Russel Norman
@russelnorman.bsky.social
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Russel Norman
@russelnorman.bsky.social
· Mar 13
'If we approach nature without openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and beauty in our relationship with the world, our attitude will be that of masters, consumers, ruthless exploiters, unable to set limits on their immediate needs.' Pope Francis Laudato Si
Why is Chris Bishop sending people speeding into a 'death trap'. When the Ōtaki to Levin highway was 100kmh many died; after the Ardern Govt reduced it to 80kmh no-one died, when Luxon Govt increased it back to 100kmh, the dying restarted. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
Why is Chris Bishop Sending People Speeding into a Death Trap? - Greenpeace Aotearoa
“It’s a death trap” said National Party Campaign Committee Chair and Transport Minister Chris Bishop, on September 23, 2025.
www.greenpeace.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Why is Chris Bishop sending people speeding into a 'death trap'. When the Ōtaki to Levin highway was 100kmh many died; after the Ardern Govt reduced it to 80kmh no-one died, when Luxon Govt increased it back to 100kmh, the dying restarted. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...
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Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
Two thirds of NZers opposed privatisation in the 2013 citizen initiated referendum. There were 330,000 valid signatures, by pen on paper, to force the referendum against John Key's wishes! There was an impressive 45% turnout on a postal ballot (1.3million votes). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ne...
2013 New Zealand asset sales referendum - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Two thirds of NZers opposed privatisation in the 2013 citizen initiated referendum. There were 330,000 valid signatures, by pen on paper, to force the referendum against John Key's wishes! There was an impressive 45% turnout on a postal ballot (1.3million votes). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Ne...
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Err BUT...
❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing
❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker
❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing
❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs
❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing
❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker
❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing
❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs
Government 'got to sort out' homeless in Auckland CBD, PM Christopher Luxon says
Government 'got to sort out' homeless in Auckland CBD, PM Christopher Luxon says
Central government and Auckland Council are considering how they can move homeless people out of the CBD ahead of summer.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Err BUT...
❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing
❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker
❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing
❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs
❌️Potaka made it harder to access emergency housing
❌️Upston made it harder for teens to access Jobseeker
❌️Bishop cancelled thousands of planned social housing builds AND sold off existing social housing
❌️Chhour slashed OT investment into youth employment programs
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CLOWN 🤡 SHOW‼️
It’s unbelievable‼️People have been leaving NYC in droves for 16 years; you’d think it’d be empty by now‼️
It’s unbelievable‼️People have been leaving NYC in droves for 16 years; you’d think it’d be empty by now‼️
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CLOWN 🤡 SHOW‼️
It’s unbelievable‼️People have been leaving NYC in droves for 16 years; you’d think it’d be empty by now‼️
It’s unbelievable‼️People have been leaving NYC in droves for 16 years; you’d think it’d be empty by now‼️
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"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
~ Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein
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"Mr. Trump is against humankind,” - Colombian President Gustavo Petro
"We must choose multilateralism over isolationism, science over ideology, and action over fatalism.” - French President Emmanuel Macron
#COP30
"We must choose multilateralism over isolationism, science over ideology, and action over fatalism.” - French President Emmanuel Macron
#COP30
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"Mr. Trump is against humankind,” - Colombian President Gustavo Petro
"We must choose multilateralism over isolationism, science over ideology, and action over fatalism.” - French President Emmanuel Macron
#COP30
"We must choose multilateralism over isolationism, science over ideology, and action over fatalism.” - French President Emmanuel Macron
#COP30
Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Just your regular reminder of the profound conflict of interest at the heart of the Luxon fast track: Chris Bishop is both chair of the National Party Campaign Committee, dependent on business donations, and as Infrastructure Minister decides which businesses get access to the fast track.
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Australia has so much solar power that they're offering free electricity during peak hours because solar power is so cheap.
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Australia has so much solar power that they're offering free electricity during peak hours because solar power is so cheap.
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Here in Ontario, Doug Ford is doubling down on nuclear, which is the most expensive form of electricity. And subsidizing it with our tax dollars.
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Subway’s new advertising slogan: throw fresh.
The verdict comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge to the city. n.pr/47rmYsS
Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
The acquittal on a misdemeanor charge comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Subway’s new advertising slogan: throw fresh.
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Meanwhile in Aotearoa, our government keeps pouring money into fossil fuels
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Meanwhile in Aotearoa, our government keeps pouring money into fossil fuels
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Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
November 6, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Ardern and Shaw, willfully or no, were taken for a ride by National and Fed Farmers on climate change. Nats/Feds delayed climate action with false promise of seeking 'consensus'. As soon as they had the power they ditched He Waka Eke Noa and 'Zero Carbon Act'. Don't get fooled again.
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NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg
Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps
Proposition MM's passage means Colorado will be able to fully fund free breakfast and lunch for all public school students
coloradosun.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:29 AM
NEW: Colorado voters approve tax increase on high earners to fund school meals, food stamps coloradosun.com/2025/11/04/p... #copolitics #coleg
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Price drop makes it cheaper to pollute and reduces the incentive to abate emissions, but Climate Change Minister Simon Watts declines to accept link with new government policies.
Carbon price slides about 10% after Government softens climate rules
Price drop makes it cheaper to pollute and reduces the incentive to abate emissions, but Climate Change Minister Simon Watts declines to accept link with new government policies.
dlvr.it
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Price drop makes it cheaper to pollute and reduces the incentive to abate emissions, but Climate Change Minister Simon Watts declines to accept link with new government policies.
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The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
Government quietly loosens climate rules
An announcement at 8pm on Tuesday saw the Government delinking the ETS from the Paris Agreement and extending another emissions deadline by 25 years.
www.thepost.co.nz
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Govt quietly announced a loosening of climate rules at 8pm last night:
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
- Decoupling the ETS from Paris
- Shifting ETS resets to every 2 years
- Delaying the public sector target by 25 years
- Removing CCC advice from *before* emission reductions plans:
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...
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National Party Campaign Chair Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, is restricting the parties that Expert Panels can ask to provide evidence in the fast track process. And is changing law so if you are not asked to provide evidence you can't appeal #Trump eds.org.nz/wp-content/u...
eds.org.nz
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
National Party Campaign Chair Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, is restricting the parties that Expert Panels can ask to provide evidence in the fast track process. And is changing law so if you are not asked to provide evidence you can't appeal #Trump eds.org.nz/wp-content/u...
National Party Campaign Chair Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, is restricting the parties that Expert Panels can ask to provide evidence in the fast track process. And is changing law so if you are not asked to provide evidence you can't appeal #Trump eds.org.nz/wp-content/u...
eds.org.nz
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
National Party Campaign Chair Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, is restricting the parties that Expert Panels can ask to provide evidence in the fast track process. And is changing law so if you are not asked to provide evidence you can't appeal #Trump eds.org.nz/wp-content/u...
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3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
November 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
3 November 2025 saw two new NZ electricity records set: highest daily utility solar power generation (1.6 GWh, enough to make 50 million cups of tea), and the last day of an unprecedented 25-day run of zero coal power.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
There will be a lot more records like this to come.
The National Party Campaign Cttee Chair, Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, has introduced new changes to the Fast Track Act further restricting people's ability to test the fast track decisions in court. The fast tracked TTR seabed mining project, supported by Nat donors, ...
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The National Party Campaign Cttee Chair, Chris Bishop, wearing his Infrastructure Minister hat, has introduced new changes to the Fast Track Act further restricting people's ability to test the fast track decisions in court. The fast tracked TTR seabed mining project, supported by Nat donors, ...
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Wow.
A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...
A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...
Seabed mine could produce devastating sediment flows, panel told
A controversial seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines, the fast-track panel has heard.
newsroom.co.nz
November 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Wow.
A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...
A new report presented to the Fast Track panel shows the TTR Taranaki seabed mining project could lead to sediment flows which knock over rigs and damage wind turbines - and have impacts that last for a thousand years!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/28/s...
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I did an interview with Tom Scott that was supposed to be for a North & South story. But North & South is unfortunately "on hold" for the foreseeable, so I've ended up creating a Substack as a destination. It was fun to be able to just dump the whole thing in there. open.substack.com/pub/dubwise/...
An Examined Life
Visiting Tom Scott
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I did an interview with Tom Scott that was supposed to be for a North & South story. But North & South is unfortunately "on hold" for the foreseeable, so I've ended up creating a Substack as a destination. It was fun to be able to just dump the whole thing in there. open.substack.com/pub/dubwise/...