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Open mike 03/06/2016
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Vaccines DO Cause Autism Shock!
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Daily Review 02/06/2016
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Why not just – build some damn houses?
Today the Nats released a National Policy Statment (NPS) on housing - New policy to require Auckland Council to open up land for housing: Auckland Council will be required by law to open up enough land to build houses for its rapidly-increasing population under a…
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Is the petro world in decline?
A few articles have caught my eye about a decline in the influence of petro-states and petro-multinationals. A little quote to start, about energy economy shifts undercutting nations such as Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia: There Will be Mahem: Petro-States Are Going Down and…
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Glorifying ignorance (and why the death of the MSM won’t be all bad)
Most days I'm concerned about the state of the media in NZ and its important but changing role in the democratic process. But some days, occasionally, I think we should just let it all burn down, and toast marshmallows. Yesterday was such a day. I…
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Strategic Arse Elbow
Today this government shows terminal symptoms of Strategic Arse Elbow (SAE). Going in the one direction, this morning at 10am the Prime Minister launches construction of the City Rail Link. New Zealand’s largest-ever infrastructure project, it’s going to revolutionize rail travel in Auckland, and provide…
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Open mike 02/06/2016
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Stick a Fork in Him, He’s Dunne
The surprise announcement of a working arrangement between Labour and the Greens has major implications for the National Party's parliamentary lapdogs. The biggest loser is obviously Peter Dunne who is going to be an ex MP if the Green Party don't stand a candidate in…
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Daily Review 01/06/2016
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Key’s housing plan “moronic”
On RNZ today - PM's housing plan moronic - economist Prime Minister John Key's suggestion that Auckland Council could be forced to free up more land for housing whenever homes became unaffordable in the city is already being criticised as misguided and unlikely to help…
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Progress on plain packaging
Sometimes - very occasionally - this government gets something right: Govt to roll out plain packaging on cigarettes Nearly a week after hitting smokers in the pocket with increased taxes, the Government will roll out a second hit tomorrow [yesterday], this time aimed at tobacco…
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Why is it that?
https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/737494908248817665 Why is it that whenever some sort of deal with Labour and the Greens is raised publicly some commentators say it is the death knell for Labour's chances at the next election? The rationale seems to be that the Greens are a bunch of wide…
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Waking up to the realities of neoliberalism and austerity
Even the IMF now acknowledges the downsides of neoliberal economics and government austerity policies. In a significant new report IMF economists write: Neoliberalism: Oversold? Instead of delivering growth, some neoliberal policies have increased inequality, in turn jeopardizing durable expansion ... There has been a strong…
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Open mike 01/06/2016
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Daily Review 31/05/2016
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Labour Green announcement – working together to change the government
https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/737480060186152962 https://twitter.com/patrickgowernz/status/737480433483423745 I very much hope that Gower is right - let's wait and see... https://twitter.com/ChrisBramwell/status/737483202000883715 Livestream here. Little: A memorandum of understanding - Labour and Greens to work together to change the government. Inspired by last week's failed budget. Labour and Greens have reached…
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Labour builds the houses (yet another Key lie)
Good work by Geoff Simmons at the Morgan Foundation: Fact check: John Key & Steven Joyce on housing In a speech on Friday, Prime Minister John Key claimed that under National, twice as many new houses were being built as under Labour. Steven Joyce followed…
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Family or Shopping?
National's Employment Minister Michael Woodhouse has introduced a Bill, The Shop Trading Hours Amendment Bill, to give councils the right to open shops on Easter Sunday. That would mean retail workers all over the country losing one of just three and a half days in…
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National party to be banned from future budget lockups
Well Oops - https://twitter.com/TheNBR/status/737118709081354241 Note that the wifi network and password to access budget resources are visible on the monitor and this was posted during the strict embargo period. Brilliant! Given recent events, Bernard Hickey was moved to observe - https://twitter.com/bernardchickey/status/737126634684174336 But It's OK because…
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Fine for fox to guard henhouse – says fox
Well they would, wouldn't they: Government rejects 'fox in the henhouse' criticism The Government is rejecting claims its monitoring of over-fishing has been compromised by awarding a contract for video surveillance to a company owned by the fishing industry. Greenpeace says cameras to be installed…
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A scene from the National War Cabinet in September 2014
News broke this morning about a major mistake by the Ministry of Social Development that caused the underpayment of benefits to tens of thousands of Kiwis. From Radio New Zealand: Almost 90,000 beneficiaries have been paid incorrectly, totalling millions of dollars, due to an automatic payment mistake…
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Open mike 31/05/2016
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Daily Review 30/05/2016
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Watkin on the Nats’ housing blame game
Excellent piece on Saturday from Tim Watkin at Pundit: Housing game-changer: Spreading the blame Housing remains the government's biggest weakness and so National is redoubling its efforts. No, not to build houses, but to contain the political damage I can't give you a precise day…
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Housing should not depend on charity – but this is an emergency
John Key's glib advice to the homeless is to go and see WINZ. This is a WINZ that (while no doubt containing caring individuals, as an institution) has been deliberately set up to be as slow, difficult and unpleasant to access as possible, and will…
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More Panama papers and other dirty money
One News has a scoop this morning: Panama Papers: Kiwi trust rules help exiled Kazakh leader keep luxury London mansion The details are complex and not likely to attract much excitement in NZ, but once again we have been shown to be involved in dirty…
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Open mike 30/05/2016
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Indigenous Perspectives
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe mother of three, environmentalist, indigenous rights’ activist, economist, writer and past two time vice-presidential candidate (with Ralph Nader). In a speech last year, LaDuke presented an overview of the key areas of expertise that indigenous peoples bring to the table.…
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