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Daily Review 26/02/2016
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Humans of Remuera revolt against the Unitary Plan
This week the Auckland Council debated proposed changes to the unitary plan. Residents of the leafy Eastern Suburbs were up in arms at the prospect that more people were going to live there and their homes were going to be surrounded by huge apartment buildings…
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Open Mike 26/02/2016
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Old rich white man complains about another group receiving privilege
Don Brash is in the news again complaining that a certain sector of our society may be receiving some sort of privilege. He is claiming that the decision not to prosecute Josie Butler for throwing a fake penis at Steven Joyce is because she is…
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the Global Death Economy
One of my frustrations with the mainstream political parties is how they are avoiding the obvious using policies of 'pretend and extend' symptoms management and crisis fire fighting. It's nice to talk about where KiwiSaver and NZ Super is going to be in 30 years…
business capitalism class war climate change debt / deficit disaster Economy energy Environment equality farming Financial markets food overseas investment peak oil poverty Privatisation sustainability
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Open Mike 25/02/2016
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Daily Review 24/02/2016
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Christchurch, keyisms and this state we’re in.
Seems that Christchurch people are quite reasonably demanding that all residential insurance claims be settled by the end of March – ie, after a period of five years and six weeks (some say it’s five years, six months and six weeks). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQmxeD2f2xE (speakers begin at…
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Guantanamo Bay to close?
Barak Obama is moving to fulfil an election pledge made in 2008 and close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre. From the New York Times: President Obama on Tuesday sent Congress a long-awaited plan for closing the Guantánamo Bay prison, beginning a final push to fulfill…
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Open Mike 24/02/2016
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Daily Review 23/02/2016
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The flag change campaign’s last throw of the dice
National must really want that flag referendum to succeed. Not only does John Key have a new flag badge attached permanently to his lapel and groups of National MPs are having secret meetings to try and get the project over the line, but groups of New…
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Turkey is in trouble and the US is part of it
I figure that the US is unhappy with ultimatums and other rash actions from Turkey. I figure this because the MSM has started printing articles entitled something like "Turkey's actions make world war more likely." Whoah! However when I looked at the very same NZ…
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What poverty?: Emirates declares 1st Class a success
Presented with no additional comment: Emirates' boss in New Zealand says there's strong demand from Kiwis willing to spend more than $10,000 apiece for first class travel. Chris Lethbridge said the airline was selling first class suites for around $12,000 to Europe. The airline has…
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Going too far
I'm all in favour of robust political debate, and letting the world know that all too often the tories are greedy, useless and unethical. But this is going too far - Arrest after foul smelling muck tipped over Gerry Brownlee Chirstchurch Police confirmed the charge…
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Open Mike 23/02/2016
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Daily Review 22/02/2016
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Business as Usual
Danyl McLauchlan over at The Dim-Post makes some observations about the latest Roy Morgan and Colmar Brunton polls out. My reading of it: that two years into their third term, the Labour and Greens opposition have been quite ineffective in getting soft National voters to…
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Latest Colmar Brunton poll result
Last night the latest Colmar Brunton poll results were released. One news chose to follow the line that it was good for National because the TPPA has caused no damage to its support. Such simplistic analysis is par for the course and very frustrating. It…
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Christchurch – 5 years on
The most destructive and deadly earthquake in the Christchurch / Canterbury sequence happened on 22 February 2011 at 12:51 pm. The anniversary has attracted media attention. The Herald's (Olivia Carville and Mike Scott) piece - 'Don't think about the bad stuff': How the children of…
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Open Mike 22/02/2016
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General Lord Dannatt: UK should work with Assad in Syria
Revealing comments here from some establishment players. General Lord Dannatt, former UK Army Chief of Staff 2006-2009 and Peter Ford, former UK ambassador to Syria. Presented here with no additional comment: Lord Dannatt said the Russian's had aptly demonstrated how to counter the extremist threat…
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Homosexual law reform happened 30 years ago
Yesterday I attended the Gay Pride parade in Auckland. Variations of the parade have occurred for a long time and the idea is that sexual diversity should be celebrated. I was part of the Labour contingent which included Andrew Little and a number of MPs.…
Andrew Little david cunliffe Deep stuff democratic participation gay rights grant robertson Judith Collins labour national phil goff Politics same old national
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Cyclone Winston
Cyclone Winston is the strongest ever southern hemisphere storm. Part of the expected pattern of increased extreme weather events due to climate change. Fiji has been hit hard. The best coverage is from RNZ: Winston leaves trail of destruction See also in The Herald: Cyclone…
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Open Mike 21/02/2016
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Another poverty report to ignore
This week saw the release of yet another report on the appalling state of child poverty in NZ - State of the Nation 2016 report. Here's coverage on Newshub - New report criticises Govt targets as ineffective The Salvation Army has released its latest State…
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The responses to the Bain report leak
The views of various commentators are starting to percolate through and range from the obsequious to the surprisingly well informed. Obsequious is the only word available to describe this pitiful attempt by Larry Williams who is starting to write in the Herald. He shows that…
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NZMWU scores $144,000 win against Talleys
' National Ltd™ sponsors and corporate scum, Talleys, have been found to have broken the law - again - and fined record $144,000 by the Employment Relations Authority. The Authority's decision relates to the Talley-owned, AFFCO-managed, South Pacific Meats company's systematic and on-going refusal to comply with the law…
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Open Mike 20/02/2016
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