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Three Boys in Avoca retweeted
Jun 14
Protester in London condemn the so-called “Great Israeli Real Estate” event which promotes the sale of stolen Palestinian land.
British MP Layla Moran urges the UK government to stop the transaction and ban trade with the settlements.
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Three Boys in Avoca retweeted
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Jimmy Carr nailed something a lot of us feel but can’t explain.
We’re living better than 99.9% of humans who ever walked the earth, hot showers, modern medicine, endless entertainment, kids that actually survive infancy, yet so many of us feel miserable.
He calls it “life dysmorphia.” We get used to how good we have it (the hedonic treadmill), then compare ourselves to everyone else and tank our own happiness.
As he puts it: happiness = quality of life minus envy.
Marcus Aurelius put it perfectly: “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
When was the last time you caught yourself feeling unhappy despite objectively having it pretty damn good?
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Jun 13
Makes me think of my family in Sheffield all watching same show and hope you find this as funny as we did.
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Jun 14
Journalist Janine di Giovanni:
"If a missile hits a hospital in Ukraine,
Europe calls it a war crime."
"But if missiles hit a hospital in Gaza and 100 people die, it’s Israel's right to defend itself."
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Three Boys in Avoca retweeted
Jun 11
"Their officials don't want it, economists don't want it, energy experts don't want it, regular New Zealanders don't want it."
"There seemed to be no logic in the government's decision to forge ahead, she said."(Chloe Swarbrick)
rnz.co.nz/news/political/597…
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Three Boys in Avoca retweeted
Jun 10
WOW.
AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.
This is very HARD TO WATCH.
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Three Boys in Avoca retweeted
Hi Chris, mate, I have some bad news. Are you sat down?
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Tax on the rich is good. It helps pay for hospitals, medicine and schools in society -
just trying to make it simple for you to understand.
Chris Hipkins doesn't "begrudge" those who own holiday homes (like himself).
He'll tax them for it!
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Would it be better to focus on a tax system that means the most wealthy have a real tax rate of less than 10%, rather than a focus on those catching a bus?
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Let me get this straight;
Open co-governance with Māori is bad and antidemocratic
Secretive co-governance with Fonterra and BP is just fine
Is this right @chrisluxonmp ?
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Self-taught US artist Edward Gordon conveys light effects with a crystalline clarity, and enjoys paying homage to the masters. Here’s his ‘Wind from the Sea’ (see Vermeer’s ‘The Astronomer’ on the wall?) and at R is Andrew Wyeth’s same-named work
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Three Boys in Avoca retweeted
Jun 5
On comms yesterday, @Cricket_Mann was talking about the ageing process...
Wait for the @philtufnell punchline at the end 😂
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The far from independent lobby group the @nzinitiative have been making quite a habit of employing less than ideal characters. Perhaps the business that back them like @BNZ Forsyth Barr, Foodstuffs etc should think again.
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Geesh ! On the same page!!
$𝟏𝟖𝟎 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐈𝐀 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐎𝐟 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐲
A new report showing government agencies spend more than $180 million a year responding to Official Information Act (OIA) requests highlights the cost of failing to proactively release information.
Taxpayers’ Union spokesperson, Tyler Groenewald, said:
"The cheapest OIA request is the one that never needs to be made because the information is already available to the public."
"This $180 million bill is the cost of a lack of transparency. Much of the information being requested is clearly able to be made public, yet taxpayers are funding a costly bureaucratic process to release information that often ends up being disclosed anyway."
"Agencies should be proactively publishing reports, data, and other frequently requested information online. Countries such as the UK, United States, Ukraine and Brazil already publish spending and procurement data online, allowing taxpayers to scrutinise government spending without lodging information requests."
"An 'armchair audit' approach, where routine spending data is proactively published through a central transparency portal, would reduce OIA costs, strengthen accountability, and improve public trust."
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