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Open mike 08/12/2019
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How To Get There 8/12/19
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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Disarming New Zealand
I didn't closely follow the details of the recent debate about the arming of NZ police (specifically the trials of having permanent armed patrols), because the progressive position seems a no brainer: civil society requires the least amount of force needed by those in position…
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Open mike 07/12/2019
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The climate emergency and the UK election
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog I was a bit late to the party in following the rise of Greta Thunberg. In August 2018 she began her activism by spending school days outside the Swedish parliament holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) “School strike for the…
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Daily review 06/12/2019
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The risk of climate tipping points is upon us
https://twitter.com/XRebellionUK/status/1202731462765752320 TL;DR the IPCC was for many years too conservative in its predictions and position around tipping points. current science is suggesting a likelihood of reaching catastrophic tipping points much sooner than expected if we keep doing what we are doing, we can expect tipping…
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Scotland – does independence loom?
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Scotland matters in the 2019 UK general election. Yet much of the electorate have little understanding of the place, it’s politics or what could happen after the December 12 election. Scotland could well decide the outcome of the 2019 UK…
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Right wing lies
New Zealand and the United Kingdom are both cursed with the right wing parties having the same advisors and similar means of campaigning. And it is starting to show. Neale Jones in this series of tweets shows how far national is willing to bend the…
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Open mike 06/12/2019
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Daily review 05/12/2019
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End Oil: “this is how we win”
This is how it's done folks. Engaging, fun, symbolic, high profile, sustained, movement-building activism. All power and much gratitude to Greenpeace and all the other activists involved. https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/1202348226524762113 That is an awesome piece of activism. As Robert Guyton commented, The Greenpeace "OMV" protests have been…
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An Early Christmas.
In about a week from now, Jeremy Corbyn will be beginning the process that will install him as the Prime Minister of the UK government. That will be in spite of the ongoing uniform antagonism unleashed on the UK Labour Party from across the entire…
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Youth and the aspirational centre
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog One of the cliche’s you hear from those active in politics over the last 30 years is that “you have to win the centre”. What is this centre? Presumably the people who float between the political left and the…
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Time to become a republic
There has been recent speculation that Queen Elisabeth may be calling it a day and handing over the monarchy to Prince Philip Charles. From the Daily Express: Queen Elizabeth II is supposedly giving serious thought of stepping down and handing over the reign to Prince…
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Open mike 05/12/2019
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Daily review 04/12/2019
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Little’s Electoral Bill a curate’s egg – good in parts
I've always liked Punch magazine's famous cartoon "True humility" where the curate assures his bishop who notices his egg is bad that "parts of it are excellent." Most discussion on Little's Bill has focused on the bad bits regarding donations.…
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Protecting democracy
My heart went out to the Brits last week on the day of their latest terrorist attack. Terrorism is a particular horror compounded when a relatively functional democracy is having to adjust to the normalisation of fundamentalists doing high profile killings during an election campaign.…
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Open mike 04/12/2019
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Terror attack at London Bridge
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog On Friday 29 November 2 people were killed and others injured in a terror attack on London Bridge. I live near to this area, and like most in South East London was shaken and upset to learn of this attack.…
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Daily review 03/12/2019
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Government to ban foreign donations to political parties
I wonder if this is related to news about the New Zealand First Foundation and the possibility that it and the National Foundation could receive donations from overseas and through the very simple technique of investing the money and paying the income to a political…
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Why some MPs should not tweet
There was a bit of a blow up on twitter over the weekend. At 11 pm one night National backbencher Joanne Hayes at 11 pm at night got her cellphone out and for some inexplicable reason tweeted this: Maybe she was having a relapse into…
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Open mike 03/12/2019
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Daily review 02/12/2019
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Immigration: we can’t keep succumbing to fear tactics
Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog Prior to the release of UK Labour’s manifesto, Unite Union General Secretary Len McCluskey come out in the media saying it would be unwise for the party to support extending free movement of migration with Europe. My first question for any trade…
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Whither Warren?
Is it too early to call negative odds on Elizabeth Warren's candidacy? A few months ago she was riding above Biden in the 'preferred Democractic nominee stakes'. Might a true policy brain make it to the big chair? Warren's polling raise has been remarkable this…
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Open mike 02/12/2019
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