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Date published: 7:00 am, August 12th, 2019 - 153 comments
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Date published: 9:08 am, August 11th, 2019 - 206 comments
Autonomous sanctions imposed on Iran and Venezuela by the US are expressly designed to drive whole populations into poverty to bring about regime change. They are sociopathic. Based on its values, The National Party wants to make such sanctions New Zealand’s policy. Extraodinary!
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 11th, 2019 - 53 comments
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 11th, 2019 - 117 comments
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Date published: 8:00 am, August 10th, 2019 - 75 comments
If we thought the devastation and mess caused by a flood ripping through the old dump at Fox Glacier village was bad, just wait until a decent storm punches through the old dump of New Zealand’s fifth largest city on its coastline. It’s getting close.
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Date published: 7:30 am, August 10th, 2019 - 103 comments
We are frogs in the pot.
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 10th, 2019 - 196 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 9th, 2019 - 18 comments
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Date published: 2:29 pm, August 9th, 2019 - 67 comments
Matt Blomfield has brought the Whaleoil site from the official assignee. This fulfills a long held wish of, not only Matt, but a whole pile of people that this arsehole-run paid-for defamation lying site have damaged over the years. Chapter 27 of the Margie Thompson’s Whale Oil book is now available online…
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Date published: 8:37 am, August 9th, 2019 - 105 comments
New Zealand First’s late decision to promote a referendum concerning abortion has caught everyone including its spokesperson Tracy Martin by surprise and is the latest example of last minute changes of position.
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 9th, 2019 - 144 comments
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Date published: 5:52 pm, August 8th, 2019 - 71 comments
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Date published: 3:18 pm, August 8th, 2019 - 58 comments
With yesterday’s announcement by the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates by 1%, some are suggesting that the government should embark on a massive public works spree to stimulate the economy while increasing national debt at low interest rates. But Kiwisaver reform may be more effective.
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Date published: 8:23 am, August 8th, 2019 - 30 comments
The Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty between the United State and Russia signed by Reagan and Gorbachev in 1987 formally ended on August 2nd. On Sunday the new US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper dined privately with Winston Peters. Before and during his trip to the Pacific, Mark Esper called for placement of intermediate-range US missiles in Asia.
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 8th, 2019 - 144 comments
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Date published: 6:21 am, August 8th, 2019 - 84 comments
The case for reducing mass air travel rests in looking at whole systems rather than counting the carbon emissions of each flight.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 7th, 2019 - 34 comments
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Date published: 1:03 pm, August 7th, 2019 - 129 comments
Take a breath, it wouldn’t be the end of the world. In an age of climate breakdown, where reforesting is a critical component of climate mitigation and adaptation, we need to stop cutting down so many trees, and move to forest-based thinking.
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Date published: 7:42 am, August 7th, 2019 - 119 comments
Activist Greta Thunberg is attending a United Nations global warming summit in New York, and will get there by boat not airplane. But should she consider flying?
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 7th, 2019 - 88 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 6th, 2019 - 94 comments
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Date published: 2:20 pm, August 6th, 2019 - 27 comments
Five days ago Simon Bridges predicted that unemployment had gone up. The latest figures show that the unemployment rate is at its lowest rate for the past eleven years. Update: My enthusiasm was too high. It has been pointed out to me that the Bridges tweet was from last year. My apologies to Simon …
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Date published: 7:43 am, August 6th, 2019 - 21 comments
A slight rewrite of an ad currently on Parliament’s careers website.
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 6th, 2019 - 106 comments
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Date published: 12:59 am, August 6th, 2019 - 188 comments
After increased police presence and action at Ihumātao on Monday night, the call went out again for people to come to support the Protectors, and they did. More support can be offered at solidarity events being held across the country today.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 5th, 2019 - 104 comments
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Date published: 12:19 pm, August 5th, 2019 - 52 comments
America has suffered two mass shootings of civilians in the past couple of days with at least one being committed by a white supremacist. But the Republican Party is fixated on Antifa, a loose organisation that has been implicated in no mass shootigns.
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Date published: 8:28 am, August 5th, 2019 - 44 comments
A Recent High Court decision in Australia suggests that protection of indigenous land rights may be better than we think.
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 5th, 2019 - 77 comments
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Date published: 9:56 am, August 4th, 2019 - 71 comments
Only 6 months ago the UK Liberal Democrat party was at a real low, with their leader resigning and the polls about 7%: same as the last five years. Fast forward five months from that and they are ready to become a major opposition party of opposition. Can the Greens do the same?
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 4th, 2019 - 42 comments
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