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Open mike 04/02/2021
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Open mike 03/02/2021
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Layers of Culpability
This post first appeared on Te Whare Whero The huge tyre fire near Amberley in North Canterbury last Friday is in an area with a high water table, extreme fire risk in summer, two kilometres from a town of 2000 residents, and on the edge…
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National is obsessed with dirty politics
Remember Dirty Politics? When John Key's office and Judith Collins used currently bankrupt Cameron Slater to smear and attack opponents of the government and used weaponised leaks to the media to gain political advantage? It seems they are still obsessed with it. This weekend they…
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Covid19 Vaccine Rollout and Global Inequality
This Covid19 global crisis will not be over for years. Dr Clare Wenham an assistant professor of global health at the London School of Economics, said the Covid 19 pandemic will not be over until the world's population is protected. "At the moment, the data…
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Open mike 02/02/2021
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Twelve months of living with Covid
A year ago the World Health Organisation declared that the coronavirus outbreak constituted a public health emergency of international concern, WHO's highest level of alarm. How much has changed since then. Before then reports were coming out of Wuhan China about the appearance of a…
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Open mike 01/02/2021
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Having a say on how NZ transitions to a post-carbon society
Tomorrow, the government's Climate Change Commission (an independent Crown Entity) is opening consultation for the first time on how New Zealand should meet its climate action obligations, We will be consulting with the public from 1 February - 14 March 2021 on a draft of our…
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Open mike 31/01/2021
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Trifold Politics and Boundaries
Over the past year I've outlined in the comments an alternative triplet political model to the standard left/right description that's the usual default. It's the default for a reason, it's simple and most of the time it's a 'good enough' approximation to reality, and nothing…
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Open mike 30/01/2021
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The fascinating story about when some redditors took on Wall Street
The world has been watching, mostly with amusement, as some redditors have brought a Wall Street merchant bank to its knees, by buying stocks in a company, GameStop who has seen better days and whose business model is antiquated. Members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit saw…
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UK COVID-19 death toll hits 100,000 and The PM offers an insincere apology.
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog In late March 2020, the medical director of the NHS Stephen Powis said that keeping the UK COVID-19 death toll to under 20,000 would be a good result. Ten months later, almost to the day, the UK's official death…
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Open mike 29/01/2021
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Who says cancel culture is a bad thing?
It may be that we have heard publicly from John Banks for the last time. If so this will be a good thing. The man harbours rather extreme racist views and has not improved with age. Decades ago Metro Magazine called him the most culturally…
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Open mike 28/01/2021
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Queue jumping the Covid vaccine rollout
The politics of Covid continues. There have been some attacks on the Government because of the latest example community infection. For me I am astounded there have not been more. Of course we should aim for perfection and we need to. But since March 2020…
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Open mike 27/01/2021
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Is New Zealand’s The Best Little Economy In The World?
This little video doing the Youtube rounds claims that New Zealand is the best-managed country in the world. And currently has one of the best economies. https://youtu.be/TlhUMFOBZHU Move aside Sweden. New Zealand is a safe, stable, consistent, peaceful place to live with your family, the…
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Open mike 26/01/2021
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Hong Kong arrests uncovering an ‘ugly plot?’
Retired Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal Judge Henry Litton raises some important questions about the motivations of the 53 would-be legislators recently arrested in Hong Kong. Five Eyes countries including New Zealand were quick to condemn the arrests, but Litton states their aim was…
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Scan, wash your hands and wear a freakin mask
Another case of Covid has appeared in the community. A 54 year old woman who lives south of Whangarei who returned overseas and went through quarantine has developed Covid after being released from quarantine. She may have the more contagious UK variant of the virus…
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Open mike 25/01/2021
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Both sides reporting in the time of Trump
You would think that after the Trump years the media would be turning away from the reporting of "both sides" of an issue and in many cases they are. For instance Stuff have pledged not to reproduce climate change denial statements, the science is now…
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Open mike 24/01/2021
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PM Ardern and President Biden as a comparison
On his first day in office, the 78-year old Joe Biden did the following: Required mask-wearing on Federal property Rejoined the World Health Organisation Set up a Covid19 Response office that reported directly to the President Extended foreclosure and eviction moratoriums Froze student debt collection…
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Frogs swimming in the heated pot
For me watching QAnon believers waver in their belief in their idiotic failed guru's 'plan' has as about the same interest value as seeing the US rectify its political mistake of 2016. Amusing short term entertainment. If you want more relevant short-term news, then recently…
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Are Revolutions A Good Idea?
Ok so we saw Trump's supporters storm the Senate for an afternoon. And the symbolic wrath they got in return was far greater than the massive and often violent burning and looting protests associated with Black Lives Matter for months on end. It's not unreasonable…
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What do you want our government to achieve on climate action in their first 100 days?
When the government proposed declaring a climate emergency in December last year, Jacinda Ardern said this, This declaration is an acknowledgment of the next generation: an acknowledgment of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and if we do…