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Open mike 20/11/2020
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Daily review 19/11/2020
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South Australia’s new Covid strain
During a week in which two Covid vaccines have been announced there is disturbing news coming out of South Australia where a new more potent strain of the virus has appeared. From Stephanie Bedo via the Herald: The strain of coronavirus wreaking havoc on South…
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Resiliency politics
This cheery piece about the end of the world is doing the rounds in Australia and New Zealand. None of it is a surprise to people in the various resiliency movements (Transition Towns, permaculture, peak oil, climate activism and so on), but it's nevertheless a…
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No Right Turn: Climate Change – The problem of air travel
No Right Turn wrote on yesterday: ______________________________________________________________________________ Until the pandemic, air travel was one of the fastest growing causes of greenhouse gas emissions. And its obscenely unequal, with just 1% of the world's population causing 50% of the problem: Frequent-flying “‘super emitters” who represent just…
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Open mike 19/11/2020
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Trump loses the presidency, but Trumpism lives on
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog Two weeks after one of the most tumultuous elections in US history it is now clear that Joe Biden has won. This was not clear on election night as much of the in-person vote favoured Trump in key swing…
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Daily review 18/11/2020
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C’mon Grant
This government must demonstrate that it has the ability to lead the New Zealand economy where it has stated it wants it to go. It does not want more headlines like the average house in Auckland now being priced at $1 million. With the Reserve…
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Trump’s chances of winning the Presidential Election through legal action
For political legal tragics like myself there is this amazing website Democracy Docket which collects Court filings and reports on the various cases that Donald Trump and his mob are conducting to try and overturn the clearly expressed will of the majority of the American…
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Open mike 18/11/2020
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Daily review 17/11/2020
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They Are Not Morons
Donald Trump will be back for another go at the Presidency in 2024. Donald Trump has the mightiest and most powerful political brand in the United States, and he has gained the total fealty of the Republican Party. As he did in 2016 he will…
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Open mike 17/11/2020
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Daily review 16/11/2020
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The million MAGA muppet march
America is in some trouble. Covid19 is surging. The third wave is hitting hard. Suddenly 100,000 daily new infections is not a scary possibility, 200,000 is. The POTUS is holed up in the West Wing and is busily firing people partly because he thinks it…
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Powerdown part two
Really good to see this piece in the MSM on how and why greentech isn't going to simply replace fossil fuels so we can continue business as usual, but instead we will need to powerdown. John McCrone at Stuff interviewed Christchurch transition engineer Susan Krumdieck,…
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Open mike 16/11/2020
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Open mike 15/11/2020
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Open mike 14/11/2020
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Daily review 13/11/2020
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Capitalism’s end game
In Aotearoa New Zealand we are facing a new crisis. Not Covid, although the recent Auckland community case involving a young worker who did everything right and her manager who did everything wrong and will hopefully be prosecuted is another example of why we should…
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Open mike 13/11/2020
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Daily review 12/11/2020
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Covid and contact tracing
Another period of time of uncertainty with potential community transmission of covid. From RNZ, One of the community cases has no known link to managed isolation. Officials will provide more information in another briefing later today, expected to be about 5pm. The other community case…
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Some men just want to see the World burn
Normally when you lose an election you say nice things about the winner and make way for them. But is Trump doing this in the US of A? No sirree. The last thing that was seen of him publicly was his playing golf as the…
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Open mike 12/11/2020
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Daily review 11/11/2020
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COVID19 Vaccine and New Zealand’s K-Shaped Recovery
Just three days after the United States elections, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that they are seeking emergency clearance for a vaccine for Covid19, just 3 days after the United States elections. For Donald Trump that has to be the meanest piece of political timing…
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Open mike 11/11/2020
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