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Daily review 19/08/2020
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What Might A Democratic Party-Dominated U.S. Foreign Policy Do?
Inasmuch as tiny, distant New Zealand need worry about the foreign policy of the United States, it’s worth a drill into what a Democratic Party dominated United States foreign policy might look like. If elected, Joe Biden will inherit a United States that has abdicated…
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What does Judith do about Gerry?
Anyone else getting slightly tired about the Opposition running lines that the Government's handling of Covid is an abject failure? I mean perspective is important. Right now among Western Developed Nations we are probably ranked the second best nation in handling the virus. Taiwan is…
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Open mike 19/08/2020
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Daily review 18/08/2020
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Blogs and election fatigue
One of the characteristics of a political blog in New Zealand is the way that our operations reflect the political cycle. Coming into an election after mid-year, we have a steadily increasing level of traffic, posts, and comments. Moderators, commenters and even authors start showing…
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Open mike 18/08/2020
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Brady under review by Canterbury University
Canterbury University is conducting a review of statements made to the Justice Select Committee by Professor Anne-Marie Brady alleging covert military transfer to China which complainants from other Universities under attack said "contained manifest errors of fact and misleading inferences." The University would do well…
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Let them have gardening leave…
Over at No Right Turn, Idiot Savant points out the following about the month delay in the election when talking about the parliamentary implications (my bold). Parliament will now resume on Tuesday, though it has a pretty light Order Paper. Most of its business will…
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Daily review 17/08/2020
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A Stunt Scene from Mission Impossible*
An ambulance is racing down the motorway to an emergency call-out of a person with potentially life-threatening disease symptoms** and a ragtag of wannabe drivers are trying to wrestle the steering wheel from the highly experienced driver who has to keep all her attention on…
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What Now Phil Goff?
The Chief Executive of Watercare Raveen Jaduram has resigned. The NZ Herald points to criticism of his $775,000 salary, and the drought. Salary seemed to be the sticking point, oddly enough. Not whether expanding Watercare’s reach into managing the Waikato catchment but failing to prepare…
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Extend advance voting
At 10am Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will announce her decision on the election date. This will be done in the light about what is currently known about the current covid-19 outbreak. That is her decision alone and is constrained by the parliamentary electoral limits that…
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Why we need to get on with the election
Auckland, and the rest of the country, has been on tenterhooks for the past week. Are we facing a Melbourne type second wave surge? Was our pride in being Covid free horrendously misplaced? Because for over a hundred days we have been very happy with…
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Open mike 17/08/2020
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What is wrong with postal voting?
We are entering into an interesting 24 hours. Jacinda Ardern is to announce tomorrow morning if the election is to be delayed. Should the country just get on and hold the election and decide who is going to make decisions for us in the next…
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Open mike 16/08/2020
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Covid-19 vs 1918 influenza
It has been interesting and rather disheartening reading a number of idiotic articles in the NZ Herald in recent days calling for a change in the way that we handle outbreaks of covid-19 in NZ. Implicit in the articles was that the risks that covid-19…
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Open mike 15/08/2020
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Daily review 14/08/2020
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The top seven things Covid has changed
Change 1: Health Overrides Economy Recently, the German philosopher Markus Gabriel said “The pandemic has shown that we are capable of not always making economic considerations our first priority. We have done the right thing morally, and decided to prioritise health at almost any economic…
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Joe Biden’s Four Surprising Vectors for Success
He’s old, boring, uninspiring, and offends no-one: surely he’ll fail miserably as President? Joe Biden elected as President has a stronger chance than any Democrat President since LBJ of getting very strong domestic reforms done. Biden is positioned to be one of the most successful…
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Open mike 14/08/2020
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Daily review 13/08/2020
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TheY aRe onlY aSKing qUestiOns
Yesterday was a remarkable day. Deputy Leader of the National Party Gerry Brownlee posed a series of questions suggesting a wide based and interesting conspiracy theory involving the Government and the Ministry of Health and all of the Health Boards suppressing news of community spread…
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Open mike 13/08/2020
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Daily review 12/08/2020
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UMR Poll August 2020
Yet another rogue poll, this time from UMR, has Labour on 52%, National 28%, Act 5.9%, Greens 5.4% and NZ First steady on 5.1%. That would give Labour 65 seats, the Greens 7, NZ First 6 and ACT 7, National 35. I stand by my…
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Will National politicise the new Covid outbreak? *
So the bad news that we were all hoping not to hear has occurred. There is a new case of community transmission discovered in Auckland. A test conducted on Monday was positive. The Government has acted quickly and imposed a level 3 lockdown on Auckland…
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