So excited to share the amazing keynotes we have organised for the upcoming #ICA2026 Hub.
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Find time to read this quite astonishingly good piece by
@ArwaM Mahdawi. Brilliant on our government's appalling moral confusion over Gaza
"Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime"
https://t.co/lxF64weMUN
What's most interesting about "SuitandTie9999" denials on being linked to the Taxpayers Union & Jamie Ross is that Jordan Williams just confirmed the OIA in question IS a Taxpayers Union OIA
And Suit and Tie confirmed the OIA was one he personally filed.
https://t.co/EtvDS7CwCi
So excited to share the amazing keynotes we have organised for the upcoming #ICA2026 Hub.
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In a country with an Independent Commission Against Corruption, all the Prime Minister's key staff private email accounts would likely already be subject to a court ordered search warrant and Fonterra would be called in to give evidence. But in NZ...
We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.
The Taxpayers Union often bangs on about transparency and accountability. Now we learn it has been using fake names to make OIA requests.
https://t.co/FoLUiEI8I0
What the FSU is doing to Otago is the same script running through Trump's war on US universities: "neutrality" manufactured to discipline the academy and impose an ideology. My full analysis:
https://t.co/WA7MsgsftS
This was HEARTBREAKING
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:
"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."
The Free Speech Union calls a university caring for its students a breach of neutrality.
That inversion is the far right's weapon.
My latest on its pursuit of Grant Robertson: https://t.co/A32vpZDdgq
What the FSU is doing to Otago is the same script running through Trump's war on US universities: "neutrality" manufactured to discipline the academy and impose an ideology. My full analysis:
https://t.co/WA7MsgsftS
The Free Speech Union calls a university caring for its students a breach of neutrality.
That inversion is the far right's weapon.
My latest on its pursuit of Grant Robertson: https://t.co/A32vpZDdgq
@mjdutt Sean Plonker has mentioned this blog , one of his listeners must have read it. Let's hope more of them start reading your blog posts they might learn something and stop being such hateful bigots
It is crucial to understand that this is a major reason for the West’s increasing belligerence toward China over the past decade. China’s development is challenging Western monopolies. This imposes a direct squeeze on Western profits but it also undermines a core tenet of imperialism.
The West’s monopoly power allows them to impose dependency on the global South. The South is forced to export large quantities of raw materials and intermediate goods in order to pay for imports at monopoly prices.
This produces large net flows from the global South, propping up the West’s growth and profits. If the West’s monopoly power declines, this flow gets cut off. They are desperate to prevent this from happening, to the point of fantasising about going to war with China to destroy China’s industrial base.
The West’s whole model for capital accumulation depends on Southern dependency. As that arrangement becomes increasingly unstable, the Western ruling class will become increasingly violent.
The Free Speech Union calls a university caring for its students a breach of neutrality.
That inversion is the far right's weapon.
My latest on its pursuit of Grant Robertson: https://t.co/A32vpZDdgq