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Open Mike 13/08/2017
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Fire and Fury over North Korea
Donald Trump may not know much about the last time the United States Air Force unleashed fire and fury over North Korea. The Koreans certainly remember it. In the later stages of the Korean war in the 1950s, unchallenged B-29s used bombs and napalm to…
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Great (Aussie) video on the gender pay gap... [twitter_video id="895540259642986497"]
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CTU President: All the way for equal pay
A week of action on equal pay starts today – there are events all around the country. We’d love to see you there Watching the Minister for Workplace Relations, Michael Woodhouse, introduce the Employment (Pay Equity and Equal Pay) Bill, it struck me that the…
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The subversive power of joy
This article by Janey Stephenson is cross posted from opendemocracy.net (hat tip Bronwyn Hayward). ________________________________________________________________________ The unexpected, spontaneous and pleasantly disruptive nature of collective celebration is one of the great equalisers of social and political struggle. Credit: Sisters Uncut/Jade Jackman. All rights reserved. When you hear the…
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Dylan Horrocks cartoon fundraiser for the Greens
https://twitter.com/dylanhorrocks/status/895760021455228928 This is the original black & white art for page 152 of Dylan Horrocks's graphic novel Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen (published 2014, nominated for an Eisner Award). In this sequence, the main characters find themselves inside the land of Cockaygne, an imaginary…
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#IamMetiria for NZer of the Year
Newshub reports a surge in nominations for Metiria to be the New Zealander of the Year. I just love this idea and would encourage others to nominate her too. So even if she's forced out of parliament (I don't say politics, I'm sure she'll still…
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Open Mike 12/08/2017
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Daily Review 11/08/2017
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Impressed with James Shaw
I confess that I haven't paid much attention to James Shaw before, but I have been very impressed with him during recent events. He stood by Metiria Turei completely, never wavered, never blinked. He acted decisively on the two dissenting MPs. He has assumed sole…
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Do you?
First up, poverty isn't a choice. Poverty is a deliberate and predictable systemic effect of liberal capitalism. Second up, ending poverty isn't about providing opportunities. Ending poverty is about governments channelling back to people what the market has taken away. Those are the facts, and…
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NZF is finished
Here's a reckon for you. NZF will fall below 5% this election. Winston is swanning about the place still making bold claims, but the latest UMR poll has NZF support cut in half, from 16 percent down to 8. I think as Labour gains strength…
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Open Mike 11/08/2017
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Annette King’s valedictory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlsEeZXp7C4 An excellent account of her time as the longest serving woman MP in the NZ parliament. (need to skip the first couple of minutes while everyone gets seated ready)
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Daily Review 10/08/2017
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Petition to Replace Mike Hosking as Election Debate Presenter
Dear TVNZ, Please replace Mike Hosking as the host for the upcoming election debates on August 31, September 14 and September 20. Hosking is well known for his aggressively right wing views in his segments as a political commentator. As such, Hosking cannot be trusted…
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Election debates to be 2 vs. 1
https://twitter.com/NZStuffPolitics/status/895419951065976833 https://twitter.com/richardhills777/status/895417089585958912
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Gower rightly apologises to Greens
Just one of many apologies he should be making: Patrick Gower apologises for claiming poll result drove Metiria Turei to quit Newshub political editor Patrick Gower has apologised to Green Party leader James Shaw for suggesting a bad poll result drove his co-leader to quit.…
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Green MP Marama Davidson on keeping the faith
We will not forget the thousands of you who came to us with your stories of hardship. https://www.facebook.com/maramadavidsonmp/videos/509111416091996/ edit - (If the video in this post isn't visible to you here is a direct link to FB of Marama Davidson's kōrero from last night).
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How high will Ardern’s Labour go?
If Jacinda Ardern's Labour can get a jump to 33-36% in the polls in just one week, how high can it go for the election? Political commentators are picking over 40%. We need to see further gains coming from National. Jacinda Ardern is the charasmatic…
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Nat insults Indian community
Lots of big stuff going on at the moment, but other stories are significant too. The extent of the coverage of this blunder will be worrying the Nats - National's Paul Goldsmith accused of blaming Indians for housing crisis National Party MP Paul Goldsmith has…
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Open Mike 10/08/2017
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It is National’s time for the brown trousers
If you want to know why the right is farting so much personal smoke, why David Farrar appears to now be panicking over at Kiwiblog, and why our old trolls appear to have suddenly awoken from their somnolent state at the sewer and started re-appearing…
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Two good polls for Labour – and a call to arms for the Greens
Newshub's poll has Labour up to 33% and Jacinda Ardern neck and neck with English in the preferred PM question. The Herald has also leaked a second poll ending today: The Herald can also exclusively report leaked results from the latest UMR poll, which finished…
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No Way Back.
A close family member told us (Checkpoint) today that extended family members had found the last few weeks “galling” listening to Metiria Turei's claims she had committed benefit fraud because she and her young daughter needed the domestic purposes benefit to survive. The family member…
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Corbyn-esque NZ
It's true that NZ does not have a Corbyn, but... Something's happening right under our noses in New Zealand and a fair few people are missing it. When Metiria Turei highlighted the fact that New Zealand's Social Security system is deployed as a weapon against…
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Daily Review 09/08/2017
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Metiria to resign as leader
As if things could not get any crazier. In breaking news ... https://twitter.com/CheckpointRNZ/status/895149687749193729 This post will be updated as it develops. https://twitter.com/CorinDann/status/895152424578633728 https://twitter.com/MattNippert/status/895152174522667009 And because we need some humour on this dark day ... https://twitter.com/DavidSlack/status/895151480142954498
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Newshub poll tonight
You'd better not be teasing me Newshub, or I will be vexed. https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/895104744573747201
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