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Open mike 27/10/2024
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Act’s revenge on the Waitangi Tribunal
The Waitangi Tribunal plays an important role in our constitution. It is comparable to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Forum, established to allow the country to confront the ugliness of its past and then move on. The Waitangi Tribunal's various reports detail the history of…
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Open mike 26/10/2024
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Daily review 25/10/2024
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US is spending $28 billion to colonise your brain
Whoever owns the narrative owns the world – and things just got a lot tougher for those of us opposed to the metastasizing brain cancer known as US influence campaigns – or “perception management”. In a staggering increase in funding for propaganda and covert action…
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David Seymour Chooses School Lunches Provider With Questionable Record: Listeria, Horse Meat & Poor Quality
Reprinted from Mountain Tui Substack post Yesterday, I looked into Seymour’s school lunch provider and found out it was Compass Group - a group that has had a long list of food quality issues and settled out of court for corruption and bribery of officials.…
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Is the Epsom seat goneburger?
Statistics NZ has released its analysis on the number of electorates for the next election and the results are going to cause anguish to those who think they have a god given right to remain in Parliament. Something unusual has happened. The South Island population…
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Open mike 25/10/2024
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Daily review 24/10/2024
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Auckland Entrust Election – today is the last day
If you're in Auckland and are the first named electricity holder for a household power account, then you should be able to vote in the Entrust election. But you will have to post TODAY. The damn election got around 9% turnout last time, so putting…
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Tobacco product investigation is requested and warranted
Welcome news from yesterday was the request to the Auditor General under the Public Audit Act on the arbitrary and unsupported by evidence decisions on tobacco products by the Customs Minister Casey Costello. As the request stated, Labour's health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall had reached the…
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10,000 across the country meet to push back against government policies (PHOTOS)
We are Stronger Together Thank you to all who shared photos and the experience, as well as to the union organisers. It’s not easy to put together a protest and for so many to show up on a work day.
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Open mike 24/10/2024
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Daily review 23/10/2024
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Notice: Protest Locations Today
Today is the union protest day. A few of us explored a health privatisation protest which I felt would be positive, but the logistics and resources available to us was miniscule - and after some discussion, we felt joining the union one was best and…
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Open mike 23/10/2024
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Daily review 22/10/2024
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Government succumbs to Sensible Sentencing Trust pressure and makes Three Strikes Bill worse
You have to hand it to this Government, it is utterly predictable. Faced with a barrage of problems from the Health Crisis to a potential Auditor General investigation into Casey Costello's links to Philip Morris to Andrew Bayly suggesting that he thinks ordinary workers are…
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Open mike 22/10/2024
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Luxon Tells The World Andrew Bayly Lied
This is an excerpt from the Mountain Tui substack post In today’s press conference, Christopher Luxon re-affirmed his government’s commitment to bringing back the live animal export ban: claiming that National will do it to a “gold standard”. Heard of that term before? Well lobbyists…
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Daily review 21/10/2024
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Doomed?
“We’re doomed” was Private Frazer’s inevitable response to any crisis in “Dad’s Army”. It echoes the Aberdonian farmer in “England, their England”, who thought it was just conceivably possible that a man of exceptionally powerful brain might be able to imagine a state of things…
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Open mike 21/10/2024
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