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Daily review 14/05/2019
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Bill Nye loses his s&(t about climate change
This was Bill Nye in a Last Week Tonight clim from 5 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjuGCJJUGsg And here is a more recent video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BcNNc5AfbU&fbclid=IwAR2IpjV8lES9-Nrm86gx6AGEMBWtLngULvcmoUBnxashbED6D50six7vAGU Fox News is not amused. https://twitter.com/mmfa/status/1128101401522053120
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Swarbrick 2 Bennett 0
Fresh from being owned on twitter Paula Bennett has raised questions about whether her tough westie persona is actually deserved. Because she has refused to debate cannabis reform with Chloe Swarbrick on TV. Jack Tame has the details: https://twitter.com/jacktame/status/1127839186466160640 The interview proceeded without Bennett's presence. …
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I agree with DPF
Maybe rumours that National's internal polling has that party's support starting with a "3" are correct. Because David Farrar, National's pollster has published this post that praises Jacinda Ardern and warns National supporters not to take her too lightly. He starts off by saying this: Many…
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Open mike 14/05/2019
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Daily review 13/05/2019
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@Melulater on Teachers’ Strike
Reprinted from How Melulater sees it. Melanie is a Primary School teacher who is half way through her Masters of Education in Global Education Policy. She is a member of the Labour Party and took a year off to help get them elected. I'm going…
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Open mike 13/05/2019
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Huawei go again
Mike Pompeo has just been in Britain trying to bully the UK government out of using Huawei for its 5G network. He and other officials have been heavying countries around the world. Its not working, but one thing is clear. It makes GCSB's head Andrew…
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US China trade talks and New Zealand
Despite China and the United States continuing talks on trade disputes, President Trump has prepared a fresh set of tariffs on Chinese goods and services. This is way, way bad for New Zealand. President Trump going on the offensive just as the Chinese negotiating team…
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Open mike 12/05/2019
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How To Get There 12/5/19
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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Is there a middle ground on climate change
This is the question posed by US Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden. From the Hill: Former Vice President Joe Biden is looking to pitch a middle-ground approach to climate change as he faces a field of Democratic presidential primary challengers that has increasingly embraced more sweeping…
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Open mike 11/05/2019
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Daily review 10/05/2019
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The Brady Papers
Anne-Marie Brady submitted to yesterday's Select Committee Inquiry into foreign interference in our elections, making copious reference to her "Magic Weapons" paper of 2017. She didn't mention another paper which casts a much different light on her independence and purpose The Magic Weapons paper attacking…
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Simon’s unfortunate pecuniary register omission
The latest Parliamentary Register of Pecuniary Interests has been published. This is where MPs are meant to disclose all sorts of information about what gifts they have received. And it is an important aspect of our democratic system. I reckon they should post every single…
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Open mike 10/05/2019
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Daily review 09/05/2019
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Swarbrick 1 Bennett 0
No wonder Paula Bennett is not wanting to be involved in a committee where Chloe Swarbrick may have a major role. It is because Paula will get owned. Repeatedly. She put this tweet up yesterday: https://twitter.com/paulabennettmp/status/1125953425647124481 Chloe responded with this tweet: https://twitter.com/_chloeswarbrick/status/1125956109036998656 Reducing the black…
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Zero carbon bill – let the battle commence
So the Government has released the Zero Carbon Bill and it looks not too bad. I suspect a few lefties are now weighing up the failure to put forward a capital gains tax with the success in putting forward a zero carbon target and thinking…
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Open mike 09/05/2019
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Daily review 08/05/2019
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Zero Carbon bill announced
The long awaited Zero Carbon bill has now been released. From Henry Cooke at Stuff: The Government's flagship climate change policy will treat biological methane far more softly than all other greenhouse gas emissions - but still mandates a large reduction.Governments will be mandated to reduce…
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Reeferendum madness
National thought it was onto a winner when it released a cabinet paper a couple of days ago about the cannabis referendum. Instead of being the party of leaks it was able to claim that the Government also had a leak problem although the actual…
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Open mike 08/05/2019
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Daily review 07/05/2019
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It’s the end of the world as we know it *
The United Nations has published a report that paints a stark warning that humanity's current treatment of the world's environment is destroying it. From Kate Gudsell at Radio New Zealand: The most comprehensive report on the global state of biodiversity to date has found one…
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Watch out Iran
Discussions about American politics on this blog interest me. I am in the camp that think that the current POTUS is a dangerous threat to the free world, to our climate and to poor people everywhere. Other lefties think otherwise because, I don't know, Hillary…
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Open mike 07/05/2019
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