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New Zealand, like many other nations, is hurtling towards economic depression faster than Covid-19 spreads. “We are going to have a depression,” said Bernard Hickey, one of the country’s leading economic commentators. “This is like an asteroid hit the global economy.” “When you have gross…
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No doubt this blog will be full of comments today about David Clark. It has been revealed that he breached curfew a couple of weeks ago by travelling 20 kilometers to a beach with his family. His bike riding exercise I thought was marginal, this…
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The current leader of the National Party has been snapped driving from Wellington to Tauranga in defiance of the lockdown. Simon Bridges is the chair of the the Epidemic Response Committee, which meets each Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. While other MPs are joining the meeting…
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As a cool blue smudge appears on our morning horizon of a world beyond Stage 4 lockdown from Covid 19's effects, we can already see this kind of economic and social collapse is different to the last one of this scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9mLM1K3U2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0UW_j1A6x4 We're begining to…
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For those who haven't been keeping up with the news for the last few years, Bill and Melinda Gates have been plowing some of their wealth into mitigating and preventing epidemics over the last decade. Like the World Health Organisation and just about anyone with…
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I'm always intrigued at the capacity of most humans to be self-delusional in the way that they favour to believe regardless of facts. Nothing else could explain the delusional idiots like David Farrar and his mischievous minions like Sean Plunket and Heather du Plessis-Allan wanting…
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The Trump Administration's ability to astound and alienate appears to grow every day. I did not think that as time goes by I could think even worse of it. I mean where is rock bottom? How low can it go? But its recent Covid-19 measures…
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The country is haemorrhaging (bleeding and suffering) and the people are confused and fear for their jobs and the future (even) more than usual. It is not clear when the restrictions imposed on us will be lifted; they may even be extended. The Government is…
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A cabinet minister goes for a drive to have a ride on his bike during a lock-down that he's partly responsible for, and we're meant to just 'move on' off the back of a school boy level "Sorry Miss"? No. Fuck that. I live in…
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As is typical these days, I heard about the Bauer magazine closures by reading about them on social media. In this case from a post in SciBlogs by Sarah-Jane O'Connor. My initial reaction was shock because of the names of the publications - I have…
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Media companies are under real siege. When 30% of businesses are facing extinction media advertising is the first expense they are going to cut. Media companies that are just hanging in there will fold. Nothing is clearer. This post started off a couple of days…
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In the space of two short weeks, almost 10 million people in the USA have lost their jobs and health care coverage. Meanwhile, in less dire news, loan and credit card repayments are to be frozen for the next three months in the UK. Now,…
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Rather than go back to The Sugarbag Years or start quoting W. B. Sutch’s The Quest for Security at us, I thought I’d use an analogy. Nothing like a time so tough that you no longer take for granted the many programs, public facilities, and…
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Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: ____________________________________________________________________________ While the economy is on pause under lockdown, the government is beginning to plan how to cope with the post-lockdown, post-tourism, post-export education world we will eventually find ourselves in. They're planning a lot of infrastructure spending as…
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I've spent a large part of my life in dangerous environments, often for longish periods, with small groups of people. I get to stay home with my family, I can walk whenever I like, not just a half hour jog around the helideck once a…
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April Fool's day is one of those customs that seem to survive. Everyone is aware of it and the first thing that you do when you see an unusual news item on April 1 is to question its authenticity. Quite often it can be funny. …
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Shouldn’t this global shock from this COVID-19 virus make us all wake up to the power of collective global action on climate change? Well, the minor upsides are vastly outweighed by the bad on this question – so far as I can see. We do…
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A healthy democracy relies on a well-functioning Opposition whose job it is to hold the Government to account and to represent an alternative government (in waiting). Over the years, this has morphed into a dirty game of point scoring, which has undermined public trust in…
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In the interests of Covid-19 bi partisanship keep it especially seemly.
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The Council of Trade Unions has launched an online tool allowing employees to log complaints against ill treatment by employers during the Covid-19 lockdown. From Rob Stock at Stuff: The Council of Trade Unions has launched an online register for workers who have been shoddily-treated…
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Only three months ago our media were lauding the visit of total Tolkein obsessive and massive U.S. entertainer Stephen Colbert. Now the new Tolkein series is stopped and the studios shut for now. Along with all tourism completely. Tourism was until March 2020 New Zealand’s…
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