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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 7th, 2022 - 29 comments
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Date published: 8:14 am, March 7th, 2022 - 107 comments
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.
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 7th, 2022 - 107 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2022 - 114 comments
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Date published: 8:51 pm, March 6th, 2022 - 128 comments
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.
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Date published: 7:51 am, March 6th, 2022 - 85 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2022 - 233 comments
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 5th, 2022 - 35 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 5th, 2022 - 116 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 4th, 2022 - 49 comments
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Date published: 11:20 am, March 4th, 2022 - 65 comments
New Zealand’s time as high end ingredients producer to the world has arrived. But it has big costs.
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Date published: 8:10 am, March 4th, 2022 - 239 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 4th, 2022 - 83 comments
A general discussion post.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 4th, 2022 - 47 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 3rd, 2022 - 17 comments
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 3rd, 2022 - 187 comments
A general discussion post.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 3rd, 2022 - 70 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 2nd, 2022 - 13 comments
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Date published: 11:35 am, March 2nd, 2022 - 230 comments
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…
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 2nd, 2022 - 338 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 2nd, 2022 - 65 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, March 1st, 2022 - 8 comments
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Date published: 1:53 pm, March 1st, 2022 - 75 comments
Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the first Covid case in New Zealand. What a time it has been.
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Date published: 7:30 am, March 1st, 2022 - 18 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:05 am, March 1st, 2022 - 94 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 1st, 2022 - 122 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, February 28th, 2022 - 70 comments
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Date published: 8:27 am, February 28th, 2022 - 254 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:15 am, February 28th, 2022 - 14 comments
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.
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Date published: 6:05 am, February 28th, 2022 - 151 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 28th, 2022 - 66 comments
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