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Another example of why left leaning voters need to move on from Labour
Te Pāti Māori’s amendment bill proposing the removal of GST from all food products and non-alcoholic beverages was shot down after being opposed by Act, NZ First, National and Labour.
The ETS
The Climate Change Commission says there are too many credits on offer.
Chloe Swarbrick says the Government must listen to the Climate Change Commission.
Evidently, the Greens want the cost of carbon to increase and are speaking up about this.
However, a new Treasury paper reveals how household costs will rise along with carbon costs – hitting those on lower incomes the hardest. Yet, the Greens don’t seem to be speaking out about this.
So it seems (on this matter) the Greens are putting green issues before poverty when they should be strongly advocating for the protection of both.
As the cost of living is a major voter issue, it’s not a good look to only be seen calling for increases in costs.
They need better advisors.
As you can see (in the link below) there is nothing on this matter re carbon costs, added costs to households and the poor being hit the hardest Very disappointing.
https://www.greens.org.nz/media
Julian Assange – which overbearing oligarchy has possession of the habeas corpus at present?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-21/julian-assange-us-justice-dept-plea-deal-reports/103613792
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/assange-could-possibly-walk-free-under-guilty-plea-deal-report-20240321-p5fe33.html
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512426/police-previously-visited-house-of-siblings-hospitalised-with-very-severe-injuries
This is like reading about torture by the Gestapo in WW2. I think that anyone involved in carrying out serious child abuse needs to be operated on in perfectly run hospital conditions, to be sexually neutered, made impotent.
Children are a responsibility beyond the ability that some people can cope with. They should be treated as taonga both Maori and pakeha and of course tauiwi the same. If we want the country to survive in a worthy state, then we need to attend to urgent problems immediately, miracles take longer as the saying goes.
We might not be able to turn the ship around in the huge storm that threatens to engulf us, of bad thinking and materialist and mechanically-produced numbness and numbskulls, but we can try to limit the ongoing cruelty. We can prevent feckless people from having the burden of procreation weighing heavily on them if they are weak-minded or just so amoral that they will never change. We are on the cusp of failing to be the moral, intelligent people we thought and are falling into a bottomless pit of wilful ignorance and amorality, and what wrongs we can prevent happening will be far greater than any anomalies of error that crop up through mistakes in proper, thoughtful implementation.
It’s getting cooler earlier says the local knitting wool and homecrafts shop assistant. So reading this Radionz piece might help to cope.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018930923/the-power-balance
This will be interesting whatever the results show.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2403/S00032/alcohol-consumption-tracked-via-wastewater-in-first-big-nz-trial.htm
Now, hey. Climate change is here. We carry on with the everyday tripe we can handle. Like me in my life. It’s our duty to at least vote for reality. Rather than mortgages.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/512357/social-media-agency-s-320k-bill-for-national-s-campaign-advertising
Interesting!! Is that a shadow or a real PM I see before me?
The UN has finally ordered Israel to ceasefire in Gaza.
The US abstained from voting on the motion which allowed the resolution on a ceasefire in Gaza to pass.
A spokesperson for Hamas has said the ceasefire order falls short of their request to the UN that all Israeli forces be ordered to withdraw from Gaza and all displaced persons be allowed to return to their homes. (or what’s left of them).
It seems that at this early stage Israel and Hamas will obey the UN order.
However, at the same time Israel has issued an order that UNRWA will not be allowed to deliver aid to Northern Gaza.
It is hard to imagine how Israel will enforce their order against UNWRA without breaking the ceasefire.
It is also possible that Israel will break the UN ceasefire order and fire on the Palestinians if some of the displaced people attempt to return to their homes.
UN Security Council passes resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
By Richard Roth, Ivana Kottasová, Lauren Izso and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 11:37 AM EDT, Mon March 25, 2024
….The reported deal could see the release of around 700 Palestinian prisoners, among them 100 serving life sentences for killing Israeli nationals, in exchange for the release of 40 Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
However, Hamas said more issues remain unresolved beyond the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. Hamas senior officials Basem Naeim told CNN that “Israeli-American media” was adding pressure on the talks.
“For us, the negotiations are not only centric around the prisoner exchange deal,” he said.
“Israel has not agreed to any of [Hamas] requests related to a complete ceasefire, the withdrawal of all forces from the Gaza Strip, even in stages, and the return of all displaced people to their homes,” Naeim said…..
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/25/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-israel-ceasefire-intl/index.html
The situation in Gaza:
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) announced on Sunday night that it was now formally prohibited by Israel from delivering any food aid to the northern Gaza Strip.
“Despite the tragedy unfolding before our eyes, the Israeli authorities have informed the UN that they will no longer approve UNRWA food convoys to the north” of the Gaza Strip, announced Philippe Lazzarini on X, stressing that the agency remains “the main lifeline for Palestinian refugees.”
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1408246/israel-bans-unrwa-aid-convoys-from-northern-gaza-day-171-of-the-gaza-war.html#