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Open mike 31/01/2020
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Daily review 30/01/2020
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Is National the party of law and order?
Yesterday's SFO announcement that four persons have been charged with offences following the investigation of the Feng Shue carve up of a $100,000 donation to National will reverberate for a while. Unfortunately for National during election year. It makes National's claim that it is the…
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Open mike 30/01/2020
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Daily review 29/01/2020
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SFO files charges in relation to National Party donations
This is a rather novel way for the National Party to divert attention away from the Government's infrastructure announcement. From Stuff: The Serious Fraud Office is filing criminal charges against four people in relation to donations to the National Party. But party leader Simon Bridges says…
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The Government’s $12 billion infrastructure package
The details of the Government's $12 billion infrastructure announcement have been released. There are more roading projects than I like. We should be building light rail and walkways and cycleways and pouring as much as we can into these areas. But there is a significant…
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Trump’s Middle East peace plan
This news shows how strange International Relations has become. Donald Trump, currently on trial in the Senate for withholding approved funds from the Ukraine in an attempt to get the Ukranian authorities to dig up dirt on his possible opponent Joe Biden, and Benjamin Netanyahu,…
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Open mike 29/01/2020
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Daily review 28/01/2020
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19th September: Talk Like a Pirate Day
Shiver me timbers! fair winds comrades! https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/1221979342164627456 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1221978059823173632 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/1221979457264570368 https://twitter.com/WeavingHouse/status/1221986002069180417 https://twitter.com/henrycooke/status/1221980207482953729 https://twitter.com/bennettLmorgan/status/1221979215060357121
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How low will Bridges go?
Simon Bridges has wondered out loud if anti semitism stopped the Government from sending a senior representative to a Holocaust memorial in Israel. Interestingly National apparently did not send representatives to two earlier events. They have not commented on this failure or what conclusion should…
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Open mike 28/01/2020
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The Fourth Estate struggling in the social media world
Posted on 27/01/2020 by Nick Kelly Ahead of the 2020 General Election in New Zealand, Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that her party is committed to run a factual election and has signed up to a social media tool to help prove it. The 2020 NZ election will be…
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Steve Mnuchin, not Greta Thunberg, needs to go back to school
Another case has appeared involving a grown male lecturing Greta Thunberg and at the same time showing how limited his understanding of reality is. This time it was US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin who showed how big a douchebag he is by saying that Thunberg…
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Chinese New Year
With China's New Year arriving, and a terrible flu virus struggling to be contained within it at the same time, it's time to reflect again on China's future and impact for New Zealand. Do yourself a huge favour and go to one of the many…
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Climate change thought experiment
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @DoctorVive on twitter asks, Thought experiment for the weekend: What if everyone could have adequate food & healthcare, access to education & the arts, but industrialization were unsustainable. Would you rather de-industrialize & halt warming or continue industrial activity &…
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Open mike 27/01/2020
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Constructive Criticism and Team Work In Politics
Have you ever experienced that you put forward a good idea, plan, or strategy in and to your team and a higher-up (e.g. the boss) or one of your colleagues takes or gets the credit for it and you get not even an acknowledgement? It…
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Open mike 26/01/2020
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How To Get There 26/01/20
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Open mike 25/01/2020
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Daily review 24/01/2020
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Open mike 24/01/2020
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Daily review 23/01/2020
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Labour is signing up to Facebook transparency tool
The holidays are over and politics is gearing up for what could be a fascinating if not brutal election year. And it appears that Jacinda Ardern will throw down the gauntlet to National by confirming later today that Labour will sign up to Facebook's transparancy…
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The right is splintering on climate change
The latest international news involves former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull castigating Donald Trump for his climate denial rhetoric. Earlier on Trump had been reported as saying at Davos the usual right wing attack lines on climate change. From Jeremy Diamond at CNN: President Donald Trump…
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RIP Terry Jones
Sad overnight news with the death of Terry Jones being announced. He was part of Monty Python, a ground breaking comedic group from the 1960s and 1970s whose movies are as outlandishly funny now as they were when they were released 40 years ago. Their…
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Open mike 23/01/2020
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Daily review 22/01/2020
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