Open mike 04/03/2025
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Daily review 03/03/2025
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Canadian billionaire linked to right wing websites buys a near 10% of NZME shares
James “Jim” Grenon spends almost $10 million to buy a ~10% stake in the publisher of NZ Herald and owner of Newstalk ZB.
3 Things To Know About This Government – 8 Things We Should All Do Now
This is an excerpt from a longer article: What Can We Do Again?
Helen Clark’s nuanced take on world events
In a recent interview Helen Clark managed to neatly summarise current world problems and express a desire for New Zealand to maintain its independent foreign policy.
Open mike 03/03/2025
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The new world order
Yesterday’s press conference involving Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky suggests that the United States is now solidly aligned with Russia against the Western World and Western values.
Open mike 02/03/2025
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The Chinese Shadowboxing Show at Sea
The World is at war and the level of mind-control is mind-blowing.
Looks like rail enabled ferries may be back
You have to hand it to Winston and New Zealand First. On the issue of rail enabled ferries they have performed outstanding work. That good that what looked like a foregone conclusion, the dismantling of the Cook Strait Rail Link, may not happen after all.
Capitawism
“Socialism only sounds good in theory!”
Open mike 01/03/2025
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Daily review 28/02/2025
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Its the end of the Media as we know it …
Two recent media related stories made me wonder if there was now formal acknowledgement that the concept that media should fearlessly and impartially report the news is now dead.
Some more thoughts about National’s vigilante justice policy
National’s forary into supporting vigilante justice raises some thorny legal issues it appears National has not thught about.
Open mike 28/02/2025
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Daily review 27/02/2025
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The Greens plan for a Green Budget
The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.
Open mike 27/02/2025
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Daily review 26/02/2025
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USA – unreliable, undemocratic, and its citizens are not free compared to me
Read an amusing quora reply that rather crystallised my thinking on the US compared to here. It started as a click-bait clearly written by the usual American fool blinded by propaganda glare from their border mirrors. A Canadian responded with with and accuracy. But on a more serious note, if US intentions have skewed towards supporting annexations, we need to improve our military capabilities.
Vigilante justice is apparently our birth right
Amongst the most dangerous, extreme and downright stupid policies the Government has come up with is the decision to be announced today to allow citizen’s arrests of shoplifters
Open mike 26/02/2025
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Daily review 25/02/2025
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Radio NZ’s bizarre handling of the Bayly fiasco
This morning on Radio New Zealand there was sharp questioning of Christopher Luxon by Ingrid Hipkiss and sharp analysis by Jo Moir. But they allowed Brigette Morten air time to spin the issue in a National friendly way.
Open mike 25/02/2025
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Daily review 24/02/2025
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Repaired RSS feed highlights minister’s failing portfolios
Last week, I pointed out that Internal Affairs under Act Minister Brooke van Velden, had managed to lose RSS communications from the Beehive to the world. It’d been offline for about three weeks at that point. That was just sloppy and incompetent for the DIA who amongst other things are responsible for overseeing government technology services.
Come Rich Foreigners – New Zealand Is For Sale
Long signaled, all right wing parties are opening the doors for wealthy foreigners to easily acquire our significant assets and lands.
New school lunches waste appears to exceed 70% as David Seymour’s incompetence and PR reliance rises to the fore
The Associate Education Minister has defended the new school lunch program even as the government says it is not collecting any official feedback. Meanwhile no word from National’s Education Minister Erica Stanford.
Bayly goneburger
In breaking news Andrew Bayley has resigned as a minister after entering into an animated discussion with a staff member and “placing a hand on their upper arm”.
Seymour is wrecking the school lunch program
David Seymour’s handling of changes to free school lunches has been an unmitigated disaster. Is the plan to make the scheme that bad it can then be cancelled?
Open mike 24/02/2025
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When will Luxon be rolled?
Christopher Luxon’s time as Prime Minister appear to be numbered.
Open mike 23/02/2025
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Good as gold
A fascinating expose from Michael Hudson on the causes and implications of the recent rise in the price of gold. When Nixon took the US dollar off the standard in 1971 you could get an ounce for $35. Not now; Hudson explains why.