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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In a further sign that the current Government's inter party relationships are at an interesting stage Green Land Information Minister Eugenie Sage has vetoed Oceania Gold's attempt to buy a 180-hectare dairy farm to store mining tailings from its Waihi gold mines. The Bay of…
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For some reason, this story struck a nerve. An 80-year old had his 59-year career terminated by an impersonal e-mail from a faceless manager. Ironically, the manager on his public LinkedIn profile likes a post entitled “Treat a janitor with the same respect as the…
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