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Daily review 23/06/2020
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Humans – doing it to themselves
Back in the 1990s, in the days when I still had time to pursue sidetracks, I did a remote history course. Never completed it because work broke in on it. However I did write an essay on zoonotic diseases and their effect on history and…
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Open mike 23/06/2020
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Daily review 22/06/2020
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Open mike 22/06/2020
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In defence of Ashley Bloomfield
Well the last week has been a real roller coaster. Aotearoa New Zealand has gone from the ecstasy of we have no Covid to the agony that we, at the time of writing, have eight cases of Covid and the first two went on a…
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Aroha Ardern Poster Banned?
The Obama 'Hope' inspired Weston Frizzell poster of Jacinda Ardern has been referred to the Electoral Commission. The poster has been pasted in several urban areas. It's a stylised version of the PM, accompanied with the entirely appropriate te reo word "AROHA". It's magnificent. It…
Abuse of power class war same old national violence against women
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Protesters, Anarchists, Agitators and Lowlifes
So POTUS thought he should hold a rally. The organisation of the rally was not pristine because he, I am sure accidentally, created the impression he was trying to appear to be a racist Nazi. He wanted to hold his rally on Juneteenth, the date…
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Open mike 21/06/2020
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Open mike 20/06/2020
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Daily review 19/06/2020
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Fixing Unemployment – Zoom meetup Saturday 10am
Is it time to completely rethink how we deal with unemployment? We face a tsunami of job losses not seen in generations. The damage could be immense, especially if the devastation of people, regions and entire communities becomes entrenched. Many still haven’t recovered from the…
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West Auckland Shooting
A policeman has died and another has been seriously wounded in an incident in the suburb of Massey, West Auckland. It appears it was a routine traffic stop and there was no reason for the Police personnel involved to think it would end any differently…
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Things that will live
Despite downbeat economic predictions and an imminent global recession, the New Zealand recovery offers opportunities for entrepreneurial success that exceed anything we've seen for decades. According to the collected data released by the New Zealand Treasury, many of our key markets are currently faring better…
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Todd Muller and the strange tale of the Leader’s Safe
Gee those National dissidents know how to leak. The Herald has run this interesting story about how Todd Muller's office had to get a safe cracker to open a safe previously used by Simon Bridges. From David Fisher at the Herald: When Todd Muller took…
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Open mike 19/06/2020
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Daily review 18/06/2020
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Responsible politics verses Gotcha politics
The tale of the two women who received compassionate leave to visit a close relative after a relative had died but who were not tested before being let out of quarantine and then found to be Covid infected is at the centre of news today.…
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A World That Just Doesn’t Need As Much Oil
BP yesterday sent a really big message that effectively now, Covid-19 is the break that tips the world away from oil dependence. They advised investors that the economic shock of the pandemic would reverberate for years, and that less oil and gas would likely be needed.…
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Open mike 18/06/2020
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Daily review 17/06/2020
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Covid really is a bastard
So our outstanding daily run of ducks for new Covid infections was broken yesterday after it was reported that two visitors, here for the death of a family member, tested positive. This brings into stark relief a debate that happened just over a month ago. …
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Viable treatment – cheap and proven
The most interesting news overnight was that of a viable treatment for severe cases of auto-immune reactions to a covid-19 infection. This treatment has a significiant effect in reducing the bodies over-reactions to the disease. From the BBC world... The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is…
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Open mike 17/06/2020
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Daily review 16/06/2020
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National prepares to die in a ditch over racist American flag
In politics there are two general theories, the conspiracy theory where events are the result of deep Machiavellian planning, and the f*ck up theory where things just happen because of human stuff ups. Often the f*ck up theory is the real reason behind random events…
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Advising the country about Covid19 is unfair to National
National is upset. Very upset. Because the Government has been engaged in something that is very dastardly and very unfair. What is this dastardly unfairness you ask? Apparently a Government social media account, the unite for recovery instagram account, followed Jacinda Ardern. From what I…
Gerry Brownlee Media national Propaganda same old national social media lolz the praiseworthy and the pitiful twitter
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Open mike 16/06/2020
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Daily review 15/06/2020
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Labour’s List
Some great people are going to be new MPs in less than 100 days! With recent polls suggesting Labour are on track for an outright win in the September election under the amazing leadership of Jacinda Ardern, a lot of new faces are going to…