Who could build social housing?
The plan to have the private sector build social housing appears to be a flop. We need a large, well resourced organisation to take on the task of building these desperately needed houses. Wherever will we find one?
Open mike 25/07/2016
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Jon Stewart on the Republican plan
“The Republicans appear to have a very clear plan for America…” Stewart on fire and funny.
Trump RNC Acceptance speech – protecting LGBTQ and more
Does the US Left understand what it is up against in Donald Trump? Watch him and decide for yourself if he is going to take November. His team have done their homework well.
Oram – seven warning signs for the economy
Rod Oram’s Sunday Star-Times, reprinted on Facebook here, adds yet another voice to the chorous of economic warnings: “Our Road Runner economy is zooming towards the cliff-edge”…
Trump reaction
Featuring a strong endorsement from the KKK.
Helen Kelly – still speaking out
“Pain debilitates you and makes you depressed and you can sort of let the depression seep over you, but if you can, get out and live your life.”
We need to talk about Islam
A post in which Ad responds to TRP’s recent post suggesting that all religion should be banned by suggesting that religious tolerance is a necessary feature of a liberal democracy.
Open mike 23-24/07/2016
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Daily Review 22/07/2016
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Drumpf LIVE!
Establishment candidate and billionaire Donald J Trump is delivering his acceptance speech at the RNC. It’s chockfulla cliches, but hey …
YOOO ESSS AYYYY, YOOO ESSS AYYYY!
If I were John Key
What should John Key do to reassert momentum for National?
Upgrades again and readership growth
Operating system upgrades this weekend. We should get a bit of a speed improvement.
But for all of those new readers (nearly 70,000 of you in May) who haven’t suffered maintenance and failures taking your reading away, if the site goes offline during this weekend (or any other time), it will return. The site runs on a financial donated shoestring and a lot of volunteered time in technical and writing skills.
Roy Morgan
Time to move to Planet Key?
Open mike 22/07/2016
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Daily Review 21/07/2016
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NZ wins nuclear war
Nothing like a good clickbait headline eh!
Why do they hate us?
658 deaths due to terrorism in Europe and the Americas. 28,031 terrorism deaths in the Middle East and rest of the world.
Has Hillary Clinton hired Bernie Sanders’ social media team?
Overnight Hillary Clinton’s campaign team has released a video that not only elegantly mimics and repeats the 1964 classic campaign ad “Confessions of a Republican” but involves the same actor who for exactly the same reasons has decided he cannot support the Republican candidate for the presidency.
Listening to radical voices
Hard times call for strong voices. Jesse Williams speaks from the Black Lives Matter movement.
WINZ sends families to live in garages
The government is demolishing and selling state house while WINZ sends families to live in garages. This is New Zealand in the Eighth Year of the Brighter Future.
Open mike 21/07/2016
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Daily Review 20/07/2016
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Submit to the Cross-Party Homelessness Inquiry
Climate change and trees – a palliative and not a solution
One alleviation for the effects of climate change is to plant trees, or some other form of vegetation. This is to suck up surplus carbon dioxide and to put it into a solid and relatively inert form. And it does. However it simply won’t work when we have rapid climate change.
Who said it better?
Michelle Obama or Melania Trump? The Republication convention descends further in to farce.
Refining an existing capacity to make the rubble bounce and bounce
UK Labour continues to embarrass progressives throughout the world after a majority of MPs voted to support renewal of the Trident program.
Open mike 20/07/2016
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Anti-Corbyn media bias
“When a democracy cannot rely on its press to provide its citizens with information about political parties that meets the basic standards of fairness, then we can expect a political process that is equally unbalanced.”
London School of Economics study.
Daily Review 19/07/2016
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National denies/admits Chinese trade reprisals threatened
Yesterday this was the story: Speaking shortly after his arrival in Indonesia for a three-day trade trip, Key sought to pour cold water […]
Republican circus
The Republican convention circus is under way, a four day parade of ignorance and prejudice.
How to wreck a busway
The Government’s proposal to allow hybrid vehicles to use bus lanes is not only crazy but they did not talk to local authorities before doing so.
Auckland without workers
The unaffordability of Auckland housing is now seriously impacting even moderately well paid professions. As these trends continue, how is Auckland going to cope without without workers?
Democracy and Dunne
The union movement’s digital campaign arm – Together – has sent out the following email asking for support to put Peter Dunne on the spot with his electorate over Easter Trading.
How to collapse liberal society
Liberal society is in reverse in many parts of the world. What do we do to arrest this?