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Daily review 30/04/2025
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Open mike 30/04/2025
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Daily review 29/04/2025
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Culture wars and the Waitākere Ranges
Out west there have erupted claims that Auckland Council is giving away rights to the Waitākere Ranges to local iwi Te Kawerau ā Maki. The dreaded phrase "co governance" is being used. There is one distinct problem with what is being said. It is absolutely…
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After ANZAC Day
ANZAC Day 2025 is just so dark in the face of a hot war in the Ukraine, and the real lack of commanding peacemakers left on this earth. So I turned recently to Professor Jeffrey Sachs who wrote about what an actual peacemaker could do…
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Tory Whanau leaves Wellington mayoral race for Māori ward
Wellington mayor Tory Whanau has announced she won't run for mayor again at this year's local body elections. She names two reasons: one is former Labour Party leader Andrew Little stepping into the race, and her desire to continue working for Wellington as a Māori…
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Open mike 29/04/2025
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Daily review 28/04/2025
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Open mike 28/04/2025
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On Gallipoli and Gaza
Gallipoli was then. Gaza is now. Gallipoli was a disaster, driven by arrogance and incompetence. Gaza is an atrocity, driven by unconscionable evil. The news today that the Israeli forces are blockading all entry to Gaza, driving those inside to die of famine as food…
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Atlas and the Treaty Principles Bill
It is time to reflect on what happened with the Atlas Network and the Treaty Principles Bill. In January last year in this post I noted how George Monbiot described how the Atlas Network was behind leaders who sought to achieve the following: A crash…
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Open mike 27/04/2025
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Open mike 26/04/2025
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ANZAC Day.
The sentiment from many returned soldiers and ANZAC commemorations is "Never Again". Never Again sending young people to be minced up in a war. Never again to concentration camps, organised murder, imprisonment/starvation/extermination because you are part of a disliked minority or "the enemy". Never again…
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Open mike 25/04/2025
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Poking the dragon
Seven cross-party New Zealand politicians have just paid a “private” visit to Taiwan. They were received publicly by the Taiwanese government, who paid for the trip. In the current geopolitical environment, it was extraordinarily foolish. Reaction from the Chinese government was swift and strong. One…
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Daily review 24/04/2025
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Open mike 24/04/2025
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Daily review 23/04/2025
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Did someone mention “class”?
We often have favourite books to which we return. One of mine is Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose.” Sherlock Homes meets the Inquisition in a riot of geo-politics, medieval cuisine, architectural critique and semiotic analysis and reference. Such are the layers of the…
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The Fall of Saigon 1975. Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten.
Part one: On the courage to remember The first demonstration I ever went on was at the age of 12, against the Vietnam War. The first formal history lesson I received was a few months later when I commenced high school. That day the old…
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Open mike 23/04/2025
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Farewell Pope Francis
Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature." This system is by now intolerable, farm workers find…
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Open mike 22/04/2025
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Daily review 22/04/2025
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Open mike 21/04/2025
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The National MP and the religious sect
Ilam MP Hamish Campbell has been in the news recently. There was a OneNews report suggesting that he was a member of the Two by Two Christian sect. The Sect is being investigated by the FBI and New Zealand Police for historical sex abuse allegations.…
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Open mike 20/04/2025
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50501
Solidarity with the US people who are fighting back. 50 protests, 50 States, 1 movement, another day of action on the 19th of April, US time. Rolling Stone explains, The coming out party for 50501 was a national anti-Trump rally on Feb. 5. The organizing…
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Open mike 19/04/2025
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