Bonnie Miller Perry

Retired Principal at The World Bank, Washington DC.

[ACT New Zealand @actparty]

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 $𝟭𝟴𝟬𝗺 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲

“An iwi group’s alleged demand for $180 million in order to approve the Bendigo Santana gold mine exposes how New Zealand’s resource management system has been warped by standover tactics and backroom dealing,” says ACT Resources spokesman @SimonCourtACT.

Kā Rūnaka say extracting $180 million from Santana has not been their ‘focus’, but they haven’t directly denied the report.

“It’s an outrage, but not one that surprises ACT,” says Mr Court. “Up and down the country, from minor subdivisions to major infrastructure, people are encountering standover tactics and sending me the receipts.

“In some cases, councils have effectively given iwi veto power through how they interpret the law. That creates a system where resource consent depends not on environmental effects, but on the applicant’s willingness to grease someone else’s palms.

“The fact a previous seven-figure payout for a hydro project was cited by Kā Rūnaka as a benchmark tells you everything. This is how rent-seeking becomes embedded.

“These costs get passed on in higher power bills, more expensive housing, pricier infrastructure, and in many cases, projects that just don’t go ahead.

“We should have a system where the question is simple: does the project meet environmental standards or not?

“What we have instead is a culture where people expect a pound of flesh for every sod turned. It’s opportunistic graft enabled by a broken law.

“ACT is replacing the Resource Management Act because we believe in clear rules, property rights, and a system where decisions are made on evidence – not ancestry.”

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

A stark example of Palestinians’ daily reality before October 7 under Israeli occupation: Israeli soldiers unleash dogs to violently attack and arrest a terrified Palestinian child. #GazaGenocide

[Tevfik @tevfik_hams]

Burası Batı Şeria..

Hamas yok, savaş yok hiçbir şey yok ona rağmen sırf Filistinli diye siyonistlerin saldırısına maruz kalıyor.

Bunun gibi saldırılar her gün yaşanıyor ama ses çıkaran yok..!!

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament.

He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot.

Repost this. Please I beg you

[Mega-Politics @_MegaPolitics]

Breaking:

Japan suspends all diplomatic relations with Israel over its hegemonic designs in Middle East

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Israel’s defense minister just said it will occupy Southern Lebanon and prevent 600,000 people from returning home.

Even more horrifying he says Israel will demolish their homes just like they did in Gaza.

This is blatant colonialism & land theft & it is being funded by the US.

[Jewish Voice @jewishvoicelive]

Israel is a modern-day Nazi state.

Zionism is definitely Nazism.

Above, the film of The Pianist, which recreates the segregation of Jews in the Nazi ghetto of Warsaw, where they were forbidden to pass through the streets, 1943.

Below, the zionist ghetto in the West Bank, where Palestinians are segregated and forbidden to pass through the streets, 2025.

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

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

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨🇵🇸 Journalists in northern Gaza address the world directly: “The israeli law to hang Palestinians to their death is worse than Nazis.”

If you see this video, please repost for awareness.

[Tomthunkit™ @TomthunkitsMind]

The execution of 12,000 Palestinian prisoners has been approved, 4,000 of them children—12,000 innocent people will be executed before the eyes of the world.

Please don't stay silent, share, oppose these executions, say:
NOT IN MY NAME
NOT WITH MY MONEY
IN WHAT RELIGION IS GENOCIDE OK?

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

This is Israel, world

An Israeli soldier ordered a Palestinian youth to continue walking, then used him as a target for long-range shooting practice before killing him.

Tell us what you think of their actions!

Repost please

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In 1930, rural Virginia, a Black girl born into sharecropping poverty wasn't supposed to leave the tobacco fields.

But Gladys Mae Brown had other plans....

Her hands picked crops. Her mind solved equations no one asked her to solve. Her parents, despite barely scraping by, made a choice that defied every expectation placed on them. They kept her in school.

She became valedictorian at a segregated high school with torn textbooks and broken windows. She earned a scholarship to Virginia State College in an era when being Black, female, and intellectually brilliant meant the world tried to crush you three different ways.

In 1956, she walked through the doors of the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren as the second Black woman they'd ever hired. Four Black employees. Hundreds of white men. Most didn't think she'd survive the week.

They were catastrophically wrong.

Gladys calculated weapons trajectories by hand. Complex differential equations that consumed hours of meticulous work. Her accuracy became legendary. When computers arrived, she didn't resist the future. She learned Fortran. She mastered programming languages. She transformed weeks of calculations into hours.

Then came Seasat in the 1970s. The first satellite studying Earth's oceans from orbit. She became project manager. But her true contribution remained hidden in the mathematics.

For GPS to function, you need Earth's exact shape. Not close. Exact. Earth isn't a smooth sphere. It's an asymmetrical, gravity-distorted, irregular mass of mountains and ocean trenches.

Gladys spent years constructing mathematical models describing every deviation, every curve, every gravitational anomaly of our planet's true form. She analyzed satellite data. She built geoid models. Tedious, invisible, revolutionary work.

That mathematics became the foundation of GPS.

Every navigation app. Every emergency rescue. Every autonomous vehicle. Every precision farming system. Her equations make it possible.

Forty-two years at Dahlgren. Retirement in 1998. GPS fully operational worldwide. Billions of users. Almost nobody knew her name.

She raised three children. Earned her PhD at seventy after surviving a stroke. Lived quietly.

Until 2018, when someone at a sorority event read her biography aloud. The room went silent. The story exploded.

At eighty-eight, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame. The world finally learned her name.

She mapped the entire planet. Then everyone forgot. Until they remembered.

Gladys West worked alongside her husband Ira West, who was also a mathematician at the Naval Proving Ground. They met at Dahlgren and built both a family and parallel careers in an environment that actively discriminated against them. After retirement, she didn't stop. She earned her PhD from Virginia Tech at age 70, proving that intellectual curiosity doesn't have an expiration date.

The GPS system relies on something called the geoid, a mathematical model of Earth's shape that accounts for gravitational variations. Gladys West's calculations helped create these models by analyzing millions of data points from satellite altimetry. Without accurate geoid models, GPS coordinates would be off by hundreds of meters, making the technology essentially useless.

Her story remained hidden partly because classified military work doesn't generate headlines. Many pioneers of satellite and navigation technology worked in obscurity for national security reasons. The sorority member who recognized her contribution was reading through Alpha Kappa Alpha biographies when she noticed the GPS connection and brought it to public attention.

© Women Stories

#drthehistories

[Holyhekatuiteka @2ETEKA]

Garner : “labour built the bloated, high tax state .. National are admiring it, managing it and expanding it”

National have not stopped co-governance with insiders saying behind closed doors Luxon has been bending over to Iwi.

Public servants have increased under National not including contractors.

13.2% of working age kiwis are on a benefit

The private sector has grown by 3.5% the public sector by 6.9%

National are paying half a billion a week to service debt - further blown out by then borrowing for tax cuts. Alarmingly their borrowing is outpacing labours !

NZ tax is now 34% of GDP higher than the average OECD

Luxon thinks ‘as the CEO of NZ’ by subsidising pop concerts and footy games he’ll fix the economy..

And this morning it has become clear that Luxon & Goldsmith will not stop the BSA from overreach, allowing them to determine they have jurisdiction over any digital communication.. this ties in nicely with the social media ban.

As Garner says National have betrayed voters with their pathetic Labour-esque bullshit. This is the reason they’ve sunk themselves in the polls, the reason why every Nats voter I know is disgusted with Luxon and National and why swing voters are going to Labour.. and this will only accelerate as the economic reality from fuel shortages, high electricity prices come home to roost.

Thanks Te Gimp, you are handing this election to Labour on a platter.

[MUSAFIR @MusafirNafar]

“They have stolen my harvest and taken everything from us they’ve left us with absolutely nothing. They’ve destroyed our identity.”

A Palestinian grandfather cries after Zionist settlers destroyed his olive groves and stole the olives in Tulkarem (West Bank).

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

For over 20 years, the BSA told Parliament it didn't have the power to regulate internet content. Parliament agreed - and declined to give it to them.

Now, after a complaint about Sean Plunket calling tikanga "mumbo jumbo," the BSA has reread a 1989 statute and decided it had the power all along.

This isn't about Sean Plunket. It's not about The Platform. It's about the principle: when Parliament says no, a handful of unelected officials in Wellington don't get to help themselves.

Hear from our Chief Executive, Jillaine Heather:

[GBX @GBX_Press]

Italian Prime Minister Meloni:

"I accuse Israel of crossing the red line, I condemn the massacre of Palestinian civilians, and I announce that Italy will support European sanctions against Israel."

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

This is Israel, world

If you are born in Palestine, your age is irrelevant: a child of 6, 8, or 11 years old is harassed, humiliated and persecuted as adults are.

Please Repost

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

This is how the Israeli police behave toward an elderly Jewish woman who wanted to protest the Death Penalty for Palestinians Law. If she was Palestinian they would've shot her.