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Open mike 05/02/2020
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Daily review 04/02/2020
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The Big One’s Coming In.
Remember how as a kid you'd build sand castles below the high water mark and then spend your time trying to shore it up against the incoming tide? Remember running at the back of a receding wave to throw hopeless handfuls or bucketfuls of sand…
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Open mike 04/02/2020
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Daily review 03/02/2020
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The BBC – a failed public broadcaster
The real disappointment of the 2019 UK General Election was the BBC. Once regarded as the bastion of quality media and the envy of much of the world, the BCC's reputation is diminished greatly in recent years. From the historic cover up of Jimmy Savile's…
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Mike Moore
It's not often you find New Zealanders who give every single breath they have to the left and do it with resounding and even global success. Such a person was Mike Moore. The media are calling him a working class hero. I'd like every single…
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Open mike 03/02/2020
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Bridges’ biggest gamble
Simon Bridges has made the call and ruled out working with NZ FIrst after the election. From Henry Cooke at Stuff: National leader Simon Bridges has ruled out working with NZ First after this year's election, telling voters he can't trust the party. Bridges' move,…
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Open mike 02/02/2020
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How To Get There 02/02/20
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Pay the money back Simon
I cannot believe how inept National's handling of the $100,000 donation fiasco has been. It was bad enough that Bridges was involved in the donation which was made in such a way it was not disclosed as it should have been, that he apparently agreed…
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Open mike 01/02/2020
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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 &…