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Daily review 28/02/2023
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Where is the Free Speech Union when you need it?
Rob Campbell is under some pressure from National and Act for calling out publicly the right's dog whistle attacks on co governance. Craig McCulloch at RNZ has the details: In a LinkedIn post over the week, Campbell - who also chairs the Environmental Protection Authority…
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The New Climate Denial: adaptation over mitigation
Cindy Baxter is a long time climate campaigner and communications consultant, working on environmental issues for over 30 years. Cross posted from Coal Action Network Aotearoa By Cindy Baxter – with a guest post from Lucy The night Cyclone Gabrielle hit my coastal village of…
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Open mike 28/02/2023
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Daily review 27/02/2023
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China’s Peace Initiative for Ukraine
China has proposed a 12 point peace plan to start discussions towards ending the war by Russia against Ukraine. And Ukraine’s leader wants to meet Xi Jinping to hear more. Zelenskyy said a meeting with Xi could be “useful” to both countries and for global…
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Open mike 27/02/2023
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A Lone Voice of Sanity on Ukraine
Historian Malcolm McKinnon in Thursday's DominionPost states that "caution is needed when crafting victory over Russia as the primary war aim in Ukraine." Truer words were never spoken, as western hysteria rejects calls for peace and escalates to wider war. McKinnon outlines the dangers when…
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National’s three waters policy
Yesterday National announced its alternative to Labour's Three Waters policy. The policy is a deep analysis of a complex problem and provides a free market alternative to an issue that will challenge policy makers for the next few decades. NAH JUST KIDDING THE POLICY IS…
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Open mike 26/02/2023
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What To Do About Climate Change
It is weird, while people are still pushing their dead furniture out onto the roadside, to even consider whether it could have been worse. But in western Auckland it most certainly could have. The absorbtive capacity of full Kauri forest compared to a subdivided landscape…
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Climate change – do we mitigate or do we adapt?
As I type this another storm has hit Tamaki Makaurau. The North has been particularly badly hit. Mangawhai received 300 mm of rain in a seven hour period. Auckland's average rainfall in the past for February was 65 mm. And out west Scenic Drive has slumped…
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Open mike 25/02/2023
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Daily review 24/02/2023
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Open mike 24/02/2023
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Daily review 23/02/2023
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Open mike 23/02/2023
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Daily review 22/02/2023
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Is Labour heading for Muriwai-scale landslide win?
Here’s my prediction: Labour will not just win the October election, but it will complete a landslide of similar proportions to the 2020 election. As more polls are published and the recent trend becomes apparent, National will panic again and dump leader Christopher Luxon, installing…
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Open mike 22/02/2023
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Daily review 21/02/2023
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This is really awkward
Maureen Pugh strikes again. She has previously sided with the anti vaccination movement, prevaricated over being vaccinated herself and then hurriedly deleting a pro protest post she put up on facebook. She was also described as being f*&king useless by Simon Bridges three National leaders…
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Sturgeon, like Ardern, a casualty of online abuse
Nicola Sturgeon’s shock resignation as Scotland’s First Minister was something of a replay of Jacinda Ardern’s lightning bolt in Aotearoa last month. Both charismatic leaders were subject to widespread abuse, mostly online, and while each was, for obvious reasons, reluctant to cite this as their…
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Open mike 21/02/2023
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Daily review 20/02/2023
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Windfall tax on bank super-profits needed to help fund repair
According to Finance Minister Grant Robertson the repair bill for the recent cyclones will be similar to the direct cost to government of the Canterbury earthquakes, in the $13 billion region. Even if a chunk of that is, as he says, absorbed by insurance and…
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Towards National Recovery
Just over seven months from the election the Labour government has been granted as great a political momentum as that leading into the 2020 election. Labour now shows all signs of pulling out of the death-stall it was trapped within under Ardern, to pulling up…
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Open mike 20/02/2023
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Why right wing media is bad for democracy and the planet
This week before Cyclone Gabrielle hit there was a noted level of scepticism about how bad things would get. Newstalk ZB was, surprise surprise, particularly bad. From Charlie Mitchell at Stuff: “People contacted me from Napier saying some schools were shut there,” broadcaster Kate Hawkesby said on…
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Open mike 19/02/2023
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