My submission to the Overseas Investment (National interest test) Amendment Bill can be viewed here:

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The Overseas Investment (National Interest Test and Other Matters) Amendment Bill presents significant concerns for the nation's citizens' rights, social cohesion, and environmental integrity.

Submissions close at 11.59pm tomorrow

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"If only someone had warned us"

A Timeline of Climate Science and Policy by @climatebrad.hillheat.com

Starting in 1856 with climate science pioneer, Eunice Foote, who's research demonstrated the greenhouse effect, by mixing water vapour with carbon dioxide

#GlobalBoiling

I strongly encourage you to read this op-ed by Peter Thiel. He is considered the true brain of the Paypal mafia.

The incoherence, paranoia & self-absorption, the meandering, impenetrable prose, the paper-thin thesis & logic…
These are the men who want to run the world.

www.ft.com/content/a46c...

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

If the question is, “do you want to allow biometric data to be captured, stored and used without your consent?”, I'd say "NO": www.reseller.co.nz/article/3627...

I do love that the Ministry of Regulation recommended not doing the bill its Minister wants to use to empower the Ministry of Regulation and himself: www.thepress.co.nz/politics/360...

Submission on the Regulatory Standards Bill by Emeritus Professor Jane Kelsey.
It articulates (quite succinctly, considering) all the many *many* ways in which this bill is terribly flawed and a betrayal of democracy & our nation.
#kikorangi #nzpol
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My submission against the Regulatory Standards Bill (Submissions close on Monday!)

elaboration.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/r...

ACT's proposed legislation threatens all the protections in place for a healthy population and environment. And it threatens any future protections that might be needed.
www.interest.co.nz/public-polic...

This ‘libertarian’ straitjacket for law makers and the courts elevates individual and private property rights over social and environmental concerns, and in three previous versions, has already been rejected by Parliament.

Submissions close on Monday!
newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/04/a...

Noam Chomsky, the voice silenced, the legacy unending - johnmenadue.com/noam-chomsky...

A predictable response to trump’s tariff threats.

asiatimes.com/2024/12/chin...

The Overshadowed Bill Poised to Rewrite New Zealand’s Legal System
While Attention is Fixed on the Treaty Principles Bill, Another Bill Threatens Sweeping Change melanienelson.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

The Arctic Ocean, photographed from the same location 107 years apart.

The Green Party's new plan for tackling climate change will cut five times more carbon emissions than the government by 2030
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