The COTW, NZ has deployed 6 soldiers to the Red Sea: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507356/new-zealand-to-deploy-defence-force-to-red-sea
Need a :nz-cool: emote
Kereru
joined 4 years ago
Hey it's my little corner of settler-colonialism in the South Pacific. I can throw out a few thoughts here, although take everything with a grain of salt.
Many of the points can be looked at through a familiar settler-colonial lens. Think the Canada of the Pacific. Maori arrive about 500 years ago, with the Brits beginning colonisation about 200 years ago. Familiar story of decimation of the Māori population through introduced disease, violence and land dispossession. The nuance here is some of the concessions Māori were able to get from the British, most notably Te Tiriti (note: it's a very short text, worth reading if you're interested). This has helped to get: dedicated Māori seats in parliament, some reparations for stolen land, co-governance of some land and assets, etc.
This goes along with significant racism towards Māori (and Pasifica) that has always been a major part of our politics but is currently being leveraged in a more American style culture war approach by the right. E.g. demanding government departments to use English names
In terms of foreign relations and economy: Our economy consists of exporting milk powder and trees to China (a mostly lactose intolerant country?), Tourism (don't look too closely at how fucked the land is from all the dairy cows), consultants sending emails, service workers serving the consultants, and majorly: investing in houses.
Economically we are completely reliant on China, but culturally aligned with the UK and more recently the US. Which is going to make the next decade... Interesting.
I’m somewhat dubious conservatives have the forethought to actually plan a future economy like this though. Based on my local context it seems like a pretty classic case of wanting to eliminate a big line item on the govt budget and a “fuck you I’ll be fine, I can afford private schooling”. With any gains due to a low wage workforce a by-product, but maybe I’m not giving them enough credit.
This one too. Also RIP (fuck Isisrael) 
This seems like a decent bullet point history, but it doesn't cover the last two months:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/9/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide
This is absolutely wild. I was wondering how they managed to mine the camp, but it looks like the IDF set up tents right on top of a tunnel?
I think I have a different one to you, because I did that exact thing yesterday
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Today I recognised the copper mines in need of nationalisation in Chile
I need to read up on my own country's history, to be honest. Palestine feels like it's held a mirror up to our own settle-colonial context and makes me realise how much I will have received my ideas about our history from the coloniser perspective.
This series from RNZ is pretty good for something easy to watch.
That was really just c. Māori used trench warfare to withstand the artillery, and baited the Brits into attacking pa (wooden structures usually on high ground)
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