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Daily Review 31/10/2018
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Our rail revival
If there is anything that illustrates the great 20th century modernist impulse of epic infrastructure and national development, it's rail. While you are able, make sure you do the Otago Rail Trail cycleway, where you will get a sense at every great bridge of the…
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What is up with National?
I put up a late post yesterday about National's very bad day in the house. I have not seen them so rattled and uninspired. But it was not only me. https://twitter.com/chrishipkins/status/1057194047754780672 So the question has to be asked, what is up with National? Where has…
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Open Mike 31/10/2018
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National’s very bad day in the house
Anyone watch question time today? Ever seen National look more sombre and quiet? Exhibit A https://youtu.be/IFvPKQBmzB4 Exhibit B https://youtu.be/CflYd775Abk The use of the word "hoof" by Simon Bridges went down really badly. You just have to look at Paula Bennett's body language to wonder what…
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Daily Review 30/10/2018
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Brazil, Brexit, Trump…with more to come.
As Ben Chu writing at The Independent notes with reference to Brazil - The extraordinary political rise of Bolsonaro, previously an obscure congressman in a fringe party, is a symptom of [...] failure – not just on the part of the Workers’ Party, but the entire political…
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National’s Judith problem
In its enthusiasm to try and embarrass Labour and divert attention from the personal difficulties of different MPs National has unfortunately reverted to type. Dirty politics type. Yesterday there was this tweet from Judith Collins: https://twitter.com/JudithCollinsMP/status/1056732307610980352 Then in true National Party mode she tried to…
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National badly wants Kiwibuild to crash
I can understand National's desire to divert attention away from other events. From the sounds of it at least three National MPs have major issues to sort through. Labour is doing the right thing by letting them do it all by themselves. So what does…
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Open Mike 30/10/2018
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Daily Review 29/10/2018
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Brazil turns right
In further bad news for the world Brazil has turned to the right with the election of a leader that makes Donald Trump look like a moderate. From the Guardian: Jair Bolsonaro, a 63-year-old former paratrooper who built his campaign around pledges to crush corruption,…
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Media Thriving on its Own Shit.
This is from wikipedia and is offered as way of background on Chuck Todd. Charles David Todd (born April 8, 1972) is an American television journalist who is the 12th and current moderator of NBC's Meet the Press. He also hosts MTP Daily on MSNBC and is the Political Director for NBC News.…
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Open Mike 29/10/2018
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Democracy and peace in the USA
There is this really famous Simpson's clip where Homer tries to vote for Barak Obama in the 2008 election but instead the voting machine records a vote for John McCain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxLPcvVljB8 Of course the Simpsons predicted all sorts of things, like Donald Trump becoming President,…
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An Ineffectual Opposition Is Bad News
It is often said that the role of the Opposition in the House of Representatives is to hold the Government to account. One of the other important roles of the Opposition is to represent the people and this does not mean only their supporters (i.e.…
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Open Mike 28/10/2018
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Eye of the storm
Graham Adams has written this interesting article in Noted about Simon Bridges's current predicament. He refers to Simon Bridges' acknowledgment that things have been rough for him and his reference to being in the "eye of the storm". This was a very poorly chosen metaphor. Bridges…
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Open Mike 27/10/2018
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Daily Review 26/10/2018
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Green Growth
The content of this post comes from an article in Foreign Policy magazine by Jason Hickel that's titled Why Growth Can't Be Green. I read it in light of New Zealand having a Green Party that talks of a Green Economy while signing itself up to…
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Open Mike 26/10/2018
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Lime Sour
I'm no killjoy, but I'm itching to chuck my first Lime scooter into a skip. I've seen a ton of them this week, often being ridden by people clearly having terrific fun. I've also seen some demented usage; the woman with the leg in plaster…
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Daily Review 25/10/2018
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Ross saga quiescent, but donations scandal needs addressing
While the Jami-Lee Ross saga has quietened down as National hopes, there are many issues raised that have not been resolved including the central question of political party donations. Whether the $100,000 donated by Chinese-born New Zealand businessman Zhang Yikun to the National Party was…
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Power and Knowledge.
There are no neonicotinoids in the jungle of Puerto Rico. There are no fertilisers in the jungle of Puerto Rico. There are no swathes of cleared land. As the Washington Post writes - (here's a non-Washington Post link for the same article) If Puerto Rico…
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Duped?
I assiduously ignored all the hullabaloo that was erupting around Jamie Lee Ross and the National Party up until I twigged to something about the National Party having been behind the alleged sectioning of Jamie Lee Ross. I asked a question or two about that…
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Nothing to worry about
I was impressed with National's uber confidence yesterday. Sure they might have had a week from hell and a poll result confirming that they were no longer the biggest party and their support was waning and they had no friends but their line that it…
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Open Mike 25/10/2018
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Daily Review 24/10/2018
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