The Obama 'Hope' inspired Weston Frizzell poster of Jacinda Ardern has been referred to the Electoral Commission. The poster has been pasted in several urban areas. It's a stylised version of the PM, accompanied with the entirely appropriate te reo word "AROHA". It's magnificent. It…
So POTUS thought he should hold a rally. The organisation of the rally was not pristine because he, I am sure accidentally, created the impression he was trying to appear to be a racist Nazi. He wanted to hold his rally on Juneteenth, the date…
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Is it time to completely rethink how we deal with unemployment? We face a tsunami of job losses not seen in generations. The damage could be immense, especially if the devastation of people, regions and entire communities becomes entrenched. Many still haven’t recovered from the…
A policeman has died and another has been seriously wounded in an incident in the suburb of Massey, West Auckland. It appears it was a routine traffic stop and there was no reason for the Police personnel involved to think it would end any differently…
Despite downbeat economic predictions and an imminent global recession, the New Zealand recovery offers opportunities for entrepreneurial success that exceed anything we've seen for decades. According to the collected data released by the New Zealand Treasury, many of our key markets are currently faring better…
Gee those National dissidents know how to leak. The Herald has run this interesting story about how Todd Muller's office had to get a safe cracker to open a safe previously used by Simon Bridges. From David Fisher at the Herald: When Todd Muller took…
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The tale of the two women who received compassionate leave to visit a close relative after a relative had died but who were not tested before being let out of quarantine and then found to be Covid infected is at the centre of news today.…
BP yesterday sent a really big message that effectively now, Covid-19 is the break that tips the world away from oil dependence. They advised investors that the economic shock of the pandemic would reverberate for years, and that less oil and gas would likely be needed.…
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So our outstanding daily run of ducks for new Covid infections was broken yesterday after it was reported that two visitors, here for the death of a family member, tested positive. This brings into stark relief a debate that happened just over a month ago. …
The most interesting news overnight was that of a viable treatment for severe cases of auto-immune reactions to a covid-19 infection. This treatment has a significiant effect in reducing the bodies over-reactions to the disease. From the BBC world... The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is…
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In politics there are two general theories, the conspiracy theory where events are the result of deep Machiavellian planning, and the f*ck up theory where things just happen because of human stuff ups. Often the f*ck up theory is the real reason behind random events…
National is upset. Very upset. Because the Government has been engaged in something that is very dastardly and very unfair. What is this dastardly unfairness you ask? Apparently a Government social media account, the unite for recovery instagram account, followed Jacinda Ardern. From what I…
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Some great people are going to be new MPs in less than 100 days! With recent polls suggesting Labour are on track for an outright win in the September election under the amazing leadership of Jacinda Ardern, a lot of new faces are going to…
It looks to me like we're about to see a second wave of infections in the US digging deeper into the smaller cities and regions. I'm expecting to see the same kind of thing to happen in other countries. But for the moment a focus…
We are going to see towns die from this economic disaster we are in. For three decades tourism has been the great tidal surge that has made many otherwise spiralling towns stablise, and in some cases expand. Since international travel on any scale will not…
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