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Open Mike 13/09/2026
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City Rail Link Is Really About Workers
Plenty of politicians will seek credit when it opens, but none of them will have lifted a spade. The reason New Zealand’s largest infrastructure project exists is because over 1700 workers actually built it. After many years of planning, designing and funding arrangements were locked…
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Open Mike 12/09/2026
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Daily review 11/09/2026
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The fatal friend
Henry Kissinger is reported to have said "it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." Australia should take note, enmeshed as it is with US bases. The fallout may affect us too. A recent report in The Guardian…
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Why does National despise the poor?
Two recent events reinforce an overwhelming impression that National despises poor people. The first is news that the MSD thinks that food is a nice to have and not an essential need. Yep read that again. This is how much we have descended into this…
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The robots are coming to get us
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Watching the latest Artificial Intelligence alarm event unfolding this week: an increasing number of AI developers are speaking out about the potential for AI to become autonomous…
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Open Mike 11/09/2026
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Daily review 10/09/2026
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Open Mike 10/09/2026
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Daily review 09/09/2026
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Open Mike 09/09/2026
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Taxpayers Union hides its funding
Looks like the Taxpayers Union has now gone offline so that we have no idea where its funding came from. Because it claimed, without justification, that it was a democratic organisation with a commitment to the public good, and so it registered as an incorporated…
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Daily review 08/09/2026
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Labour to accelerate climate action
Press release from the Labour Party website. ______________________________________________________ A Labour government will fix the broken Emissions Trading Scheme as an urgent priority. “New Zealand should be showing climate leadership; not going backwards as Christopher Luxon’s Government has done,” said Labour leader Chris Hipkins. “The ETS…
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The Right is winning the bullshit media narrative
Last weekend saw a continuation of right wing parties coming out with inane policy announcements that make a media splash without any hard questions being asked. NZ First came up with a typical dog whistle proposal that only citizens should receive superannuation. I know quite…
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Open Mike 08/09/2026
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Daily review 07/09/2026
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Open Mike 07/09/2026
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