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Daily review 22/09/2026
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Steve Braunias was at the launch of Nicky Hager’s new book Dirty Work: Taxpayers Union and New Zealand’s hard right [by dirty people].
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/22/live-updates-the-nicky-hager-bombshell-if-it-is-a-bombshell/
This Friday, people should down tools from 9-5
"so say we all"
Does that include doctors, nurses, sanitation and electrical workers?
what normally happens during a strike?
The strikers get to feel superior, while their lives and civilization continue to be supported by the essential workers doing their jobs.
Cattle to feed, calves to drench and spread out.
Do you employ them, or they employ you?
They employ me,
Rob Campbell on Newsroom describes the Greens as having a coherent and economically mature economic policy that stands up well against the Nats and Labour, using the supermarket debate as an example.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/09/21/national-and-labour-spooked-by-greens-economic-coherence/
To help better sell the policy, the Greens needed to produce a certified financial savings estimate.
Further, the Greens should have hired a big-wig from the sector to act as their lead consultant.
Bringing a prominent sector expert or industry big-wig onto the team to help co-present a policy is a highly effective strategy for political parties.
It instantly builds credibility and counteracts criticism that the policy is unworkable or purely ideological.
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I wrote the other day about mandatory testosterone testing in the US for male defense personnel.
Women get to be tested too.
‘For women, the guidance…calls for screening for fatigue and disrupted menstrual cycles that can be associated with hormonal dysregulation and conditions called low-energy availability and relative energy deficiency in sport…[with] guidelines for when it is appropriate to prescribe off-label testosterone in women, namely for postmenopausal women with unusually low sexual desire.’
What is going on here?
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-pentagon-issues-clinical-guidelines-troop-testosterone-screening-start-2026-09-02/
‘Doctors…[say] there is little evidence that universal screening for low testosterone among military personnel would improve U.S. combat readiness.’
Reminiscent of scenes from Dr Strangelove – replenishing our precious bodily fluids