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Tomorrow, the government's Climate Change Commission (an independent Crown Entity) is opening consultation for the first time on how New Zealand should meet its climate action obligations, We will be consulting with the public from 1 February - 14 March 2021 on a draft of our…
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Over the past year I've outlined in the comments an alternative triplet political model to the standard left/right description that's the usual default. It's the default for a reason, it's simple and most of the time it's a 'good enough' approximation to reality, and nothing…
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The world has been watching, mostly with amusement, as some redditors have brought a Wall Street merchant bank to its knees, by buying stocks in a company, GameStop who has seen better days and whose business model is antiquated. Members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit saw…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's Blog In late March 2020, the medical director of the NHS Stephen Powis said that keeping the UK COVID-19 death toll to under 20,000 would be a good result. Ten months later, almost to the day, the UK's official death…
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It may be that we have heard publicly from John Banks for the last time. If so this will be a good thing. The man harbours rather extreme racist views and has not improved with age. Decades ago Metro Magazine called him the most culturally…
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The politics of Covid continues. There have been some attacks on the Government because of the latest example community infection. For me I am astounded there have not been more. Of course we should aim for perfection and we need to. But since March 2020…
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This little video doing the Youtube rounds claims that New Zealand is the best-managed country in the world. And currently has one of the best economies. https://youtu.be/TlhUMFOBZHU Move aside Sweden. New Zealand is a safe, stable, consistent, peaceful place to live with your family, the…
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Retired Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal Judge Henry Litton raises some important questions about the motivations of the 53 would-be legislators recently arrested in Hong Kong. Five Eyes countries including New Zealand were quick to condemn the arrests, but Litton states their aim was…
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Another case of Covid has appeared in the community. A 54 year old woman who lives south of Whangarei who returned overseas and went through quarantine has developed Covid after being released from quarantine. She may have the more contagious UK variant of the virus…
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You would think that after the Trump years the media would be turning away from the reporting of "both sides" of an issue and in many cases they are. For instance Stuff have pledged not to reproduce climate change denial statements, the science is now…
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On his first day in office, the 78-year old Joe Biden did the following: Required mask-wearing on Federal property Rejoined the World Health Organisation Set up a Covid19 Response office that reported directly to the President Extended foreclosure and eviction moratoriums Froze student debt collection…
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For me watching QAnon believers waver in their belief in their idiotic failed guru's 'plan' has as about the same interest value as seeing the US rectify its political mistake of 2016. Amusing short term entertainment. If you want more relevant short-term news, then recently…
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Ok so we saw Trump's supporters storm the Senate for an afternoon. And the symbolic wrath they got in return was far greater than the massive and often violent burning and looting protests associated with Black Lives Matter for months on end. It's not unreasonable…
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When the government proposed declaring a climate emergency in December last year, Jacinda Ardern said this, This declaration is an acknowledgment of the next generation: an acknowledgment of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and if we do…
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Now that Donald Trump has more time to play golf and attend court there will be jockeying for leadership of the Republican Party, or what will be left of it once Trump's new Patriot Party emerges. One early contender is Ted Cruz. There is a…
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I think of myself as reasonably politically involved, but I've just seen a string of Kiwis on twitter talking about getting up for the inauguration and wondering what's the best time in New Zealand (varies from 4am - 6am). I however will be sleeping and…
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So Donald Trump’s reign is almost over. For the past four years I have woken daily and wondered what fresh hell offense he has committed. And most of the time I have been surprised and disturbed. He was consistently worse than I thought he would…
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A new political blog has appeared. But rather than involving a fresh presentation of new ideas in an attempt to engender debate this blog has three tired old has beens who are well past their use by date engage in some climate change denial and…
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