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Open mike 11/11/2019
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The Liberal Democrats
Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog The Liberal Democrats have seen…
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Maybe Nancy was right
There is a very good chance that the upcoming impeachment trial ofPresident Donald Trump will turn into one massive campaign launch -one which significantly increases his chances of winning a secondterm. Let's move past the Democratic-dominated hearings coming in the nextfew weeks. It's a free…
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Open mike 10/11/2019
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How To Get There 10/11/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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UK Elections: Parties positions on Brexit
Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog Originally There is considerable confusion in…
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National’s solution to poverty – make people even poorer
This has as much chance of working as trickle down. And I am astounded that someone should think it, let alone think that it is a good thing to say publicly. But a National MP has publicly advocated addressing poverty by ... wait for it…
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Open mike 09/11/2019
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Daily review 08/11/2019
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Zero Carbon acts – this is how change happens
https://twitter.com/Davidxvx/status/1192517261740761089 That pretty much sums it up for me. A few other thoughts. I don't follow the detail of current mainstream responses to the climate crisis (eg the Zero Carbon Act), because I believe there are compelling reasons for industrialised nations to Powerdown (while sharing…
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Open mike 08/11/2019
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Daily review 07/11/2019
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Slapdown
Politics and particularly New Zealand First has become pretty ugly lately. Changes in Immigration policy has meant that the partners of Kiwis who have entered into arranged marriages were finding it more and more difficult to come to New Zealand. This caused considerable consternation…
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Police London-wide ban on Extinction Rebellion actions ruled unlawful
The Guardian reports In a judgment handed down on Wednesday morning, Mr Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Chamberlain said the section 14 order imposed during XR’s “autumn uprising” in October was unlawful. Dingemans said: “Separate gatherings, separated both in time and by many miles, even…
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Open mike 07/11/2019
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Daily review 06/11/2019
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UK Conservative’s social media is remarkably similar to National’s social media
Looks like a pattern is emerging. Here is a tweet from the UK conservative party complete with naff music soundtrack. https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1191686313461846016 As has been noted by various commentators the film has been heavily edited and spliced unfairly and the last part, where the Labour Spokesperson…
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National’s fundamentals
I'm trying to avoid thinking about National as much as possible at the moment, but this grabbed my attention on twitter last night from the discussion about National parachuting in their FJK replacement Christopher Luxon joining the National Party and becoming the candidate for Botany.…
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Open mike 06/11/2019
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Daily review 05/11/2019
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Remembering the 5th of November and Parihaka
https://twitter.com/BR3NDA/status/1191447955095506944 Jack McDonald posted this poem by his Nana, J.C. Sturm, to mark the anniversary of the invasion of Parihaka in 1881. Dylan Owen at the National Library writes, Remembering Parihaka Many New Zealanders associate 5 November with Guy Fawkes and an evening of family…
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Young Māori voices on climate action
Māori and other indigenous climate activists have been laying down some challenges about Pākehā and Euro-centric climate action movements like Extinction Rebellion, pointing to the long history indigenous peoples have of strategy and action when faced with catastrophic change. Key in indigenous perspectives is how…
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Farage – thorn in the side of the UK Conservatives
It's generally accepted that if you are a leader of a democratic country, that you don't interfere or openly express views about domestic matters in another democracy. You certainly don't openly try and influence the election in another country or comment on specific candidates. Well…
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Open mike 05/11/2019
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Daily review 04/11/2019
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Dunedin’s Hillside Rail Workshop
I'd like to belatedly congratulate Wayne Butson and all those who stood with him like John Kerr to keep Dunedin's Hillside rail workshop alive. Their efforts after many years of lobbying and arguing have been rewarded. Most work at Hillside ended in 2012, after KiwiRail…
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The UK General Election
On Thursday 12 December the UK will be going to the polls. The UK is supposed to have general elections every 5 years, December’s poll will be the UK’s 3rd general election in four and a half years. It is risky to make predictions about…
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Open mike 04/11/2019
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TWP – sorted?
I remained relatively silent after coming out publicly, alongside anonymous sources, to expose theft, bullying and a culture at Te Whare Pounamu, Dunedin Women's Refuge that refused to report child abuse. After the original story broke I resisted writing about issues that media overlooked. I…
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Trickle down fails yet again
This tweet recently attracted my attention. https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1189945707484139522 It linked to this article that said this: Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement was the corporate-tax cut he signed in 2017. Republicans said it would grow the economy by up to 6 percent, stimulate business investment, and pay for…
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