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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 4d

did other countries have a “burma trail” night at school camp where the teachers would hide in the woods and send you into the pitch black holding a rope and try and scare you or was that just new zealand

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 6d

AoNZ rallies/actions for Palestine: Oct 10–12

FRIDAY

Tāmaki Makaurau: 3pm Welcome back to Flotilla members @Auckland Int. Airport; 3pm Vigil @US Consulate; 4pm Vigil @Te Komititanga

Ngāmotu: 8am Boycott @BP, 71 Powderham St

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Auckland poster:

TOGETHER WITH THEIR WHANAU WELCOME YOUSSEF, RANA & SAMUEL HOME

AUCKLAND INTL AIRPORT ARRIVALS AREA

FRIDAY 10 OCT AT 3PM AKL AIRPORT

IN OUR THOUSANDS IN OUR MILLIONS WE ARE ALL PALESTINIANS

New Plymouth poster:

BOYCOTT ISRAEL

CALTEX bp

CONTAMINATED with Apartheid APARTHEID & GENOCIDE

Fridays 8-9AM BP, 71 Powderham St, Ngāmotu

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 6d

"Internal Affairs officer Ian Tingey grew suspicious when a well-spoken man with a North American accent rang asking if the process could be sped up, giving an unconvincing answer when questioned."

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 6d

talk to nicky hager

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 7d

newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/09/s...

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

The National-led government has been avoiding questions about whether it is joining in preparations for a US military confrontation with China. A series of Official Information Act requests on this su...

newsroom.co.nz

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 7d

massive scoop from Nicky Hager: "Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop" ... "Without any announcement, New Zealand is being integrated into a de facto Anglo military alliance that ties the country into a US/UK-led military build up."

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 7d

www.exitfromaffco.com/p/israeli-pa...

Israeli Passport Bros - Mossad & New Zealand, Part 1

The comedy of errors that led to an Israeli passport theft ring in Auckland falling apart

www.exitfromaffco.com

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 7d

NEW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: Part 1 of Israeli Passport Bros, or how a bunch of two-bit Mossad agents ended up getting caught trying to steal a New Zealand man with cerebral palsy's identity (link below)

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 9d

COMING THIS WEEK ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: the comedy of errors that resulted in NZ authorities finding a Mossad passport forgery ring in 2004; featuring Ehud Barak's neighbour, assassination plots, and a North Korean train explosion which killed 12 Syrian missile scientists

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 13d

mickey mouse country with an appropriately mickey mouse leader

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 15d

they're dabbing on us folks

4:07pm - Luxon’s office hasn’t responded so Stuff asks again.

4:32pm - Luxon’s office replies saying:

“The letter was sent to Chris Hipkins yesterday afternoon. The government has a number of times publicly called on the Opposition to secure New Zealanders’ future energy supply by supporting the lifting of the ban on oil and gas exploration.

“That call was repeated in the letter,” a spokesperson wrote.

4:34pm - Stuff asks Luxon’s office if it sent the letter to the Herald.

4:54pm - A spokesperson from Luxon’s office replies: “I have nothing further to add.”

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 15d

Best thing about this fuck-up by the PR cohort is we can now assume Ensor is a prime leak candidate for when National want a willing reporter to run PR & interference for them. Wild to get a glimpse of how NZ media are participants in these back channels

www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Was it a stunt? Did it get leaked? The strange story behind the 'bipartisan' letter

It was meant to be a plea for bipartisanship for a long-term oil and gas plan, but instead it’s left Chris Hipkins blasting the Prime Minister’s office, calling it a media stunt that flies in the face...

www.stuff.co.nz

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 15d

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 15d

lmao "Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws" ... "A spokesperson for the spy agencies described the gift as "a challenge coin display stand" that included the 3D-printed inoperable weapon "as part of the design"."

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 15d

certainly interesting to see national MP chris penk following a 6 day old account titled "Reform NZ", which started spewing out zionist propaganda around the time of peters’ speech, and is now shifting to bargain bin great replacement trite

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 17d

from craig renney: the new billions in "infrastructure investment" the coalition has announced is more motorways and not much else

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 17d

it’s kinda shocking there’s no NZ hidden camera prank show on real estate agents running open homes. 30 people showing up to start a house party. bank robbers running through and into the backyard. removing all the screws out of the furniture. the schadenfreude the nation needs

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 17d

global north states are now reaching unprecedented levels of capture by capital, and now have to make the choice between actually taxing wealth more effectively or pulling the plug on the whole party. i wonder which one they're going to pick?

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · 17d

there are some *very* clear moral imperatives developing in terms of how we associate with people like this

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Funksta Uzz @funksta-uzz.bsky.social · 17d

Just last year NZ’s military was training alongside Israel, and here’s a valuable look at the ghastly legacy of NZ’s Mounted Rifles Brigade in Palestine during and after WWI
(the brigade consisted of some regiments with a history of subjugating Māori in the 19th Century)
#nzpol
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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 18d

NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: in light of NZ's failure to recognise palestine, the story of the new zealand mounted rifles brigade and their role in the WWI sinai-palestine campaign, the war that brought palestine into the british empire and later created israel www.exitfromaffco.com/p/gaza-beaut...

"Gaza Beauty Show" - The ANZACs in Palestine

New Zealand's forgotten role in the WWI subjugation of Palestine

open.substack.com

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 18d

Exactly.

Did you know that Winston Peters enabled the Springbok Tour to go ahead as he worked against a NZ judge that tried to stop the springbok tour from going ahead, using parliamentary privilege to attack him #nzpol

A passage of text from a book describing Winston Peters' criticism of High Court Justice Maurice Casey. It explains that Peters attacked Casey in Parliament over his decision to grant an injunction against the 1986 All Black tour of South Africa. Peters claimed Casey’s wife, Stella, had taken part in an anti-Tour protest in Christchurch, suggesting her anti-apartheid views influenced the injunction. The accusations implied judicial bias and portrayed Casey as weak or controlled by his wife. The passage concludes that Peters was ultimately wrong in his criticisms

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 18d

It even extends here to Aotearoa, during a visit to Cuba members of Ngā Tamatoa Donna Awatere Huata and Ripeka Evans met with members of the Palestinian Liberation Front, and they inspired them to start the militant 1981 Springbok Tour protest to oppose apartheid in South Africa. Nelson Mandela said

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 20d

The alliance between South Africa and Palestine is beautiful and everywhere

A sign sayinf Apartheid No More, with two people holding the flags of Palestine and South Africa

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 18d

Glenn Inwood, a pro-whaling and tobacco PR person, ran Resistance Kiwi. On his website, he promoted "freedom" candidates looking to "refresh local democracy." One of those candidates was Ray Chung. In late September, a new voting guide popped up, also supporting Chung, called Better Wellington.

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Screenshot of Resistance Kiwi on Telegram "helping freedom candidates refresh local democracy." with a link to their website promoting council candidate Ray Chung.

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NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 17d

"Gaza City was actually bombed 3 separate times by British forces in 1917, including the use of chemical weapons during the Second Battle of Gaza. The below photo shows New Zealand soldiers donning gas masks, captioned “Gaza Beauty Show”. 4,000 gas shells were fired into the city."

New Zealand soldiers were, of course, particularly racist against local peoples. Milnes’ stellar 1999 thesis “Imperial Soldiers?” examined New Zealand and ANZAC troops’ views during the campaign, finding “virtually every letter, book, and diary contained some reference to the Arabs reflecting the New Zealanders’ racial views”. One wrote that “no wonder the old inhabitants of Palestine had to be destroyed... many a chap is disgusted with the people.” The Aide de Camp to the commander of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles wrote that “they [the Arab camel drivers] all want rounding up and shot”. Another wrote that one village was a “God forsaken place, and only fit for n****ers to live in”.

These racist views extended to their treatment of the local populace, including stealing crops and livestock, the “concentration” of nomadic Bedouin tribes into camps (or torture to find out if they were spies), trashing bazaars, and indifference to or active participation in their deaths. One soldier noted in his autobiography that the soldiers all laughed when the Arab spectators were shelled during a battle. Gaza City was actually bombed 3 separate times by British forces in 1917, including the use of chemical weapons during the Second Battle of Gaza. The below photo shows New Zealand soldiers donning gas masks, captioned “Gaza Beauty Show”. 4,000 gas shells were fired into the city. The day that British forces took Gaza was the same day that the Balfour Declaration was issued, creating Jewish Palestine.

“Gaza Beauty Show”, New Zealand soldiers wearing gas masks before the Second Battle of Gaza, 1917

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Allison @m-e.allison683etc.servegame.com · 18d

Perhaps this is us, and has always been us. Perhaps this is what New Zealand is.

NZDF Mounted Hilux Division @smithkstead.bsky.social · 18d

NOW ON EXIT FROM AFFCO: in light of NZ's failure to recognise palestine, the story of the new zealand mounted rifles brigade and their role in the WWI sinai-palestine campaign, the war that brought palestine into the british empire and later created israel www.exitfromaffco.com/p/gaza-beaut...

"Gaza Beauty Show" - The ANZACs in Palestine

New Zealand's forgotten role in the WWI subjugation of Palestine

open.substack.com

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