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So the orange one's temper tantrum has goaded Iran into replying in kind. There are reports of two US bases being hit by missiles launched from within Iran and as I type this it is being reported that Iran's air force is in the air.…
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Simon Bridges' trip to China last year has attracted more attention with recent news that MFAT was not consulted on the trip and of even greater concern that the trip was organised by National MP Jian Yang. When I look through past posts I see…
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Less than a week into the New Year and #WorldWarThree is trending on Twitter. Thank you very much Donald Trump. Trump having lost an impeachment vote in the US Congress, has resorted to the Bill Clinton playbook of 1998. Back then Clinton launched an air strike of Kosovo to distract…
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The start of 2020 has been a truely horrible one for Australia. The fires that are sweeping the country have been wreaking havoc. Currently more than 20 people have lost their lives and hundreds more have lost their homes and possessions. In the state of…
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March 31 1968 was a big deal for the United States' global military prestige. President Johnson announced bringing U.S. troops back from Vietnam. Weeks later he announced that he wouldn't stand for re-election. With the United States assassination of the highest Iranian military official and…
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General Soleimani was visiting Iraq at the request of the Iraqi Prime Minister to discuss mediation between the US and Iran. Following his assassination by the US the Iraqi Parliament has voted to ask all foreign troops to leave the country. New Zealand's remaining troops…
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This is a scene from Bladerunner 2049, a futuristic Science Fiction film. The visual effect that the Director Denis Villeneuve wanted to create was to show that "[t]he climate has gone berserk — the ocean, the rain, the snow is all toxic". The scene looks…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Scummo is what Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia, was called yesterday by residents of a town that had just been devastated by fire including the loss of two lives. Gutless was my own addition seeing him utterly fail to engage with the people in…
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I must be the odd one out, the outsider, because a lot of stuff that others get passionate or worked up about flies right over my head. There is not enough time in my day to try following everything that happens let alone think about…
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President Trump personally ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's elite military Quds force. He was killed by rockets fired from US drones over Baghdad Airport. This is unlawful by any standards, as well as an act of war. Iran has promised…
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No airborne chemical attack in Douma: that was the conclusion reached by Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) inspectors on the ground in Syria. And that's the conclusion they passed on to their superiors within the supposedly independent UN organisation. But the OPCW…
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John le Carré’s 26th book, Agent Running in the Field, which, according to the publishers, is David Cornwell’s (le Carré’s real name) take on Brexit, suggests a dystopian future for European liberal democracies in a post-Brexit world. Sadly likely to be one of his last, given…
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2019 was the worst year for the left since 1979. By then, NZ Labour had lost, Aussie Labor had been removed, and UK Labour trounced. In 2019, once-mighty forces of reform and redistribution were set back from ranked power contenders to journeymen on the punching…
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I've been thinking about the 2020s as the decade of deep, life affirming change. Tempting to think of it as the do or die decade, but am mindful of Micky's post yesterday, The Power of Positive Campaigning. He looked at the importance of framing party…
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