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You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are Boys ….
Russians! Bloody tentacles are everywhere. No-one is safe. Nothing is beyond their reach. Run for the hills! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLZ_jujE63U
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Predator free NZ – how are we doing?
Forest and Bird remind us that... It has been 6 months since the announcement that New Zealand would be predator free by 2050 garnered worldwide attention. The clock is ticking, how are we doing? Back home, the focus has turned to how can we accomplish…
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Bill English thinks he was pro Springbok tour
Previous Prime Minister John Key could not recall what his views on the Springbok tour were, despite him being aged 19 at the time and despite it being the most dramatic local upheaval that had occurred in decades. My strong sense that his pronounced view…
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It Begins
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Open Mike 20/01/2017
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Power Up!
Back in 2008, Andrew Simms and Dr Viki Johnston worked out that we had about 100 months before it was no longer 'likely' that global average surface temperature increases could be held below 2 degrees centigrade. That was 100 months ago. Over that time, Andrew Simms has…
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Dodgy foreign trusts – will English take action?
Matt Nippert continued his excellent work on foreign trusts yesterday in The Herald: Jet, mansions figure in $232 million foreign trust case to be heard in Auckland court An Auckland courtroom will on Friday become a battleground over Manhattan penthouses and a private jet amid…
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The CIA files on NZ
As widely reported, the US has just released online 8000 documents (13 million pages) of declassified documents from the CIA. The records include UFO sightings and psychic experiments from the Stargate programme, which has long been of interest to conspiracy theorists. The move came after…
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Open Mike 19/01/2017
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100 Coal Fired Projects Scrapped.
China has just pulled the plug on 100 coal fired projects. This is on top of another 15 coal fired projects being scrapped or abandoned in September of last year. The country intends to cap coal powered electricity generation at 1 100 GW (still a…
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Obama orders early release of Chelsea Manning
In breaking news: Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday largely commuted the remaining prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the army intelligence analyst convicted of an enormous 2010 leak that revealed American military and diplomatic activities across the world,…
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Hard Brexit
Theresa May has finally set out some guidelines on the shape of Brexit: Prime minister vows to put final Brexit deal before parliament ... She said her government’s 12 priorities for crunch negotiations with the EU 27 meant Britain would: • Not be seeking membership of…
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The shame of homelessness
A rich old white idiot, who would only be amused at our anger, has vented about the homeless, in a piece that shouldn't be rewarded with our clicks. Businessman Sir Bob Jones wants begging made illegal, saying homeless people are mostly fat and a disgrace…
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Open Mike 18/01/2017
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Love Trumps Hate Festival Wn Sat 21
Civic Square, noon-2 pm, 21 January 2017 ‘Love trumps Hate’ Festival in Wellington to mark US Presidential Inauguration An occasion to celebrate democratic values and human rights will take place in Wellington to coincide with President-elect Trump’s inauguration on Saturday 21 January. Co-organiser Mark Derby…
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Labour Greens plan joint state of the nation
Labour and The Greens are planning a joint "state of the nation" event this Sunday. On Stuff: Labour and the Green Party will jointly lay out their agenda for 2017 at the first ever "state of the nation" event involving both parties. However there will…
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Powerdown
Recently we had a conversation in Open Mike about the Powerdown. There seemed to be a bit of misunderstanding about what that is, so here is an introduction. The Powerdown is a process where societies, in the face of climate change and resource depletion, choose to transition…
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Women to protest Trump’s inauguration
Various events are planned in protest around Trump's inauguration. One of them is a series of marches organised by and for women: SISTER MARCHES Sister Marches are solidarity events inspired by the Women's March on Washington, and organized by volunteers around the world. If you…
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Oxfam on world wealth inequality
Yesterday we posted on Oxfam's report on wealth inequaliy in NZ, "The country’s two wealthiest people own the same amount as the poorest 30 percent in New Zealand". Later that day the Oxfam report on the world situation was released: World's eight richest people have…
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How do we increase voter participation?
The health of our democracy continues its seemingly inexorable decline: Voter participation on decline despite MMP Outspoken - Victoria University academics are worried that despite the introduction of MMP 20 years ago voter participation in elections is continuing to decline. They said the country's democracy…
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Open Mike 17/01/2017
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Bradbury should be ashamed
With friends like this who on the left needs enemies? From Bomber Bradbury's blog: ... Andrew Little was the Leader of the EPMU right before the Pike River Mine accident. There have been all sorts of quiet angry questions about the role of the EPMU…
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English’s three strikes
How's Bill English doing? John Roughan in The Herald is not impressed - Bill English is not following his best instincts First there was the response to a question that came out of left field on just his second week in Key's chair. "Are you…
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More Multi-millionaires than ever!
More extremely rich people. It's a good thing! It must be, because over the years, headlines in various outlets and referring to various countries have uncritically reported the rise in the number of millionaires or billionaires as though it's something to quietly celebrate. Underlying the bullshit…
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Oxfam on wealth inequality in NZ
Most measures of inequality focus on income, so its great to see this study of wealth inequality in NZ by Oxfam: Top 1% of NZers own 20% of wealth The country's two wealthiest people own the same amount as the poorest 30 percent in New…
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Open Mike 16/01/2017
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xkcd – Earth Temperature Timeline
Webcomic from xkcd
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English in England
Bill English is on a quick European visit, currently in England. The joint May / English statement is full of the usual platitudes - a "new and exciting chapter" apparently. It's true that England will be looking for new trade partners in the aftermath of…
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Open Mike 15/01/2017
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Spinning ‘social investment’
Bill English likes to talk about "social investment". Commentator Simon Wilson at The Spinoff is a big fan: Social investment: the two uninspiring words upon which the entire election could hang ... For several years now English has been driving a profound reform programme in…