Daily Review 12/10/2018
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“Creating quagmires” – US policy in Syria
Things are coming to a head in Syria, with a key meeting on 7 August between Syria, Turkey and Russia to discuss future strategy re the Idlib enclave where terrorist groups have been concentrated. The US and its allies want to retain influence, having lost it to Russia. A shooting war based on a false flag is a real albeit disastrous possibility to maintain US “quagmire” policy in the Middle East to date.
Clare Curran Demoted
Clare Curran has been demoted after failing to properly account for a meeting with entrepreneur Derek Handley.
Daily Review 20/08/2018
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The Pied Piper
If we’re living in a global village, is the name of the village Hamelin?
China and Google
Google is planning a launch of its eponymous spectacular search engine in which it allows censorship from the Chinese state. Some U.S. politicians […]
The Benefit Arrives
Simon ‘Soimon’ Bridges calls his deputy by her critic’s favourite nickname. Cui bono, as the Romans used to say. Who benefits?
There’s nothing vague about National’s education policy announcement *
* according to Simon Bridges.
Caption contest
Keep it seemly …
Bridges and his cheerleaders
National is pulling out all stops to suggest that Simon Bridges is not so bad as a leader.
Unparliamentary Language
“His brain could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides”
The trade war
The speed of the growing trade war between the United States and China will hit New Zealand. Our long term diplomatic arc, such […]
Dotcom loses in the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has released its decision in the Kim Dotcom extradition case. The case has had a lot of resources thrown […]
Daily Review 05/07/2018
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The future of the left
Australian Guardian columnist Van Badham writes “the future of the left is bright if it looks like Jacinda Ardern and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes.” She concludes “We can hope the influence of Jacinda Ardern and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes spread, or we can ensure that it does. The stakes for the marginalised remain life and death.” Very worth a read.
Daily Review 28/06/2018
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Student Fees
Reposted from Nick Kelly’s Blog One of the big policies the NZ Labour Party took into the 2017 election was to start reintroducing free […]
It’s a girl!
Congratulations to Jacinda and Clarke on the birth of a girl!
Pulling Teeth For Poverty
Poverty is directly responsible for a growing number of people losing their teeth to decay. Adults unable to afford dental treatment are resorting to using pliers to extract their own teeth. Meanwhile, children as young as one are also losing their teeth. The numbers losing their teeth is phenomenal. During the 2015 and 2016 period alone over 29,000 children had teeth removed and over 6,600 children were hospitalised because of rotting teeth.
In defence of Eugenie Sage
Eugenie Sage has been criticised for granting OIO consent to the foreign buy out of a water bottling company and a piece of sensitive land. But from the looks of the details that have been released she may have had no choice.
Kiwis trust in Government surges
At the same time that business confidence is in negative territory overall trust in the Government has surged. Why is this?
Caption contest
Keep it seemly.
Donald Trump’s unusual diplomatic behaviour
Donald Trump has chosen to insult Canadian leader Justin Trudeau and buddy up to North Korean leader Kim Jon Un all in the same week.
Who gives a hooton about climate change?
Matthew Hooton and Fran O’Sullivan have claimed that the Government’s decision to ban off shore petroleum exploration is “Orwellian”, part of an attempt to divert attention from other issues, bad for the environment and bad for jobs. Are they right?
The Northcote by election
The Northcote election could be be extremely close.
lprent: Update. It was close. The preliminary results show a 1362 margin, reduced from about 6210 last election. The turnout was a bit under half of the previous election – not bad for a by-election.
Populism and population decline
As we enter the era of relative world wide population declines, we are are seeing populist movements trying to put the finger in the dike. The two are related. Big cities beset by congestion and housing issues as the young flood into them. Populistic movements driven from left-behind areas. Voting patterns show the distinct differences between the large urban centres and those in the declining regions.
Who Really is Judging the Poor?
Some conversations about poverty are harming those in need. Those conversations contribute to the stigma and shame experienced by struggling families, who are barely surviving, but still trying to maintain some dignity. As a result even those in need are differentiating between the deserving and undeserving poor.
Simon Bridges, the three strikes law and the Bill of Rights
National obviously desperately want to divert attention away from the Housing Corp methamphetamine fiasco. After five days of continuous bad news who can blame them.
It’s Time for a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Dairy Farming
Not just, ‘we’ve got to make the good outweigh the bad’. I mean: why should dairy farming exist here?
Doofus of the week – May 27, 2018
Lots of competition this week with Katie Hopkins preferring to be called a racist to being described as being on drugs, Judith Collins for fronting the most naff scandals in the last decade, and Simon Bridges for going on tour to strange places. But the real contest was between Paula Bennett and Gerry Brownlee …
Why is Mark Richardson such a Nimby and …?
Being a nimby is the least of Mark Richardson’s problems. His disguised hate speech is harmful to his victims and anyone else in need of help who are left feeling the shame imposed upon them by such careless dialogue.
Daily Review 24/05/2018
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Donald’s Desperation.
Whoever would have thought way back in 1967 that Sandy Shaw would nail the US’s foreign policy on Israel?
Bridges believes in trickle down
Simon Bridges has committed the twin political sins of not only believing in trickle down but in publicly confirming his belief.
Toby Manhire Owns Ms Bennett
Ms Bennett was trying to be smugly self righteous about how hard she worked as a Minister and by contrast how lazy Ardern […]
Daily Review 09/05/2018
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