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Daily review 27/06/2023
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Hipkins in China
A weakened Russia is a Russia made more dependent on China. New Zealand is also deeply reliant on China. I suspect Prime Minister Hipkins is at the realist end of the spectrum of engagement with China. China’s The Global Times certainly thinks so. Its feature…
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Open mike 27/06/2023
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Daily review 26/06/2023
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NACT’s Law & Order Policies: Dog Whistle Or Proto-Fascism?
National’s Leader Chris Luxon in his speech at his party’s annual conference announced that they would reintroduce the Three Strikes policy if elected. National’s only coalition partner, ACT, was already fully on-board with this, of course. This should raise serious concerns among many New Zealanders…
Abuse of power crime democracy under attack human rights law and "order" national/act government prisons Propaganda same old national
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National releases uncosted corrections policy
National continued with its hard right let's win back some support from Act announcements with a policy announcement that would make Attilla the Hun proud. Cleary the party's brains unit has sat down and worked on a policy that will achieve little in reality, apart…
Christopher Luxon law law and "order" national national/act government paul goldsmith same old national
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Open mike 26/06/2023
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Why selling Auckland Port Operations is a particularly silly thing to do
It is a given that the right in power want to sell public assets off and the left want to retain those assets. And it appears that the right’s eyes are on Ports of Auckland. Mayor Wayne Brown is clearly a fan of privatisation. He…
assets auckland supercity local government Politics privatisation Privatisation supercity uncategorized
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Why Public Ownership Is Great
In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ownership doesn’t. 1. Community Ownership Nearly all our municipal utilities used to be owned…
assets auckland supercity local government Politics privatisation supercity uncategorized
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Open mike 25/06/2023
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Open mike 24/06/2023
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Daily review 23/06/2023
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China’s gift horse
It is good to see that there is a substantial business delegation accompanying Chris Hipkins to China, and that it is aimed at seeking to diversify into a wider range of issues. As China's ambassador Wang Xiaolong noted in the Herald yesterday, there are significant…
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Brown wants to privatise Ports of Auckland Operations
Fresh from his success at selling off part of Auckland Council's Airport shares Wayne Brown has proposed another privatisation, that of Ports of Auckland Operations by way of the granting of an operating lease for the Port's activities. From Finn Blackwell at Radio New Zealand:…
assets auckland supercity local government Privatisation privatisation supercity
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Open mike 23/06/2023
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Daily review 22/06/2023
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Open mike 22/06/2023
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Daily review 21/06/2023
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You can never, ever, have too many Teslas
A week ago I wrote about the hypocrisy of Christopher Luxon and his request for a state supplied Tesla when his household already owns one. Little did I know that a further example of jaw breaking hypocrisy would occur so soon this. But this is…
Christopher Luxon making shit up national same old national spin you couldn't make this shit up
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Winning ugly
Another week and another example of National using dog whistle racism to stir up hatred and try and gain political advantage. This time it is to attack the notion that our health system should be seeking to look after those most in need. During Covid…
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Don’t Stop
Superb, powerful and very smart short film from Greenpeace. Well worth the 7 minutes to watch. https://youtu.be/TPDTHl0S0G4 This is not your typical charity song. It’s a call to arms, an impassioned plea to take action today, for the sake of tomorrow. Together we can stand…
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Open mike 21/06/2023
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Daily review 20/06/2023
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On a schism by the unrighteous and immoral
It always intrigues me that some political parties haven't learnt the basic political lesson about politics. The latest from the fledgling Democracy NZ is a classic schism by people who don't want to actually achieve anything useful. It has lost about a third of its…
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Open mike 20/06/2023
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Daily review 19/06/2023
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Open mike 19/06/2023
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Dumber
New Zealand is not an intellectual or innovation powerhouse but the rapid decline of our entire tertiary education is a tragedy. This week notices were sent out to thousands of polytech employees and many many hundred of them will shortly have no job. This was…
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Open mike 18/06/2023
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When You Pay Peanuts, You Get Propaganda
The story of wire stories having been altered for the last five years on the RNZ website undetected is mindboggling. However, I don’t think this is an isolated case and more of these kinds of ‘mistakes’ will surface in other websites of NZ news media.…