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Open mike 21/07/2016
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Daily Review 20/07/2016
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Submit to the Cross-Party Homelessness Inquiry
Check out the new Labour / Green / Maori Party initiative: Cross-Party Homelessness Inquiry This inquiry was launched by Labour, Green and Māori Parties after National MPs turned down Opposition requests for a Parliamentary select committee inquiry into the issue. We want to hear from…
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Climate change and trees – a palliative and not a solution
One alleviation that is often suggested for reducing or even reversing the effects of climate change is to plant trees, or some other form of vegetation. This is to suck up surplus carbon dioxide and to put it into a solid and relatively inert form.…
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Who said it better?
And the Republication convention descends further in to farce: https://twitter.com/alans_world/status/755305432588050432 https://twitter.com/mikehearn/status/755260215021432832
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Refining an existing capacity to make the rubble bounce and bounce
Back in the 1970s and 1980s Nuclear War used to be the biggest threat to the future of humanity. I remember as a young person realising that I lived in a world that had 60,000 nuclear weapons and if a smallish number of them were let off it…
Deep stuff International Left Politics the praiseworthy and the pitiful uk politics you couldn't make this shit up
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Open mike 20/07/2016
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Anti-Corbyn media bias
A London School of Economics study has found significant bias against UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. As media and communication scholars we have been troubled by the problematic way in which the British media has systematically attacked Jeremy Corbyn ever since he came to national…
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Daily Review 19/07/2016
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National denies/admits Chinese trade reprisals threatened
Yesterday this was the story: Speaking shortly after his arrival in Indonesia for a three-day trade trip, Key sought to pour cold water on the idea of any Chinese retaliation. While he could not confirm whether MBIE had received a complaint about steel dumping, due…
China Globalisation john key making shit up Minister for International Embarrassment slippery spin you couldn't make this shit up
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Republican circus
The Republican convention circus is under way. It began with a last-ditch rebellion Never Trump diehards, eventually quashed after scenes of chaos an coercion. It continues with speeches from Trump family members and D-list celebrities. It will be a four day parade of ignorance and…
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How to wreck a busway
The Northern Busway has been an outstanding success. The project started in the late 1990s and was officially opened in 2008. It was credited with initially removing 500 cars per rush hour. The parks around the stations were full shortly after the opening and drastic improvements in…
john key local government national public transport same old national supercity transport
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Auckland without workers
It's already the case that an average wage can't buy a house in Auckland, and that some working families can't even afford to rent, hence the rise of the working homeless. The unaffordability of Auckland is now seriously impacting even moderately well paid professions: Recruiting…
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Democracy and Dunne
The union movement's digital campaign arm - Together - has sent out the following email asking for support to put Peter Dunne on the spot with his electorate over Easter Trading: It’s official - the Government’s planned law-change to make more people work on Easter…
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How to collapse liberal society
A liberal society is a delicate flower with a seductive perfume. There are a set of presumptions in it that you can travel where you want, say what you want, publish analogue or digitally what you want, worship what you want, love who you want,…
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Open mike 19/07/2016
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Daily Review 18/07/2016
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China trade realpolitik
Little NZ is getting a bit of a reminder of its significance in the global economy: China threatens reprisals on NZ dairy, wool and kiwifruit if government doesn't back off cheap steel inquiry China has threatened "retaliatory measures" against New Zealand trade, warning it will…
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Shinbone Star: Bloody Hell
Caaaaan’t liiiiiive, if living is without youuuuu…. Corbyn is on the ballot. Constituency Labour Parties and subsidiary branches are suspended until September. The hundred thousand or so members who joined post-Brexit cannot vote. Neither can anyone who joined after mid-January, including every single member of…
activism International Politics the praiseworthy and the pitiful uk politics
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O’Sullivan and Watkins – warnings to the Nats
Even National's fans are worried for them these days. Fran O'Sullivan: Rich-lister sends message to Key Rich-lister Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" deserves to shatter business complacency on housing. It should also shatter the complacency of the Prime Minister - if…
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Open mike 18/07/2016
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BREXIT Sitrep
The website of the Saker of the Vineyard consistently has some of the best non-mainstream (read: non western propaganda talking points) geopolitical analysis out there. Their "Brexit SITREP: Looking down from Northern England" piece is no exception. In it, the situation that Jeremy Corbyn, and…
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God Botherer
I'm a little worried about God. Not only does God not exist, the reasons for needing him to exist are fast fading. The human race is approaching the end of its adolescent years and is heading for maturity. We have the ability to control our…
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More bold intervention needed
The curious convergence of Labour and National towards major housing market intervention is quite something as a principle. The National government has proposed installing Commissioners to replace Auckland Council if they don't see sufficient growth capacity in Auckland's draft unitary Plan. They have also specially…
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Open mike 17/07/2016
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Military coup underway in Turkey: Erdo-gone?
UPDATE 2 It seems clear now that the attempted military coup has failed in under 12 hours. Over a thousand military personnel are under arrest. The death toll from the incident stands at just under 100. Dozens of senior military officers have been relieved of…
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A target we can celebrate missing
Here's one missed target we can celebrate: Government's benefits target 'very aspirational' Anne Tolley has effectively conceded that National is unlikely to meet its objective of moving 65,000 people off the benefit within the next two years. The Minister for Social Development revealed that while…
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Salmond on the ravages of neoliberalism
2013 New Zealander of the year Dame Anne Salmond was written another excellent piece in The Herald: Balance needed after ravages of neo-liberalism No one should be surprised if there is a crisis of mistrust in politicians in New Zealand, and across the Anglo-American world.…
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Open mike 16/07/2016
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Daily Review 15/07/2016
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