Open mike 02/01/2022
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New Year. Good News.
This one goes out to all those good people running round like their hair’s on fire.
Hope Punk 2022
Here’s a kind of map to a future where things work out.
A few random predictions for 2022
A few random predictions for 2022.
Open mike 01/01/2022
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Daily review 31/12/2021
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Open mike 31/12/2021
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Daily review 30/12/2021
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Let’s punch for peace
Today’s Herald editorial says New Zealand ‘wisely’ doesn’t punch above its weight in military activities. That’s not true – I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear weapons and nuclear war that resulted in a knockout – New Zealand’s suspension from the ANZUS alliance on a point of principle.
New Zealand 2 Covid 0 so far …
But Omicron may be loose.
Open mike 30/12/2021
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Daily review 29/12/2021
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On the death of Joan Didion
We need to remember Joan Didion, who died December 23rd, as perhaps the best defensive pessimist we’ve ever had. She nailed the feet […]
Open mike 29/12/2021
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Daily review 28/12/2021
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What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners …
What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners turns into a homily from Beau on the power of getting community change going when and only when you have the organisational power to pull it off month after month after month.
The Standard’s 2021 political awards
It is that time of year where nostalgia kicks in and the desire to review current events dims. So much has happened this year. It has truly been twelve months of the praiseworthy and the absolutely pitiful. And it is time to reflect on the personalities who made us smile, made us frown and made us raise our eyebrows to breaking point.
Open mike 28/12/2021
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Daily review 27/12/2021
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Open mike 27/12/2021
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Open mike 26/12/2021
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Die Hard is a Christmas movie
Here at the Standard we choose to debate the important issues of the day. What needs to be done about climate change, how the Country’s covid response is going (remarkably well and don’t believe the naysayers), and which National faction is leaking and undermining which leader. But there is one debate that is currently raging that has until now not been addressed …
Open mike 25/12/2021
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Daily review 24/12/2021
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The pandemic is resiliency training
Fear and loathing on both sides of the fence, or adaptation and resiliency? We do have some choices.
Open mike 24/12/2021
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Daily review 23/12/2021
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Our Energy Upheaval
Ministers Wood, Shaw and Parker (Energy, Climate Change, and RMA reform respectively), must pull their eyes downward from the misty clouds of climate change and stuff multiple decades away and down into the jagged, shadowy deal-by-deal path of the transition to clean energy.
Open mike 23/12/2021
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Daily review 22/12/2021
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Revisiting Riverton: the Longwood Loop food resiliency project
Key here is the resilience politics of greenies, DIYers and anarchists, where we just don’t wait for the government to act, we get on with and build the new ways ourselves.
Open mike 22/12/2021
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Daily review 21/12/2021
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Can Labor Win Australia Back?
Coming up surprising quickly in 2022 is the Australian federal election – and Labor has a good shot.
Open mike 21/12/2021
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Daily review 20/12/2021
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