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Open mike 06/06/2020
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Black lives matter
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog “African slavery lacked two elements that made American slavery the most cruel form of slavery in history: the frenzy for limitless profit that comes from capitalistic agriculture; the reduction of the slave to less than human status by the use…
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Daily review 05/06/2020
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Babylon’s Burning
A few days ago a lefty I respect a lot wrote on facebook that America "is in the grip of a full blown revolution". He's wrong. Not just because there is no economic driver for change, which is Marxism 101, comrades. It's mainly because the…
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Bunker boy Trump finally builds that wall
And in America you get the feeling that maybe the reign of Donald Trump is reaching its denouement. The brave man who used bone spurs to get out of serving in the Vietnam War was holed up in a White House Bunker to escape the…
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Open mike 05/06/2020
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How Covid 19 appears to be playing out
I wrote this post two months ago about how I thought Covid 19 would play out in Aotearoa. It was written at the time that infections had peaked to just under 90 per day. I added a postscript celebrating that there were only 63 new…
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The four horsemen of the apocalypse
“When He opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying, "Come and see." So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power…
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Open mike 04/06/2020
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Stunned Muller
Yesterday was not a great day for Todd Muller. I do not know who his media advisers are but the first question he should have prepared for was what the most predictable question ever in the history of politics. And it came. He was asked…
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The wood, the trees and the ETS
It's a brutal thing to propose more taxes and costs on business during our worst economic meltdown in a century. But yesterday along with some stronger stick, comes some agricultural carrot as well. In the Emissions Trading Reform bill that went through its second reading…
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Open mike 03/06/2020
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Open mike 02/06/2020
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Is National Just Inconsistent or Incompetent?
It must have come as a great relief for Todd Muller when he managed to announce National’s first new economic policy under his leadership called JobStart. It might be stretching it to call it a Captain’s call but it is a start, a baby step…
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Open mike 01/06/2020
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