Open mike 25/04/2025
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Poking the dragon
Seven cross-party New Zealand politicians have just paid a “private” visit to Taiwan. They were received publicly by the Taiwanese government, who paid for the trip. In the current geopolitical environment, it was extraordinarily foolish.
Daily review 24/04/2025
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Open mike 24/04/2025
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Daily review 23/04/2025
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Did someone mention “class”?
The “Win the Wealth Tax” group offers a welcome return to Labour’s political and policy roots.
The Fall of Saigon 1975. Fifty years of repeating what was forgotten.
“The only lesson we learn from history is that we do not learn the lessons of history.” It’s about time we changed that.
Open mike 23/04/2025
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Farewell Pope Francis
“Let us not be afraid to say it: we want change, real change, structural change. The system has imposed the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature.”
Open mike 22/04/2025
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Daily review 22/04/2025
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Open mike 21/04/2025
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The National MP and the religious sect
National MP Hamish Campbell has been the subject of a media pile up recently for being a member of the Two by Two Christian Sect. But the treatment appears at this stage to be an overreaction.
Open mike 20/04/2025
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50501
The US people take to the streets again.
Open mike 19/04/2025
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Daily review 18/04/2025
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Daily review 17/04/2025
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Open mike 17/04/2025
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Spare a thought for poor Nick Mowbray
Nick Mowbray, who has supported and promoted a number of right wing causes, finds himself losing out big time because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. And is complaining.
Daily review 16/04/2025
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Open mike 16/04/2025
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Daily review 15/04/2025
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Open mike 15/04/2025
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And now, the end is near …
It looks like the three way marriage made in hell is on the rocks.
Daily review 14/04/2025
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Open mike 14/04/2025
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The Empire strikes back
A recent run on US Government bonds showing possible coordination between different countries may have been the reason that Donald Trump walked back the worst of his tariff changes. And he has also realised the US can’t make cheap IPhones.
Open mike 13/04/2025
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Why Write (and Read)?
Art has political power and every voice counts.
Open mike 12/04/2025
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Daily review 11/04/2025
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The Trump Shock: Why the US President Crashed the Global Economy
There is a method to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff madness. The chaos and confusion is deliberate; the aim is nothing less than the […]
The maniac president blinks, but for a moment…
Faced with an inability to fund the the US government debt, Donald Trump halted his insane rush to toward a global depression. However the political system in the US that produced this global economic insanity is still there and is still nonfunctional. Time to disengage and let the US time to heal itself.
Open mike 11/04/2025
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Daily review 10/04/2025
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