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CindyBax@cindybax.bsky.social |
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Working for a healthy climate, an ocean safe from seabed mining and bottom trawling. š³ļøāā§ļø ally
Aotearoa (Piha), mother of doggo Pearl
www.kasm.org.nz
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CindyBax
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it SO IS - and the ears š I had repeatedly gone outside, looking like we were leaving, then remembering things I had to go back inside for. This was the third time.
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CindyBax
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Clearly I was taking way too long getting ready for our walk this morning š #doglife #rescuedog
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CindyBax
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Shedding a few tears at the final Newshub 6pm show.
So many good journos, great stories.
Hillary Barry crying when she was anchoring the Chch quake coverage.
So many moments. Not all of them great, but we do need news competition: part of a healthy democracy
So gutted for them all
#nzpol
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CindyBax
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CindyBax
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uncertainty about Lake Onslow also a factor I think
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CindyBax
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I'm at my desk working, not being distracted by the telly. Listening to the Radio5Live/Radio 4 election show which is actually quite good
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CindyBax
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These gentailers have been sitting on a heap of renewable consents. About time they started building them.
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CindyBax
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there's no "coming back" for seabed mining: it's never been here. That's the point. Untried, untested... potentially highly polluting, not done anywhere else
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CindyBax
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OMG so covid is driving school attendance down so the answer to that is to tell people to send their kids to school while still sick? The logic of this completely fails me
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CindyBax
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honestly, if this helps doctors with their workloads, I'm all for it
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CindyBax
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definitely. He used to be a radical leftwing MÄori
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CindyBax
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that's why I found it so satisfying when he realised the fishing industry hates seabed mining, forcing him to recuse himself from any fast-track decision
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Climate Analytics
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Extreme heat and humidity led to the tragic deaths of over 1,300 Hajj pilgrims this year. For the Hajj to remain physically possible during summer, we must adopt effective adaptation measures and move away from fossil fuels, writes Dr Fahad Saeed in our latest blog.
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CindyBax
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I remember when I worked for Geoffrey Palmer there was a huge hoo ha about him taking the date for Te Tiriti claims back from 1975 to 1840, and the subsequent negotiations for a MÄori Fisheries agreement (with Shane Jones as his advisor!). The racists were out in full force.
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CindyBax
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If we win, we'll again bow to pressure fm farmers, our biggest polluters. We'll introduce climate laws & roll them back as the next election approaches. We'll again put the climate portfolio outside Cabinet, ensuring its low priority. But don't worry, we'll continue payouts for storm & droughts.
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CindyBax
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exactly! this is what he said. "Given that this work involves large heavy machinery, an open trench, and is also well used by Ashburton College, domain users and a rest home, the thorough safety measures to protect the public and the construction are appropriate and necessary."
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Nick Young
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Meet the Govtās āindependentā fast-track consenting advisors, their connections, interests and knowledge gaps These are the people who advise on whether mining projects on conservation land should proceed but none have a nature focus. Conflicts of interest are hidden from the public, of course.
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Ben Ross
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Meaning New Zealand National Party flushed value for money down the loo and now will give us a product half the size for double the price which seems to be National and the Kiwi Way. So much for economic literacy from the Party of Business.
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CindyBax
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The perfectly reasonable explanation from council abt why the number of road cones are needed should have killed this story: a big nothing about one farmerās reckon.
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My Pearl
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CindyBax
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Three Waters? š¤·š»āāļø
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10!!! Thatās worth heaps! Free winter heating!
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CindyBax
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The greens are working up stuff - I got an email asking all kinds of questions abt renting.
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CindyBax
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Itās a relatively new dish, probs installed with this faulty new part that has to be frequently replaced. The guy was very clear abt that being the issue, as it was last time. As I said, replacing them is almost the only thing heās doing: his van is full of them. Ridiculous
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CindyBax
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For someone who works on climate, and lives in a community wrecked by Gabrielle, Chippy's climate policy bonfire was the last straw. Also Jacinda's refused to contemplate a CGT (& Chippy's similar vow). They'd lost touch with their base, trying to keep the new 2030 centre-right voters. Big fail.
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CindyBax
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My sky dish's signal stopped.
Bloke turned up today to replace the part he replaced last September. Says they only last about 6 months so mine had done well.
He spends all day doing this task, replacing this part sky is sourcing from a new manufacturer.
You'd think they'd twig, right?
#kikorangi
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CindyBax
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Labour softened its policies to appease the centre right and lost a big chunk of the left in the process
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āThe coalition government cut funding for #Matariki by 45 percent in the 2024-25 Budget.ā #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...
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CindyBax
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let's hope you're right.
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CindyBax
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ok now I've had to turn it off. Biden so awful I can't watch
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CindyBax
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I left after Labour got trashed in the 1990 elections. Went to work for Greenpeace international in London, and ended up going to all the negotiations in leadup to the climate convention being agreed. Didn't go to Rio, weirdly.
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"Keep Calm & Carry On essentially amounted to āI know youāre about to die, but thereās no need to make a scene.
But if Britain can extricate itself from the party whose unremitting cruelty has stained the last decade and a half of British life,ā he concluded, āthat does deserve to be marked.ā
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CindyBax
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I was his "environment press secretary" - the RMA, ozone depletion, his climate stuff. I got to travel to international climate meetings way back in the late 80's. I was the only press secy remaining after Palmer got rolled as he was allowed to keep that portfolio. Those last six weeks were weird.
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CindyBax
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I can't help myself. Loving MSNBC coverage right now. Will probs watch there not on CNN itself.
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CindyBax
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I sure did!
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CindyBax
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Yeah, I know, it's a beautiful Matariki day and I could be out watching gigantic kites being flown on the beach
... instead I'm glued to MSNBC and CNN and counting down to the debate...
#sad
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CindyBax
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Yeah I remember Patricia Herbert calling from Beehive saying something was going down. No live tv... nothing live, except her calls and the ticker tape from NZPA...
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CindyBax
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Parading is the right word - arrogant fuckwit.
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CindyBax
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exactly. And they WITHDRAW THEIR EPA APPLICATION and walked away from the hearings where they would have had a chance to prove their case (not that they will have succeeded tbh)
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CindyBax
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yes, you mean from the big TTR shareholder Phil Brown, the same man who gave a $10k donation to National MP David Macleod, now under police investigation for failing to declare it?
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CindyBax
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Consent by brute force?
Wannabe seabed miners tell The Listener they're threatening to sue the government if they don't get fast-track consent to trash the ocean
Srsly, after 3 courts threw out the consent? Fat chance
But the belligerence is real
Big fat red flags here for the government š©š©š©
#nzpol
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CindyBax
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*spread
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CindyBax
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All these ads for flu and cold relief so you can āsoldier onāā¦ thatās right, off you go to work or school and sprrad your virus aroundā¦
#kikorangi
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CindyBax
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well done Mel!
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CindyBax
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FU David Seymour
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CindyBax
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ahaha too true, unfortunately
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CindyBax
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blog from me:
āIf you have to destroy the South Taranaki Bight, home to pygmy blue whales and kororÄ, to get a mineral like vanadium for ācritical mineralsāĀ then youāre doing it wrong. Trashing the environment to tackle the climate crisis is not a solution.ā
www.kasm.org.nz/post/seabed-...
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#nzpol Seymour reckons they havenāt cut enough jobs yet www.1news.co.nz/2024/06/23/g...
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CindyBax
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Yes! you made me think abt it all. Good to see we can still have civil discourse on social media!
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CindyBax
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And very strong unions. Always.
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