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The Romans developed an early algorithm to keep the plebs under control through offering bread and circuses. These tactics aimed to distract the people from burning socio-economic and therefore thorny political issues and occupy their minds with the thrills and frills of spectacles. The emperor…
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The Herald may have to reconsider the awarding of Chris Bishop of the mantle of being the politician of the year. Because he has just had his arse handed to him by Christopher Luxon who has reversed Bishop's proposed Plan Change 120 allowing for significant…
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If you want to understand what’s going on in Iran, abandon what the Persians invented centuries ago: Manichaeism. We use the term today to denote political framing which is simplistic, black-and-white, two-dimensional – a world of Angels (us) and Demons (them). This article recognizes multiple…
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The attack on the NZ Reserve Bank is lock step with Trump. New Zealanders used to expect that if you got into real trouble there were true nodes of resistance to power. Somewhere you could turn to help you stand up to them. Now look…
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There's a really big merger in the state sector happening now. The merger of many functions of the central public sector concerned with cities, the environment, housing and urban development, and transport, was announced in the week before Christmas and is now underway. There's plenty of…
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The United States of America is in a strange place. Just this year: Trump has ordered without Congressional authority the invasion of Venezuela. He continues to make threats to annex Greenland which has resulted in the extraordinary response of Germany and other European nations planning…
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Luxon is back at work now. Only joking. The Prime Minister, who recently told RNZ that he is “working from home”, another "not-your-entitlement" that he is entitled to, has ordered his social team to up the socials, posting about his wedding anniversary and the latest,…
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