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Open mike 16/02/2020
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How To Get There 16/02/20
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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What was Winston thinking?
I have never been a big fan of NZ First. Occasionally they come out with good ideas. Most of the time they resemble a bunch of swaggering wide boys. They have held back the Government from following really progressive action on poverty reduction. But they…
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Open mike 15/02/2020
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Daily review 14/02/2020
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The demise of single use plastic bags and the limp vege problem
The rapid demise of the single use plastic bag has just left one hole in my life. I haven't (so far) been able to replace the one and only second life use that I ever found for them. They were great at keeping the broccoli…
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China: Guns, Germs, and Steel
The coronavirus outbreak that exploded three weeks ago in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has prompted the most severe Chinese government actions in three decades. Cities are closed down, transport links broken, and tens of millions of people effectively quarantined. At a time when…
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The problem with opinion polls
Colmar Brunton released a poll result last night. The results were quite different to the recent Reid Research poll and were remarkably stable to the last Colmar Brunton poll which was conducted last November. The Reid Research Poll had National at 43.3% and Labour on…
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Open mike 14/02/2020
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Daily review 13/02/2020
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Climate and food security: annual cropping vs regenerative agriculture
This popped up in my twitter feed last night. It's some research published in October 2019 looking at the risks of multiple crop failures as the planet moves between 1.5C and 2C global warming increase. https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1227166109624938497 First the bad news then the good news. From…
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Fact checking National
I can see this becoming a regular post. Checking up on the accuracy of National's advertising and pointing out the most egregiously inaccurate examples. Yesterday Bridges was schooled in Parliament by Jacinda Ardern. If it was a boxing competition they would have called it off…
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Open mike 13/02/2020
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Daily review 12/02/2020
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Bridges’ many and varied positions on coalition with NZ First
Help my head hurts. Just over a week ago Simon Bridges ruled out working with NZ First after the next election. From Henry Cooke at Stuff: National leader Simon Bridges has ruled out working with NZ First after this year’s election, telling voters he can’t…
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Open mike 12/02/2020
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Daily review 11/02/2020
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Will the last remaining National MP please turn off the lights
Three more National Party MPs have announced their pending retirement from politics. David Carter was not a surprise. He has been list only and it was easy for him to go. Nicky Wagner was also not a surprise. Her heart has not been in it…
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Will DPF condemn National for hiding the identity of its donors?
There is this humdinger of a post by David Farrar about breaches of electoral law relating to donations. He says this: I blogged a few days ago that there was almost no doubt that electoral donation laws had been broken, and the only question was…
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Open mike 11/02/2020
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Daily review 10/02/2020
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This result could lead to the break up of the United Kingdom
On the June 23 2016, Dad and I were driving back to San Francisco from Sacramento, where we’d visited our relatives. We were fairly late, so had on US public radio to help keep us awake for the drive back to our motel. In the…
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Open mike 10/02/2020
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