Shattering
When things fall apart, the disintegration can reach such a speed that it’s hard to keep an eye on everything that’s happening. Is liberalism on the cusp?
Daily review 25/02/2020
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Postal voting – essentially dead
Stuff has an article up about last years local body elections in Auckland. As usual the interesting parts are at the end. But I have to reiterate – online voting isn’t the answer. As a programmer, I’d just call it stupid and dangerous.
Open mike 25/02/2020
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Daily review 24/02/2020
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Open mike 24/02/2020
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The Wave Crashing In…
The race to win the most support from Democratic and Independent voters in the Democratic Primaries is over bar the shouting, but…
The real cause of New Zealand’s failing housing system
Simon Wilson has set out in a Herald article historical data which suggests that the cause of the housing crisis can be dated back to decisions made generations ago. But Steven Joyce thinks that the cure is actually the cause of the problem.
How To Get There 23/02/20
Welcome to TS’s Sunday think piece. It’s a blank sheet, a tabula rasa, waiting for your thoughts on the future and How To Get There.
Open mike 23/02/2020
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To Kill Democracy…
If major Democratic Party donors and ‘big business’ lobbyists wanted to monkeywrench democracy in the US, then here’s how they could go about it.
Open mike 22/02/2020
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WTAF NZ First?
It has been reported that NZ First will oppose the Green’s attempt to make the country’s car fleet more sustainable and that it may hold up proposed gun law changes designed to address the problems clearly shown by the Christchurch massacre.
Daily review 21/02/2020
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Sustainable NZ not so sustainable after all
It appears that National’s dream of an alternative Green party that would drive the real Green Party below the threshold is in tatters with news that Sustainable NZ is on the skids.
Pure clear water
It’s probably time to notice why Jones’ Provincial Growth Fund had to step in and provide several million of funding to patch up the water supply emergency in Northland.
Open mike 21/02/2020
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Daily review 20/02/2020
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Moana Jackson on Bob Jones
“You cannot have free speech, if you make some people less free”
National has nothing to be afraid of
National has absolutely nothing to worry about the prosecution of four people for carving up a donation to the National Party.
Open mike 20/02/2020
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Daily review 19/02/2020
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SFO: The National Party Four are Named
Name suppression has been lifted for the four National Party associates charged by the SFO.
National’s donation reporting problem
National’s recent donations returns suggest that a large total of their donations are made in the under $15,000 category, the benefit of which is that the donor’s identity does not have to be disclosed. Update: The four accused have been named.
Green Party call for national discussion on political party funding and donations reform
It’s clear that Parliament is incapable of meaningful reforms to itself, as some political parties have a vested interest in the status quo, a citizens’ assembly would remove bias around these important decisions.
– NZ Green Party
Open mike 19/02/2020
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BREAKING NEWS: Simon Bridges Calls on Simon Bridges to Stand Down
BREAKING NEWS: Simon Bridges calls on the leader of the opposition to stand down while the SFO case is before the courts.
Daily review 18/02/2020
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Back in the U.S.S.A.
The onslaught launched against Trump from sections of corporate media and liberal institutions will look as nothing next to the unified onslaught that will be unleashed against a President Sanders.
The death of Holden
Thousands of households across New Zealand heard the announcement of the complete death of the Holden marque this week, as the death of one of the greatest binaries and one of the most closely teased and contested brands of all: Holden versus Ford.
National received two dodgy $100,000 donations
The SFO charges laid in the District Court reveal that it investigated not one but two dodgy $100,000 donations to National.
Open mike 18/02/2020
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Daily review 17/02/2020
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National’s big economic policy announcement
Simon Bridges has claimed that the average wage earner in the country pays almost 33c in the dollar in taxes. Spoiler alert, they do not.
National is not counting its chickens for granted
National will announce today that tax cuts will be a major policy plank for the next election.
Open mike 17/02/2020
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