"Time and again though, our Pacific neighbours have told New Zealand that the imminent threat they face is from climate change, not from China. If Willis belonged to a serious government, she would be more inclined to be “sending billions of dollars offshore” to mitigate the effects of climate change, rather than in prepping for war with our main trading partner."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2512/S00007/on-our-reneging-on-climate-change-and-labours-chronic-evasiveness.htm

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#ClimateChange #militarism

"For gangs, the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975) has been one of the best recruiting tools they’ve ever had. Criminalisation of a raft of illicit drugs not only provides them with a wildly lucrative black market.

...

Once users are prosecuted and get sent to jail, gangs offer not only a vital form of self-preservation on the inside, but are (often) the only willing employer waiting on the outside."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00036/on-why-we-should-de-criminalise-personal-drug-use.htm

#drugs #DrugLawReform #decriminalisation

"It probably goes without saying that Luxon’s asset sales plan is a throwback to the 1980s, and to the privatisation excesses of the fourth Labour government that continue to cripple our economy ... Talking of which, we sold Air New Zealand and then had to buy it back when the private sector ran it into the ground. Christopher Luxon used to run the same airline. He knows the history of failure behind what he is proposing."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00026/on-asset-sales-and-targeting-the-homeless.htm

#AssetSales

"The marker dominance of the banking cartel and the supermarket duopoly have been left untouched. Far less attention though, has been given to what has been taken away. Routinely, all three coalition parties rail against Big Government. It is part of their political DNA. In reality however, the centralised power of the corporate state has vastly increased under this government."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00011/on-mamdani-and-how-the-luxon-government-is-expanding-the-powers-of-the-state.htm

#NZPolitics

"So far, the oil proceeds have not led to significant diversification of the Timorese economy, or to much in the way of private sector development. Successive Timor-Leste governments have pinned their hopes on the Greater Sunrise liquefied natural gas field — estimated to have a potential worth of over US$33 billion— as the country’s economic saviour."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2510/S00066/on-labours-cgt-the-governments-mean-spirit-and-timor-lestes-future.htm

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#TimorLeste #FossilFuels #EconomicDevelopment

"... the advocates of a social media ban for kids under 16 appear willing to ignore the privacy implications that the proposal would have *for everyone*. For a glimpse into the void, check out the United Kingdom’s Offcom advice page on the subject, which cheerily makes a case for wholesale privacy intrusions, with a minimum of reliable safety rails."

#GordonCampbell, 2025

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2510/S00066/on-labours-cgt-the-governments-mean-spirit-and-timor-lestes-future.htm

The OffCom page Gordon links to is;

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/age-checks-for-online-safety--what-you-need-to-know-as-a-user

#privacy #B416 #OffCom