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Open mike 20/06/2022
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The 2022 Energy Crisis Is Right Here Right Now
OMG diesel just hit $3 a litre in Auckland. 91 Petrol is over $3.15. Anyone wants to figure where inflation gets its rocket fuel from, start there. Add RUC. Every part of our energy-dense life from plastic to tarmac to food to clothes to building…
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Open mike 19/06/2022
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The Tauranga by election
This has been one of the quietest by elections I have ever witnessed. Normally by elections are rather dramatic things with quirks and strange events. This one has none of those features despite a host of fringe and weird candidates. They almost inevitably go against…
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Foot-shooting the sanctions’ lockstep
RNZ's "The Detail" asked are New Zealand's sanctions against Russia working? They aren't, but one detail we learnt that MFAT has 100 staff members assigned to sorting out their complications!! Our sanctions are minor pinpricks and will have absolutely no impact on Russia. Their full…
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Open mike 18/06/2022
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Daily review 17/06/2022
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Human rights, culture wars and the right
This week National and Christopher Luxon have been talking publicly about which human rights they could trash for gang members. Generally Luxon is pretty good at delivering the same old cliches time and time again. But every time he strays into slightly more specific comments…
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Open mike 17/06/2022
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Daily review 16/06/2022
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Open mike 16/06/2022
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Daily review 15/06/2022
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Selling Henderson Film Studios is Actually Good
In late May this year Auckland Council determined that it would sell the Henderson Valley Film Studios. Relax. Auckland Council is trying to dig itself out of an enormous COVID-related financial hole, and anything not delivering immediate core outcomes is priced up. That’s not the…
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Open mike 15/06/2022
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Daily review 14/06/2022
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Rage and the Woke
In a little-publicised piece on the Otago Daily Times, we get just a little reveal of the scale of rage against Prime Minister Ardern and against policies favouring the Treaty of Waitangi. Two nights ago there was a public meeting in the South Otago Town…
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The Cabinet reshuffle
There was some drama yesterday in the Beehive. Kris Faafoi and Trevor Mallard announced that they will be resigning from Parliament. Faafoi's resignation was transmitted pretty clearly when he gave up the Mana seat last election. His is the best way to end your parliamentary…
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Open mike 14/06/2022
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Daily review 13/06/2022
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BusinessNZ has been telling porkies about fair pay agreements
Just under a month ago I wrote: Business NZ has claimed that the proposed Fair Play legislation breaches International Labour Law. And that the International Labour Organisation agrees with it. But its claims appear to be on the wrong side of what we could politely…
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Open mike 13/06/2022
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Gang Control Policy Is Back Big Time
We are about to have a proper gang control policy contest. It’s about time. The international press have been tracking our growth in gang crime since at least early 2020. It seems as if no matter the extra effort this government is putting in, the…
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National’s anti gang policies and the Bill of Rights
This weekend National threw out a few hunks of red meat to some of its more rabid supporters. The recent series of drive by shootings have made it determined to do something. None of the proposals will actually achieve anything but that is beside the…
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An appeal to Putin’s Apologists
With a life of anti-fascist and anti-war activism in my rear-view mirror, alarmingly I find myself at fifty staring at the green shoots of fascism in my headlights. This is not where I expected to be. As with many ‘progressives’, I tend toward optimism when…
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Ukraine as a Multi-Year war
The Russian war of aggression against the Ukraine is now three months old. Prepare for a very long grind. Russian forces are now more successful having concentrated in much narrower areas. The idea of Ukraine pushing back Russia to original borders is now unthinkable. But…
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Open mike 12/06/2022
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Open mike 11/06/2022
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Daily review 10/06/2022
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The prospects of a snap election
Absolutely zero.
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Truthiness or Ignorance*
The world is a scary place. Good things, bad things, things happen all the time and it seems at a rapidly increasing rate. Life seems to want to confront us with big complex problems for which nobody seems to have solutions. No more than ever…