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Written By: Frank - Date published: 1:39 pm, August 12th, 2026
Whew He's kept his job. Thank the political gods!!Written By: Frank Macskasy - Date published: 12:02 pm, August 12th, 2026
The caucus meeting has been going since 9.30.That implies more than just a confidence vote. I'm thinking there's a new leadership vote taking place .Written By: Frank Macskasy - Date published: 3:57 pm, August 6th, 2026
Luxon is now so desperate that he is openly considering a nrew referendum on MMP, perhaps returning to FPP. Plus having a referendum on a possible 4 year Parliamentary term. This is ON TOP of voter suppression by removing same day enrollment/voting and ...
Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:28 pm, August 6th, 2026
An ongoing saga of guerilla warfare: info pirates vs control freak privateers. [deleted] My dreadlocked tech enabler was just here reconfiguring my printer that had decided it didn't feel like scanning today, and he told me what the site is good for. [I’ve ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:12 pm, August 6th, 2026
Yeah, I did a mental eye-roll listening to the newsreader announcing that. He's in panic mode. Any evidence of disapproval of MMP in recent years? Nope.Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 2:08 pm, August 6th, 2026
Even deeper than the economy is a sense of well-being, and I suspect it will be the primary driver this election, so well done for an exploratory essay into that. Skids are under Lux big-time, so the left can easily win without trying if the mood of the ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 6:49 am, August 6th, 2026
Left/right clusterfuck hits the big-time: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/russell-harrison-ministry-of-justice-under-review-boss-apologises-over-utterly-unacceptable-saga/ABMFSVTL4JEDXHJQOM46IDHFUU/ Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says former Lotto ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 5:56 am, August 6th, 2026
[Please leave for Incognito to deal with, thanks] https://thedailyblog.co.nz/why-i-am-willing-to-go-to-prison-tomorrow-for-free-speech/ You can't read it there now since the judge said any report of how he sees the situation is likely to be in contempt of ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:35 pm, August 5th, 2026
New media development: https://unherd.com/2026/08/the-slow-death-of-substack/ Last week, one of Substack’s most successful journalists, Taylor Lorenz, disclosed on Substack Notes (the platform’s micro-blogging stream) that her paid subscriptions had “ ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 6:59 pm, August 5th, 2026
... judgement [sic],” FSU chair Stephen Franks said in a statement. Franks said the act gave courts ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 1:14 pm, August 5th, 2026
Why do you keep ignoring warnings and instructions from the Mods here about this bad habit? Unintentional. Old age?? I apologise for any inconvenience. As regards whatever alterations Ghost made, could you or anyone else clarify any points salient to ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 9:55 am, August 5th, 2026
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/media-insider/media-insider-complainant-wants-apology-from-blogger-martyn-bradbury-but-hes-defiant-and-prepared-to-go-to-jail-on-basis-of-free-speech/premium/OXUZABQ2ABEUTINOLJPMODJATU/ Since I don't subscribe to the NZH ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 9:01 am, August 5th, 2026
Spare a thought for the poor arms manufacturers, struggling to get off life-support after decades of too much peace. T is doing his best to help: https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-used-virtually-all-its-long-range-precision-missiles-during-iran-war-2026 ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:34 am, August 5th, 2026
Farrar has made several good points on Bomber's situation here: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2026/08/bomber_bradbury_and_hdca.html#comments The HDCA is well-intentioned but flawed legislation. There have been quite a few cases where it has been used to ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:44 am, August 5th, 2026
Chloe had a word with Gerry. Now they disagree about what he said. Green co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick claims the Speaker has told her privately he has different standards for Winston Peters given his longevity as an MP. https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/ ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:33 pm, August 4th, 2026
Opportunists @ parity with NZF will get Winston motivated. He may tell Wong to get back where she came from.Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 7:14 pm, August 4th, 2026
Cat among pigeons...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 9:12 am, August 4th, 2026
His star chamber reference is historical, but he did mention a possible contempt of court finding. They reached the grey zone @ 16 mins which is good going. Watching 3 guys with even more facial hair than me was a change, so maybe there's hope for that ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 4:35 pm, August 3rd, 2026
State clampdown on the left, Bomber in court tomorrow: https://thedailyblog.co.nz/breaking-free-speech-issue-the-daily-blog-has-secretly-been-taken-to-court-and-im-facing-6months-in-prison-we-cant-tell-you-who-how-why-or-what/ TDB has been served legal ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 4:00 pm, August 3rd, 2026
The point is to learn from the collective resilience of the GP, correlate that with their methods of deciding collectively, and deduce the key principles of political collaboration. Likewise from citizens assembly working models and history. In my ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 3:34 pm, August 3rd, 2026
Leading-edge thinkers have been converging on a formula: status quo + shift. Apply that, you get to keep the system as it is (so sheeple don't stampede) as operating constraint, but you also provide a positive alternative to enable collaboration along with ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 12:46 pm, August 3rd, 2026
Cynicism also evident amongst youngsters: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/868515/things-are-screwed-anyway-why-try-youth-voter-enrolment-rate-plummets The enrolment rate for the country's youngest voters has plummeted to 53 %, sliding for a 6th ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 11:27 am, August 3rd, 2026
I suspect you're being overly cynical Comes with age & experience, unfortunately. Your advocacy for Labour is reasonable & I will try to be more dispassionate. Too bad that impressions form naturally however, and their behaviour may induce more of same...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 9:53 am, August 3rd, 2026
Dame Anne Salmond gets it: "Democratic reform is necessary, and urgent." System failure, red light on, siren blaring. Why? Political parties aren't calling for it. Party politics seems trivial, and pointless. Democracy has forced them into that state. ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:36 am, August 3rd, 2026
Best way to fix a dysfunctional entrenched binary stand-off is 3rd party leverage. An advisory upper house using public input along the lines of citizens assembly is still the way to go. That strategy empowers bodies of public opinion constructively. ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:29 am, August 3rd, 2026
Gotta be a good reason why he hasn't hit Pickaxe Mountain yet. Iran's defacto rulers likely to call his bluff though. We still have meagre evidence that the youngish Ayatollah is calling the shots but I read him as way smarter and more human than his dad, ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 8:23 am, August 3rd, 2026
does the Labour parliamentary elite have any theory of power at all? Behaviourism is all about determining human nature from how humans behave. If we examine Labour's political strategy, we get the impression that their priority is to present as small a ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 9:02 pm, August 2nd, 2026
Hi there Dave. You may recall us having a conversation or 2 during my 2nd stint in the GP a few years back. I agree with your sentiment here: "I think we need to have our complacency challenged by global realities." I felt that very strongly as a teenage ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 1:40 pm, August 2nd, 2026
Price is merely a symptom of the problem which originated in famous "reforms". Seems like a carefully-masked cartel operation: Household electricity costs have risen by around 177% since reforms in 1999 to New Zealand’s electricity industry, a consumer ...Written By: Dennis Frank - Date published: 12:32 pm, August 2nd, 2026
No, I meant Greens generally, not the current GP. Greens in my generation got their heads into the global view mid-'60s so the ethos was always extremely broad. That's why so many folk resonate with Green political thought even when not voting for the GP.
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