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Comment on Open Mike 26/09/2026
Reading Gwynne on Ukraine there are some pithy details that could apply here. https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/ukraine-democracy-and-corruption/ This year’s premier outrage featured people connected to the state-owned nuclear power company who misappropriated $ …
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Comment on Open Mike 26/09/2026
Climate – I have been forgetting to look at what Gwynne Dyer’s usual balanced critiques have been about. This is from Sept.2. https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/climate-no-good-outcomes/ …Zeke Hausfather, a leading American climate scientist, warns that 2027 is …
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Comment on Open Mike 26/09/2026
Hear, hear call all the sentient audience about The Grande Olde Man Win-at-all-costs Peters. I hope there was some reliable ‘retainer’ keeping an eye on Our Boat from a nearby hotel in Singapore. Any word on the best mid-price restaurants?
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Comment on Daily review 25/09/2026
Thoughtful comment concerning AI by philosopher Martin LeFevre. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00055/why-american-think-tanks-are-hamstrung-in-the-face-of-trumps-authoritarianism.htm Summary first: Such critically-minded “dialogues with AI” …
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Comment on Open Mike 26/09/2026
I recall an HRF Keating title, ‘Bribery, Corruption Also’. I think we are capable of following that story.
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Thanks tWig. I’m getting overwhelmed by information and learning, then watching events that shouldn’t be happening if people in charge had read and understood the stuff I’m reading which has been available to them all the time. I am fearing that we are in …
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Oh I wish for those days again and to go along the path less travelled. A bit more dithering would have been better than Rogercomics fast track method. If we only took more time to stand and stare eh, then would we be in another wood. The Road Not Taken by …
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Were there taxes in those places where usury wasn’t used? And if so what? Is there a quick way of finding out? I’m tempted to think we might ask AI though I am wary of it.
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Leave antisemitism out of the lexicon. It’s such a common word that Israelis and their ilk apply like a bludgeon. It was a word that got bent to become a tool for discontent in the 18th century and study by philosophers and others (who would have been …
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
NZ Post management are disgusting and fully in line with those who have rearranged our community and country systems to limit or destroy them. Time for a song – Elvis Presley sings about this in the USA ‘Return to Sender’ – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= …
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
@Anne Sounds horrid!
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Judith C is apparently well thought of with her ability to rise like a champagne cork. She stands tall amongst other upright women: https://globalwomen.org.nz/welcome-to-our-new-global-women-members-for-june-2026/
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
The rich are getting richer, faster at the top. And the poor are getting poorer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SeOxklwss ‘We are Living under Mr Burns’ by Unlearning Economics This below sounds like a thoughtful review of finances. Then I thought of …
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Wigram is where my dead birth father trained for his Air Force wings, came down and buried in France 1944. Now we like Germany, are at war again, against the cold-blooded callous regime of advanced tech, monetarism and neoliberalism; another world war in …
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Comment on National’s LNG terminal tax is on hold (for the moment).
That should read ‘hair-brained schemes’. As in image accompanying Mermaid No.1. See – On Track: https://thestandard.nz/open-mike-25-09-2026/#comment-2073683
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
ts I think you and Belladonna have milked the book cow dry. What helpful comments can you make about getting a citizen oriented and NZ-loving government for next term?
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Comment on Open Mike 25/09/2026
Mercurio you are again on point, not dotty like some.
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Comment on Daily review 24/09/2026
Drawing on AI considerations about aspects of the USA political theatre. Testing, interesting. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00055/why-american-think-tanks-are-hamstrung-in-the-face-of-trumps-authoritarianism.htm This is well said : ‘Asymmetrical …
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Comment on Daily review 24/09/2026
Background for those interested. https://www.aberfeldyshipping.nz/about
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Comment on Daily review 24/09/2026
A promising daytime story: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2609/S00285/aberfeldy-coastal-shipping-launch-a-game-changer-for-nz-supply-chain.htm Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 2:12 pm Press Release: Maritime Union of New Zealand Aberfeldy Coastal Shipping …
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Comment on Unmasking the TaxPayers Union as the Tobacco Protection Union
Fortune Cookies – I think they would be a big money spinner for a keen little start-up by one of the innovative Left Parties. And there would be good lines in them from some of our wits. How about it? Would be sold by w-o-m not supermarkets.
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Comment on National’s LNG terminal tax is on hold (for the moment).
That is a fascinating comment Ad. It leaves an invisible question mark – what will be replacing the old energies? Can you give a link so we can follow this up. I’m wondering as I thought Germany had eschewed nuclear, and France has not. So there would be a …
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Comment on Open Mike 24/09/2026
I find it interesting to have info passed on to me that has turned up to someone else. I don’t think tWig that there should be sweeping condemnation because it doesn’t meet some long-held rules. Learning, thinking, encouraging each other, and practical …
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Comment on Open Mike 24/09/2026
NZ being over-run by mercantile obsessed rats? Continually driven by lust for money, affluence; prioritising power, style and wealth status. Trap them, deal to them, attempt to remoralise them, but never trust them completely again. It’s a sickness I think …
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Comment on Open Mike 24/09/2026
Another interest that Stanford might have in education PPP? Education in New Zealand https://www.education.govt.nz › education-professionals › schools-year-0-13 › attendance › attendance-services Attendance services – Ministry of Education Jul 20, 2026 …
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Comment on Open Mike 24/09/2026
Possibly it is a lack of final reading for sureness of message and facts. Fingers go one way while the mind is moving on to the next thing sometimes. So that might save us some confusion, helps me in my preparation.
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Comment on Open Mike 24/09/2026
@arkie x2
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Comment on Open Mike 24/09/2026
Stanford has some standing; is coming to Nelson for a joint meeting with Nut candidate here, Blair Cameron. I think Nits (Freudian slip – strange as Luxon has no hair), may be using her as a sort of mermaid.* This from Google for election watchers. (I am …
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Comment on Hager’s next book
It probably is connected with AirNZ why Luxon has a few spaces in his memory – it will result from the chemtrails causing an insidious decline in function.
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Comment on Open Mike 23/09/2026
A cool look at how things are going with the Left. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00054/on-the-nicky-hager-book-political-donations-and-another-fine-mess-from-chris-hipkins.htm