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Daily review 27/10/2023
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National’s gang policy has no foundation
An early starter for the most ridiculous policy of the New Government has emerged. Mark Mitchell has proposed that gang members be required to apply foundation to their faces to hide gang insignia tatoos before going out in public. From Radio New Zealand: National's police…
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Open mike 27/10/2023
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Daily review 26/10/2023
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Let’s do the time warp again
I am not sure that an elderly person who clearly is forgetting things should be allowed access to his Twitter account, let alone the levers of power. But that is the situation we are currently in. Yesterday Winston Peters tweeted this: https://twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1717057201259577695 But dear reader…
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Open mike 26/10/2023
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Passing the buck on Gaza
The new government is leaving it to the old government to carry the ball on Gaza. Both governments have dropped it. The 5Eyes formula of "Israel's right to defend itself" does not extend any right to the indiscriminate bombing, and refusal to allow any water,…
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Daily review 25/10/2023
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Open mike 25/10/2023
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Daily review 24/10/2023
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Open mike 24/10/2023
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Don’t get angry, get organised
Happy Labour day everyone. This is a good day for progressives to reflect on the recent election result and to plan on countering the rather draconian plans this Government has talked about and to start planning for the next progressive Government. My father, who was…
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Open mike 23/10/2023
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Open mike 22/10/2023
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Open mike 21/10/2023
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Daily review 20/10/2023
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New Zealand’s response to the Palestine crisis
Palestine has been a weeping sore on the world's body politic for decades. In 2002 John Pilger released a documentary Palestine is still the issue and it starts with this passage: If we are to speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed … what has…
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Open mike 20/10/2023
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Daily review 19/10/2023
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Open mike 19/10/2023
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Daily review 18/10/2023
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Open mike 18/10/2023
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Daily review 17/10/2023
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Politics By The Armful
I’m going to show you what a large scale effective political act in a second hand store looked like recently. In case you haven’t heard of it, Wanaka Wastebuasters is set within a massive circular economy with all of Wanaka’s greenwaste shredded into heaped deep…
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How the special votes may work out
We are in an interesting phase and things are finely balanced between a National/Act destroy everything Government and a National/Act/NZ First muck everything up and destroy quite a bit Government. There has been some talk about special votes. Generally these favour the left. In 2014…
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NZ Election result
Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog On Saturday Labour lost of General Election in New Zealand. Whilst there are special votes still to count, which make up roughly 20% of total votes cast in this election (including this author who voted from London), these will…
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Open mike 17/10/2023
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Daily review 16/10/2023
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The long wait
As it stands right now with the indecisive election result, we're probably going to have a caretaker government for some time. The election results happen after counting the special votes locally, from other countries, and from places like Antarctica and military missions. The election results…
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Open mike 16/10/2023
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