Daily review 17/08/2021
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The strange story about the fake news poll results
The Politik website’s inadvertant publishing of fake news of a drop in Labour’s support shows how fragile the system of relying on two sources for a story is.
Open mike 17/08/2021
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Daily review 16/08/2021
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Women, the Taliban and sex based rights
What is being done to women in Afghanistan by the Taliban is sex-based oppression.
The United States Retreat from Afghanistan
President Biden is about to get a Jimmy Carter-scale shellacking with tv footage coming of Afghani Taleban going through Kabul and in short days rifling through the U.S. Embassy as they finally take over the entire country. You don’t win re-election with defeats and withdrawals, and you won’t be thanked for it in the mid-term Senatorial races either.
Open mike 16/08/2021
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Bowker may be a dick but he has not breached the draft hate speech legislation
Troy Bowker has bowled out of Hurricanes Rugby but has claimed free speech martyrdom after the response to his well publicised criticism of the word “Aotearoa”. But his claims of martyrdom like his recent attacks on lefties would appear to be hopelessly overbaked.
The latest battle in the culture wars
This week National agreed to the bill allowing gender self identification to proceed to select committee which was a stark contrast to their position on the bill banning gay conversion therapy. I wonder what happened?
Open mike 15/08/2021
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Open mike 14/08/2021
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Daily review 13/08/2021
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Down With Farmer Bashing
A Guest Post by DB Brown on how and why regenerative stock grazing matters ecologically, and where best to place our anger about climate change.
Open mike 13/08/2021
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Daily review 12/08/2021
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Covid-19 and the risk-based border plan
Details on the government’s plan for New Zealand’s borders, and the Delta variant of Covid.
The Churchill picture
National, the party that claims to be focussed on the issues that matter decided to get upset when the Greens requested the replacement of a picture of a former UK leader who had a reputation for engaging in crimes against humanity.
We are stuck
New Zealand has one of the most concentrated and oligopolistic economies in the world, and also one of the least commercially protected societies. […]
Open mike 12/08/2021
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Daily review 11/08/2021
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Open mike 11/08/2021
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Daily review 10/08/2021
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When We Needed Electricity, it Was Shut Off
Minister Woods and Prime Minister Ardern have been reduced to asking a series of questions about why Transpower got major electricity providers to drastically cut power last night.
Advice from Oz for the anti-China media
There’s so many of them here – Guyon Espiner, Anna Fifield, Lucy Craymer, Sam Sachdeva, Laura Walters, John Daniell, Emile Donovan, Paula Penfold, reef fish with the same few sources. Australian Paul Strutynski provides the textbook in his “Guide for budding foreign policy journalists wanting to work for the Nine Network or Newscorp.”
Ways out of the climate catastrophe
As the IPCC drops its grim, damning report on humans and climate change, and as we are surrounded by social and mainstream media narratives of disaster, we desperately need cogent and hopeful visions of where we can go next, and stories of futures where things work out.
Open mike 10/08/2021
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Daily review 09/08/2021
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National’s civil war continues
In an extraordinary move National’s board has reselected Peter Goodfellow as Party Chairperson and this has caused former MP David Carter to resign as board member and express no confidence in the leadership or in National’s chances at the next election.
Open mike 09/08/2021
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Open mike 08/08/2021
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Open mike 07/08/2021
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Daily review 06/08/2021
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National used to be better than this
Back in the day National used to have a strong urban liberal wing that gave the impression that it was sympathetic to LGBTQI issues. Yesterday that impression was trashed.
What if all New Zealanders had enough to live on?
Rather than economics, can we talk about the values that underlie how we manage the country?
Open mike 06/08/2021
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Daily review 05/08/2021
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