Daily review 09/03/2020
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Red tape bonfire of the vanities
National has promised a bonfire of regulations. Just like conservatives in Australia, the United Kingdom, America and previous National administrations.
No Right Turn: Parliament and the pandemic
Idiot/Savant writes about what the government can and can’t do with sitting and the election.
The politics of gun control
National and NZ First are frustrating the passage of the Arms Legislation Bill by raising issues that may appeal to extremists but will not make the country a safer place after the Christchurch massacre.
Open mike 09/03/2020
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Quick Question.
Your material life; would you trade it for the world?
Update/edit.
Interesting that the definitive answers all ran in one direction.
How To Get There 08/03/20
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Open mike 08/03/2020
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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out
Changes to the Residential Tenancies Act have a few landlords threatening to quit the business.
What the Government has done for beneficiaries
In Parliament this week Carmel Sepuloni outlined action being taken by the Government to implement the recommendations of the Welfare Expert Advisory Group designed to improve the plight of beneficiaries.
Open mike 07/03/2020
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The politics of hand washing
Simon Bridges thinks that getting people to wash their hands and removing unemployment stand down periods is tinkering but that National’s still unreleased economic policy will solve the crisis.
RIP Jeanette Fitzsimons
Former Greens co leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died.
Open mike 06/03/2020
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Daily review 05/03/2020
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Buttigeig 2020?
Allowing for a Biden victory in the Democratic Party primary process, then come November, voters in the US will be voting on whether Buttiegieg or Trump will be the next President of the USA. That’s what I’m picking, and here’s why…
Can Bernie find a clutch and change gear?
The basic problem with Bernie Sanders campaign is that his sole political role since the start of his career has been as the archetypal outsider. He injects ideas into the political debate that didn’t get play time, but he didn’t concentrate on making those things happen. Now it is costing him.
Bridges thinks the solution to Covid 19 is tax cuts
Simon Bridges thinks that tax cuts are the best way to address financial stress caused by businesses by the Covid 19 epidemic. Even though businesses under financial stress will be paying little if any tax and a tax cut would have little if any effect.
Open mike 05/03/2020
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Daily review 04/03/2020
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Democratic Party Encounters Cliff. Jumps.
Just like Blairites in the UK and the ABC club here…the Democratic Party elites in the US seem to be the dumber type of parasite that willfully kills their hosts.
Super Tuesday
In the US of A today is Super Tuesday. California, Texas, North Carolina and 11 other states and one territory will be voting for their preferred candidate.
Afghanistan pushes the US out
I have really no idea who to cheer for about the Afghanistan peace
agreement. If the Taliban were the answer, it was a pretty fucking
stupid question.
Open mike 04/03/2020
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Daily review 03/03/2020
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Starmer, Biden and Benji
Two leadership races and a General election appear to be going to conservative candidates. What does that mean for parliamentary democracy?
The trouble with MMP
The trouble with MMP is that sometimes members of minority parties court media attention by being overtly racist.
Open mike 03/03/2020
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Daily review 02/03/2020
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Climate change – the right schemes and the left despairs
The Australian Liberal Government has signalled a movement away from solar and wind power to untested technologies including carbon capture, hydrogen and lithium. Meanwhile the woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement is calling for civil disobedience to force institutions to respond to the climate crisis.
Open mike 02/03/2020
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The Herald creates a panic and Trump says Coronavirus is a hoax
If a society ever wanted to set out how to handle a pandemic the Herald’s media response and Donald Trump’s handling of the situation provide perfect examples of what not to do.
Happy cows and land restoration
The point here isn’t to go ‘boo vegans’, it’s to point starkly to the problems with the current food and environment debate, and show case the pathways beyond the meat/no meat binary.
How To Get There 01/03/20
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Open mike 01/03/2020
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A Welcome Change Coming.
There’s an increasing number of progressive and conservatives who are rediscovering their moral compass in these, the final days of unfettered liberalism.