Open mike 18/01/2022
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Daily review 17/01/2022
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New Zealand’s Omicron options
It will be a few days before we know if the omicron variant of Covid-19 is starting to spread in New Zealand. There are things we can be doing that will determine how that goes.
Open mike 17/01/2022
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Blinken and Blind-Sided?
Russian peacekeepers are already leaving Kazakhstan having nipped the ‘colour revolution’ in the bud. Blinken clearly didn’t have a clue when he said Russians never leave the house. Russian intelligence was superb. Now we wait for Russia’s response to US likely refusal to pull back from its borders. One thing I’d bet on – no invasion of Ukraine.
The Department of Earthly Gifts
Where western minds are busy arguing if indigenous knowledge is science, botanist and first nations woman Robin Wall Kimmerer exemplifies how to do both at the same time.
Open mike 16/01/2022
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Open mike 15/01/2022
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Daily review 14/01/2022
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What about those neat capital gains on housing, eh?
Labour are doing the things about the housing crisis they said they would. It’s not working.
More Anarchy in the UK
Boris Johnson’s reign as UK Prime Minister may be terminal after news of a Downing Street party held during lockdown was leaked to the press.
Open mike 14/01/2022
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Daily review 13/01/2022
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Open mike 13/01/2022
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Daily review 12/01/2022
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Open mike 12/01/2022
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Daily review 11/01/2022
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Is it time for the Greens to go their own way?
Climate, ecology, welfare, housing – we are now at the point for the Greens to go ‘fuck it, time to go back to our radical roots’.
What does Luxon do about Hipango?
Harete Hipango is in the news again, this time for posing with a group of anti vaxxers and posting a photo and making some pretty way out there comments on social media.
Open mike 11/01/2022
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Daily review 10/01/2022
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It’s Time.
In seven or eight days from now, the dutiful lackeys of the NZ government and the public health dept they direct, are set to come after every child in NZ between the ages of 5 and 12 with injections of m-RNA to hand.
Human rights and MIQ
Well known socialite, fashion blogger and apparent Constitutional expert Jamie Ridge thinks that the country’s MIQ arrangements are completely unconstitutional.
Open mike 10/01/2022
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Open mike 09/01/2022
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Unwanted guests?
When I heard US Secretary of State Blinken’s take-away line from his D.C. press conference on RNZ’s news bulletin today on events in Kazakhstan ‘I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it’s sometimes very difficult to get them to leave’ I wondered what the Iraqis would think.
Book Review Helen Kelly: her life
The Helen Kelly biography by Rebacca Macfie provides a clear and intense overview of what has happened to New Zealand society over the past 40 years from a time of high union membership and equality to now where unions struggle and inequality is significant.
Open mike 08/01/2022
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Daily review 07/01/2022
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Open mike 07/01/2022
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Daily review 06/01/2022
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Australia’s Omicron problem
With over 61,000 new Covid cases reported yesterday Australia is in the midst of an infection surge that it has not seen before. What lessons can New Zealand learn from Australia’s handling of the pandemic?
Open mike 06/01/2022
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Daily review 05/01/2022
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The Long Covid Post
It’s understandable that public health, governments and the media focused initially on acute covid, but we’re two years in now, it’s well past time to put long covid to the forefront as well.
Open mike 05/01/2022
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