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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1h

Guessing nothing on our news about it.

Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1h

No surprise Israel faked fictional underground Hamas tunnels they used as a pretext to bomb palastinian hospitals at the time.. They used 3d asset packs like the scottish museum boat building models.

thecradle.co/articles/isr...

Israel created fake 3D videos of 'Hamas tunnels' to justify attacks on Gaza hospitals: Report

The Israeli army used 3D images from video games, online assets, content creators, and even the Scottish Maritime Museum

thecradle.co

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 3h

More austerity cuts incoming...

#nzpol

www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

Global rating agency reaffirms NZ high level credit rating

But S&P noted budget deficits and debt need to be tackled.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 3h

This should be confirmed by stuff. Or is the charity hiding behind commercially sensitive bs.

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 3h

Needs a full independent audit ..

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 6h

What did they have to correct I wonder and were they trying to hide those payments.

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 6h

Of course this is no way linked to Mike King leaving the charity & buying a farm...

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 6h

This stinks more than a soggy gumboot , King's execs get 527k which is what some other charities run on per year if they haven't been cut altogether by this cretinus gov..

#nzpol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 7h

Seymour blaming hospitality downturn on covid red tape, not his doom spiral economy.. #nzpol

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Trevor Nicholls @aquatarkus.bsky.social · 7h

The media and coalition spokegits are obsessed with trying to make the Labour Party responsible for perceived chaos in its potential coalition partner TPM.
Is Luxon's party responsible for its actual coalition partner ACT's leader actively defending its paedophile president For Years?
#nzpol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1d

NZ's most puzzling unsolved mystery...

#nzpol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1d

Then they buy more...

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

More Chinese trains to be bought despite asbestos headache

KiwiRail says it will buy another 15 Chinese locomotives, despite asbestos contamination in engines it already has.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1d

Yes I remember those locomotives , National have a history of buying dogs of ships like the current ferries which were plagued with problems from day one www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Chinese train makers repeatedly told "no asbestos"

Chinese manufacturers were repeatedly told there should be no asbestos in trains they were manufacturing for KiwiRail, new information confirms.

www.rnz.co.nz

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent piece by @mountaintui.bsky.social

The most telling quote: "Luxon sold the lucrative Heathrow slot for $27 million in 2019, stopping the 40 year London service, but only 4 years earlier, another airline purchased the Heathrow slot for $75 million. Today Air NZ can't get it back."
#nzpol

Prime Minister, Unions ARE Workers

Chris Luxon, Erica Stanford and Simeon Brown continue to gaslight Kiwi workers, in their latest instalment of divide and conquer

mountaintui.substack.com

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 1d

Probably cheaper but not the proven quality of South Korean ship builders who probably have blacklisted NZ gov.. #nzpol

Nothing will make up for the lost time & 700 million already lost by this gov.

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

New Cook Strait ferries to be built by large Chinese shipbuilding company

The two new 200m ferries will accommodate 1500 passengers, and include both road and rail decks.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Russel Norman @russelnorman.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since the 2023 election. If you want a really long read, chronologically tracking all the different attacks on nature by the Luxon Govt... well this is it! Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/sto...

Luxon’s War on Nature Timeline - Greenpeace Aotearoa

It has been nearly 2 years since the formation of the Luxon-led Government. It has been two years of a war on nature.

www.greenpeace.org

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

'Thirty-eight percent of voters approved of Luxon' #nzpol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

New Zealand schools hit by 'mega-strike' as 50,000 teachers walk out

‘Overwhelmed’ staff are demanding more pay, more respect and better conditions

www.theguardian.com

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

I can't see the whole clip tvnz might have intentionally cut it to look like he's blaming teachers. But who knows.

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder of the teacher strikes under labour gov ...so is not unreasonable to question..

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

His communication is pretty useless ...

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

Does Hipkins support teachers strike ? because he sure doesn't sound like it. #nzpol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

'Thousands of Canterbury kids'

Wasn't Christchurch Luxon's poster child city supposedly doing well.... if you discount the thousands of hungry kids.. #nzpol

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Watershitdown @watershitdown.bsky.social · 2d

Luxon said settlements need to be "affordable and responsible".

"We don't have a bottomless pot of taxpayer money, but together they need to work through that with government employers and unions," he said

Coughs* Landlords

#nzpol

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