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Daily Review 02/11/2015
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Jonathan Pie wants the world economy explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mckI8SFKqpY
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30 Years after ANZUS (and we’re doing fine)
Friday night's headline on One News - Defence force may be in talks to allow nuclear ship visit - was obviously wrong with respect to the explosive "nuclear" claim. The headline now reads - Defence force may be in talks to allow US ship visit.…
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More than a million comments
As at right now (08:30 NZST 2nd November 2015 1), we passed having more than a million approved and published comments. Many years ago when we had just 500,000 comments when Eddie made this graphed prediction based on the steady growth of the site. As I said…
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Dear Stuart Nash
Stuart Nash has burst into print over at the Daily Blog. It is an interesting post. He talks about how the Labour Party is now more united and disciplined. Fair call. I am pleased to see that this is happening. He talks about how winning…
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Fouling our nest
New Zealand is a beautiful country, and tourism is our second biggest earner of foreign exchange. We'd be stupid to trash the place, right? But last week: Swathes of native forest in collapse, say conservation groups Swathes of native forest are in collapse, conservation groups…
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Open mike 02/11/2015
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Muslim Gives Away Medal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1efwKglwZU
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Paying a generous wage
The story of an enlightened employer (in the US): Here's What Really Happened at That Company That Set a $70,000 Minimum Wage ... An entrepreneur since he was a teen, Price prided himself on treating employees well at Gravity, which he co-founded in 2004 with…
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Indonesia is burning
There is a catastrophic event happening in one of the world's more populous nations which is receiving very little attention from the media. Indonesia is burning and no one is paying attention. George Monbiot said this in the Guardian on the subject: A great tract of Earth…
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Open mike 01/11/2015
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ABs vs Australia
Will the All Blacks be the first team to defend a RWC title? For those staying up to watch the game....
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Finally Fighting for Democracy?
So I’m sitting here drinking a morning coffee and I read in The Guardian that Obama is sending troops to Syria. And I’m thinking things like “arse-hole” and “bastard” and “fuck off!” But then down the bottom of the article there’s Former US diplomat Robert…
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Petition on Slater’s hate speech
You can sign the petition to the Human Rights Commission here. https://twitter.com/actionstation/status/659951356724154368
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US ship visit and nuclear free NZ
Andrea Vance broke a potentially explosive story on One News last night: Defence force may be in talks to allow nuclear ship visit (video). Nuclear ship? Red alert!! An invitation to the US has been extended, this is part of the Royal New Zealand Navy's…
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Open mike 31/10/2015
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Daily Review 30/10/2015
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Food Bank Charity
I noticed the usual pre-Christmas (Christ, is that just weeks away?) call for food and donations from our ‘charitable’ organisations. That got me to thinking about why people find themselves having to step through the doors of these charities and expose themselves and their lives…
child welfare class class war discrimination Ethics food minimum wage poverty quality of life unemployment welfare
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Weekend social 30/10/2015
Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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Dirty Politics was in the public interest
Today's anonymous editorial in The Herald makes for interesting reading: Dirty Politics passes public interest test Blogger Cameron Slater and author Nicky Hager ... How I hate seeing these two compared in any way! ... have much in common, even beyond the emails one wrote…
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Q&A with Scoop’s Alastair Thompson
For 16 years Scoop has been making an enormous contribution to the NZ media landscape. They reckon that "the news is broken", and they want to build a sustainable independent news organisation for the people of New Zealand. Scoop's Alastair Thompson will be joining us…
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Were people smugglers paid money to take refuges away from New Zealand?
Amnesty International has published a report By Hook or by Crook: Australia's Abuse of Asylum-Seekers at Sea which has rightfully been described as a damning indictment of Australia's handling of the refugee crisis. The report reviews Australia's handling of the refugee boat interception of the Pelabuhan Ratu and…
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Five years as a united Auckland
Every letterbox in Auckland received a 16 page A4 full color glossy this week entitled "Five Years as a United Auckland" Apparently five years is worth celebrating. The Councillor job interviews are coming up next year, so let's run the ruler over this glorious propaganda.…
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Open mike 30/10/2015
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Daily Review 29/10/2015
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Tomorrow – Q&A with Scoop’s Alastair Thompson
For 16 years Scoop has been making an enormous contribution to the NZ media landscape. They reckon that "the news is broken", and they want to build a sustainable independent news organisation for the people of New Zealand. On Friday at 10am Scoop's Alastair Thompson…
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Technology and the law – and going after Hager
Technology moves much more quickly than the law, throwing up all sorts of questions about privacy, intellectual property, consent, responsibility, ownership, and more. We have one interesting case in point developing in NZ right now, with the recent supreme court ruling that a computer file…
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Open mike 29/10/2015
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Daily Review 28/10/2015
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“A creeping authoritarianism from the current government”
The reaction to Westpac handing over Nicky Hager's data to police is still playing out. Dita de Boni writes: Privacy right is not a right when not 'right' I don't know about you, but in my life I seem to recall hearing numerous times that…
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