Open mike 11/10/2021
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China and Real Estate Developers
Speaking of contagion, China is dealing with an outbreak of real estate market ebola.
Open mike 10/10/2021
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Terra Incognita
The future can seem scary but we do not face it alone.
Chevron v Donziger
Despite spending over two years on home detention Attorney Steven Donziger, who successfully sued Chevron for the environmental carnage caused by its activities in Ecuador, was sentenced to the maximum jail time for refusing to hand over devices containing confidential client information protected by attorney client privilege in a prosecution mounted by lawyers with Chevron links before a pro Oil industry Judge.
Pandora papers and NZ
While we have mainly been occupied with containing the current Covid-19 outbreak, world news has been looking at documents revealing probable dirty capital and tax dodging by the affluent. NZ has a delayed local problem with this. Warning was given. We should just terminate the supporting legislation and replace it with transparency. (Updated)
Open mike 09/10/2021
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Daily review 08/10/2021
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Open mike 08/10/2021
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Daily review 07/10/2021
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Gender split is interesting in latest poll
The latest Roy Morgan poll was run between August 30th and September 26th. The headline results of Labour/Greens with 55% (increase by 3.5%) against opposition National/Act/Maori parties on 41% (up 0.5%) were good enough. But they also showed the gender split.. Women are deserting the right.
Open mike 07/10/2021
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Gut Feeling and Common Sense
With clear information people can and should be expected to make optimal and sub-optimal choices & decisions.
Daily review 06/10/2021
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Holding our covid nerve
and keeping the faith.
That our covid response is not working out perfectly doesn’t mean we or the government are failing. What we need more of at this point are stories about ‘what if things work out’. Not in a Pollyanna or return to BAU sense, but that we can still be ok. We need strong narratives of what that might be like, us being ok despite the pandemic.
Have we just thrown the fight, before the war has ended?
With all the unfortunate rhetoric around “giving up on the elimination strategy”.
Small businesspeople around me, who have quietly carried on with the program, and have been supportive of the Government strategy of elimination, even though, in many cases, it has been personally costly, are telling me,, “why did we bother”!
It doesn’t matter if it is the actual Government intention, or the media interpretation, the damage has now been done.
Right now Sonny Fatupaito is an essential worker
News that the head of Waikato’s Mongrel Mob chapter was given an essential workers exemption to travel to and around Auckland recently has attracted derision from the usual quarters. But right now Sonny Fatupaito’s help is essential.
Open mike 06/10/2021
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Daily review 05/10/2021
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Open mike 05/10/2021
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Daily review 04/10/2021
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The AUKUS Shell-game
While the agreement between the 19th Century anglophone maritime powers the US and the UK to admit Australia to the exclusive nuclear submarine club gained all the headlines, another much more significant and imminent agreement was reached between the US and Australian governments on expanding US bases in Australia in the AUSMIN statement. The US gains another unsinkable aircraft carrier.
Open mike 04/10/2021
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Priorities?
Is setting priorities just a matter of resources?
Who are these angry Aucklanders?
This weekend there have been two attempts to undermine the current Auckland Covid lock down. Brian Tamaki’s was not the most ludicrous.
Open mike 03/10/2021
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Goodbye Gladys
Mike Hosking’s go to female Politician Gladys Berejiklian has resigned in disgrace after the Independent Commission against Corruption announced a formal inquiry into her involvement in preferential grants given to organisations in her former boyfriend’s seat from which it is alleged he attempted to receive a commission.
Open mike 02/10/2021
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Daily review 01/10/2021
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Revisiting sports, trans inclusiveness and women’s sex based rights
The UK Sports Council has released new guidance on trans inclusion in sports, including in relation to biological women
China, Australia, and Coal Energy
China, which previously banned coal imports from Australia, is running out of coal. Will Australia uses the resumption of coal supply as a diplomatic play?
Open mike 01/10/2021
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Daily review 30/09/2021
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Covid does not give a fuck about your plans
This week we have seen reckons from John Key, Act and National on how we should be loosening up Covid lockdown restrictions. Yesterday’s 45 new cases shows how dangerous it is to think that dealing with Covid is a simple management exercise.
Open mike 30/09/2021
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This turkey is struggling cooped up in a bubble
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas but Kiwis do, don’t they?