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Open mike 17/02/2021
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Open mike 16/02/2021
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Life Without Mainstreet
Most of us have grown up where at the end of the working week, you head down to your town's main street and hang out. What will become of our towns and cities without it? There are still a few centres in New Zealand where…
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Open mike 15/02/2021
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Ending discrimination against Māori wards
The Māori Affairs select committee is currently hearing submissions on the Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill. The intent of the bill is to do away with the discriminatory feature of the Local Electoral Act 2001 which allows electors, with enough signatures,…
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Will Technology Solve Climate Change?
This recent essay from Powerdown author Richard Heinberg, states the dilemma in which we find ourselves in the clearest and most succinct and well argued form I have seen: to prevent global catastrophe from climate change and the concurrent ecological crises, we have to drop…
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Open mike 14/02/2021
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Pandemic to endemic covid-19
Back in May, I wrote a post "Covid-19: may be endemic" in which I said Like measles, covid-19 could become endemic. Never dying out entirely. Needing to be controlled in human denser populations into the indefinite future.The Standard: "Covid-19: may be endemic" and That is…
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Open mike 13/02/2021
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Managed isolation cleaners should be paid a living wage
There is a group of workers in Aotearoa New Zealand whose jobs are potentially more important than director general of health Ashley Blomfield in terms of keeping us safe from Covid. They are the cleaners of the hotels where managed isolation occurs. Every day their…
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Not wearing ties bad, denigrating MPs and breaching Standing Orders fine
Another day and social media tragics of all political persuasions are watching National's latest efforts and scratching our heads and wondering what they are doing. Two days ago Parliament's Standing Orders Committee met and by a distinct majority decided that the compulsory tie wearing rule for…
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Open mike 12/02/2021
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We Must Resist China
For the past four years, the region of Xinjiang in Northwest China has witnessed the largest forced incarceration of an ethno-religious minority anywhere in the world since the Second World War. Upwards of one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into internment…
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Open mike 11/02/2021
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Elizabeth Kerekere take a bow
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Parliament’s tie issue
This is a weird issue for the Maori Party to get ready to die in a ditch about. Having one of your two MPs being silenced in the people's chamber for not wearing a decorative strip of material around your neck when all other males…
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No Right Turn: Climate Change: Legal actions
No Right Turn wrote last week: The Auckland Council will soon be consulting on a Regional Land Transport Plan, setting their transport priorities (and funding) for the next decade. Obviously, this will have a huge impact on the city's emissions profile. And to make sure…
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Open mike 10/02/2021
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WTF were you thinking Air New Zealand?
There is a particularly brutal war happening in Yemen in the Middle East. Yemen is next door to Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Government has taken a keen interest in doing what it can to affect the result of the war. The Guardian has this…
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Open mike 09/02/2021
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Open mike 08/02/2021
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President Biden Reaches Out To Prime Minister Ardern
No good citizen in their right mind would want to see democracy further eroded in the United States of America. Cold cash and mercantilist in all levels of political process have lowered - shall we say Trumped - how the United States is perceived internationally.…
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Escape Velocity
In this series so far I've examined three of the four terms in the Kaya Identity, population, economic intensity, and energy intensity. It can be conclusively shown that none of these factors can be reduced sufficiently to reduce CO2 emissions to zero - or even…
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Open mike 07/02/2021
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Uyghur allegation escalation?
Radio New Zealand carried a long story this week from the BBC of rape allegations in Xinjiang based on accounts from two Uyghur women Tursunay Ziawudun and Gulzira Auelkhan. Independent analyst Bernhard at Moonofalabama asks the question "Why do these Uyghur witnesses stories constantly change?…
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Simon Bridges, Conversion Therapy and free speech
There is this appalling practice engaged in by some religious conservatives called conversion therapy. It is based on the premise that homosexuality is not a normal status for some, but is a condition that can be cured. All that is required is sufficient psychological, physical,…
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Open mike 06/02/2021
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Open mike 05/02/2021
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Reasons to abandon NZ’s Five-Eyed Folly
Wayne Brown's suggestion "Is it time to sell our seat on FiveEyes?" is from someone well placed by experience to form an educated opinion. “Trade sanctions of the type Australia is facing are a weapon used by both USA and China. So let’s have a…
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Paora Goldsmith, Māori history and identity politics
Holy hell. Does anyone in National Party land vet their MP's media? Because they are coming out with the most outlandishly stupid stuff. Like Paora Goldsmith who thinks that as part of New Zealand history our kids should be educated about how Smith and Caugheys…