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Open Mike 23/11/25
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David Seymour’s Act Repeals Freedom and Democracy
Despite what David Seymour says and wants us to believe, he’s no friend of freedom and democracy but rather the opposite. The evidence is subtle, of course, but unmistakable. We already know that David Seymour has a conflicted and contradictory attitude towards freedom and democracy,…
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Open Mike 22/11/25
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Daily review 21/11/2025
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The Coalition of Chaos
The fracture lines are showing. Winston Peters is misbehaving big time. The goal may be to drive Act down so that NZ First is the go to coalition partner either for National or Labour depending on the poll result. A week ago he said that…
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Open Mike 21/11/25
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Daily review 20/11/2025
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The Old Left is Wrong about Russia
This weeks’ sabotage of a Polish rail line that enables freight to get to Ukraine is a big step in the undeclared war by Russia against European countries that support Ukraine. Russia is the most significant and direct threat to European and United States peace…
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Open Mike 20/11/25
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Daily review 19/11/2025
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Stand with Pike – preserve Health and Safety at Work
Press Release from Stand with Pike Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse will be spending the 15th Anniversary of the mine explosion urging political parties to preserve the Health and Safety at Work Act - legislation passed by the previous National-led government in the name of the tragedy -…
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Why does National really hate EVs?
I wrote this post in in January 2024 asking why National hates EVs. I pointed out that in the first three months of the term not only had National cancelled the Auckland light rail project but it had also cancelled the clean car discount policy…
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Open Mike 19/11/25
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Daily review 18/11/2025
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Open Mike 18/11/25
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Daily review 17/11/2025
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76% of Kiwis rate National Coalition poor to neutral
Days after Tesla shareholders approved a $1 trillion1 ($1,000,000,000,000) pay package for Elon Musk, government satisfaction continues to fall in many Western countries, such as the US, UK, France, Spain, Netherlands and Croatia. Satisfaction with democracy in nine surveyed countries fell below 50% in eight…
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Who’s winning the Climate Change Revolution?
The world’s largest economies are lowering or flatlining emissions at the same time as they are growing their economies. Let’s start with China. In 1980 China was less than 5% of the world’s GDP and now accounts for 20% of it and rising. After the…
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Open Mike 17/11/25
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