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TOPICS TONIGHT:
- What should NZ be doing regarding Gaza?
- Why did the Budget ignore climate change?
- Will ACT’s red tape cutting make the economy grow?
TOPICS TONIGHT:
What should NZ be doing regarding Gaza?
NZ should be doing what Ireland is doing.
But the ffirst thing that NZ must be doin,. is putting pressure on the opposition Labour Party to reverse their official policy of genocide denial as articulated by Phil Twyford and confirmed by Party leader Chris Hipkins.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504190/labour-s-damien-o-connor-goes-against-party-policy-in-calling-israel-s-actions-in-gaza-genocide
The government of Ireland has just become the first Western government in the world to call this a genocide.
But this did not originate with the government, it started with the Irish opposition parties holding the Irish government to account.
Good on Phil Goff for starting the ball rolling in this country.
On May 28, representatives of conservative parties Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, part of the current Irish government, voted down a proposal brought forward by Sinn Féin that would have granted the Minister for Finance the authority to restrict the sale of Israeli bonds. The bill was defeated by a margin of 87 to 75, despite support from opposition parties and independent parliamentarians who vote with the government on other issues…..
….The actions of the government and the CBI greatly contrast with the will of the Irish public, which has demonstrated strong support for Palestine. “Allowing the Irish Central Bank to continue to deal in Israeli war bonds is an endorsement of genocide. It makes Ireland, in my view, complicit,” McDonald said in another statement. “It flies in the face of the ordinary people of Ireland who have marched, protested, campaigned and, with everything they have, stood up for the right of the Palestinians to live and live free.”
Widespread grassroots pressure and mass mobilizations has contributed to the country’s formal recognition of the State of Palestine in May 2024. Opposition parties argue that this public sentiment makes the gravity of the government’s inaction even worse…..
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/29/irish-conservatives-block-proposal-by-sinn-fein-to-restrict-israeli-war-bonds/
Catherine Connolly, an independent, accused the government of not doing enough to punish Israel for its 19-month-long war on Gaza, which has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
“I’m disgusted and sickened, sickened – watching children dying on our television screens and every day I come to work, and work with all the people in here to do our best to show leadership at a time of horrific conflict,” Harris said.
if I was in the studio tonigt I would ask Phil Goff if he is going to have a quiet chat with Phil Twyford and Chris Hipkins about their policy that there is not genocide in Gaza. And how about changing it to fit the reality and then holding the government to account in the house to do something about it
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to call a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountyable, everyone will have always been against this” – Omar El Akkad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xobWZDD2y0g
HMNZS Te Kaha should be shelling zionist checkpoints preventing the aid sent by the human race from getting into Gaza, rather than harassing Yemeni fishermen on behalf of the zionist pedos.
Zelensky didn’t try to prevent the conflict through diplomacy because he lacks honour and integrity. In 2014 there was a coup. Soon after, there was a massacre in Odessa (dozens of people were burned alive). Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. A civil war broke out due to the rise in ethnic tensions. For 8 years the Ukrainian military was indiscriminately shelling civilians living in the Donbass. If Zelensky honoured the Minsk agreement and pledged neutrality, none of this would have happened. The 8 year civil war would have ended and the Donbass would have remained part of Ukraine. War is the ultimate failure of diplomacy. Zelensky, Poroshenko, Merkel and Hollande admitted that Ukraine had no intention to honour the Minsk agreements. Who didn’t want peace? Who advised against the 2022 peace talks in April? Hint: someone visited Zelensky in Kiev at that time. Russia’s national security was compromised once NATO began to expand eastwards. Russia clearly stated that Ukraine joining NATO was a red line (November 2021) and unfortunately this concern was never taken seriously. The Russians openly stated: if nothing changes, we will be forced to act in order to defend our national security. Enhancing the national security of one country at the expense of another is unacceptable. The Russians have legitimate security concerns. 20th September, 2021: Ukraine launched military drills with US and NATO. NATO is not a defensive alliance. NATO illegally bombed Yugoslavia (a direct violation of the U.N. Charter). We should never forget what they did to Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. Who blew up the pipeline causing an environmental disaster? Zelensky banned all opposition and arrested a leading priest. Zelensky tried to invoke article 5 under false pretenses. Remember the incident in Poland. Ethnic Russians living in Ukraine were treated as subhuman. Their language and culture was being oppressed. Poroshenko said, “Our children will go to schools and kindergartens—theirs will hide in the basements”. Russians will never forget the 2014 Odessa massacre. The whole world needs to know about it. Why was Denis Kireev eliminated? He was a member of Ukraine’s negotiating team during the peace negotiations. He wanted to help his country. Ukraine has a hit list. They target artists, journalists and ordinary citizens. Hundreds of children are on this list. 13 year old Faina Savenkova was placed on this list. Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is on this list. Jimmy Dore (American stand-up comedian, podcaster) and Aaron Maté (Canadian writer and journalist) are on this list. There is evidence that Ukrainian troops have been indiscriminately shelling civilians in the Donbass (they used petal mines and targeted areas where there was no military presence). The Azov troops trapped in the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol used human shields. They refused to allow civilians to leave despite humanitarian corridors being present. Russia held a proposed cease fire in order for the civilians to leave, but Azov would not allow the civilians to leave. Ukraine has committed many acts of terrorism (car bombs and other forms of assassination). Darya Dugina (journalist) R.I.P. The first terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed the truck driver and the individuals in the adjacent car (innocent civilian victims). The second terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge killed two parents and severely injured their young daughter. I have done a lot of research and it took me a long time to write this comment. I have stated a lot of facts and I have given my honest opinion. I have provided a brief summary of events that took place. In order to explain this whole situation in great detail, a book would need to be written. Hopefully someone will write an UNBIASED book, stating facts and allowing the readers to form their own judgments. Everything I said can be fact checked and verified.
Whatever tankie
Whatever happened to Jay bots one through ten?
jay 11?
WTF. Does an AI pick their names too?
What a load of preprogrammed bullshit, with zero attached evidence or even any real intelligence attached either. Just a shopping list of unsubstantiated propaganda bulletin points, straight from the Kremlin bot farms. I really think these Kremlin bots need more human oversight.
” Everything I said can be fact checked and verified. ”
It’s the truth.
Pat: Putin didn’t start the war. The war started in 2014 after a CIA/MI6-backed coup in Kiev resulted in the slaughter of 14-18,000 ethnic Russians by Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the east of the country, with the threat of worse to follow, which is what the Russians reacted to. Why are Western commentators unwilling/unable to acknowledge this fact? Are Russian lives (like Palestinian ones) of less moral worth than their enemies’? Nor did this bloodbath have to continue (even if you think it was started by Putin). The Minsk Accords were an opportunity to resolve the dispute on such favourable terms to both sides that they were backed by the UN and key Western countries, but thanks to the remarkable candour of Merkel, Hollande and Poroshenko, we now know they were made in bad-faith (in brazen violation of the UN Charter), to “buy time” to arm, train and equip their Ukrainian allies to fight Russia (“to the last Ukrainian”, per Lindsey Graham). Not to mention the Istanbul agreement, which was vetoed by Biden/Johnson (in the name of Ukrainian sovereignty). In any event, why should the Russians accept what no other country would tolerate: the presence of enemy nukes by its border? Would Britain accept Chinese ones in Ireland, or the Americans, Russian ones in Mexico? I despise The Malign Orange Demagogue more than you do, but just as a broken clock is accurate twice a day, he’s right to attempt to end the bloodbath even if this isn’t his primary motive. Even if you think nothing of Russian lives, who benefits from the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian youths other than Western arms manufacturers and their paid political stooges? Do you even realize they’ve run out of fighting-age men? If this is a measure of the West’s love for Ukrainians, what would they do to if they really despised them?
Kremlin Bot Jay 11 Copy pasted from Zionist excuses for aggression against Palestine and repurposes it to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine, just swapping out the catch all ‘Palestinian terrorists’ for ‘Ukrainian fascists’ Sure a tiny minority of Ukrainians anre neo-Nazis, just as a tiny minority of Palestinians are terrorists. I really think Putin’s Kremlin bots really need more human oversight. This sort of bullshit doesn’t justify Zionist or Russian invasion and colonial occupation of other people’s lands.
jay11 June 4, 2025 At 12:36 pm
” Everything I said can be fact checked and verified. ”
It’s the truth.
Yeah right But not by Jay 11 Jay 11 seems incapable of including a single url link to anything,, no references to anything, no evidential witness testimony of anything. zero evidence of anything, nothingness. Just a long and hollow expanded viersion of Kremlin propaganda bulletin points.
This sterile nonsense is typical of AIs
Great to see actual human beings talking to each other.
Too bad ACT MP Simon Court couldn’t make it.
You gotta hand it to Natasha Hausdorff she never misses an opportunity to debate that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza.
Hi Martyn, I thought you may be interested in this debate.
YouTube
21,880 views May 27, 2025
The moot:
…..debate the allegation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euKVuvGs3BQ
Maybe you could invite Simon Court and Phil Goff back to have a similar debate.
Phil was enormous ,no wonder Winston sacked him .He has just shown what a cock Winston is .However now he is a free man he can speak up and tell it how it is .Winston has done the country a favor while shooting himself in the foot again .Phil would be a far better minister of foreign affairs than Winston could ever hope to be .
Brilliant Korero, dear comrade Bomber. It’s so much better without Damian.
Ka pai and Kia kaha xxx