Jim Barnett
@jimmyabarnett
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Used to be lighting designer + production manager for ABBA, Queen + Rolling Stones. MBA, TVNZ exec, IT geek, NZ trade envoy, gliding towards retirement…
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined November 2014
#KamalaHarris Who is protecting KH against the grotesque messaging on this platform and others? Such messages went some way towards the resignation of NZ PM Jacinda Ardern? Genuine question.
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Jimmy’s medal table I reckon New Zealand is doing the best of all countries in the Olympics. Here is my evidence - top 12 countries re-ordered by medals per million of population:
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C’mon Auckland, you CAN do better than this!
OMG, is this real? If so I'm off to Dublin just for this!! https://t.co/9sIJqqMknd
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The UK Labour party is leading the Conservatives by about 20 points in the FT’s aggregation of national voting intention polls. But what does this mean? And what will actually transpire on results day? Here’s what you need to know: https://t.co/nH32iavpQy
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Purely as a piece of communication, this picture of Keir and Victoria Starmer at Taylor Swift speaks a million words. His rivals look angry, old, unhealthy, flabby, tired…. Success is about the soul and people respond to soul….. you can see it in this photo….
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@pollyjhemming @ausinstitute @4corners @SBSNews @GuardianAus @MichaelM_ACT Just a reminder that this is pretty much how climate policy has also, since 1989, been systemically sabotaged in Australia through the local Atlas Network branch. (pic from the Atlas website c. 2020)
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WILD Atlas update! Swedish journos expose how Exxon $$$$ was moved via Atlas Network HQ to its Swedish unit Timbro, to propagate counter-science disinfo & change the Moderate Party's policy for national CO2 limits & taxes to bullshit 'offset markets'. https://t.co/CJZLsjfhzq
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Hey @MarkGraham_Akl have you seen this? And what do you think? In my head I use Europe as a model for building liveable cities. So many examples eg Stockholm Berlin, Paris etc. This project seems simple and effective. https://t.co/hJaq5amxCG
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Did an interview on RNZ about my favourite Stones album Exile on Main Street today, with a few stories about touring with them in 1970s. Jimmy Barnett on the road with the Rolling Stones
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For today's Music Feature we're diving deep into one of the most seminal, influential, and straight-up cool albums in rock history. Released in 1972, 'Exile on Main Street' was the 10th album...
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California fast-food workers at chains with more than 60 national locations will start earning $20/hr as of today. Naturally, this unleashed a wave of opposition from corporations. Let me set the record straight by debunking four of the biggest myths about the minimum wage.
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@jimmyabarnett @yanisvaroufakis He refers to his brief tenure in govt. what did you think of his analysis though?
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Sign the open letter - Protect nature from Government assault https://t.co/iVmQCdhhok
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Sign the open letter - Protect nature from Government assault
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🔴WHO GAVE BORIS JOHNSON £800k? ▪️Richard Sharp made introduction, Sam Blyth acted as guarantor, but we still don't know who gave the money. ▪️Tories say "It isn't of public interest" 👉RETWEET if you agree it's in OUR interest to know. @Gabriel_Pogrund
NB: Months after we broke the Sharp story, and hours away from a report into his conduct, one detail is as shrouded in mystery as ever. Who actually bankrolled Boris Johnson will he was in No10? Blyth was only a guarantor. Almost unbelievable the public doesn’t have any answer.
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If you’ve seen anything related to Joe Biden’s age, I need you to retweet this. Biden’s Wins is run by a 23 year old. I am enthusiastically supportive of the President because of his vision for our nation & the results he has already delivered. I do not care about his age; I
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Just brilliant!
I've already had some gun nuts respond, telling me that Americans need guns to protect themselves from a potentially tyrannical government. So I'm passing the mic to @nealbrennan.
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I don’t think anyone understands the right better than Jon Stewart. Tangentially; I don’t think there’s a Kiwi that understands less modern Aotearoa New Zealand than Christopher Luxon. Trying to bring American/UK culture wars will backfire spectacularly.
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"It's patently clear that some of the people who're involved in current politics…are borrowing some of the tactics of the 1920s and 1930s." Yale History professor Tim Snyder says some of today's politicians have learned from twentieth century fascists.
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