In 2023 New Zealand had an election, here's the story. Previous New Zealand Election videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL71myvNLlKOIb50wcZ76RM5uvycNEE1jT&si=GgybgLdYYF9nK_xz Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/soliloquy084.bsky.social Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/soliloquy084 Like the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 #Politics #NewZealand #Election2023 Chapters: 0:00 The Prime Ministers Resignation 1:00 New Zealand's Electoral System 1:32 Flooding and Climate Change 3:15 The Policy Bonfire 4:38 Three Waters 6:12 The Ministers Bonfire 7:20 Leaks and Resignations 8:28 Introducing Christopher Luxon 9:34 A Cost of Living Election 10:42 National’s Debatable Tax Plan 12:23 The Winston Peters Problem 13:57 Confidence, but not Supply 14:13 Left with only a Glimmer of Hope 15:12 A by-Election already? 15:53 Election Night 17:37 Something Special 18:51 The Kingmaker Returns 19:41 Coalition Negotiations 20:53 A Historic Deal 22:14 How could a Mini-Budget go Wrong? 22:45 Smokefree New Zealand? 23:28 A New Direction A further reading list can be found in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WHeCd1sy6PCVldb01gtmIeaWABltX4NAYA_guXARHkQ/edit?usp=sharing

Follow Doctor “Lazy Person”, aka my wife, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Dr_leeggangers As a native English speaker living in the Netherlands, I’ve come across some unusual (for me) names. Some Dutch surnames are indeed rather amusing, or even insulting! So much so that a legend has formed around their origin; that these names were adopted in 1810 when Napoleon Bonaparte annexed Holland and forced the population to register an official name. But is there any truth to the legend? Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Chapters: 0:00 An Exotic Beauty 1:11 Napoleonic Rule 2:34 The Patronymic System 5:03 Dr. Lazy Person Read More: https://themoderatevoice.com/whats-in-a-name-a-dutch-name-that-is/ https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=http://www.naamkunde.net/?page_id%3D162 https://www.expatica.com/nl/moving/society-history/dutch-names-102043/ https://baheyeldin.com/writings/culture/how-the-dutch-got-their-funny-names.html https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naaktgeboren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3AJZfrlWUQ&ab_channel=MentalFloss https://www.dutchgenealogy.nl/popular-dutch-surnames/ https://www.ernieramaker.nl/raar.php?t=achternamen https://pure.knaw.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/478440/Respons_8.pdf https://www.stichtingbehoudvanoud.nl/genealogie-nederland/nederlandse-achternamen/achternamen-l/verklaring-van-achternamen-l https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/nl-fr.html

Check out the other #ProjectMAD videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXW18I7joPDPXmfL1zepBNv In 1987, the New Zealand parliament passed the “New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act” writing into law that New Zealand would be Nuclear-Free. This was the last act in a series of events where being anti-nuclear increasingly became part of the Kiwi identity, so how did New Zealand get to this position? Chapters: 0:00 A MAD Introduction 1:22 Treaties and Testing 4:14 Ships and the 1984 Election 6:02 The USS Buchanan 6:48 A Debate at the Oxford Union 8:50 The Rainbow Warrior 10:37 A Patriotic Identity Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Read More: Nuclear-free New Zealand - New Zealand History - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/nuclear-free-nz “I Can Smell The Uranium On Your Breath” — Anti-Nuclear New Zealand 30 Years On - EHF - https://stories.ehf.org/i-can-smell-the-uranium-on-your-breath-anti-nuclear-new-zealand-30-years-on-1d870838332c Drunk, defiant Muldoon snaps, calls election - Stuff - https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/74476770/drunk-defiant-muldoon-snaps-calls-election---150-years-of-news Mutually Assured Destruction - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction ANZUS Treaty - US Office of the Historian - https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/anzus The Oxford Debate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZFPfe0LvA New Zealand v. France Case Overview - ICJ - https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/59 New Zealand v. France Case Report - ICJ - https://legal.un.org/riaa/cases/vol_XX/215-284.pdf Undiplomatic: What US diplomats really thought about NZ - Stuff - https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115390176/undiplomatic-what-us-diplomats-really-thought-about-nz #NewZealand #NuclearFree

Located hundreds of kilometres south of Fiji and Tonga in the Minerva Reefs are almost relevant. However, in 1971, a group of ambitious American libertarians attempted to form their own micronation on the sunken atoll. The Republic of Minerva would have been a libertarian utopia; with no taxes or government intervention of any kind. Fortunately (unless you’re a right-wing libertarian) the plans ran aground as the nations surrounding the Minerva Reefs were less than impressed with their new neighbour. But although everyone agrees that The Republic of Minerva does not have a claim on the reefs, the area remains disputed today with both Tonga and Fiji claiming sovereignty over the reefs. Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Read More: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/empire-of-the-sea/ https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=CfXPH_gof_cC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=whaleship+Minerva+reef&source=bl&ots=d1FK_ER3f4&sig=ACfU3U3viPsAt16qcFnygyiyDHYx1PqN2g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwji2O2V0-_oAhUEGewKHWJBAPkQ6AEwDnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=whaleship%20Minerva%20reef&f=false http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/931861 http://forum.sealionpress.co.uk/index.php?threads/the-phoenix-foundation-libertarian-colonialism.757/ https://newint.org/features/1981/07/01/phoenix https://www.nytimes.com/1972/02/27/archives/pacific-islanders-fight-reef-plan-seek-to-halt-the-creation-of.html https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/republic-of-minerva https://www.forumsec.org/south-pacific-forum-canberra-23-25-february-1972/ http://www.queenoftheisles.com/HTML/Republic%20of%20Minerva.html https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-334667295/view?partId=nla.obj-334905636#page/n122/mode/1up http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/5008060/Fiji-Tonga-war-over-Minerva-Reef https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28160699 #Fiji #Tonga #Minerva

Alongside the recent New Zealand Election, Kiwis were asked two additional questions. One on whether euthanasia should be legal, and the other on making recreational cannabis legal. While the euthanasia referendum received a resounding yes from voters, the cannabis referendum was narrowly defeated, meaning that cannabis use will remain a criminal offence in New Zealand. But given how close this vote was, the cannabis referendum could easily have gone the other way, so in this video let’s explore what went wrong for the Yes Campaign. See my other New Zealand election videos: 2020 Election Video: https://youtu.be/gphwAdeuta8 How Jacinda Ardern turned 49% into 53%: https://youtu.be/egYorzy1Ofg 2017 Election Video: https://youtu.be/uzDlAZDToK8 Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Read More: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2002/S00165/dunne-speaks-cannabis-referendum-looking-shaky.htm https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/119640440/nz-referendum-polling-is-prompting-a-cannabis-industry-rethink https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/10/why-the-cannabis-referendum-is-too-close-to-call-and-who-s-to-blame-if-it-fails.html https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/25-09-2020/a-night-in-gore-with-new-zealands-most-formidable-conservative-campaigners/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300146269/how-drug-reform-advocates-just-lost-the-battle-for-a-generation https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/123252912/election-2020-one-referendum-passes-another-fails?rm=a https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20190807_20190807_28 https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/403327/fewer-low-level-drug-charges-laid-health-referrals-increase https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/nz-election-2020-winston-peters-hits-out-at-hypocrisy-of-having-smokefree-2025-goal-alongside-cannabis-referendum.html

In the recent New Zealand Election, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party came away with almost a majority of the vote, but from this, they will get an absolute majority in Parliament, so how did they manage this and turn 49% into 53%. This is a bonus video associated with my 2020 New Zealand election video: https://youtu.be/gphwAdeuta8 Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-house/audio/2018684041/setting-the-electoral-threshold https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/political-roundup-how-low-can-the-mmp-threshold-go/Z33YCIS2QONMQH3YWRGCBT4L44/ https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/97467871/analysis-its-time-to-ditch-the-mmp-threshold https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-green-party-will-introduce-a-members-bill-which-would-ban-all-offshore-political-donations/S3WUUPPGYHRL4HIUV6VH4S4Y4U/

New Zealand has had a general election. The question though, was never who would be the governing party, but what would be the exact makeup of that government. In this video, we follow the story of the election campaigns and find out. Other videos that cover MMP: How would the UK House of Commons look under MMP? - https://youtu.be/Au_94POF87k The 2017 New Zealand Election Explained - https://youtu.be/uzDlAZDToK8 Time Stamps: 0:00 A National Coup 00:56 Curriculum Vitae: Todd Muller 02:04 Todd Muller’s short leadership 5:33 Another leader for National 06:41 Polling and the Margin of Error 07:15 A Disaster Government 08:01 How MMP works 8:56 A Covid-19 Outbreak 9:56 Changing an Election Date 11:14 The Green School Saga 13:06 Parties and Policies 17:01 Future Soliloquy with the Election Results Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 A further reading list can be found in this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Oe-oduOllZrX6jYu7Stv4-PeL88HdylDMZTR3_hgmqQ/edit?usp=sharing #NewZealand #Politics

Nations that develop nuclear weapons often do so as a deterrent to any would-be attacker; it is a significant investment and so these nations, especially the smaller nations on the nuclear list, are threatened by nations surrounding them. Just one nation though has walked this path in both directions. South Africa, under Apartheid, was diplomatically isolated from the world, and thus felt the need to develop the most powerful defence imaginable. But the end of Apartheid also brought the end of their Nuclear Arsenal. Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Read More https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/south-african-nuclear-program https://web.archive.org/web/20120928185925/http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/south-africa/nuclear/ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-south-africa-built-nuclear-weapons-and-then-gave-them-27066 https://books.google.nl/books?id=vgwAAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1200544/revisiting-south-africas-bomb/ https://isis-online.org/uploads/isis-reports/documents/Civil_Stocks_of_HEU_Worldwide_October_7_2015_Final.pdf https://www.princeton.edu/~aglaser/2008aglaser_bulletin.pdf https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.2968/064004010 https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/05/archives/how-atoms-for-peace-because-bombs-for-sale-bombs-for-sale.html #SouthAfrica # NuclearWeaponsProgram

For three days each year, Dutch cities get renamed. For example, the city I live in changes from Oosterhout to Kaaiendonk! This is all done as part of the Burgundian Carnival tradition, but let’s take a deeper look. It all started in Oeteldonk ... Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Read more: (English) https://www.army.mil/article/199897/carnaval_in_the_netherlands_its_origins_and_traditions (English) https://denboschfreetours.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/the-history-of-oeteldonk/ (English) https://integratedexpat.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/language-of-dutch-carnival-dialect-royalty-fools/ (English List of names) https://heavenly-holland.com/carnival-names/ (Dutch) https://www.oeteldonk.org/over-oeteldonk/geschiedenis (Dutch) https://www.fenvlaanderen.be/carnaval/wat-carnaval (Dutch) Atlas van de Nederlandse taal: Editie Nederland By Mathilde Jansen, Nicoline van der Sijs, Fieke Van der Gucht, Johan De Caluwe Down the Wikipedia rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_in_the_Netherlands#Name_changing #DutchHistory #Carnival #Oeteldonk

Protect your internet with NordVPN by going to https://nordvpn.com/soliloquy to get 70% off a 3-year plan and use code Soliloquy to get an additional month for free! The relationship between the United Kingdom and Ireland has always been a difficult one, today we see this with the Irish Boarder being the sticking point for Brexit negotiations. But, the history of this relationship goes much further back. Indeed for 800 years the English held control of the island of Ireland. Let’s look at this history and answer the question of why Ireland is not part of the United Kingdom? Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy084 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Read More: https://www.enjoy-irish-culture.com/dermot-macmurrough.html Gillingham, John (2000). The English in the Twelfth Century. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. pp. 42–43, 145. https://www.bartleby.com/268/6/17.html https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/easter-rising https://www.britannica.com/topic/dominion-British-Commonwealth #History #Ireland #IrishHistory

In 1689 a new King and Queen were crowed in England, it was an unusual event, the pair would rule as coregents and the King wasn’t English but Dutch. The story, or perhaps stories, of how a Dutchman found himself King of England is a turning point in history. This event concluded England’s Glorious Revolution, and led on to cement a Major constitutional change. Catholics would be prevented from taking the crown and the English Bill of rights would come from this bloodless revolution. This Video is part of #ProjectRevolution, see the full playlist here: bit.ly/Project_Revolution Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy08 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Learn More: https://www.britannica.com/event/Glorious-Revolution https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Sancroft#ref910407 https://www.nypl.org/blog/2008/02/17/hand-press-propaganda https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/a-glorious-revolution/ https://youtu.be/Gx9N0mrTPtw https://youtu.be/M9PRYhT09l0 #EnglishHistory #DutchHistory

It’s spring in the northern hemisphere and the landscape is filled with flowers, but plants don’t own calendars, so how do they know when to bloom? And furthermore, how did us humans know how the plants know when? (this is getting a bit meta) Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy08 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Learn More: Structural Features Determining Flower-Promoting Activity of Arabidopsis FLOWERING LOCUS T (2014) WW Ho Ho and D Weigel, Plant Cell, http://www.plantcell.org/content/26/2/552 Florigen Coming of Age after 70 Years (2006) J Zeevaart, Plant Cell, http://www.plantcell.org/content/18/8/1783 Tulipa gesneriana and Lilium longiflorum PEBP Genes and Their Putative Roles in Flowering Time Control (2017) H Leeggangers et. al., Plant and Cell Physiology https://academic.oup.com/pcp/article/59/1/90/4568574 [my wife's paper] FT Protein Acts as a Long-Range Signal in Arabidopsis (2007) K Jaeger and P Wigge, Current Biology, https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822%2807%2901388-7 Florigen: The Hidden Hormone (2016) V Hanlon, The Science Creative Quarterly, https://www.scq.ubc.ca/florigen-the-hidden-hormone/ How do Plants Know When to Flower? Wonderopolis, https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-do-plants-know-when-to-flower Florigen, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florigen

In 1558 Nicolò Zeno announced to the world he had found in his family home in Venice, a map and accompanying letters that described a long voyage made by the his ancestors. On this voyage the Zeno Brothers found an island called Frisland, there is just one problem, Frisland doesn’t exist. Nicolò had invented the entire story, which was widely believed to be true for centuries and in doing so put his family name in the history books. Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy08 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Learn More: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/zeno-map-phantom-island-cartography https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/62-frisland-an-italian-fabrication-in-the-north-atlantic http://expositions.nlr.ru/eng/ex_map/invented_territory/islands.php

The island of Bermeja appeared on many maps for almost four centuries; until a survey team failed to find the island in 1997, it marked Mexico’s most northern point in the Gulf of Mexico. Failing to find it had serious implications for Mexico, reducing Mexico’s Exclusive Economic Zone in the area and allocating vast areas of the oil-rich waters to the Untitled States of America. But how could an island just disappear? Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy08 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Learn More: http://mexicounexplained.com/isla-bermeja-mexicos-disappearing-island/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rh1p5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermeja http://andrewpekler.com/phantom-islands/

When Hawaiian Ranchers want to export cattle to the continental United States, sometimes they load their cows onto jet airlines and fly them across the ocean. By weight air travel is far more expensive than shipping on an ocean going ship, so you might ask why these farmers go to the additional expense. The answer comes down to the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, more commonly known as the Jones Act. This act includes protectionist measures over domestic shipping, and results in air travel for cattle making economic sense. In this video we explore the historical arguments for the Jones Act that lead us to but cows on planes. Support my videos on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/soliloquy Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/soliloquy084 Like the FaceBook page: www.facebook.com/soliloquy08 Theme tune by Richard Jones. Read More https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=554046425&t=1534354263758 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/27/16373484/jones-act-puerto-rico https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/mercatus-grennes-jones-act-v2.pdf https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2017/10/17/maritime-security-five-reasons-the-jones-act-is-a-bargain/#825b7c53d960 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/jones-act-explained-waiving-means-puerto-rico