Women who challenged the male domination of sport
History PhD student @LottieHistory wrote a twitter thread recently on the work women have done to participate in sport.
Open mike 08/03/2022
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Daily review 07/03/2022
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National’s tax policy
National has proposed to reverse all tax changes implemented by Labour and claims that the cuts can be managed without damage to the state. But the figure it uses, $1.7 billion a year, includes income tax adjustments only and not the cost of the removal of other taxes.
The International Legion of Territorial Defence
However much infighting there was on the Spanish Republican side between leftists, Communists, anarchists and others, you could be confident that the Nazis were on the other side. In the Ukraine it is not so simple.
Open mike 07/03/2022
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Denazifying Ukraine
One of Vladimir Putin’s objectives in the Russian incursion into Ukraine was to “denazify Ukraine.” With the breakdown in the agreement to allow a humanitarian corridor out of Mariupol, this task will be much harder and the terrorist toll much higher. Once Russia has succeeded however, the world will be a better place for it.
This is awkward
Chris Luxon’s public commitment not to negotiate with the Wellington protestors has been called into question by a Facebook from Maureen Pugh claiming that members of the National Party were talking to the protesters on an almost daily basis.
Open mike 06/03/2022
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Convoy protest aftermath 5/3/22
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Open mike 05/03/2022
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Daily review 04/03/2022
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Is This The Boom We Wanted?
New Zealand’s time as high end ingredients producer to the world has arrived. But it has big costs.
Real protestors do not burn kids playgrounds
Wellington protestors recent activities in torching a 100 year old Pohutukawa, burning a kid’s playground and threatening to occupy Wainuiomata Marae suggests they are being given PR advice by Vladimir Putin.
Convoy protest aftermath 4/3/22
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Open mike 04/03/2022
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Daily review 03/03/2022
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Convoy protest 3/3/22
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Open mike 03/03/2022
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Daily review 02/03/2022
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Russian atrocity time
The Russian armed forces obviously didn’t expect much resistance. I get the distinct impression that they had believed their own ridiculous propaganda (always a characteristic of dumb-arse dictatorships) and expected the Ukrainians to fall weeping in gratitude at their liberation. That clearly didn’t happen. What next…
Convoy protest 2/3/22
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Open mike 02/03/2022
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Daily review 01/03/2022
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Two years of living dangerously
Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the first Covid case in New Zealand. What a time it has been.
Remarkably Hopeful
We will probably never get over the feeling that somehow, if enough people just banded together, it would all get better again, like we did when the United Nations charter was struck.
Convoy protest 29/2/22
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Open mike 01/03/2022
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Daily review 28/02/2022
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Putin threatens Nuclear War
Vladimir Putin, obviously hurting because some of his personal ill gotten wealth has been frozen has upped the ante by raising the spectre of the use of Nuclear Weapons.
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth – Post Carbon Institute
Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth.
Convoy protest 28/2/22
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Open mike 28/02/2022
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Don’t give up New Zealand: omicron, vaccination protection, and why it’s the wrong time to ‘let it rip’
Act as if you have Covid, and look to protect others around you – Ashley Bloomfield
New research shows vaccination protects against omicron. Along with all our other tools – what we do now matters.
This is the knife edge for New Zealand: do we lapse into neoliberal “I’m ok Jack”, and not worry about others? Or do we step up and act collectively to protect us all?
Convoy protest 27/2/22
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Open mike 27/02/2022
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