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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
youtube.com/shorts/Bf5h8... #reallife #news
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The term "Libertarian" was first coined in 1857 to summarise opposition to the authoritarian relations generated by the state, capitalism and patriarchy – and the desire to end them. From PM press I think
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Space Changes You and Katy Perry Gets High #katyperry #blueorgin #Feminism #soicaljustice newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/k...
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Katy Perry Gets High
After her trip to space singer Katy Perry said she felt “super connected to love.”  Clearly moved she said that the experience showed her that “you never know how much love is inside you” and …
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBn... #politics #news #Yanis #serfs
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How the Center-Left is Responsible for the Rise of Fascism
YouTube video by Zeteo
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Beyond. Parody.
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Cloud capital is in a league of its own, beyond market competition from DeepSeek-like upstarts, because its power lies in its capacity to modify our behaviour and remove us from any market... www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/28/c...
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Cloud Capital vs AI: What DeepSeek means for technofeudalism & the New Cold War - Yanis Varoufakis
DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, this week changed the global AI landscape, not to mention caused $1 trillion losses in the New York stock exchange and the NASDAC. In the proc...
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Breaking News! Government Minister Shane Jones Against Foreign Ideas! #nzpol #nznews #atlas newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/g...
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Government Minister Shane Jones Against Foreign Ideas
Fast Track Jones looking cool In responding to complaints over a comment to “send the Mexicans’ home” delivered to Green MPs Mr Jones stated his concerns that they were bringing “alien ideas …
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
That was my reaction.
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." Voltaire Merry Christmas New Zealand #nzpol #dystopia #luxon #christmas #luxon
Picture of NZ Prime Minister and family in matching Christmas pajamas
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The Fatal Flaw Of Free Market Capitalism #capitalism #demoracyatwork #libertarian #freedom www.youtube.com/watch?v=03GY...
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The Fatal Flaw Of Free Market Capitalism
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Its Sunday. Step away from the Zombie Box and wrap your ears around this. #music #lute #TrondBengtson www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbng...
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Francesco da Milano - Ricercare 51
YouTube video by Trond Bengtson
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
While the cartoon says it is a Soviet technique it has been used in countless settings and is probably nearly as old as politics.
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
From “An Idiots Guide to Right Wing Communication”: A counter manual #nz #pol #nzpol #atlas #National #government #racist #NZNWR #whataboutism Part 1: Whataboutism Activity: Can you spot an example of Whataboutism in politician or political commentator near you?
A cartoon explaining that Whataboutism is a "technique of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.  Whataboutism changes the subject without acknowledging a problem."
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The Song Remains the Same: Jacinda Bad National Good #nzpol #mountaintui #paultheotherone #nznews #kakistocracy newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2024/11/28/t...
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The Song Remains the Same: Jacinda Bad National Good
This man is not biologically related to Lex Luther.  In New Zealand News, the purported Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has taken time out of a national tour in which he promotes himself and the N…
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#Dunedin #Dunedinhospital #theysavewepay #mountaintui #atlas #capitalism #National #Act #mountaintui newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/d...
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Dunedin Residents Suddenly Discover That They Live in A Neoliberal Kakistocracy*
*A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, and/or the most unscrupulous citizens. Photo by Jannes Jacobs on Unsplash Residents of the sleepy university town of Dunedin have …
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Your Mum Does The Washing #NZNWR #capitalism #libertarianism #Pol #mumdoesthewashing @joshuaidehen.bsky.social newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/y...
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Your Mum Does The Washing
Joshua Idehen gives us a short, easily accessible guide to human relationships and political foolishness (or isms).  Compulsory viewing for all current and aspiring adults. Also see,  @joshuaidehen…
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
#NZNWR It's the weekend. newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/s... #Baroque #music #stratocaster #Bacholic
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Some Guy Getting All Baroque In His Bedroom
Ok!  It’s the weekend!  Time to loosen the shackles of Wage Slavery or whatever form of social and economic oppression afflicts you and get back to being human.   There are lots of ways.  …
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
He watched democracy die in his home country of Hungary. Here is his advice to Americans getting ready for a second Trump term.
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I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era.
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Nice try God but not good enough. You need to disband corporations, take the money out of politics, limit the influence of political parties as they serve their own interest not ours, and not be so United States focused – that is the opposite of us. Come on God. We expect better of you.
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#Netanyahu #Icc #Palestine #uspol #humanrights #Obama
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Breaking News! Putin Bad Netanyahu . . . Good?
Photo by Alireza Jalilian on Unsplash Barack Obama and other former US presidents had a restless night last night after learning that the International Criminal Court (ICC) had issued an arrest war…
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The dangerous alliance between the criminal Kushner and Netanyahu families goes back decades. An excerpt from my book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT:
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Americans Panic Over Their Choice For President.
Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash While New Zealand congratulates itself after a day of catharsis which briefly distracted the country from the government’s growing debt, degradation of public ser…
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Farah @kiwifarah.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
An audit of OceanaGold's Macraes mine by Otago Regional Council, completed in October, found "continued or repeated non-compliances" with several resource consent environmental monitoring conditions between 2019 and 2024. #NZPol www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...
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Fast-tracked gold mine has shaky compliance history, audit reveals
Otago Regional Council found OceanaGold's Macraes mine did not always comply with monitoring conditions, but has stopped short of taking enforcement action.
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
As literally everyone except possibly Hobson's Pledge knows, these principles are not remotely connected to Te Tiriti or to the decades of Tribunal and court jurisprudence on the principles of the Treaty. It's an ahistorical whitewash and Crown power grab. It cannot be allowes to pass.
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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David Seymour Admits Treaty of Waitangi Protects Against Unfettered Development
YouTube video by Mountain Tui
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Check this out if you don't know it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSv0...
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Kokoroko - ABUSEY JUNCTION // WE OUT HERE
YouTube video by Brownswood Recordings
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
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Race War Or War On Democracy?: Part 1
A small group of tourists found themselves confused on Saturday when they stumbled upon a “Trump Train” and a minor assembly of extreme right-wing religio/political nut jobs in an in Auckland park.…
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New Zealand News and World Report @rootscontroller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lest we forget. newzealandandworldreport.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/t...
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The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie
Yes.  It is the weekend and time to get human.  But, we must remain vigilant and this song put me in mind of Fast Track Jones and the Atlas Boys.  They’re some cowboys. Steve Braunias seems t…
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