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Open mike 25/11/2019
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People vs Oil: activists are occupying the OMV support vessel
https://twitter.com/SianaFitzjohn/status/1198358354927599616 https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/1198324073899577344 https://twitter.com/ecomanda/status/1198354791379828736 https://twitter.com/GreenpeaceNZ/status/1198361163454566400 Greenpeace NZ press release: The Bahamas-flagged Skandi Atlantic was preparing to leave the Port of Timaru and travel north to meet the 34,000 tonne oil rig commissioned by OMV, now stationed off the coast of Taranaki. OMV is about to begin…
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Open mike 24/11/2019
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How To Get There 24/11/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Sacha Baron Cohen – greatest propaganda machine in history
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Never Trump
In the world of United States Democrat Presidential candidate polling, Joe Biden is the standout and has been through 2019. So far we can trust the people on who they think most confidently gets rid of Trump. While the impeachment Congress hearings and then probable…
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Open mike 23/11/2019
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Daily review 22/11/2019
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Social Media – A force for good?
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog There is plenty of criticism about the role that Social Media plays in democracy. There have been plenty of high profile cases such as the Cambridge Analytica where people’s personal data from Facebook had been used without people’s consent. This data…
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Are the UK media biased?
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Accusations of media bias are nothing new. It is impossible to be totally objective, and to claim otherwise is simply misleading. In a democracy, the role of the forth estate is critical. Media are one of the main ways people…
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Hypocrites
So to recap. There is a major party accused of running a Foundation that means it can hide the identity of donors and present a misleading picture to the public. And during the last election it funnelled most of its payments for electorate campaigns through…
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Climate action: everything we do matters
https://twitter.com/mrbenjaminlaw/status/1197344181103935488 https://twitter.com/isobelroe/status/1197235272645169152 https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman/status/1197400240489299968 Shit keeps getting more real. Despite the immensity of what we face, I am less concerned about us having the technical skills to transition than I am about the number of people still thinking that green BAU will save us. I wonder…
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Open mike 22/11/2019
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Daily review 21/11/2019
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Open mike 21/11/2019
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Daily review 20/11/2019
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Hypocrite
LPrent has posted this morning on the latest involving the New Zealand First electoral donations problem. I set out my initial view yesterday that the arrangement appeared to be cute but legal. There was a further disclosure this morning, that the foundation paid for the…
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Why is Jacinda Ardern so popular? (part 2)
Politics is bloody hard and often brutal, and Labour cop a fair amount of shit, some of it deserved, some not. So it's great to see something like this being done so well. Fuck the tourism angle, the value I see here is New Zealanders…
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UK Labour and antisemitism
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Open mike 20/11/2019
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‘Donations’ or bribes
It has been ironic looking at the basic hysteria that our media are having about the NZ First foundation and its loans to the NZ First party. I suspect that it is likely to be legal - but that is because our legal structure has…
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Daily review 19/11/2019
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Not a good look
Questions have been raised about New Zealand First's party financing arrangements after it was disclosed that the party was receiving loans from a party aligned foundation. From Guyon Espiner at Radio New Zealand: A mysterious foundation that loans money to New Zealand First is under…
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Open mike 19/11/2019
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Daily review 18/11/2019
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Goodbye shitty landlords
The government announced new tenancy protection regulations yesterday. From RNZ, The proposed changes include: Limiting rent increases to once every 12 months Banning rental bidding Ending no-cause evictions An increase to financial penalties Tenants will be able to add minor fittings and improvements, such as…
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Common-wealth Government
Since I've been complaining about lack of structural reform from this government, I felt it was time to test an idea out. I thought I'd sketch out a common accountability framework for the government. It goes like this: 1. WHY If the goals of eradicating…
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Open mike 18/11/2019
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Austerity – who should pay for the financial crisis?
Originally Posted on Nick Kelly's blog My previous post talked about the 2008 financial crisis and the long shadow it casts over politics and society still a decade later. In the UK, the financial crisis was followed by a decade of austerity. These policies included significant cuts…
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Green MP Gareth Hughes speaking bold truth ahead of his retirement at next election
In this interview with Stuff journalist Henry Cooke, Gareth Hughes talks about wanting to spend time with his kids while they're still young, and his frustration with the slowness of change in the face of the enormity of the climate and other crises we are…
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