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Open mike 25/08/2019
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How To Get There 25/8/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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RIP David Koch
US Billionaire David Koch, the man possibly most responsible for the growth of climate change denialism, the tea party, the war on poor people and the election of Donald Trump, has died. The internet is responding appropriately as comment after comment about the real accomplishments…
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Open mike 24/08/2019
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Daily review 23/08/2019
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100 Days of climate vigil
Awesome dad activist Ollie Langridge is celebrating the hundredth day of his vigil on climate change at parliament. https://www.facebook.com/667182190378555/videos/521943801884966/ Some Members of Parliament are insisting on being on the wrong side of history, and all of life, by again rejecting the call for the…
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I agree with Heather
I suspect that Heather Du Plessis Allan may be off National's christmas card list. Because she has been pointing out some rather inconvenient truths. Like how National has made the leaking of sensitive information an art form. And she has squarely placed the leaking of…
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Kill us now, or choose life.
Ten seconds of Peak Greenwash that have got me all ranty, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frkw6aurVUY#t=1m03s https://twitter.com/jose_miguel_fdz/status/1164037111743275008 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1162741706053312512 We will not be able to eat electric cars, or breathe them. This shit has to stop and it needs us to make it stop. Greenwashed BAU is a death trap.…
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Open mike 23/08/2019
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Daily review 22/08/2019
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Protect Ihumātao hīkoi to Jacinda Ardern today
https://twitter.com/protectihumatao/status/1163646331467886592 Sign the petition here. Protect Ihumātao hope to get the number of signatures to 30,000 by the end of the hīkoi today. FB Video of the start of the Ihumātao hīkoi this morning, Other FB livestreams on the Protect Ihumātao FB page.RadioNZ report,…
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Labour and welfare
During the election campaign in 2017 it became a concern that despite Labour's stated intention that all New Zealanders deserved to live with dignity and be free from poverty, their approach to welfare was that there would be certain New Zealanders who would be sacrificed…
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Open mike 22/08/2019
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Talk is cheap Tamihere
I am really not a fan of political candidates bullshitting that they and only they can get the unachievable in politics. John Tamihere - candidate for Auckland city Mayor, is just the epitome of this kind of blowhard. Politically over many years, he has been…
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Daily review 21/08/2019
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Police and computers: incompetent or just unbalanced?
I've just been reading the decision by the IPCA on the botched and quite illegally obtained warrants for a search of Nicky Hager's house and belongings, and the unwarranted searches of his accounts with various businesses. The whole process in this investigation just stinks. It…
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Open mike 21/08/2019
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Daily review 20/08/2019
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The Government’s prison reforms
Kelvin Davis, Andrew Little and the Maori caucus in the Labour Party are showing their mettle by proposing reforms to the prison system that are radical and which will no doubt incense the lauranorda brigade. Let's face it. The current system is not working. Our…
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What if there were only 34 31 more whitebait harvests left?
Three years ago I put up a post What if there were only 34 more whitebait harvests left? It was based on this graphic by freshwater fish expert Stella McQueen that suggests whitebait will be extinct by 2050. From the post, "We've seen this increase…
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Open mike 20/08/2019
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Daily review 19/08/2019
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Fonterra failure and Government failure
When the Clark-Cullen government formed Fonterra, they formed a Leviathan to stand astride its global markets and take on the might of the European and U.S. giants. That Labour-led government had ambition for New Zealand. Brian Easton noted in a 2016 paper to the Fabian…
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Open mike 19/08/2019
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