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Open mike 12/09/2021
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Dirty Politics does not work any more
Remember Dirty Politics? When information was fed to the Whaleoil blog which acted as a pipeline of crap to the media and good people were smeared for political advantage? It worked well for a while. It is one of the strangest experiences of my political…
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Is this the post Covid world?
Just as we did with travel security after 9/11, we are about to get our next set of global regulations to control crisis. United States President Biden has unveiled a COVID-world plan which directs the Labor Department to require all Federal workers and large businesses…
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Open mike 11/09/2021
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Daily review 10/09/2021
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Open mike 10/09/2021
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Daily review 09/09/2021
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Until all of us are safe none of us are safe
On Monday of this week David Seymour received a roasting after posting a confidential Health code that was to be used by Waitakere Whanau to receive priority vaccination slots. At the time there were two possibilities: It was a brain fart by a junior staffer…
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Open mike 09/09/2021
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Daily review 08/09/2021
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New Zealand Superconductors
Just to note a little sadness at the sale of New Zealand’s High Temperature Superconductor business out of Scott Technology (a robotics specialist company based in Dunedin sold to a Brazilian meat company a few years back). It’s gone to a limited partnership comprised of…
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Hospo resilience: pairing covid response and climate action
I've been holding off on writing anything too heavy in the past few weeks, because it seemed like we've all had enough going on. But then I started watching the bigger picture flow of news and heard in passing today about the cost of flood…
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Open mike 08/09/2021
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Daily review 07/09/2021
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Terrorist attack – Law changes may not have helped deal
The person who attacked and injured seven people in Lynn Mall this week and who was then killed has been named. I have added his name to the banned list of words. Just as with the Christchurch mosque terrorist I think it best not to…
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Open mike 07/09/2021
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Daily review 06/09/2021
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Seymour undermines vaccine roll out for Maori
The Government is rightfully concerned about the take up of Covid vaccines by Maori. Recent figures suggest that in the previous week during a surge in vaccinations one in seven kiwis received a jab. But for Maori the figure was one in 11. The reason…
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Open mike 06/09/2021
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