 Its difficult. At the end of 2023 we already had high inflation, recession was setting in and "cost of living" was everywhere. How do you give people back some money without over stimulating the economy and locking in high interest?
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@Earthyundertone Maybe, but I’m not sure their first budget was the optimal time for it. I think the Key govt deferred their tax changes by a year because of the GFC.
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I generally support the relief package, but those tax cuts in the first budget are starting to look like more and more of a mistake.
Newstalk ZB@NewstalkZB
Ryan Bridge: How much does $50 for some families cost the rest of us? newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-e…
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@liamvincent26 When a minimum wager earner is hitting your third tax bracket, its probably time to move the brackets.
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@Earthyundertone With the marginal rates I’d imagine the bulk of a minimum wage earner’s income was still being paid at the lower rate though.
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@liamvincent26 The fact was that Labour had raised the minimum wage rate to the point where the lower tax thresholds were near useless. And restoring interest deductibility eased pressure on rents. It was the lower middle that was being hammered.
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@Earthyundertone I can’t really reconcile National claiming that Labour left us in bad fiscal shape and then cutting out a bunch of tax revenue generated by middle class income earners.
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@liamvincent26 Nah, that's usual ideological burp from Treasury. The relationship between Treasury's advice and its proponents is a toxic relationship between ideological extremism and intellectual credulity.
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@Earthyundertone When you’ve got treasury now advocating for tax increases I’m not sure that was a good decision.
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@BasicBishopNZ @MichaelMorrah Because.. its something every special needs parent is faced with. The rules haven't changed, Chris Penk didn't do anything that Wood, Faafoi, or Galloway didn't do. They arrived on a visitors visa and there has never been any right to change that to residence.
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@Earthyundertone @MichaelMorrah As someone in the same position I don’t see how this factual reporting is monstrous.
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As the parent of a special needs child that would be prevented from moving to Aus, the US, Canada or the UK - this is monstrous reporting from @MichaelMorrah - please do better. nzherald.co.nz/nz/associate-i…
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@urbantui @NZNationalParty We did suffer 6 long years of neglect though.. so they are entitled to blame Labour for at least the next 4 years... maybe more considering the havoc they created.. yep, I'd say more.
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I am watching patsy questions from Dan Bidois to Nicola Willis & it is so about point scoring (still about blaming Labour) & I think we are so over it! @NZNationalParty frankly we are smarter than that!
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@AynRandy666 "Terrified to show" ??? There is a whole website and everything... they had a 1pm stand up (which was triggering tbf), the govt could not be more transparent if they tried. nzoilwatch.com/#/
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Can anyone provide a graph or similar that shows when all remaining inbound ships carrying petrol, diesel or jet fuel are due in NZ?
What is the last date, and then a big big long gap with - nothing?
This is the information the so-called govt is terrified to show #nzpol
GIF
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@liamvincent26 We moved the tax bracket? That should always be done, at least to match inflation. Otherwise even people on min wage find they are in a middle bracket 🤷♂️
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@Earthyundertone There were $9b in personal income tax cuts?
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@NewstalkZB @tauhenare $10k a table is cheaper than Labours $1500 a seat though? Bargain!
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Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Should we be outraged at the dinner charging $10k to sit with Luxon?
newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather…
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@AKACoachBman @AucklandIsland Ffs man! That information is not to be released! SMDH.
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@AucklandIsland Atlas network flying towards your place to drop more brain altering chemicals
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