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Open mike 15/11/2020
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Open mike 14/11/2020
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Daily review 13/11/2020
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Capitalism’s end game
In Aotearoa New Zealand we are facing a new crisis. Not Covid, although the recent Auckland community case involving a young worker who did everything right and her manager who did everything wrong and will hopefully be prosecuted is another example of why we should…
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Open mike 13/11/2020
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Daily review 12/11/2020
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Covid and contact tracing
Another period of time of uncertainty with potential community transmission of covid. From RNZ, One of the community cases has no known link to managed isolation. Officials will provide more information in another briefing later today, expected to be about 5pm. The other community case…
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Some men just want to see the World burn
Normally when you lose an election you say nice things about the winner and make way for them. But is Trump doing this in the US of A? No sirree. The last thing that was seen of him publicly was his playing golf as the…
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Open mike 12/11/2020
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Daily review 11/11/2020
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COVID19 Vaccine and New Zealand’s K-Shaped Recovery
Just three days after the United States elections, Pfizer and BioNTech have announced that they are seeking emergency clearance for a vaccine for Covid19, just 3 days after the United States elections. For Donald Trump that has to be the meanest piece of political timing…
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Open mike 11/11/2020
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Daily review 10/11/2020
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What should the left make of the US election result?
What should we make of the election result? My responses as the results have rolled in have varied from fear to hope to optimism to happiness to what the f&*k happened? I am pleased, so pleased that Trump lost. But why was it even close? …
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Open mike 10/11/2020
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Daily review 09/11/2020
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A tsunami of wing clipped kiwi?
Liam Dann @ NZ Herald is reporting (paywalled) "Historic wave of returning Kiwis has just begun - new expat survey". The press release from KEA is here. The results of the survey are here. I'd just comment that this survey is effectively self-selected and more…
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Lawyers, guns and money
Over in the United States of America the country is descending into chaos. But so far the farcical type of chaos as opposed to the violent type of chaos and this is a good thing. Trump is refusing to concede and still claims that the…
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Open mike 09/11/2020
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