Regrets, John Key’s had a few *
or more accurately one. A failed vanity flag referendum.
Media
National’s strong economic management …
Between the crisis facing Middlemore Hospital’s buildings and the farce surrounding the cost of repairs of repairs of the Canterbury rebuild, National’s claim that it is a party of strong economic management looks at least misguided.
Open Mike 06/04/2018
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Daily Review 05/04/2018
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Tax is violence
Can we please now save David Seymour from his violent oppression and relieve him of his tax-funded salary?
Open Mike 05/04/2018
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Daily Review 04/04/2018
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Still in Denial.
General Tim Keating’s resignation.
Open Mike 04/04/2018
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Daily Review 03/04/2018
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This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
Make of this what you will.
The Largesse
April the first and second mark the days when those receiving entitlements receive a yearly increase in line with the CPI and the governments increase to Accommodation Supplement also comes into effect. So what does it all mean for those receiving entitlements?
Open Mike 03/04/2018
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Evidence-based foreign policy
In the second stage of a false flag attack, facts go out the window and the sole issue becomes “are you for us or against us.” Our media and National Party politicians are well into this stage in the Skripal affair. But as questions mount and skeptics proliferate from all sides, Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters may well be wiser than media advisers by not following blindly the western herd. 26 countries is not the whole world. Update: Porton Down unable to establish Novichok of Russian origin.
Hope – A powerful but dangerous tool.
Some interesting musings on hope and dashed hope by “Upper Hutt boy in London” – Nick Kelly.
Open Mike 02/04/2018
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Open Mike 01/04/2018
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The manufacturing of a narrative
The past week has seen the Herald focus on issues concerning Clare Curran to the almost exclusion of anything else, including the perilous state of our Health system and Kim Dotcom’s successful appeal against the last Government’s breach of his rights of privacy.
Love war, fear and hate.
Political power doesn’t respond well when those who are meant to be invisible decide to be visible.
Open Mike 31/03/2018
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NRT: A lawless multinational
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn on Facebook and the Privacy Commissioner.
Open Mike 30/03/2018
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Daily Review 29/03/2018
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Open Mike 29/03/2018
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Daily Review 28/03/2018
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Joyce may have been right about the Fiscal hole
Steven Joyce’s prediction of a $11.7 billion deficit in the Government’s finances may be true. But this is because the last Government has underfunded health and hidden problems.
Open Mike 28/03/2018
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Daily Review 27/03/2018
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An Orwellian Minister for Open Government
The Minister for Open Government has been caught organizing a secret meeting, and it has led to the resignation of an RNZ manager who covered for her. Is it time to kick Curran out?
Local Bodies: NZ Politics, a rocky road ahead.
Dave Kennedy at Local Bodies looks at the tough task ahead for Labour, and where retired MPs are landing.
Open Mike 27/03/2018
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Daily Review 26/03/2018
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overpopulation myth
Conversations on overpopulation are so often framed in a way that is racist and fail to acknowledge the unfair distribution and use of resources. With the added dimension of seeking to punish the poor for problems created by the economically secure.
Kiwibuild kicks off
The first big Kiwibuild announcement, 3 to 4,000 houses in Mt Albert has been made. And National has responded that it was all their idea and they did not want to announce it because it would be seen as pork barrelling.
Open Mike 26/03/2018
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Open Mike 25/03/2018
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