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Open mike 30/12/2020
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An Introvert’s Guide to Spending Money*
*Warning: the following contains material that might upset some retailers Luckily, for retailers, Christmas shopping has been strong. NZ even set a new record for transactions at 204 transactions per second, which is almost as good as the number of visits per second to The…
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Open mike 29/12/2020
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Chris Bishop goes woof woof on variant ‘B.1.1.7’
I realise that this would normally be our silly season, but it seems a bit macabre with such an awful and predicable death toll running overseas in the northern winter. But nothing really excuses Chris Bishop for being a complete dickhead in barking for immediate…
chris bishop chris hipkins covid-19 health national same old national uk politics
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Open mike 28/12/2020
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Trump pardons buddies
Recently instead of playing golf Donald Trump has been handing out pardons, lots and lots of pardons. So which outstanding members of the American community has he decided to exercise the prerogative of mercy and are there any common features amongst them? I should start…
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Open mike 27/12/2020
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Plan B activists still think NZ should be like Sweden
There is a new strain of Covid 19 recently discovered in the UK that is considerably more infectious than the originally discovered strain. From the ABC: A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the…
boris johnson covid-19 health making shit up spin uncategorized you couldn't make this shit up
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Open mike 26/12/2020
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Open mike 25/12/2020
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Daily review 24/12/2020
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Words of Outrage or Outrageous Action?
Another moron said something outrageous again and gets away with it (almost) scot-free. I’m seething with anger and I need want to do something about it, about my anger that is. I go on-line and vent my spleen. It makes me feel better. Others join…
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Open mike 24/12/2020
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Daily review 23/12/2020
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A Few Good Green Wins
January Demonstrating that hydro electricity generation and the Department of Conservation can work well together, a small scale "run of river" 1.89 megawatt generator system on public conservation land in South Westland is approved. No dam, just smart thinking. February The Auditor General comes out…
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Open mike 23/12/2020
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Daily review 22/12/2020
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Open mike 22/12/2020
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Daily review 21/12/2020
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Beefing up the border – expensive and essential
From a few days ago (it seems like an eternity), RNZ reported "Govt to pump almost $3 billion into its Covid-19 response after report identified failings". There are several points I'd make about the border controls and generally with our border and the long slow…
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Open mike 21/12/2020
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The Malthusian Spectre
Population has always been a critical driver of events and prior to the Industrial Revolution we lived in a zero sum world, with energy and resources effectively limited to that which could be harvested from photosynthesis, one person's gain was at the limit, always someone…
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Must New Zealand Pay Back All This Public Debt?
New Zealand like most countries across the world in the last year, has gone deeper and deeper into public debt. It's pretty clear that the New Zealand government's response to economic crisis from lockdowns and global trade crashes by spending tonnes of debt money has…
capitalism covid-19 debt / deficit Economy grant robertson labour national same old national treasury
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Operation warped
As the reign of Potus 45 draws to a close the people of America, or at least that part of the population with a nodding acquaintance with reality, must be wishing that he would play more golf. Because some of the decisions that he is…
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Open mike 20/12/2020
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Open mike 19/12/2020
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Daily review 18/12/2020
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Shock horror, trickle down does not work
Well I never. Can you remember how over the past five decades we kept being told that giving tax cuts to the most wealthy would make us all better off? How the wealth would just trickle down? And remember how some lefty extremists said it…
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Open mike 18/12/2020
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